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Academic unit or major: Graduate major in Urban Design and Built Environment

Instructor(s): Nakai Norihiro

Class Format: Lecture

Media-enhanced courses

Day/Period(Room No.): Fri1-2(W935)

Group: -

Course number: UDE.D405

Credits: 1

Academic year: 2017

Offered quarter: 2Q

Syllabus updated: 2017/3/17

Lecture notes updated: -

Language used: Japanese

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Syllabus

Course description and aims

This course explains the history of the city and its planning in Japan and Western world.
It is important to know how cities have been formed in order to understand the contemporary city and its future. Students are expected to learn the history of the city and its planning as its basic knowledge and to understand various planning thoughts and methods which are still effective in modern times.

Student learning outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) understand basic knowledge of the history of western cities and their planning
2) understand basic knowledge of the history of Japanese cities and their planning

Keywords

History of city, Planning history

Competencies that will be developed

✔ Specialist skills

Intercultural skills

Communication skills

Critical thinking skills

Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

All classes are given by lecture.

Course schedule/Required learning

	Course schedule	Required learning
Class 1	From the beginning of civilization to Greece and Roman cities	Understand the definition of the city in the history of civilization; Understand the feature of Greece and Roman cities
Class 2	From medieval Europe to Baroque cities	Understand the feature of medieval western cities: Understand the purpose and feature of Baroque city planning
Class 3	Industrial revolution and the beginning of modern urban planning	Understand the genesis of modern urban planning
Class 4	Urban planning in the western countries in the 20th century	Understand 20th century history of western urban planning
Class 5	Japanese towns of pre-modernization period	Understand the formation of the Japanese city before modernization
Class 6	Japanese cities: Meiji Era	Understand Japanese city planning in Meiji era
Class 7	From the first planning legislation to reconstruction from Great Kanto Earthquake	Understand Japanese city planning in Taisho era
Class 8	From the reconstruction from the war damage to rapid economic growth period	Understand Japanese city planning in the post-war period

Textbook(s)

None required

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Original text materials will be uploaded to the OCW.
Ishida, Yorifusa. The Development of Modern Urban Planning in Japan, Tokyo: Jichitai Kenkyuu Sha
Hibata, Yasui. World History of Urban Planning, Tokyo: Kodansha Shinsho
Koshizawa, Akira. Urban Planning of Tokyo, Tokyo: Iwanami Shinsho

Assessment criteria and methods

Level of understanding of basic thoughts of planning and of skill to interpret the history of an area and utilize it to planning
End of Term Report (100%)

Related courses

CVE.D211 ： Introduction to National Land Use and City Planning
ARC.P305 ： National and City Planning

Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)

None

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