Course detail
Modern Development and Theory of Urban Design 2
FA-UT2-TAcad. year: 2023/2024
The course introduces town planning and its considerations in the 20th and 21st century. The seminars focus on modern concepts of urban design and their contemporary interpretation. The course emphasizes understanding of relations between the material base of towns and cities and technology, economics, politics, demography and culture. The classes are based on reading of theoretical texts and their subsequent interpretation via graphical presentations. During semester every student will individually prepare two presentations on selected topics. As the final outcome, students will select a topic and write a critical text considering a particular situation, project, historical event, or personal experience. The main aim of the text is to apply the gained theoretical knowledge on the research topic.
In the study programmes “Architecture and Urban Design” the course is part of the theoretical courses.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Elaboration and presentation of two topics.
Regular consultations of work on presentations and texts – twice a semester at minimum.
Submission of final written seminar paper.
Evaluation includes all the above given requirements. Students are awarded graded credit.
Participation in the classes is monitored via presence lists and consultations of presentation drafts and seminar papers are required. Approximately one week before the presentation in the seminar, students must consult the concept of the presentation and the understanding of assigned texts and topics. Consultations of seminar paper drafts will occur in the second half of the semester. Students are expected to participate actively in the classes and discussions. Absences are compensated via self-study.
Upon the agreement with the teacher, the absences in the classroom can be compensated via online participation.
Aims
- Students will learn how to critically evaluate a wide spectrum of theoretical texts and films.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
BRENNER, Neil. CHRISTIAN, Schmidt. Planetary Urbanisation. In GANDY, Matthew. Urban constellations. Berlin: Jovis, 2011. s. 10 – 13. ISBN 3868591184. (CS)
FROMONOT, Françoise. Learning from Philadelphia. In KRASNY, Elke. Hands-on Urbanism 1850–2012: The Right to Green, 2012. MCCM Creations, 2014, s. 314 – 321. ISBN 9881521742. (CS)
GARREAU, Joel. Chapter 4. Detroit – The Automobile, Individualism, and Time. In GARREAU, Joel. Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. New York: Anchor Books, 1992, s. 99-138. ISBN 0385424345. (CS)
GRAHAM, Stephen. Cities as Strategic Sites: Place Annihilation and Urban Geopolitics. In GRAHAM, Stephen. Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics. Malden, MA: Wiley- Blackwell, 2004, s. 31-53. ISBN 978-1-4051-1574-2. (CS)
HARVEY, David. From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation. In HARVEY, David. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Cambridge: Wiley- Blackwell, 1994. s. 141-188. ISBN 9780631162940. (CS)
HOWARD, Ebenezer. Garden Cities of To-Morrow (Being the Second Edition of „To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform“), Charleston, South Carolina: NabuPress, 1902. (2011), 174 s. ISBN 1272142752 (CS)
JAYNE, Mark. Cities and Consumption. New York: Routledge, 2006, 244 s. ISBN 978-041-5327-343. (CS)
KOOLHAAS, Rem. What Ever Happened to Urbanism? In O.M.A., KOOLHAAS, Rem. MAU, Bruce. S, M, L, XL. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995, s. 959 – 971. ISBN 978-1885254016. (CS)
MINTON, Anna. Clean and Safe. In MINTON, Anna. Ground Control: Fear and happiness in the twenty-first-century city. London; New York : Penguin Books, 2009, s. 37 – 60. ISBN 0141033916. (CS)
MINTON, Anna. Chapter 3 "Clean and Safe", in: Ground Control: Fear and happiness in the twenty-first-century city, Penguin, 2009 (CS)
MUMFORD, Eric. The discourse of CIAM urbanism, 1928-1959. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. ISBN 0585296146. (CS)
MUSIL, Jiří. Co je urbanizace? In HORSKÁ, Pavla. MAUR, Eduard. MUSIL, Jiří. (eds.). Zrod velkoměsta: urbanizace českých zemí a Evropa. Praha: Paseka, 2002, s. 7 - 53. ISBN 9788071854098. (CS)
NORMAN, Nils. The Urbanomics Archive. In: HEINDL, Gabu (ed.). position alltag, architecture in the context of everyday life. Graz: Haus der Architektur, 2009, 170 s. ISBN 39-011-7468-0. (CS)
OSWALT, Philipp. Shrinking cities: International Research. New York: Hatje Cantz, 2005. ISBN 37757171102. (CS)
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme N_A+U Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
specialization --- (do 2022) , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Seminar
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Introductory lecture and assignment of texts and topics
- Growth: Industrial revolution
- Growth: Fordism
- Growth: Post-Fordism and Post-industrialization
- Growth: Globalization, metropolis
- Growth: Shrinking cities
- Ideology: Classification according to Françoise Choay
- Ideology: Classification according to Françoise Fromonot
- Power and violence: Branding, control, CCTV
- Power and violence: City as a product
- Power and violence: Crisis, war, terrorism, unrests in cities
- Individual consultations of texts
- Individual consultations of texts