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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