The Flour / Flower City may be home, but how much do you know about our forebears? In this class, students will encounter the triumphs and trials Rochester experienced in an age of industrialization, consumerism, and globalization – the growth of the powerful industries and unions, increasing diversity, redlining and suburbanization, racial unrest, along with Urban Renewal and New Urbanism – setting the pattern of comforts and challenges our city experiences in the present day.