Art of the City | HA220
Glenn Andres

 

syllabus

 

 

Introduction

Emergent City

Egypt
Jericho
Mesopotamia

Greek Cities

Greek World:
Myceneans
Greeks

 

 

 

Hellenistic Cities

Greeks
Greek colonial planning
Hellenistic - late 4th -1st centuries B.C.E.

Rome: Republic + Empire

Palestrina
Rome

Roman Planning, Colonies

Etrsucans
Pompeii
Cosa
Castrum

 

Collapse + Survivals

Rome
Trier
Lucca
Arles
St. Gall
Cluny
Turin
Verona

Medieval Town

Switzerland
Street & Cluster villages
France
Britain
Germany

Late Medieval + Early Renaissance: Urban Facelifting

Italy

 

 

Discussion

Renaissance Town: Rethinking the Urban Scheme

Urban Theorists & Ideal Towns

Urban Sugery in Rome

Rome

 

 

Baroque City I: Forms

Baroque Urban Design:
France
Germany

 

Baroque City II: Determinants

Fortress Cities
England

Amsterdam Canals + English Squares

Canals & Residential Squares:
Netherlands
France
Britain
Edinburgh
Exeter
Bath

 

Fall Break

Planning in the New World: Medieval Legacy

American Planning:
St. Augustine
Jamestown
Laws of the Indies; Philip II of Spain
Detroit
New Orleans
Plymouth, MA
Wethersfield, CT
Boston
Middlebury, VT
New York
New Haven. CT
Philadelphia

Planning in the New World: Baroque Legacy

American Planning, continued:
Savannah
Annapolis
Willamsburg, VA
Washington, DC
Detroit
Indianapolis
Hatfield
Circleville

 

Discussion

Mid-Term Examination

Urban Remodeling: 19th Century London + Paris

19th Century London & Paris

 

 

The Park + the City Beautiful

The Park:
London
Paris
U.S.

City Beautiful:
Colombian Exposition
Washington, DC
San Francisco
Chicago

The Grid + Coketown

Grid and Coketown
Theorists

Utopians + the Garden City

Worker's Towns
Garden Cities

 

Cité Industrielle, Linear City, Futurism

Henry Jules Borie
Antonio Soria y Mata
Tony Garnier
Antonio Sant'Elia

Gropius, Mies, Wright

Walter Gropius
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Frank Lloyd Wright

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret)

 

 

New Towns I: The New Capitals

New Capitals:
Chandigarh
Brasilia
Islamabad

New Towns II: England + Scandinavia

New Towns:
Great Britain
Finland
Sweden

New Towns III: USA

USA:
Riverside, IL
Radburn, NJ
Greenbelt, MD
Levittown
Reston, VA
Columbia, MD

 

Planned Extension

Urban Expansion:
Netherlands
Germany
Britain
USA

Center City + Redevelopment

Center City & Redevelopment:
Rotterdam
Coventry
New York City
Albany, NY
Hartford, CT
St. Louis, MO
Philadelphia, PA

Transportation + the Strip

Transportation:
Mass Transit
Automobile

 

Skyscrapers

Skyscrapers:
New York
Minneapolis
Chicago
Boston
London
Paris

Thanksgiving Break

Thanksgiving Break

 

Traditionalist Reactions

Traditionalist reactions:
Boston, MA
Providence, RI
Hinsdale, IL
New Urbanism (Neo-Traditional planning)
Seaside, FL
Laguna West, CA
Prairie Crossing, IL
Brush Hill, East Middlebury, VT

Andres in NYC

Discussion