The course considers the role of ethnography to how we understand cities. We will look in detail at different types of ethnography, raise issues of methodology and writing. Specific themes will cover the sensory city, the flÃneur and ethnographer; neighbourhoods, intimacy and hustle; the 'ghetto' and abandonment; street ethnography; time, waiting and hope; bodies and sex; urban food ethnographies; infrastructure and motorbikes; gates and the middle class; the gang, drugs and violence. The course offers an opportunity to reflect on everyday life in cities in ways which do not reduce them to arenas for technical, policy-driven interventions, and so as to consider the urban experience and landscape more broadly.