Lecture Notes

LEC #	TOPICS
1	Introduction
Section One: The Nature of City Form Theory
2	Three Analogical Examples: The Cosmic Model
3	The Machine Model
4	The Organic Model
5	Descriptive and Functional Theory
6	Some Recent Theoretical Propositions
Section Two: The Form of the Modern City
7	The Early Cities of Capitalism
8	London
9	Paris
10	Vienna and Barcelona
11	Chicago
12	Organization and Control
13	Utopianism
14	Partial Realizations
Section Three: Current Theory and Practice
15	City Form and Process
16	Spatial and Social Structure
17	Bi-polarity: Johannesburg / Soweto
18	Bi-polarity: San Diego / Tijuana, Delhi / New Delhi and Havana / Cuba
19	Modern and Post-modern Urbanism
20	Open-endedness and Prophecy
21	Permanence and Rationality
22	Memory
23	Public and Private Domains
24	Suburbs and Periphery
25	Post-urbanism and Resource Conservation
26	Mega-urbanism

LEC #

TOPICS

Introduction

Section One: The Nature of City Form Theory

Three Analogical Examples: The Cosmic Model

The Machine Model

The Organic Model

Descriptive and Functional Theory

Some Recent Theoretical Propositions

Section Two: The Form of the Modern City

The Early Cities of Capitalism

Organization and Control

Utopianism

Partial Realizations

Section Three: Current Theory and Practice

City Form and Process

Spatial and Social Structure

Bi-polarity: Johannesburg / Soweto

Bi-polarity: San Diego / Tijuana, Delhi / New Delhi and Havana / Cuba

Modern and Post-modern Urbanism

Open-endedness and Prophecy

Permanence and Rationality

Memory

Public and Private Domains

Suburbs and Periphery

Post-urbanism and Resource Conservation

Mega-urbanism

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