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Calendar

The calendar is divided into three parts:
  • Part I: Understanding Cities in Context: Local, National, and Global (Weeks 1 through 4)
  • Part II: Designing Cities In Local, National, and Global Context (Weeks 5 through 9)
  • Part III: City Design, Social Justice, and The Politics of Change (Weeks 10 through 14)
WEEK #TITLESTOPICS
1The City as a Social, Legal, and Political ConceptSpeaker: Gerald Frug, Harvard Law School

Readings on forms of Citizenship and Political Power as Product of the City-State Nexus
2The Nature and Historical Origins of CitiesReadings on Political, Social, and Economic Underpinnings of Urban Growth
3The City as Nation (and vice-versa)Speaker: Larry Vale, MIT

Readings on Capital Cities as Seat and Symbol of National Identity
4The City-Nation Nexus in Global ContextSpeaker: Neil Brenner, New York University

Readings on Cities, Capitalist Development, and State Formation in Global Context
5Urban UtopiasSpeaker: David Harvey, CUNY Graduate Center, New York

Readings on Urban Utopias in Theory and Practice
6Cities in National Consolidation and Global ExpansionSpeaker: Sumantra Bose, London School of Economics

Readings on the Design of Cities (Rome and Berlin) with National and Imperial Aims
7Cities and NationalismSpeaker: Rogers Brubaker, UCLA and Central European University

Readings on the Relationships between Politics, Urban Life, and Physical Space
8Rebuilding Nations by Reconstructing CitiesSpeaker: Jo Beall, London School of Economics

Readings on Cities (Berlin, Johannesburg, Mostar) Undertaking Urban and National Rebuilding in Post-Conflict Situations
9Cities as Spaces for DemocracySpeaker: Richard Sennett, London School of Economics

Readings on the Democratic Promise of the City and its Design
10Cities and World PeaceReadings on the Location and Design of the UN
11Scales 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
12Cities and Representation in a Global AgeSpeaker: Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics

Architectural, Social, and Spatial Correlates of a Post-national Geography
13Considering JerusalemSpeaker: Bruce Mazlish, MIT

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