ARC 273 HISTORY OF CITY PLANNING

An introduction to the history of cities and city planning from antiquity to the present. The course explores the city as a distinct form of social and spatial organization through history, focusing on the intersection of urban governance and the built environment. Students will study practical and utopian city plans; theories of cities advanced by sociologists, philosophers, and architects; the development of professional city planning; and visions of the modern city in art, literature, and film.