HIST-269 Modern City: From the Garden City to the Functional City
Cities around globe are eerily similar in their form and layout. Focused on the urban planning movements that have shaped the modern cities in which the vast majority of human beings live today. Garden City Planning and CIAM's Functional City Planning tells a global tale. By exploring the values of 19th and 20th century urban planners, government officials, and the public through case studies drawn from around the globe, students will engage the urban history of cities including Algiers, Bombay/Mumbai, Brasília, Chandigarh, Chicago, New Delhi, London, Mexico City, and Paris.
Standard Course (40)
Credits
1
Notes
Also open to First-Year students who have taken HIST-156W Making Modern Cities.