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Image of the City
城市意象
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Cities in the world Polis (Greek)
Ciudad (Spanish) Stadt (German) Ville (French)
Cidade (Portuguese)
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Your city
• What is your city? • How do you see it? • Few words to
describe it
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Your image of the city?
• How do we look at the city? • How to express the impressions/smells/streets/ etc.
? • What are the main characters/figures of the city? • How do the features of the city reflect the people,
the region, the country, the language? • How and why is violence, poverty etc. associated
with the city? • Do we look, live, experience, feel or imagine the
city?
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The city is
‘incomprehensible to its inhabitants’ unless it is transformed in an image (Pike Burton, The Image of the City in Modern Literature 10)
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The Image of the city is • The response of human
imagination to the phenomenon of the city
• The city as a presence and not simply a setting
• The combination of the similarities and differences between the real city, the word city (text) and the image city (cinema)
• Example: what do you know about Paris? How did you have these ideas?
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Image or images?
• The city of the architect • The city of the historian • The city of the urban
sociologist • The city of the real estate • The city of the scientist • The city of the engineer • The city of the child • The city of the tourist • The city of the filmmaker • Etc.
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stereotypes
• Paris: love • Berlin: alternative • Barcelona: farniente • Vienna: romanticism • Buenos Aires: tango • Rio de Janeiro: favela • Havana: Salsa • Hong Kong?
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In this course you will learn to • Identify and describe some
major cities in French, Spanish, German and Portuguese speaking countries
• Discover major artists, films and texts related to the cities
• Examine issues emerging from the meeting of reality and imagination generated by urban life
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and learn to • Reflect on complex cultural
phenomena related to the development of cities in a global context, through a wide range of approaches, to develop higher-thinking skills
• Compare and interpret the parallels between the cities in French, Spanish, German and Portuguese speaking countries, Hong Kong and other cities
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Assignments and Assessment • In class participation,
group discussions, and attendance
• Group presentation • Creation of a Wiki site
with students in Latin America
• Quizz and writing responses
• Final Exam
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History of the City
1. ancient city: from seat of empire to polis 2. medieval city: church and guilds centers 3. Renaissance city: expansion of culture and
commerce 4. industrial city: capitalist speculation, metal
versus nature 5. post-industrial city : megalopolises, a
nowhere city, globalized cities, birth of urbanism (after 1960s – conquest of the cities)
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Polis – Ancient Greece
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Medieval city 4th-14th century
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City in Renaissance
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Industrial city 18th - early 20th century
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Modern city 20th century onwards
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Kowloon Walled City
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Course details
• Contact: Dr Marie Berne Office: MMW 4466 Telephone: 3442 7565 E-mail: [email protected]
• 3 hours seminars/week