Video lectures are available for the weeks noted below.
These files are also available for download on iTunes®.
| 1 |
The City as a Social, Legal, and Political Concept |
Speaker: Gerald Frug, Harvard Law School
Readings on forms of Citizenship and Political Power as Product of the City-State Nexus |
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(RM - 220K) |
| 2 |
The Nature and Historical Origins of Cities |
Readings on Political, Social, and Economic Underpinnings of Urban Growth |
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| 3 |
The City as Nation (and vice-versa) |
Speaker: Larry Vale, MIT
Readings on Capital Cities as Seat and Symbol of National Identity |
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| 4 |
The City-Nation Nexus in Global Context |
Speaker: Neil Brenner, New York University
Readings on Cities, Capitalist Development, and State Formation in Global Context |
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| 5 |
Urban Utopias |
Speaker: David Harvey, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
Readings on Urban Utopias in Theory and Practice |
(RM - 56K)
(RM - 80K)
(RM - 220K) |
| 6 |
Cities in National Consolidation and Global Expansion |
Speaker: Sumantra Bose, London School of Economics
Readings on the Design of Cities (Rome and Berlin) with National and Imperial Aims |
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| 7 |
Cities and Nationalism |
Speaker: Rogers Brubaker, UCLA and Central European University
Readings on the Relationships between Politics, Urban Life, and Physical Space |
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| 8 |
Rebuilding Nations by Reconstructing Cities |
Speaker: Jo Beall, London School of Economics
Readings on Cities (Berlin, Johannesburg, Mostar) Undertaking Urban and National Rebuilding in Post-Conflict Situations |
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| 9 |
Cities as Spaces for Democracy |
Speaker: Richard Sennett, London School of Economics
Readings on the Democratic Promise of the City and its Design |
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| 10 |
Cities and World Peace |
Readings on the Location and Design of the UN |
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| 11 |
Scales of Agency in a Global World: Individuals, Cities, Nations, and Beyond |
Speaker: Jonathan Glover, Kings College, London
Readings on the Various Scales and Locations of Identity and Power in a Globalizing world |
(RM - 56K)
(RM - 80K)
(RM - 220K) |
| 12 |
Cities and Representation in a Global Age |
Speaker: Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics
Architectural, Social, and Spatial Correlates of a Post-national Geography |
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| 13 |
Considering Jerusalem |
Speaker: Bruce Mazlish, MIT
Student Presentations |
(RM - 56K)
(RM - 80K)
(RM - 220K) |
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