052-0802-00L  Global History of Urban Design II

SemesterFrühjahrssemester 2023
DozierendeT. Avermaete
Periodizitätjährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung
LehrspracheEnglisch


KurzbeschreibungThis course focuses on the history of the city, as well as on the ideas, processes and actors that propel their development and transformation. This course approaches the history of urban design as a cross-cultural field of knowledge that integrates scientific, economic and technical innovation as well as social and cultural change.
LernzielThe lectures in this course deal with the definition of urban design as an independent discipline that nevertheless maintains strong connections with other disciplines and fields that affect the transformation of the city (e.g. politics, sociology, geography, etc). The aim is to introduce students to the multiple theories, concepts and approaches of urban design that have been articulated from the turn of the 20th century to today, in a variety of cultural contexts. The course thus offers a historical and theoretical framework for students’ future design work.
Inhalt23.02.2023 / lecture 1: Housing and the Industrial City
02.03.2023 / lecture 2: Cities and Ideologies
09.03.2023 / lecture 3: Envisioning Urban Utopias
16.03.2023 / lecture 4: Reconstructing the City, Constructing New Towns
23.03.2023 / no class (Seminar Woche)
30.03.2023 / lecture 5: New Capitals for New Democracies, New Institutions for Old Democracies
06.04.2023 / lecture 6: Rethinking Masterplanning (guest lecture)
13.04.2023 / no class (Easter)
20.04.2023 / lecture 7: Countercultural Experiments with Urbanity
27.04.2023 / lecture 8: Finding Meaning in the Postmodern City
04.05.2023 / lecture 9: Open-Ended Strategies for Imploding Cities
11.05.2023 / lecture 10: Reflections on an Age of Urbanisation
SkriptPrior to each lecture a chapter of the reader (Skript) will be made available through the webpage of the Chair. These Skripts will introduce the lecture, as well as the basic visual references of each lecture, key dates and events, and references to further/additional readings.
LiteraturThe book that will function as main reference literature throughout the course is:

-Tom Avermaete, Janina Gosseye, Urban Design in the 20th Century: A History (Zürich: gta Verlag, 2021).


Other books that provide background information for the course are:

-Eric Mumford, Designing the Modern City: Urban Design Since 1850 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018)

-Francis D. K. Ching, Mark Jarzombek and Vikramditya Prakash, A Global History of Architecture (Hoboken: Wiley & Sons, 2017)

-David Grahame Shane, Urban Design Since 1945: A Global Perspective (Hoboken: Wiley & Sons, 2011)

These books will be reserved for consultation in the ETH Baubibliothek, and will not be available for individual loans. A list of further recommended literature will be found within each chapter of the reader (Skript).
KompetenzenKompetenzen
Fachspezifische KompetenzenKonzepte und Theoriengeprüft
Verfahren und Technologiengeprüft
Methodenspezifische KompetenzenAnalytische Kompetenzengeprüft
Entscheidungsfindunggeprüft
Medien und digitale Technologiengefördert
Problemlösunggeprüft
Projektmanagementgefördert
Soziale KompetenzenKommunikationgeprüft
Kooperation und Teamarbeitgefördert
Kundenorientierunggefördert
Menschenführung und Verantwortunggefördert
Selbstdarstellung und soziale Einflussnahmegefördert
Sensibilität für Vielfalt gefördert
Verhandlunggefördert
Persönliche KompetenzenAnpassung und Flexibilitätgefördert
Kreatives Denkengeprüft
Kritisches Denkengeprüft
Integrität und Arbeitsethikgefördert
Selbstbewusstsein und Selbstreflexion geprüft
Selbststeuerung und Selbstmanagement gefördert