The course is a survey of the architecture and the urban history of the city of Rome, from the early Renaissance to contemporary Rome. Rome is an exceptional city in that it represents more than 2700 years of uninterrupted history, reflected in its...
Milan is a renown global city, particularly recognized as a capital of design and fashion. Yet its history stretches back more than 2,500 years from its origins as a Celtic village, serving as one of the capitals of the Roman Empire, and later...
This course provides an introductory overview of Tokyo's architectural history and explores some of the recent questions that architects, urban planners, and scholars have raised to understand its phenomenon. To this end, the course covers the...
Four momentous changes occurring within the first two decades of the 21st century are having a lasting effect on our planet:
This course offers a critical and dynamic overview to those avant-garde creations happening in Granada during 20th and 21st centuries, including literary, filmic, performing, musical and urban art expressions, and connecting certain emblematic...
Freiburg is top when it comes to urban planning: it is the most sustainable city in Germany - a child and bicycle-friendly town, the No.1 feel good location. It is internationally renowned for the Rieselfeld and Vauban model districts as well. What...
Cities not only welcome entrepreneurs from various sectors, but also work as entrepreneurs by marketing specific features and places, privatizing public goods and services, creating public-private partnerships, and taking financial risks. The main...
Paris, as a global city, the capital of France and its largest city, provides an excellent opportunity to study the political system, public policies, social trends and economic stakes of the country.
Paris has over 2 million residents, with a...
Urban space is constantly structured and given meaning by different actors and changing constellations. In Berlin, the collapse of communism, the reunification of the formerly divided city, and the subsequent transformations created a new framework...