Theory of City Form | Architecture | MIT OpenCourseWare

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Prof. Julian Beinart

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Spring 2013

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Graduate

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Lec 2 Handout: Normative Theory I: The City as Supernatural

Lec 3 Handout: Normative Theory II: The City as Machine

Lec 4 Handout: Normative Theory III: The City as Organism

Lec 5 Handout: Descriptive and Functional Theory

Lec 6 Handout: Dimensions, Patterns, Agreements, Structure, and Syntax

Lec 8 Handout: Transformations I: London

Lec 9 Handout: Transformations II: Paris

Lec 10 Handout: Transformations III: Vienna and Barcelona

Lec 11 Handout: Transformations IV: Chicago

Lec 12 Handout: Transformations V: Panopticism, St. Petersburg and Berlin

Lec 13 Handout: Utopianism as Social Reform and Built Form

Lec 14 Handout: 20th Century Realizations: Russian and Great Britain

Lec 15 Handout: City Form and Process

Lec 16 Handout: Spatial & Social Structure I: Theory

Lec 17 Handout: Spatial & Social Structure II: Bipolarity

Lec 18 Handout: Spatial & Social Structure III: Colony & Post-colony

Lec 19 Handout: Form Models I: Modern and Post-modern Urbanism

Lec 22 Handout: Form Models III and IV: Rationality and Memory

Lec 23 Handout: Cases II: Suburbs and Periphery

Lec 24 Handout: Cases III: Post-urbanism and Resource Conservation

Lec 25 Handout: Cases IV: Hyper and Mega-urbanism

Course Info

Instructor

Prof. Julian Beinart

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As Taught In

Spring 2013

Level

Graduate

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Learning Resource Types

Instructor Insights

Lecture Notes

Lecture Videos

Written Assignments with Examples

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