Advanced History & Theory 1 PG (9780.3)

Required texts

Note: The following list is indicative and is subject to change. 

Where feasible, readings will be made available in short term loan or via the Unit Canvas site via Reading List.

Additional or difference readings and resources may be added over the course of the semester.

Weekly readings:

W1 (urbanity) intro

Mumford, L. (2016). What is a city? The city reader, Routledge. 6, 110-114.

Wirth, L. (2016) Urbanism as a way of life. The city reader, Routledge. 6, 115- 123.

Alexander, C. (1965). A city is not a tree. Paper presented at the Architectural forum.

Additional option for all that are interested in an Eastern perspective (Japan): Ginsberg, R. (2007) What is a City? Philosophy and the City, State University of the New York Press, 241-249.

W2 The Place  

Heidegger, M. (1971). Building Dwelling Thinking (A. Hofstadter, Trans.). London: Harper & Row.

Sharr, A. (2007). Heidegger for Architects. London and New York: Routledge

Pallasmaa, J. (2012). The eyes of the skin: architecture and the senses: John Wiley & Sons.

Norberg Schulz, C. (1980). Genius loci: towards a phenomenology of architecture (Trad. de l'ital.).

Alternative: read Norberg Schulz, C. (1979-1980). The loss and recovery of Place. In: Philosophy and the city. Ed. Meagher, S.M., State University of New York Press: Albany

Chemero, A. (2003). An Outline of a Theory of Affordances. Ecological Psychology, 15(2), 181-195. doi:10.1207/S15326969ECO1502_5

W3 Production of space

Lefebvre, H. (1991). The production of space. Cambridge, Mass., USA;Oxford, OX, UK: Blackwell.

Debord, G. (1994). The Society of the Spectacle (D. Nicholson-Smith, Trans.). Camebridge & London: MIT Press.

Debord, G. (1957). Report on the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency's Conditions of Organization and Action. (K. Knabb, Trans.). Paris.

W4 1000 years of non-linear history

De Landa, M. (2000) A thousand years of nonlinear history, Zone Books, New York, pp. 25-56.

W5 Utopia

Howard, E. S., & Osborn, F. J. (1965). Garden cities of to-morrow (Vol. 1st MIT Press paperback). Cambridge, Mass: M.I.T. Press

Rowe, C. and Koetter, F. (1983) Collage City, MIT Press, pp.11-31.

Le Corbusier. (2016). A Contemporary city. The city Reader. 6, 379-387.

Le Corbusier (2007) The Pack-Donkey's Way and Man's Way and A Contemporary City, in The Urban Design Reader, eds. M. Larce and E. Macdonald, pp. 66-75.

Wright, F.L. (2016). Broadacre City: A New Community Plan. The city Reader. 6, 388-393.

W6 Tradition

Rossi, A. (1982). The Architecture of the City. Cambridge, Mass: M.I.T. Press, 1-51

Jacobs, J. (1961). The death and life of great American cities. New York Random House.

Jacobs, A., & Appleyard, D. (1987). Toward an urban design manifesto. Journal of the American Planning Association, 53(1).

Ellin, N. (2000). The Postmodern Built Environment. Knox, P. and Ozolins, P.(2000)(eds), Design professionals and the built environment: An introduction, Wiley, London, 99-106.

W7 Future

Rogers, R. (2008). Cities for a small planet: Basic Books.

Koolhaas, R. (1994). The generic city. S, M, L, XL. In: The urban design reader, 2007, Routledge: New York.

Frey. H. (1999). Compact, Decentralised or What? The Sustainable City Debate. In: The urban design reader, 2007, Routledge: New York.

Thomas, L and Cousins, W. (1996) The Compact City: A Successful, Desirable and Achievable Urban Form? In The Compact City, A Sustainable Urban Form?  eds. Jenks, M. Burton, E. and Williams, K. E & FN Spon. Pp. 53-65.

Mews, G., Muminovic, M., Tranter, P. (2018). Time for action: implementing the New Urban Agenda in public spaces for health and wellbeing. The Journal of Public Space. 3(1), 193-202.

W9-12:

Zardini, M. (2005). Sense of the City: an alternate approach to urbanism (Z. M. Ed.). Montréal Lars Müller Publishers.

Moustakas, C. (1994). Phenomenological research methods: Sage.

Mitchell, D. (1995). The end of public space? People's Park, definitions of the public, and democracy. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 85(1), 108-133.

Mierzejewska, L. (2011). Appropriation of Public Urban Space as an Effect of Privatisation and Globalisation. In Quaestiones Geographicae (Vol. 30, pp. 39).

Merrifield, A. (1993). Place and Space: A Lefebvrian Reconciliation. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 18(4), 516-531. doi:10.2307/622564

Malpas, J. E. (1999). Place and experience – a philosophical topography (Vol. null).

Malone, K. (2001). Children, Youth and Sustainable Cities. Local Environment, 6(1), 5-12. doi:10.1080/13549830120024215

Maller, C. J., Henderson-Wilson, C., & Townsend, M. (2009). Rediscovering Nature in Everyday Settings: Or How to Create Healthy Environments and Healthy People. EcoHealth, 6(4), 553-556. doi:10.1007/s10393-010-0282-5

Lynch, K. (1981). A theory of good urban form. In: Cambridge: MIT Press.

Low, S. (2017). Public Space and the Public Sphere: The Legacy of Neil Smith. Antipode, 49, 153-170. doi:10.1111/anti.12189

Larice, M., & Macdonald, E. (2007). The urban design reader. New York: Routledge.

Kingwell, M. (2008). The Prison of „Public Space" In J. J. Gieseking, W. Mangold, C. Katz, S. Low, & S. Saegert (Eds.), The People, Place, and Space Reader. Hoboken: Routledge Ltd.

Koolhaas, R.et al. (2007). Mutations: Harvard project on the city. Paris: ACTAR.

Kuma, K. (2008). Anti-Object. London: Architectural Association London.

Johnson, A. J., & Glover, T. D. (2013). Understanding Urban Public Space in a Leisure Context. Leisure Sciences, 35(2), 190-197. doi:10.1080/01490400.2013.761922

Jacobs, A. B. (1995). Great streets (Paperback ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Jackson, J. (1985). Vernacular space. Texas Architect, 35(2), 58-61.

Iveson, K. (1998). Putting the public back into public space. Urban Policy and Research, 16(1), 21-33.

Harvey, D. (1990). The condition of postmodernity: An enquiry into the conditions of cultural change.

Hall, E. T. (1989). The dance of life: The other dimension of time: Anchor.

Gupta, A., & Ferguson, J. (1992). Beyond "culture": Space, identity, and the politics of difference. Cultural anthropology, 7(1), 6-23.

Goffman, E. (1974). Frame analysis: An essay on the organization of experience: Cambridge, MA, US: Harvard University Press.

Gieseking, J. J., Mangold, W., Katz, C., Low, S., & Saegert, S. (2014). The People, Place, and Space Reader. Hoboken: Routledge Ltd.

Gehl, J. (2013). Cities for people. Washington D.C.: Island press.

Franck, K., & Stevens, Q. (2006). Loose space: possibility and diversity in urban life: Routledge.

Ellin, N. (2010). The Tao of urbanism. What We See: Advancing the Investigations of Jane Jacobs, 44-54.

Dovey, K. (2010). Becoming places: urbanism/architecture/identity/power: Routledge.

Stevens, Q. (2007). The ludic city: exploring the potential of public spaces. London; New York: Routledge.

Submission of assessment items

Academic integrity

Supplementary assessment is available only for a final subject required for Course completion, as provided by University policy.

Please see UC's Supplementary Assessment Policy.

Participation requirements

Students are expected to have read the assigned weekly materials, attend the scheduled classes and actively engage with online tutorials (forum participation). It may be challenging to pass the unit without attending and without regular, online participation.

Required IT skills

Students are required to have basic IT skills. They will have to prepare and submit their online presentations, use email, send an attachment, write a paper and use Canvas.

In-unit costs

The reading material is generally available online or in the UC library.

Work placement, internships or practicums

None.

• Semester 1, 2021, On-Campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (199386)
• Semester 1, 2020, On-Campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (194367)
• Semester 1, 2019, On-Campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (187911)