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Theory of City Form

Art: Palladio, Andrea, Andrea Palladio's five orders of architecture Fleuron N030216-21, 1729 · Public domain

Instructor
Prof. Julian Beinart
Term
Spring 2013
Level
Graduate
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27 videos · 1 lecture note · 2 readings · 21 handouts · 27 other files · 36 web pages
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Lec 2: The City as Supernatural

Lec 3: The City as Machine

Lec 4: The City as Organism

Lec 5: Descriptive and Functional Theory

Lec 6: Dimensions, Patterns, Agreements, Structure, and Syntax

Lec 8: London

Lec 9: Paris

Lec 10: Vienna and Barcelona

Lec 11: Chicago

Lec 12: Panopticism, St. Petersburg and Berlin

Lec 13: Utopianism as Social Reform and Built Form

Lec 14: Russian and Great Britain

Lec 15: City Form and Process

Lec 16: Theory for Spatial & Social Structure

Lec 17: Bipolarity

Lec 18: Colony and Post-colony

Lec 19: Modern and Post-modern Urbanism

Lec 22: Public and Private Domains

Lec 23: Suburbs and Periphery

Lec 24: Post-urbanism and Resource Conservation

Lec 25: Hyper and Mega-urbanism

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