History of Regional & Urban Planning

3 units

As the culmination of the landscape history/theory sequence, this class traces the progress of urban and regional planning since the 19th century, paying particular attention to the emergence of landscape and ecology as means of generating and structuring large-scale plans. Over this period, planning has developed as much through ideological argument as through successive built forms. Accordingly, we will examine approaches to the physical and conceptual ordering of the city and region ranging from critical texts to finished projects, and from design culture to official practices.