Global Urbanism: Theory & Practice

Catalog description

Global Urbanism studies 20th- & 21st-century theories of urbanism and urban planning projects advanced toward creating positive change in cities. The course engages “theory”—descriptive, explanatory, and future inceptive ideas—concerning the relationship of the built environment to urban experience. It also investigates “practice” especially pertaining to ideas about and efforts toward shaping the physical form of cities. The course’s purview of both theory and practice ranges globally, geographically across the Western and Eastern hemispheres and socio-politically across the Global North and South.