This course tackles the enormous subject of the city in history. Our goal is to understand the evolution and design of cities through time; our method is to examine the form of cities and the forces that shaped them. The scope of the class is both broad and focused: the first half of the course will survey chronologically the evolution of selected cities and urban patterns throughout the world, the second half will focus more directly on a variety of issues that influenced urbanization and urban form in the 19th and 20th centuries in the western world.
