Given the enormity of the subject, the course excludes more topics than are covered. It will begin with a brief discussion of how public space is defined and move on to the history of the social and political construction of the modernist street. From there, it will touch on research relating to urban form including relationships to walkability and health and move to changing ideas about street design. The course will finally return to more political themes about changing street design and gentrification, and streets as places where political dissent and social difference is both controlled and expressed.