Honors First-Year Seminar: Representing the City

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In this course, students will draw from different disciplines—art, design, urban studies, history, and literature among them—to explore the representational possibilities of the city. How have different cultures defined cities through representation? How do cities express meaning to their inhabitants? How can cities represent ideas, and how are cities represented in turn? Topics will include ideal city plans, cartography, spatial experience, topography, wayfinding, diagrams, and artistic representation. Student experiences will include creating walking tours within Rochester and designing and presenting “ideal” cities of their own.