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 |
