What is Urban Studies? An interdisciplinary, undergraduate program at Stanford that combines academic approaches with real-world experience to understand cities. If you’ve ever wondered why people live in cities (or suburbs), how the physical environment influences behavior, or how to address seemingly intractable problems like urban poverty, homelessness, or troubled schools, Urban Studies may be for you. Read more
Courses: Urban Studies Courses, Autumn, Winter & Spring 2011-2012
News:
- Innovative Urban Studies class on the history of East Palo Alto featured in the Stanford Report. Read more, or see the videos that Stanford students made with youth from the Mural Music & Arts Project.
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Read Urbanter, the new Urban Studies student blog, at https://urbanter.posterous.com/
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Urban Studies junior Anna Ponting credited in The New York Times for her work on GIS maps that illustrate growing income inequality by neighborhood. See the maps.
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Urban Studies senior Erica Fernandez named one of top ten college women by Glamour magazine. Read more.
Congratulations 2011 Graduates!
Where are they now?
- Working for Teach for America, The Mountain School, California Rural Legal Assistance, CB Richard Ellis, Politico;
- Studying for Graduate Degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Stanford); Communications (Stanford); Teaching (Columbia)
- Holding Fellowships: City Hall Fellowship, Tom Ford Fellowship in Philanthropy.