Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:2, Tt:0, Lb:2]
- HISTORY:
- What is a city, evolution of settlements to cities,
early and classical cities, medieval cities, colonial
cities, industrialization and the city, trade and the city,
Islamic city, city in Hindu thought and planning, port
cities, the modernist city, Globalization and the city.
- FORM:
- Understanding urban form, map reading and interpretation,
city in literature, art, film; Lynch's 'Image of the city';
Public space and public life, 'organic' city versus planned
city, Google earth and the city, case studies (may include
Mohenjodaro, Banaras, Rome, London, New Delhi, New York,
Jaipur, Istanbul, Venice, Paris, Chicago, Mexico city,
Chandigarh among others.)
- FUNCTION:
- Understanding urban transportation, waste collection
and disposal, electricity and water distribution and services
in the city, urban ecology, city-hinterland relationships,
urban farming, city and water, urban parks.
- THEORY:
- urban systems, central place theory, world systems
theory, capitalism and the city, flexible accumulation through
urbanization, theory of gentrification, sustainability issues
in the city, urban sprawl, climate change and the city,
segregation, politics of development in cities, migration and
urban slums, politics of participation and protest, Social
difference (gender, caste, class, nationality) in the city.
- Richard T. LeGates, Frederic Stout, City Reader, (Routledge
Urban Reader Series). Taylor & Francis (2011).
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich (1978).
- Tim Hall, Heather Barret, Urban Geography Routledge (2012).
- Ash Amin, Nigel Thrift, Cities: Reimagining the Urban Polity, (2002).
- Spiro Kostof, The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings
Through History, Bulfinch (1993).
