Key Ideas in Urban Studies

Explore key concepts in urban studies through this comprehensive 90-minute video lecture. Delve into a wide range of topics including the blasé attitude of urban life, capitalism, class structures, community dynamics, and the creative class. Examine crucial ideas such as defensive design, culture of poverty, discourse, ethnonationalism, and globalization of culture. Investigate concepts like hegemony, identity, intersectionality, moral panics, and nationality. Analyze neoliberalism, politics of representation, popular culture, positionality, and reflexivity. Study race, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexuality, structure, agency, and subcultures. Learn about the Panopticon, propaganda model of media, right to the city, solidarity, structural functionalism, urbanization, and urban anthropology. Gain insights into recognizing bias in academic essays, all explained in concise two-minute segments.

the BLASÉ ATTITUDE of urban life.
CAPITALISM explained in two minutes.
CLASS explained in two minutes.
can't just assume it's A COMMUNITY.
the mid-00s dream of the CREATIVE CLASS.
The concept of CULTURE explained in two minutes.
DEFENSIVE DESIGN and CPTED.
The "CULTURE OF POVERTY" explained in two minutes.
DISCOURSE explained in two minutes.
ETHNONATIONALISM explained in two minutes.
GLOBALIZATION OF CULTURE explained in two minutes.
HEGEMONY explained in two minutes.
IDENTITY explained in two minutes.
INTERSECTIONALITY explained in two minutes.
MORAL PANICS explained in two minutes.
NATIONALITY explained in two minutes.
NEOLIBERALISM explained in two minutes.
The POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION explained in two minutes.
POPULAR CULTURE explained in two minutes.
POSITIONALITY and REFLEXIVITY explained in two minutes.
RACE and ETHNICITY explained in two minutes.
SEX, GENDER, & SEXUALITY explained in two minutes.
STRUCTURE and AGENCY explained in two minutes.
SUBCULTURE explained in two minutes.
THE PANOPTICON explained in two minutes.
THE PROPAGANDA MODEL OF THE MEDIA explained in two minutes.
The RIGHT TO THE CITY explained.
SOLIDARITY (mechanical vs organic) explained in two minutes.
STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM explained in two minutes.
the concept of URBANIZATION explained.
URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY explained in two minutes.
YOUR ESSAY IS BIASED explained in two minutes.