| LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| Section One: The Nature of City Form Theory | ||
| 2 | Normative Theory I: The City as Supernatural | |
| 3 | Normative Theory II: The City as Machine | |
| 4 | Normative Theory III: The City as Organism | |
| 5 | Descriptive and Functional Theory | |
| 6 | Dimensions, Patterns, Agreements, Structure, and Syntax | |
| Section Two: The Form of the Modern City | ||
| 7 | The Early Cities of Capitalism | |
| 8 | Transformations I: London | |
| 9 | Transformations II: Paris | |
| 10 | Transformations III: Vienna and Barcelona | |
| 11 | Transformations IV: Chicago | |
| 12 | Transformations V: Panopticism, St. Petersburg and Berlin | |
| 13 | Utopianism as Social Reform and Built Form | |
| 14 | 20th Century Realizations: Russian and Great Britain | Term paper proposal due |
| Section Three: Current Theory and Practice | ||
| 15 | City Form and Process | |
| 16 | Spatial & Social Structure I: Theory | |
| 17 | Spatial & Social Structure II: Bipolarity | |
| 18 | Spatial & Social Structure III: Colony and Post-colony | |
| 19 | Form Models I: Modern and Post-modern Urbanism | |
| 20 | Form Models II: Open-endedness and Prophecy | |
| 21 | Form Models III and IV: Rationality and Memory | |
| 22 | Cases I: Public and Private Domains | |
| 23 | Cases II: Suburbs and Periphery | |
| 24 | Cases III: Post-urbanism and Resource Conservation | |
| 25 | Cases IV: Hyper and Mega-urbanism | |
| 26 | Conclusion: Towards a Theory of City Form | Completed term paper due |