boom: big and urban
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The seminar will attempt to situate emergent forms of urbanism within the discourse of postmodernism, globalization, transnationalism and nationalism, and draw deliberate connections between politics, economics, culture, and space-making. The question of how to reconcile the relationship of the needs of individual human beings with the complex network of forces operating at sometimes difficult to comprehend scales will be addressed. As global citizens we must endeavor to understand the multitude forces at play that construct our changing landscape. As architects we must reflect on our discipline and strategize a new theory of participation.
The seminar will explore the subject matter of boom: big and urban in 3 sections. 1> through background texts that will assist in situating the class temporally, spatially and intellectually, 2> a range of texts that theorize the city through organizational models of urbanisms, and 3> through a looser collection of texts that describe emerging topics around new forms of urbanism.
Course instructor: Mari Fujita