Urban and Inner-City Studies

Urban and Inner-City Studies is an interdisciplinary major concerned with the examination of the city, and particularly the inner city, as a dynamic environment. This program combines a traditional urban studies focus with courses examining various aspects of the inner city. Examples include: the urban Aboriginal experience, the refugee experience, and the role of women in the inner city.Cities in Canada continue to be centres of great challenges: from managing suburban growth to promoting inner-city revitalization; from responding to the opportunities and challenges created by rapidly changing demographics to those created by globalization and socio-economic change. Cities are home to increasing concentrations of poverty and social and political exclusion. The Urban and Inner-City Studies program provides an opportunity to examine the political, economic, social, and spatial context of these and many other important aspects of urban change from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Field of study: Urban Studies/Affairs