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| 0691-1407-01 | Introduction to the Human Environment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
Space, place and environment are three concepts developed in geography in the last half century. Space was developed as a central concept in the attempt to develop an objective science of the human geography of cities and regions, very much in line with the hard sciences. Place was developed as a notion that represents the subjective relations and sensations maintained between a person and his/her home, neighborhood, city or country. Finally, the notion of environment refers to the social, cultural, political and physical structure within which human activity takes place.
The above three notions are intimately related to the basic approaches developed in the domain of urban and regional planning. Space is related to the attempt to develop a science of planning having the comprehensive rational approach at its center. Place is related to the phenomenological approach, which considers direct experience as the proper approach to planning. Finally, environment is associated with the systems approach to urban and regional planning.
Throughout most of the 20th century, space, place and environment provided the foundation of modernism. In the fourth quarter of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, these three notions are playing a major role in the postmodern discourse about society, cities and their planning.
In the course we will follow the way these different perceptions of cities, regions and society developed and the way they affect the domain of urban and regional planning.
Bibliography:
1. מקראה.
2. יובל פורטוגלי. 1999. מרחב, זמן וחברה בארץ ישראל הקדומה, חלק א: מורפולוגיה חברתית. האוניברסיטה הפתוחה.
3. יובל פורטוגלי. 2000. 1,500 מילה ויותר על הגיאוגרפיה של האדם: סע אל תוך הדיסיפלינה. תיאוריה וביקורת, 16, 213.
4. Juval Portugali. 1999. Self-Organization and the City. Springer.