The course deals with the internal structure of cities and suburbs, focusing on form, function and characteristics during the political, economical and sociological changes they went through the 20th and 21st centuries

• • Urban structure – advanced approaches, theories and model for analyze urban structure.
• • Urban retail structure: Models (Central place theory, Berry's, Davis's, Jones's), the changing of the urban retail structure, the origin and role of the mall, future spatial aspects of urban retailing.
• • Downtown and CBD : spatial characteristics, the golden age of the CBD and it's decline, the (new) CBD in the global era.
• • Planning theories and the city: How they influence on the spatial structure, urban landscapes and daily life through time.
• • Suburbanization and urban sprawl: The origin of suburbanization, spatial and social characteristics of the western suburb, its advantage and disadvantage, Urban sprawl, Sustainability and compact city vs. Sprawl.

Prerequisite:
Urban Geography

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