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| Semester | fall semester 2019 |
| Course frequency | Every 2nd fall sem. |
| Lecturers |
Kenny R. Cupers (kenny.cupers@unibas.ch, Assessor)
Giulia Scotto (giulia.scotto@unibas.ch) |
| Content | This course explores world urbanization from the early modern period up until today, asking how the legacies of the past shape challenges for the future. By approaching urbanization as both a material process and an intellectual project, the course critically unpacks the stakes of material change and everyday life beyond the binaries of North versus South and urban versus rural. This course begins with the consequences of the North Atlantic System and the importance of slavery and racial capitalism in the making of our modern world system. Its goal is to equip students with frameworks and skills for analyzing the role of architecture and the built environment in social and planetary transformations across scales. While design can encompass any collective and individual intention to shape the physical world, we pay particular attention to the disciplinary development of architecture and the urban professions. From the first global urban networks to the International Congresses of Modern Architecture and from grid-based urbanism to contemporary design responses to climate change, we analyze a broad range of sites, forms, techniques, discourses, and projects. These analyses are enriched by theoretical engagement with concepts such as modernity, capitalism, colonialism, and globalization. Beyond architectural types and urban forms as such, we will examine the infrastructures and territories in which they are embedded. In doing so, this course encourages students to fundamentally question what is at stake in the shaping of our physical world. |
| Learning objectives | Develop an understanding of historical processes of urbanization and the production of the built environment from a postcolonial and planetary perspective. Active use of fundamental concepts in architecture and urbanism such as form, type, function, and program. Foundational skills in urban history, to comprehend the multifarious conditions in which cities and landscapes are produced, represented, and experienced. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Electives Bachelor History: Recommendations (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Areas: transnational - global (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Fachkompetenz Globaler Wandel (Master's degree subject: Geography) Modul: Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor's degree subject: Anthropology) Modul: Transfer: Europa interdisziplinär (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Module: Projects and Processes of Urbanization (Master's degree program: Critical Urbanisms) Wahlbereich Master Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Master's degree subject: History) |
| Assessment format | record of achievement |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | one repetition, repetition counts |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Urban Studies |