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1. How can we define the ‘modern city’? Critically discuss using relevant theories as well as examples drawn from your reading list and beyond to support your argument.

2. “In the heart of the eastern city there is a slum district known as Cornerville, which is inhabited almost exclusively by Italian immigrants and their children. To the rest of the city it is a mysterious and dangerous and depressing area” (Whyte, 1943: p.xv). Using theoretical material as well as the literature in the reading lists and beyond, critically discuss the association of ‘slums’ with danger, criminality and other forms of immorality.

3. How can we think about the relationship between industrial spaces of work and urban neighbourhoods within cities around the world? Discuss using relevant theories as well as examples drawn from your reading list and beyond to support your argument.

4. In what ways has neoliberalism restructured urban life? Discuss using relevant theories as well as examples drawn from your reading list and beyond to support your argument.

5. A shift in focus from production to consumption is often associated with the ‘post-modern’ city. How has this impacted urban spaces and individual subjectivities of city dwellers? Discuss using relevant theories as well as examples drawn from your reading list and beyond to support your argument.

6. Is there such a thing as an ‘urban subjectivity’? Critically discuss using relevant theories as well as examples drawn from your reading list and beyond to support your argument.

7. Regarding the automobile, Latour (1992) argues that “…first is has been made by humans; second, it substitutes for the actions of people and becomes a delegate occupying the position of a human; third it shapes human action by prescribing back” (p.235). Using theoretical material as well as the literature in the reading lists and beyond, critically discuss the relationship between people, automobiles and urban space.

8. Marginalisation is a major theoretical lens for thinking about inequalities in cities. Using theoretical material as well as the literature in the reading lists and beyond, assess the usefulness of the concept for understanding everyday urban life.

9. Revolutions, revolts, insurrections and riots are all the stuff of political life in urban contexts. Discuss the relationship between cities and forms of political protest.

10. Will the city end? Critically discuss the idea that urbanity is not forever using relevant theories as well as examples drawn from your reading list and beyond to support your argument.

11. What kinds of methodological challenges and contributions have emerged out of the turn toward the urban in ethnographic work? Discuss using methodological commentaries as well as examples drawn from your reading list and beyond to support your argument.

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