City Planning From Ancient Times To Today

Learn about the development of the city from ancient times to the cities of today.

What you'll learn
History and theory of city planning from ancient times to modern day.
Key developments, innovations and debates in city planning.
Analysis of the key challenges facing city planners in the future, as well as some potential solutions.
Requirements
Curiosity about the history and future of cities.
Description
This course surveys the history of urban planning and explores key movements, moments, and theories in city planning from ancient times to modern day. The track concludes with an analysis of the key challenges facing city planners in the future, as well as some potential solutions. Join course instructor Jason Luger, urban geographer and lecturer in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, to learn about the evolution of urban planning and to pick up key lessons for improving the cities of tomorrow.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction to City Planning 1: Ancient Times to the Modern Age (7,500 BC to 19

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Cities Emerge

Lecture 3 Greco-Roman Planning

Lecture 4 Pre-Industrial Cities (500 AD to 1780 AD)

Lecture 5 Anthropocene: The Modern City Emerges (1780 AD to 1848 AD)

Lecture 6 Urban Revolution I: Planning as a Crucial Discipline (1848-1900)

Lecture 7 Urban Revolution II: Planning as a Crucial Discipline (1848-1900)

Lecture 8 Fin de siecle - Cities at the Cusp of the 20th Century

Section 2: Introduction to City Planning 2: Modern Ideas of City Planning (1900-1939)

Lecture 9 Introduction

Lecture 10 Fin de Siecle

Lecture 11 Decentralization

Lecture 12 Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Bauhaus: Three Philosophies

Lecture 13 Planning is Born

Lecture 14 The New Global Order: Dreams, Nightmares, Escape and Reality (1930)

Lecture 15 Planning, Power, Race, Class, and the Landscape (1930's, Part II)

Lecture 16 The Urban World on the Brink

Section 3: Introduction to City Planning 3: Midcentury Modern (1940-1979)

Lecture 17 Introduction

Lecture 18 After the War

Lecture 19 Toward the Future

Lecture 20 Destruction and Rebuilding

Lecture 21 Mid-Century Innovations in Planning Thought

Lecture 22 The City of the Car and Air Conditioning

Lecture 23 Mid-Century Failures and Urban Decline

Lecture 24 Dawn of the Neoliberal Age

Section 4: Introduction to City Planning 4: Planning in the Postmodern Age (1980-Today)

Lecture 25 Introduction

Lecture 26 Shift Happens: From Keynesian Planning to Neoliberalism

Lecture 27 New Directions in the Planning Discipline

Lecture 28 The Financial City, The Gentrified City, The New Economy, Part I

Lecture 29 The Financial City, The Gentrified City, The New Economy, Part II

Lecture 30 Against Sprawl: Transit-Oriented Planning, Green Planning, New Urbanism

Lecture 31 Toward the Urban Future: Looking into the 21st Century and Beyond

Section 5: Introduction to City Planning 5: The City of Tomorrow

Lecture 32 Introduction

Lecture 33 Smart Urbanism

Lecture 34 A Changing Climate: What it Means for the Future City

Lecture 35 A Non-Western World: The Future City in the Global South

Lecture 36 Looking Upstream: Policy Fixes for the Future City

Lecture 37 Conclusion

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