Lecture Topics and Assignments

 
WEEK 1. INTRODUCTION: PATTERNS OF COMMUNITY AND CONFLICT
WEEK 2. COLONIAL TOWNS AND ORIGIN MYTHS
WEEK 3. MANUFACTURING CIVIC AND COMMERCIAL CULTURE
WEEK 4. THE CITY BEAUTIFUL AND CIVIC SPACE
WEEK 5. HOUSING REFORMS, SEGREGATION AND "HOMELESSNESS"

WEEK 6. THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST AND THE C.B.D.
WEEK 7. SUBURBAN DREAMS AND NATIONAL URBAN POLICIES

WEEK 8. PARKWAYS, PRAGMATISM AND INFRASTRUCTURE
WEEK 9. COMMERCIAL CULTURE AS URBAN LIFE

WEEK 10. ELECTION DAY HOLIDAY

WEEK 11. DEVELOPMENT AND DECENTRALIZATION: THE POST-WAR ERA

WEEK 12. POSTMODERNISM, PRESERVATION AND URBAN POST-MORTEMS

WEEK 13. THE LURE OF THE FUTURE AND RETURN OF THE REPRESSED: URBAN DESIGN TODAY