History of Urbanism - 2nd semester
Code
711061044
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História da Arte
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Maria Margarida Simões Tavares Conceição
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
To understand and discuss the issues related to history of urbanism in the disciplinary framework of art history, considering the following key objectives:
a) understanding the main concepts related to urbanism as an object of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary study;
b) identifying the artistic dimensions of the urban object on its own and as physical and cultural context for architecture and works of art in general;
c) understanding the key sequence of urban models in the Western world by identifying case studies;
d) contextualizing the most significant aspects of urbanism evolution in the Portuguese world;
e) to master methodological procedures of urban analysis, specially the graphical representation tools, through practical work on case studies;
f) to discuss the problems of the contemporary city and to understand the involved heritage values, questioning the concepts of historical city and historical center.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1. Concepts in History of Urbanism
The city as historical time existence.
Multidisciplinary and pluridisciplinary perspectives: a conceptual delimitation of Urbanism and the world of social sciences and humanities.
History of Urbanism as a subject in art history.
Operational concepts for analysis of the urban space.
2. (Historiographical) city models in the Western world
The origins of human settlements.
The classical city and the Greco-Roman world.
The medieval city: from Islam to Christianity.
The city in Renaissance culture: the problem of the ideal city and utopia.
The baroque city and the grand European capitals.
The phenomenon of colonial urbanism.
The nineteenth-century industrial city.
3. Urbanism and contemporaneity.
The disciplinary conceptualization of Urbanism.
The Modern Movement Urbanism.
Thinking the city and the multiplication of paradigms (progressive, culturalist and technicist urbanism).
Valuing heritage and the concept of historical city.
Contemporary cities and the
Bibliography
ARGAN, Giulio Carlo (1983 / 1998). História da Arte como História da cidade. São Paulo: Martins Fontes
BACON, Edmund N. (1967 / 1995). Design of Cities. London: Thames and Hudson
BENEVOLO, Leonardo (1975 / 2015). História da Cidade. São Paulo: Editora Perspectiva
CALABI, Donatella (2001). Storia della città. L’età moderna. Venezia: Marsilio Editore
CHOAY, Françoise (1965 / 1979). L´Urbanisme, Utopies et Réalités, une Anthologie. Paris: Éditions du Seuil
KOSTOF, Spiro (1991). The City Shaped, Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History. London: Thames and Hudson
LYNCH, Kevin (1960 / 1982). A imagem da cidade. Lisboa: Edições 70
MUMFORD, Lewis (1961 / 1979). The City in History. London: Penguin Books
ROSSA, Walter (2002). A Urbe e o Traço. Uma Década de Estudos sobre o Urbanismo Português. Coimbra: Almedina
TOPALOV, Christian et alii, ed. (2010). L´ aventure des mots de la ville à travers le temps, les langues, les sociétés. Paris: Robert Laffont
Teaching method
Theoretical-practical classes, with lectures, case studies discussion in class and field trips. Topics will be taught on lecture format, complemented by practical sessions based on the analysis and comment of bibliography and primary sources (written and/or iconographic and cartographic), documents that will be previously given out. Describe the teaching methods
In class teaching
Evaluation method
The final assessment should balance the attendance and critical participation in the sessions (APx10%), an individual written test (RIx40%) and the production of an individual or group paper resulting from autonomous research and analysis of a specific urban space, with oral presentation in class (TFx50%).
The final semester grading formula is as follows: CF=APx10+PEx40+TFx50