Reports
These short reports review some of the scholarly literature about each city in relation to course themes. The themes are listed with descriptions and class readings in the syllabus.
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The City as Data
Topic: The survey and the map. A proposed definition of the modern city: a city whose people are known to authorities through social statistics.
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Pandemic Oral Histories
In March 2020, halfway through the semester at Georgetown, we found ourselves in the midst of an event of world-historical significance. Four members of the class decided to interview people in the cities they were studying to create these records of the pandemic from the local and individual perspective.
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Pandemic Oral Histories
In March 2020, halfway through the semester at Georgetown, we found ourselves in the midst of an event of world-historical significance. Four members of the class decided to interview people in the cities they were studying to create these records of the pandemic from the local and individual perspective.
