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4.241J Theory of City Form (Spring 2013, MIT OCW). Instructor: Professor Julian Beinart.
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694 years, 4 months
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25
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This course covers theories about the form that settlements should take and attempts a distinction between descriptive and normative theory by examining examples of various theories of city form over time. Case studies will highlight the origins of the modern city and theories about its emerging form, including the transformation of the nineteenth-century city and its organization. Through examples and historical context, current issues of city form in relation to city-making, social structure, and physical design will also be discussed and analyzed. (from ocw.mit.edu)
Course Currilcum
- Lecture 01 – Introduction Unlimited
- Lecture 02 – Normative Theory I: The City as Supernatural Unlimited
- Lecture 03 – Normative Theory II: The City as Machine Unlimited
- Lecture 04 – Normative Theory III: The City as Organism Unlimited
- Lecture 05 – Descriptive and Functional Theory Unlimited
- Lecture 06 – Dimensions, Patterns, Agreements, Structure, and Syntax Unlimited
- Lecture 07 – The Early Cities of Capitalism Unlimited
- Lecture 08 – Transformations I: London Unlimited
- Lecture 09 – Transformations II: Paris Unlimited
- Lecture 10 – Transformations III: Vienna and Barcelona Unlimited
- Lecture 11 – Transformations IV: Chicago Unlimited
- Lecture 12 – Transformations V: Panopticism, St. Petersburg and Berlin Unlimited
- Lecture 13 – Utopianism as Social Reform and Built Form Unlimited
- Lecture 14 – 20th Century Realizations: Russian and Great Britain Unlimited
- Lecture 15 – City Form and Process Unlimited
- Lecture 16 – Spatial & Social Structure I: Theory Unlimited
- Lecture 17 – Spatial & Social Structure II: Bipolarity Unlimited
- Lecture 18 – Spatial & Social Structure III: Colony and Post-colony Unlimited
- Lecture 20 – Form Models II: Open-endedness and Prophecy Unlimited
- Lecture 21 – Form Models III and IV: Rationality and Memory Unlimited
- Lecture 22 – Cases I: Public and Private Domains Unlimited
- Lecture 23 – Cases II: Suburbs and Periphery Unlimited
- Lecture 24 – Cases III: Post-urbanism and Resource Conservation Unlimited
- Lecture 25 – Cases IV: Hyper and Mega-urbanism Unlimited
- Lecture 26 – Conclusion: Towards a Theory of City Form Unlimited
