2016 - 2017

0669-6120-01
  Urbanism and Urban Habitus                                                                           
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Sarit PazClassrooms - Dan David211Mon1400-1800 Sem  2
 
 
University credit hours:  4.0

Course description
Urbanism and Urban Habitus
Dr. Sarit Paz
Cities exist for over five thousand years. From the urban revolution of the 4th millennium BCE to the big metropolis of the 21st century, urbanism is a central formative experience in our world. The seminar aims to examine the development of urban habitus and its characteristics, material and cultural networks, and the forging of urban space and urban identity, through practices of cultural transfer.
We will discuss the physical, practical and conceptual characteristics of urbanism. We will consider the birth of urban concept and its spread across space and continuity across time through processes of cultural and inter-generational transfer, innovation, acceptance, transformation and adaptation, that led to structuring urban lifestyle in different areas and periods. We will combine analysis of archaeological, geographical and sociological data, with methodological and theoretical approaches from various disciplines. We will discuss the emergence of the first cities, and the far-reaching changes in the transition from rural to urban way of life. We will examine the influence of urban lifestyles and habitus shaped thousands of years ago on urbanism in later periods. We will review the history and development of urban settlements and concepts, and various aspects of urban planning. We will explore the meaning of urban experience, and its effect of different aspects in everyday urban life. We will ask how cultural globalization transforms meanings of places and human experiences in urban spaces. And we will reconsider the different definitions of urbanism and urban settlements.

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