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This course explores how social theories of urban life can be related to the city’s architecture and spaces.
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
361 years
Units & Quizzes
13
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
It is grounded in classic or foundational writings about the city addressing such topics as the public realm and public space, impersonality, crowds and density, surveillance and civility, imprinting time on space, spatial justice, and the segregation of difference. The aim of the course is to generate new ideas about the city by connecting the social and the physical, using Boston as a visual laboratory. Students are required to present a term paper mediating what is read with what has been observed.
Course Currilcum
- Introduction Unlimited
- Center vs. Periphery Unlimited
- Up/Down vs. Above/Below Unlimited
- The Homo-Faber Project – R. Sennett Unlimited
- Stealth Gentrification – Lara Belkind Unlimited
- Spaces of Knowledge within the New York City Subway – Elliott Felix Unlimited
- Theorizing a Center for Universal Design – Nadya Nilina Unlimited
- The Racial Politics of Urban Celebrations – Annis Whitlow Unlimited
- Structuring Beyond Architecture – David Foxe Unlimited
- The Architecture of Repression – Olga Touloumi Unlimited
- Inventing the Modern Suburb in California and Denmark – Thomas Oles Unlimited
- Proyecto Cities – Stephen Ramos Unlimited
- Photographs in Urban Planning – Steven Moga Unlimited
