• Course Introduction and Overview (6/24 Notes)
• What is Urban Politics? (6/26 Notes)

Section II: Theories of Urban Politics

• Historical Overview (7/1 Notes)
• An Overview of the Issues (7/1 Notes, Contd.)
• Pluralist Theory (7/3 Notes)
• Coalition and Regime Theory (7/8-7/10 Notes)

Section III: State and Federal Government and the Cities

• Devolution (7/15 Notes)
• The New Federalism (7/17 Notes)

Section IV: Local Governance, Mayoral Power, and the Politics of Reform

• Machine Politics (7/22 Notes)
• Reform Politics (7/24 Notes)

Section V: Demographic Change, Urban Growth, and Racial and Ethnic Politics

• Mobilization and Empowerment (7/29 Notes)
• Mobilization and Empowerment, Part 2. (7/31 Notes)
• The City and the Suburbs (8/5 Notes)
• The City and the Suburbs, Part 2 (8/7 Notes)
• The Politics of Urban Development (8/12 Notes)
• The Politics of Urban Development, Part 2 (8/14 Notes)

Section VI: Closing Arguments

• Class Presentations (8/19)
• Class Presentations (8/21)