CMTY 200: Detailed Class Outline
FOR GENERAL EDUCATION GOAL AREA 5: History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Module One: The Urban World (10 %) (SLOs 1,2,3)
1. The process or Urbanization (5%)
a. Urbanization
b. Urbanism
Urban Growth, Megacities, and the Urban Explosion
c. Effects, issues, and problems
d. Statistical and Demographic Analysis via data from the UN’s Department of Economic
and Social Affairs, Population Division
i. Europe and North America
ii. South America (Brazil)
iii. China ( Beijing)
iv. Japan (Tokyo)
v. India (Mumbai)
vi. Mexico (Mexico City)
vii. Nigeria (Lagos)
2. Exploring and Understanding the City (5%)
a. Various Disciplinary Perspectives/Interpretations on the study of the City and urban
areas:
i. The City in History
ii. Urban Sociology
iii. Social Psychology
iv. Urban Geography and Ecology-the location of Cities and the reason for their
location
v. Planning – The shape of the City
vi. Political Economy and Economics (the city and capitalism)
vii. Urban Economics (Central Place Theory)
viii. Comparative Urbanism (the city and culture)
ix. The Los Angeles School and Postmodernism
b. The Anatomy of Modern Cities
i. North American and European Cities
ii. Latin American Cities
iii. African Cities
iv. Asian Cities
v. Cities in the Developing World
vi. The City in World Perspective
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Module Two: History of Cities (15%) (SLOs 1, 2, 3)
1. Emergence of Cities (5%)
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The Ecological Complex
Political Economy Models
First Settlements and Urban Origins
Archaeology: Digging the Early City
The first Permanent Settlements
i. Agricultural Revolution
ii. Population Expansion
f. The City Emerges: Interactions of Population, Organization, Environment and
Technology (V. Gordon Child and alternative theories on City Development)
g. The first Urban Revolution: City States and Urban Empires
i. The Near East: Mesopotamia and Egypt
ii. The Indus Region
iii. Looking East—China
iv. The Americas
h. The Hellenic City
i. Physical Design, Housing and Planning
ii. Social and Political Organization and ideas
iii. Hellenic Influences on future city development
i. Rome
i. Physical Design, Housing, and Planning
ii. Social and Political Organization and Ideas
iii. Roman influences of future city development and Provincial Roman
Cities
European Urbanization until the Industrial City (10%)
a. The Medieval and Feudal System –
i. Politics, Economics, Social, and Urban Form—
ii. Feudal Estates and Episcopal Cities
b. Town Revival- Politics, Economics,
i. Politics, Economics, Social character
ii. Urban Form and Characteristics of Towns
c. Renaissance Cities—
i. Politics, Economics, Social characters
ii. Urban Form and Characteristics of Towns
Case studies: Florence and Venice
d. Industrial Revolution and the Emergence of the Industrial City
i. Politics, Economics, and Social Character
ii. Urban Form and Characteristics of Towns
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e. The second Urban revolution and the rise of Modern Cities
i. CASE STUDY: London-The History and evolution of a World City
Module Three: American Urbanization (30%) ( SLOs 1, 2, 3, 5)
The rise of Urban America (10%)
a. The development of American Cities
i. Colonists as Town Builders
ii. Major Settlements
iii. Colonial City Characteristics
b. Growth and expansion: 1800-1870
i. The beginnings of Industrialization
ii. Urban-rural/ North South
iii. City Characteristics
c. The era of the great metropolis 1870-1950
i. The industrial City and the Great Migration
1. Physical, Social and Economic Character
2. Housing and Tenement Reform
3. Zoning and Land Use
ii. Beginning of Suburbanization and early planned Communities
1. Rationale
2. Physical, Social, and Economic Character
3. CASE STUDIES: New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh
d. Form and Character of American Cities
i. Interpreting the City- Urban Ecology
ii. Interpreting the City - Political Economy Perspectives
iii. Interpreting the City- Planning Perspectives
iv. Interpreting the City Social Psychology
The Suburban Era (10 %)
a. Emergence of Suburbs
i. The 19th Century
ii. Electric Street Cars 1890-1920
iii. Automobile suburbs 1920-1950
iv. Mass Suburbanization 1950-1990
1. Causes and Influences of Suburban Growth
2. Physical, social and Economic Character of Suburbs
3. Types of Suburbs
b. Metro and Edge City Growth
i. Metropolitan Growth
ii. Post-industrial Central Cities
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iii. Edge cities and the Malling of America
iv. Rise of the Sunbelt Cities
c. Urban and Suburban Sprawl
i. What is Sprawl, how and why it occurs?
ii. Where does sprawl occur and how does it look like?
1. Exurbs
2. New Communities
3. Gated Communities
4. Common-Interest Developments
5. Strip Malls and shopping Centers
iii. The problems of Sprawl
iv. Costs and Consequences
v. Arguments for and against Sprawl
Solutions to Sprawl (5%)
a. Sustainable Urban Development
I. Growth Management
II. Smart Growth
III. New Urbanism
IV. Transit Oriented Developments and Transit Villages
V. Neo Traditional Urban Designs and Preservation
VI. Housing Policies
b. Case Study: Portland Oregon
Metropolitan America: Cities and Change (5%)
a. The Urban Crisis
b. Urban Revival
c. 21st-Century City Developments
I. Central Business Districts
II. Mismatch Hypothesis
III. Downtown Housing
IV. Crumbling Infrastructure
d. Gentrification (what is it, who, and why?) and how is it changing the urban form of
the Inner City
e. Government and Revitalization
f. The Social Environment of Metro Areas
I. Women in Metropolitan Life
II. White Ethnic Groups
III. African Americans
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IV. Native Americans
V. Latino populations and Mexican Americans
VI. Asian Americans
Module Four: World Wide Urbanization (30%) (SLOs: 2, 3, 5)
Cities in the Developing World (5%)
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The Urban Explosion
Megacities
Rich countries and Poor Countries
Global Cities
Characteristics of Third World Cities
i. Urban Form
ii. Demographics
iii. Multinationals and the Formal and Informal Economies
iv. Squatter Settlements
v. Primate Cities
vi. Problems with Over-urbanization
Asian Urban Patterns (15%)
a. Asian Cities
b. Country Studies
i. India (Mumbai, Kolkata,)
1. General Characteristics and urban form
2. Indigenous Cities
3. Colonial Cities
4. Planning and Influences
5. Socio-economic factors shaping urban form
ii. China (Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong)
1. Treaty Ports
2. Urbanization Policies
3. Forced Movement from Cities and the Rural to Urban Migration
4. Special Economic Zones
5. Planning and Influences
6. Socio-economic factors shaping urban form
7. Alternative Patterns
iii. Japan
1. Urbanization Patterns
2. Planning
3. Suburbanization
4. Planned New Towns
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5. Planning and Influences
6. Socio-economic factors shaping urban form
7. Alternative Patterns
iv. Southeast Asia ( Singapore)
1. General Urbanization Patterns
2. Urban Form
3. Planning and Influences
4. Socio-economic factors shaping urban form
5. Alternative Patterns
African Urbanization (5 %)
a. Introduction to the African Continent
i. Urbanization Patterns
ii. Challenges
iii. Responses
iv. Regional Variations
b. Urban Development and Urban Form
i. Early Cities
ii. Colonial Period
iii. Indigenous African Cities
iv. Contemporary Patterns
v. Differences from the Western Patterns
vi. Alternative Patterns
Latin American Urbanization (5%)
a. Introduction to Latin America: An Urban Continent
b. Spanish Colonial Cities
i. Colonial Organization
ii. Physical Structure and Urban Form
c. Recent Developments
i. Urban Growth
ii. Economic Change
iii. Urban Characteristics and Urban Form
iv. Shantytowns and Maquiladoras
v. Future of Settlements
vi. Contemporary Patterns
vii. Differences from the Western Patterns
viii. Alternative Patterns
d. City Case studies
i. Mexico City
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ii. São Paulo
iii. Buenos Aires
Module Five: Comparative Urbanism (20 %) SLOs( 1,2,3,5)
Planning the Urban Environment (15%)
a. Visions
b. City Planning in World History
i. Ancient city Planning
ii. American City Planning
iii. European City Planning
iv. Asian City Planning
v. African City Planning
vi. Latin American City Planning
c. The New Towns Movements
i. A Socialist-Feminist New Town
ii. Later New Towns in Great Britain
iii. New Towns in Western Europe, Australia, and Brazil
iv. New Towns in the United States
d. Utopia Unlimited: Architectural Visions
e. Old Cities and Focused Urban Planning
f. The realities of Urban Planning
g. Toward the Urban Future
Toward the Urban Future (5%)
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The City and Culture
The City and the Countryside
The City and Civilization
The City and Societal Culture
The City and the Global Economy
Urban Concentration and De-concentration
Issues and Challenges
Social Planning Approaches- Equity Planning and the Dutch Planning Approach
Planning for the Future City
Is the future of the City “metropolitan”?
CONCLUDING CASE STUDIES
i. Hellenic Athens
ii. Ming Peking
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Beijing
Rotterdam
Chicago
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