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| 0691-4011-01 | Theories in urban planning and design | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Theories of urban planning and design:
From utopian and rational comprehensive planning through critical approaches to complexity, cognition and self-organization in planning.
Juval Portugali
One of the most famous essays in the history of science is Snow’s distinction between The Two Cultures of science. Such a distinction applies also to urban planning and design: On the one hand, there are approaches attempting to develop a science of cities, while on the other, attempts to develop an intellectual discourse on cities and their planning and design. The history of planning and design can be seen as a pendulum that moves between these two poles: utopian approaches in the first half of the 20th century, scientific rational comprehensive approaches in the 1950s and 1960s, back to modern and postmodern discourses in the 1970s and 1980s, while in the last decades back again to scientific approaches under the title of complexity theories.
The first part of the seminar will follows the historical movement of the above pendulum, while its second part will focus on the planning and design implications of viewing the city as complex self-organizing system.
From utopian and rational comprehensive planning through critical approaches to complexity, cognition and self-organization in planning.
Juval Portugali
One of the most famous essays in the history of science is Snow’s distinction between The Two Cultures of science. Such a distinction applies also to urban planning and design: On the one hand, there are approaches attempting to develop a science of cities, while on the other, attempts to develop an intellectual discourse on cities and their planning and design. The history of planning and design can be seen as a pendulum that moves between these two poles: utopian approaches in the first half of the 20th century, scientific rational comprehensive approaches in the 1950s and 1960s, back to modern and postmodern discourses in the 1970s and 1980s, while in the last decades back again to scientific approaches under the title of complexity theories.
The first part of the seminar will follows the historical movement of the above pendulum, while its second part will focus on the planning and design implications of viewing the city as complex self-organizing system.