| SES # | TOPICS | 
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | 
| 2 | Classical foundations | 
| 3 | Cities, industrialization, and socio-spatial change | 
| 4 | The Chicago school / human ecology | 
| 5 | The urban ethnographic tradition | 
| 6 | Urban / social ecology | 
| 7 | Capitalism and urban dynamics | 
| 8 | Elites, political power, and urban dynamics | 
| 9 | From class to race, ethnicity, and culture | 
| 10 | New technologies and the city | 
| 11 | Globalization and cities | 
| 12 | From cities in global context to the post-modern (or pre-modern?) city | 
| 13 | Advanced urban social theory |