This course is an introduction to the history, analysis, and design of the urban landscape presented with weekly lectures and discussion sections. Emphasis is placed on understanding the principles, processes, and contemporary theories of urban design, and the relations between individual buildings, groups of buildings, and the larger physical and cultural contexts in which they are created and with which they interact. Case studies are drawn from important cities in Europe and the US and other cities.

For this class a paper has been written and a research project performed. Both downloadable below.

New and Everyday urbanism stand as a model for a redefinition of an approach to our built environment. The method is then tested against two existing cases: Borneo Sporenburg in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Nieuw Crooswijk in Rotterdam. Download in PDF format.