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The Urban Studies Program is designed as a multidisciplinary concentration in the study of cities and urbanization. Students examine the development of cities and their surrounding regions; the role of cities in the history of civilization; the social problems of urban life; the design of the built environment; and past and present efforts at planning for the future of urban societies.

There are four major purposes of the program:

1. To introduce students to a temporal range and spatial variety of urban experience and phenomena
2. To equip students with methodological tools to enable them to investigate and analyze urban issues
3. To engage students experientially in a facet of the urban experience
4. To develop within the student a deeper grasp of these issues through advanced study within at least one disciplinary approach.