ARCH&UD 133Spatial Justice and the City
Architecture and Urban Design · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Limited to Architectural Studies majors or with consent of instructor. Global cities today, and American cities in particular, are shaped by infrastructure, property, public space, residential and commercial development, preservation, and territoriality. These are the material artifacts not only of construction technologies, but processes like segregation, suburbanization, colonization, reservation, and regulation. Consideration of questions of equity and power in the apparent and repressed histories of places, in contemporary everyday life experiences in cities, and in possible urban futures.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.