URBAN PSYCHOLOGY (4 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Describe key elements of a happy city; Discuss the nature and changing character of the city and the urban experience by researching or reviewing research results; Appraise present-day urban phenomena contextualized in the cities.

Topics:

1. The Mayor of Happy;
2. The City Has Always Been a Happiness Project;
3. The (Broken) Social Scene;
4. How We Got Here;
5. Getting It Wrong;
6. How to Be Closer;
7. Convivialities;
8. Mobilicities I;
9. Mobilicities II;
10. Who Is the City For?;
11. Everything Is Connected to Everything Else;
12. Retrofitting Sprawl;
13. Save Your City, Save Yourself.