Theory of City Form
Taught by professor Julian Beinart, 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.
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01:27:28
10. Transformations III: Vienna and Barcelona
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01:21:18
14. 20th Century Realizations: Russia and Great Britain
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01:24:05
15. City Form and Process
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01:19:03
16. Spatial & Social Structure I: Theory
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01:20:19
17. Spatial & Social Structure II: Bipolarity
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01:18:57
12. Transformations V: Panopticism, St. Petersburg and Berlin
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13. Utopianism as Social Reform and Built Form
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11. Transformations IV: Chicago
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6. Dimensions, Patterns, Agreements, Structure, and Syntax
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01:15:58
7. The Early Cities of Capitalism
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01:22:46
8. Transformations I: London
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9. Transformations II: Paris
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4. Normative Theory III: The City as Organism
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01:07:03
5. Descriptive and Functional Theory
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2. Normative Theory I: The City as Supernatural
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01:09:40
1. Introduction
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01:24:24
3. Normative Theory II: The City as Machine
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Theory of City Form Lecture 18. Spatial & Social Structure III: Colony & Post-Colony
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01:14:03
Theory of City Form Lecture 19. Form Models I: Modern and Post-modern Urbanism
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01:28:59
Theory of City Form Lecture 20. Form Models II: Open-endedness and Prophecy
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02:09:04
Theory of City Form Lecture 21. Form Models III and IV: Rationality and Memory
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01:05:22
Theory of City Form Lecture 22. Cases I: Public and Private Domains
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00:49:45
Theory of City Form Lecture 23. Cases II: Suburbs and Periphery
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01:23:23
Theory of City Form Lecture 24. Cases III: Post-urbanism and Resource Conservation
