Urbanism III - Theory

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Department of Urban Design

Synopsis:

The course introduces the student to the most important urban theories and ways of thinking about the city from the 19th century to the present. In lectures and seminars, the student is led to think critically in order to be able to analyze, evaluate, compare and recognize the practical effects of these theories on the development of European cities. The seminars combine the theoretical lectures with analysis and interpretation of theoretical texts, with an emphasis on linking individual and team work.

Requirements:

Completion of subjects U1 and U2 is recommended, but not mandatory.

Students are required to register for the course in both the CTU KOS and the Moodle system under the name of the course. Graded assessment is awarded for the quality of both assigned tasks: presentations and submitted seminar work as well as for student activity during seminars, positive attitude, meeting the submission deadline, attendance.

Task 1/ oral group presentation of the text analysis.

Task 2/ written independent work - critical essay - on a chosen topic.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Introduction, basic terms, researching cities, urban design traditions

2. The City Beautiful, the cosmic urban model, case study

3. The Industrial city, the mechanical urban model, case study

4. The Garden city, the organic urban model, case study

5. The Automobile city, development of the urban transportation network

6. The Functional city, critique of modernism, case study

7. The birth of modern suburbia, business centers as cities

8. Utopia of the 60s and 70s, city of the future, drop city, case study

9. Postmodern urbanism, case study

10. The Generic city, vertical, horizontal

11. The Urban web theory, collective form, urban morphology

12. Placemaking theory, New Urbanism, case study

13. Sustainable urbanism, Tactical urbanism, Landscape urbanism, case studies

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Introduction, assignment of seminary work, documents and literature

2. Visual-aesthetic tradition of urbanism 1

3. Visual-aesthetic tradition of urbanism 2

4. Functional-scientific tradition of urbanism 1

5. Functional-scientific tradition of urbanism 2

6. Joint consultation of seminar work topics 1

7. Joint consultation of seminar work topics 2

8. Scientific-social tradition of urbanism 1

9. Scientific-social tradition of urbanism 2

10. Socio-political tradition of urbanism 1

11. Socio-political tradition of urbanism 2

12. Individual consultation of seminar work

13. Individual consultation of seminar work

Study Objective:

In the lectures, students will acquire a theoretical background to urban design that they can work with, whether in the following seminary work or in professional life. The aim of the course is to teach the student to think critically in context and connect theoretical knowledge of urban design with concrete case studies and practical skills. Teaching focuses on conceptual and procedural cognition and cognition processes.

Study materials:

Via Moodle, students are given a folder of approximately 100 theoretical urban design texts in English and Czech, a list of selected recommended texts for each of the four thematic blocks of the seminar, recommended instructions for the procedure for analyzing the texts, recommended instructions on how to write a critical essay and other instructions.

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Further information:

https://moodle-vyuka.cvut.cz/course/view.php?id=10854

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• navaz. mag. PRE program SC 23/24 (pro studenty studující všechny předměty 1. a 2.sem. na ČVUT) (compulsory elective course)
• navaz. mag. PRE program SC 24/25 (pro studenty studující všechny předměty 1. a 2.sem. na ČVUT) (compulsory elective course)