Arch5711: Design Principles of the Urban Landscape
An introduction to urban design, this class covers its development and current practice.
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The emergence of contemporary environmental design
- Urban design in the early industrial period
- Garden cities and new towns
- Transportation and urbanism
- Mass production suburbia
- Modernism and its reactions
- How the world changed since the 1970s
- Who actually builds cities?
- What do urban designers do?
- What systems do urban designers need to understand?
- Sustainable cities
- Neighborhoods
- Active and healthy cities
- Consumption
- Diversity
- Futures
