Modern city in terms of knowledge, space, and experience; investigating the cultural, social and economic factors that contribute to the formation of the modern city. A a host of theoretical and analytical frameworks that supplant the study of the city in terms of function, general design, daily life, and the role of the individual and the group in the formation of the space in its formal and symbolic constitution. Diverse comparative and theoretical frameworks impacting the emergence of the city in the West and East in the eras of modernity and post-modernity. This entails the study of the colonial legacy and its impact on the phenomena of ruralization of the city, marginality, and the formal and informal economy. It also entails understanding the relationship between urban reconstruction and urban planning project and ethnic, class and religious segregation, as well as the relationship between urban expansion and bourgeois gentrification of public space. Covers a range of issues including social, political, and cultural production of urban spaces; surveillance, control, and securitization of public spaces alongside notions such as the right to the city.
