City History

Code	11988
Year	4
Semester	S1
ECTS Credits	5
Workload	T(45H)
Scientific area	Theory and History of Architecture
Entry requirements	Not applicable.
Learning outcomes	Provide the student with a critical understanding of urban planning thinking from a historical perspective and in light of current political systems. To develop an understanding of the main epistemological bases of urban planning and urban planning theories; Develop understanding of the theories of urban planning and urban planning as part of the historical process of modernity; Inserting the student into the international debate on the future of cities and planning in the context of globalization, with emphasis on local-global relations.
Syllabus	I - Synthesis of the Urban Evolution until the Industrial Revolution. Renaissance and urban evolution. The pre-industrial city. II - The city with the Industrial Revolution. The emergence of urbanism as a discipline in the second half of the 19th century. The incorporation of the models of the natural sciences by the urbanistic theory. Social thought and housing proposals in the 19th century. Conceptual and programmatic formulations of modernism. Housing policy and Public Policies. III - Recent theories about urban space. Site and landscape. Public and private space. Modernism and contemporaneity. IV - Cities in Portugal - Synthesis of the evolution of urban settlements. The big cities and the housing issue. Public policies before / after 1974, in mainland Portugal and colonies. New trends in contemporary urbanism. V - Future perspectives of the city. Postmodern urbanism. The city and globalization. New theories, new public policies.
Main Bibliography	1. Benevolo, L., (1977), História da Ciudad, GG, Barcelona; Hall, P., (2001), Cities in Civilization. Pantheon, New York; Mumford, L, (2008), A Cidade na História, 5 ed., Martins Fontes, S. Paulo; 2. Sitte, C., (1992), A Construção das Cidades Segundo Seus Princípios Artísticos, Ática, S. Paulo; 3. Vitruvius M., (1914), The Ten Books on Architecture, Translated by Morris Hicky Morgan, Cambridge, University Press, Harvard; 4. Choay, F., (1965), O Urbanismo, Utopias e Realidade, Perspetiva, S. Paulo; 5. Harvey, D., (1992), Condição Pós Moderna, Loyola, S Paulo; 6. Montaner J., (1997), La modernidad superada, Arquitetura, arte y pensamiento del siglo XX, GG, Barcelona; 7. Sassen, S., (1991),The Global City, Priceton, New York; 8. Lefevre, H.. (1974), De lo rural a lo urbano, Peninsula, Barcelona; 9. Borja, J., Castells, M., (1997), Local and Global, Earthscan, London 10. Benevolo, L., (1991), Origens da urbanística moderna, Presença, Lisboa.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.