Hist.+Theory of Urbanism II

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Faculty of Architecture

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.

Requirements:

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.

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

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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.

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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No time-table has been prepared for this course

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