LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
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1 | Introduction | |
Section One: The Nature of City Form Theory | ||
2 | Normative Theory I: The City as Supernatural | |
3 | Normative Theory II: The City as Machine | |
4 | Normative Theory III: The City as Organism | |
5 | Descriptive and Functional Theory | |
6 | Dimensions, Patterns, Agreements, Structure, and Syntax | |
Section Two: The Form of the Modern City | ||
7 | The Early Cities of Capitalism | |
8 | Transformations I: London | |
9 | Transformations II: Paris | |
10 | Transformations III: Vienna and Barcelona | |
11 | Transformations IV: Chicago | |
12 | Transformations V: Panopticism, St. Petersburg and Berlin | |
13 | Utopianism as Social Reform and Built Form | |
14 | 20th Century Realizations: Russian and Great Britain | Term paper proposal due |
Section Three: Current Theory and Practice | ||
15 | City Form and Process | |
16 | Spatial & Social Structure I: Theory | |
17 | Spatial & Social Structure II: Bipolarity | |
18 | Spatial & Social Structure III: Colony and Post-colony | |
19 | Form Models I: Modern and Post-modern Urbanism | |
20 | Form Models II: Open-endedness and Prophecy | |
21 | Form Models III and IV: Rationality and Memory | |
22 | Cases I: Public and Private Domains | |
23 | Cases II: Suburbs and Periphery | |
24 | Cases III: Post-urbanism and Resource Conservation | |
25 | Cases IV: Hyper and Mega-urbanism | |
26 | Conclusion: Towards a Theory of City Form | Completed term paper due |
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