City History

Code	15171
Year	4
Semester	S2
ECTS Credits	5
Workload	T(45H)
Scientific area	Theory and History of Architecture
Entry requirements	Not applicable.
Learning outcomes	Provide students with a critical understanding of urban thinking in a historical perspective and in the light of current political systems. Develop an understanding of the main epistemological bases of the theories of urbanism and urban planning; Develop an understanding of the theories of urbanism and urban planning as part of the historical process of modernity; Insert the student in the international debate on the future of cities and planning in the context of globalization, with an emphasis on relations between the local and the global.
Syllabus	I - Synthesis of Urban Evolution up to the Industrial Revolution. Renaissance and urban evolution. The pre-industrial revolution city. II - The city with the Industrial revolution. The emergence of urbanism as a discipline in the 2nd half of the 19th century. The incorporation of natural science models into urban theory. Social thinking and housing proposals in the 19th century. Conceptual and programmatic formulations of modernism. Housing policy and public policy. III - Recent theories on urban space. Site and landscape. Public and private space. Modernism and contemporaneity. IV - Cities in Portugal - Summary of the evolution of urban settlements. Large 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.
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria	Expository classes; student-centered, co discussion and debate of the various themes of the course unit program. Evaluation: Final mark - NF . Written test T/Exam - 14 points of the final grade; . Individual work, or in groups of 2, t - 6 points of the final grade; NF= 0.3t+0.7T NOTE: It is compulsory to have a minimum of 7 points in the final grade in order to be admitted to the exam; Only the theoretical component, T, can be taken in the exam; t, is a Compulsory work; Grades from 0 to 20.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.