{"id":103,"date":"2013-07-18T13:58:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T17:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/?p=103"},"modified":"2013-07-23T12:04:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:04:21","slug":"urban-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fordscholars\/2013\/07\/18\/urban-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim Koechlin (International Studies and Urban Studies<\/p>\n

Stephanie Osei-Sarpong (Vassar \u201915, Education Major)<\/p>\n

Our research this summer has focused on \u201curban inequality\u201d \u2013 its meaning, its causes, and its implications.\u00a0\u00a0 This research will provide the foundation for an Urban Studies seminar that Professor Koechlin will teach in the Spring of 2014, \u201cAdvanced Debates in Urban Studies: Urban Inequality\u201d (URBS 303).\u00a0\u00a0 It will also inform a paper that Professor Koechlin will present at the meetings of the American Social Sciences Association (ASSA) in Philadelphia in January, 2014.<\/p>\n

The United States is the most unequal of the world\u2019s rich countries and, over the past few decades, the US has become dramatically more unequal.\u00a0 The US is also near the bottom of the list when it comes to economic and social mobility, despite its reputation as the \u201cland of opportunity.\u201d \u00a0This increasing economic <\/i>inequality is reflected in and reinforced by unsettling levels of political, racial, gender, spatial, legal, educational, and environmental inequality \u2013 and more. Inequality begets inequality.\u00a0\u00a0 On a global scale, this story of interdependent inequalities is even more extreme and appalling.<\/p>\n

As centers of political power and capital accumulation, cities have long been sites of socio-economic, spatial, racial and other forms of inequality.\u00a0\u00a0 The reproduction of inequality \u2013 in the US and elsewhere \u2013 happens, to a considerable extent, in cities and by urban processes. \u00a0URBS 303 is designed to allow (and force) students to explore the complicated, layered inequality that characterizes cities.\u00a0\u00a0 How is economic inequality linked \u2013 as cause and effect \u2013 to political, educational and spatial inequality?\u00a0\u00a0 How are these inequalities reflected in and reinforced by the built environment?\u00a0 How is inequality within cities linked to globalization, and to neo-liberal policies in the US?\u00a0 \u00a0How can we intervene, to make our cities more equal and more \u201cjust\u201d?\u00a0 How can urban residents articulate and assert their \u201cright to the city\u201d?\u00a0\u00a0 And how do the answers to these questions vary from city to city?<\/p>\n

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Over several weeks, we gathered books, articles, data and images.\u00a0\u00a0 We studied them, we sorted them, and we discussed them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We had long talks about pedagogy, and about the various means by which a teacher, student or scholar might \u201ctell a story\u201d about urban inequality.\u00a0 \u00a0 And, finally, we drafted a very rich syllabus for URBS 303, and a promising outline for Professor Koechlin\u2019s paper, \u201cUrban Inequality, Neo-liberalism, and the Case for a Multidisciplinary Economics\u201d…and we learned a lot along the way.<\/p>\n

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