ARCH0071-3 : Urban planning history

Study Programmes 2015-2016

ARCH0071-3

Urban planning history

Duration :

30h Th

Number of credits :

Specialised master in urban and regional planning		2

Lecturer :

Philippe Hanocq

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

The course consists of a contextualised approach of the typomorphologic evolution of the cities.
The course focuses essentially on the evolution and the spreading of the models which shaped the "European" city. It tries to identify the impulse of this evolution since the origins of the phenomenon of urbanization until the most recent contemporary developments.
It particularly highlights the speeches and the concepts (possibly utopian) expressed on the city in various periods, the characteristic processes of urbanization of these periods and their realizations considering the ambient contingencies.

Learning outcomes of the course :

The history of the town planning and urban design involves an essential general knowledge for those who intend to intervene professionally on the built environment. The course offers the opportunity of an heuristic investigation on the evolution of this environment. In this context, the student will be introduced to the principles of the mobilization of documentary resources and to the writing of critical syntheses.
The student will learn about the evolution of the city considered as a complex phenomenon involving at the same time the culture and the capacity of innovation of a society but also its pragmatism and several contingencies, peculiar to a place and a time.
In addition, the student will perceive that the city is a long-life organism in perpetual evolution whose sustainability is closely linked to its capacity to respond to continuous external stimuli. This report will allow the students to step back to put in perspective their own contributions and those of their contemporaries in the continuum of the urban evolution.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

No prerequisite

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

The class is based on lectures involving numerous examples. These lectures will be developed by the students into a critical synthesis demonstrating their capacity to build a coherent personal reasoning on the taught subject.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Face-to-face teaching