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Theory of City Form
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Lecture Notes
Lecture Notes
For each lecture, the readings given in bold are required. The rest are recommended as time permits. Full citations for each of the readings can be found in the
readings
section.
LEC #
TOPICS
1
Introduction
Section One: The Nature of City Form Theory
2
Three Analogical Examples: The Cosmic Model
3
The Machine Model
4
The Organic Model
5
Descriptive and Functional Theory
6
Some Recent Theoretical Propositions
Section Two: The Form of the Modern City
7
The Early Cities of Capitalism
8
London
9
Paris
10
Vienna and Barcelona
11
Chicago
12
Organization and Control
13
Utopianism
14
Partial Realizations
Section Three: Current Theory and Practice
15
City Form and Process
16
Spatial and Social Structure
17
Bi-polarity: Johannesburg / Soweto
18
Bi-polarity: San Diego / Tijuana, Delhi / New Delhi and Havana / Cuba
19
Modern and Post-modern Urbanism
20
Open-endedness and Prophecy
21
Permanence and Rationality
22
Memory
23
Public and Private Domains
24
Suburbs and Periphery
25
Post-urbanism and Resource Conservation
26
Mega-urbanism