In this course we will look at the history of housing and social geography in New York to see where and how New Yorkers of different backgrounds, races, livelihoods, and income levels lived, and we will analyze the buildings they lived in. Where did upper-class New Yorkers live at different points in the city’s history, and why did they move so often? Where did different immigrant groups settle when they came to New York, and what were their living conditions like? When and why did New York cease to be primarily a row house city and become an apartment house city? Where have African-Americans lived in New York, and when and why did Harlem become a predominantly Black neighborhood? Why does the Upper East Side have so many white-brick high-rises?
 
Continuing Education Units (CEU) : 0

You'll walk away with

• An understanding of the evolution of housing patterns for different socioeconomic groups in New York City, including the movement of upper-class residents and the settlement patterns of various immigrant communities
• The ability to explain the transition of New York from a row house-dominated city to an apartment house-dominated city, including the factors that influenced this shift