Postgraduate Course: REINVENTING THE URBAN: TOWNSCAPES AND ENVIRONMENTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY (PGHC11320)
Course Outline
| School |
School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Postgraduate (School of History and Classics) |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None
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Taught in Gaelic? |
No |
| Course description |
How do towns and cities differ in 2000 to those of 1900? High-rise, multi-storey, sprawl, cloned, private, and zoned are some of the adjectives used to describe the 20th century city. Scale, mass, density and colour have changed as building materials, designs and technologies have altered.
The course has five parts:
1. Background: Building the Burghs
2. The Landscape of Memory
3. Cloned Cities
4. Regeneration
5. Cities Inverted?
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Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Flexible, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Experts in planning and regeneration provide instruction through video lectures and illustrated materials, and there are rich resources available on-ine that enrich the visual and interpretive aspect of this course. The course proceeds with a number of central questions and issues, and employs conceptual frameworks to understand the process of landscape change:
* What characteristics would you use to describe changes in the 20th century town or city?
* Are our townscape increasingly homogenised, or is this a central characteristic of modernisation through different periods?
* Should the focus be on physical features that define fundamental changes in the urban landscape and environment?
* How do changes in the townscape, or the sensescape as it has been called, affect behaviour?
* In what ways do smaller places also experience a changing urban environment?
* Do the experience of Scottish burghs coincide with townscape changes elsewhere?
* Does the historic landscape condition our vision of the contemporary city?
* Is the conventional notion of zoning irrelevant in a contemporary world?
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Assessment Information
A short report (750) words
AND
An essay, photoessay or project on a specific area or site (1500 words)
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Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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Contacts
| Course organiser |
Prof Richard Rodger
Tel:
Email: Richard.Rodger@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mr Richard Kane
Tel: (0131 6)50 8349
Email: richard.kane@ed.ac.uk |
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