Video lectures are available for the weeks noted below.
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| 1 | The City as a Social, Legal, and Political Concept | Speaker: Gerald Frug, Harvard Law School
Readings on forms of Citizenship and Political Power as Product of the City-State Nexus | (RM - 56K)
(RM - 80K)
(RM - 220K) | | 2 | The Nature and Historical Origins of Cities | Readings on Political, Social, and Economic Underpinnings of Urban Growth | | | 3 | The City as Nation (and vice-versa) | Speaker: Larry Vale, MIT
Readings on Capital Cities as Seat and Symbol of National Identity | | | 4 | The City-Nation Nexus in Global Context | Speaker: Neil Brenner, New York University
Readings on Cities, Capitalist Development, and State Formation in Global Context | | | 5 | Urban Utopias | Speaker: David Harvey, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
Readings on Urban Utopias in Theory and Practice | (RM - 56K)
(RM - 80K)
(RM - 220K) | | 6 | Cities in National Consolidation and Global Expansion | Speaker: Sumantra Bose, London School of Economics
Readings on the Design of Cities (Rome and Berlin) with National and Imperial Aims | | | 7 | Cities and Nationalism | Speaker: Rogers Brubaker, UCLA and Central European University
Readings on the Relationships between Politics, Urban Life, and Physical Space | | | 8 | Rebuilding Nations by Reconstructing Cities | Speaker: Jo Beall, London School of Economics
Readings on Cities (Berlin, Johannesburg, Mostar) Undertaking Urban and National Rebuilding in Post-Conflict Situations | | | 9 | Cities as Spaces for Democracy | Speaker: Richard Sennett, London School of Economics
Readings on the Democratic Promise of the City and its Design | | | 10 | Cities and World Peace | Readings on the Location and Design of the UN | | | 11 | Scales of Agency in a Global World: Individuals, Cities, Nations, and Beyond | Speaker: Jonathan Glover, Kings College, London
Readings on the Various Scales and Locations of Identity and Power in a Globalizing world | (RM - 56K)
(RM - 80K)
(RM - 220K) | | 12 | Cities and Representation in a Global Age | Speaker: Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics
Architectural, Social, and Spatial Correlates of a Post-national Geography | | | 13 | Considering Jerusalem | Speaker: Bruce Mazlish, MIT
Student Presentations | (RM - 56K)
(RM - 80K)
(RM - 220K) |
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