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Lecture Notes

For each lecture, the readings given in bold are required. The rest are recommended as time permits. Full citations for each of the readings can be found in the readings section.

LEC #	TOPICS
1	Introduction
Section One: The Nature of City Form Theory
2	Three Analogical Examples: The Cosmic Model
3	The Machine Model
4	The Organic Model
5	Descriptive and Functional Theory
6	Some Recent Theoretical Propositions
Section Two: The Form of the Modern City
7	The Early Cities of Capitalism
8	London
9	Paris
10	Vienna and Barcelona
11	Chicago
12	Organization and Control
13	Utopianism
14	Partial Realizations
Section Three: Current Theory and Practice
15	City Form and Process
16	Spatial and Social Structure
17	Bi-polarity: Johannesburg / Soweto
18	Bi-polarity: San Diego / Tijuana, Delhi / New Delhi and Havana / Cuba
19	Modern and Post-modern Urbanism
20	Open-endedness and Prophecy
21	Permanence and Rationality
22	Memory
23	Public and Private Domains
24	Suburbs and Periphery
25	Post-urbanism and Resource Conservation
26	Mega-urbanism

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