In recent years the street has become again a site of protest and confrontation. This seminar takes the contemporary politicization of public space as a point of departure for exploring a number of questions about the city: What’s public about public space? In what ways does the city open up spaces within which different forms of politics become possible? And what’s the role of race and gender in the production of these spaces? This course combines theoretical readings about the right to the city, insurgency, and democracy, with student-led empirical investigations of specific sites in the city.