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URBS 288 - Planning History and Thought

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)
(Same as GEOG 288 )  This course invites students to consider major themes in the history of planning thought with an eye toward the political landscape of the present. How have towns, cities, and regions been figured, erased, and redrawn as distinct problem-spaces amenable to specific methods of intervention and reproduction? To what ends – and by whom – have those efforts been proposed and implemented? Taking the emergence and dissemination of ideas about space and social organization as windows into politics and the operation of power, the class maps the transatlantic history of planning thought onto the historical terrain of colonial and capitalist rule. From Enlightenment innovations to liberal and reform visions of order to more recent preoccupations over process and the optimization of systems, the class examines the work of particular theorists, the impact of broader intellectual movements, and the effects of novel planning and policy techniques. It also accounts for critical and radical planning frameworks as interventions in their own right. A primary objective of the course is to outline a social history of planning ideas that remains attuned to political conditions in cities and regions today. The Department.

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS



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