During the course students will develop a sociological and anthropological perspective analyzing different social phenomena located in towns and cities. Using different theories and narratives we will consider how sociologists, anthropologists and writers have described urban space linking it with social issues, as globalization and glocalisation, collective memory, democratization, migration, consumption, power and freedom. We will considering different functions and types of urban space (f.e. personal/public space), but also space as a basis of identification (class, gender, ethnic  and minority groups, race) and. We will also study urban codes and ways of their interpretations, local communities of districts in the process of transformation.