Topics in Urban Histories and Theories

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Overview

Subject area

UD

Catalog Number

61510

Course Title

Topics in Urban Histories and Theories

Department(s)

Description

Courses offered under this rubric will introduce students to the study of cities and built environments through time and across cultures. Exploring urbanism in a variety of geographical and historical contexts, students will critically probe issues ofdesign, technology, ecology, planning, and socially situated practices in their relation to broader historical and environmental frameworks. Course number should be repeatable up to 3 times and also able to be taken simultaneously in a semester.

Academic Career

Graduate

Liberal Arts

No

Credits

Minimum Units

3

Maximum Units

3

Academic Progress Units

3

Repeat For Credit

Yes

Total Completions Allowed

2

Components

Name

Lecture

Hours

3

Course Topic ID

1

Formal Description

Reading the City II

Course Topic ID

2

Formal Description

Concrete Ecologies: Theories on the Production of Space

Course Topic ID

3

Formal Description

Critical Discourses on Urban Form: Modernity to the Present

Course Topic ID

4

Formal Description

The City In History

Course Topic ID

5

Formal Description

Topics in Urban Histories and Urban Design

Course Schedule