Metropolitan Urbanism

3 units

The seminar course will investigate the morphology and morphogenesis of the contemporary American metropolitan urban condition. The investigation will attempt to define and understand the changing pattern, form, priorities and use of the metropolitan transect from the central city to the rural fringe. The objective of the course is to understand the history of the American city in terms of the indeterminate tensions, complexity and richness of morphological layering and traces in the urban landscape, as a basis for critical practice.