Urban Studies

Suburban Bliss

Suburbia has its benefits.

Celebrating the Stoplights

In my first-year seminar at Barnard, I was asked to describe myself in one word. My classmates said things like, “Jewish,” or “student,” or “me.” I said “rural.”

Urban Studies Copes With Flux

One year after discovering that its long-time director was denied tenure, the Barnard-Columbia urban studies program is still grappling with the idea of change.

Lost in the Shuffle

The Barnard-Columbia urban studies program is a celebrated interdisciplinary venture, combining political, historical, economic, and sociological study with the schools’ location in the ideal case