The aim of this course is to study on the subject of city culture in the global world within a framework of  interdisciplinary approach and develop some field methods and put them in application in order to enable students to explore different aspects of the city culture that they live in.

Exploration of the cultures of cities requires to ask a series of questions: How do cities use culture? Who plays a leading role in the formation of cities’ cultures? Who controls the “symbolic economy” of the cities as Zukin (1994) uses the term? Who really occupy the central spaces of cities? Which components of a city life are essential for the formation of city cultures? How does the history of a city play a role in the formation of its current cultural characteristics? How are the city cultures embodied by its inhabitants and which inhabitants embody which characteristics of  city cultures? In short how the cultures of cities are produced, consumed and reproduced by whom? And finally how all these questions can be applied to Ankara, the capital of Turkey.