Francesc Muñoz, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

The course focuses on the explanation of recent evolutions and transformation processes in urban Europe considering main trends in contemporary urban societies. The “shifting landscape” of the European City is explained as the physical result of important changes in the economic, social and cultural arenas. In this sense, urban processes of change in cityscapes like gentrification in historical centres and the redevelopment of waterfronts and 1 st generation industrial districts are presented in parallel with the increasing sprawl in suburban and metropolitan areas.

The course covers the explanation of similar processes taking place in different cities that can be explained as a result of globalisation dynamics or as much more related with the specific context of European integration. Sample cities will be discussed illustrating differences and similarities in Western, Eastern and Mediterranean European urbanisation.

The course will include two different types of sessions. Some of the sessions will be dedicated to the presentation of the theoretical framework and the discussion of the contents. Other sessions will be arranged as workshops to discuss some key texts selected from the bibliography.

Bibliography

1. Required readings (Priority given to materials written or available in english language)
- Barber, Stephen (1995) Fragments of the European city . Reaktion books.
- Carpenter, Juliet y Less, Loreta (1995) "Gentrification in New York, London and Paris: An international comparison". In International Journal of Urban and Regional Research . vol. 19. num. 2. (286-304).
- Crilley, Darrel (1993) "Architecture as Advertising: Constructing the image of redevelopment". In Kearns, Gerry; Philo, Chris.- Selling Places. The city as cultural capital, past and present . Pergamon press. Oxford. (231-252).
- Fishman, Robert (1987) Bourgeois Utopia's. The Rise and Fall of Suburbia . New York: Basic books.
- Garreau, Joel (1991) Edge City . Doubleday, N.Y.
- Hannigan, John (1998) Fantasy city. Pleasure and profit in the postmodern metropolis . Routledge.
- Harvey, David (1989) The condition of postmodernity. An enquiry into the origins of cultural change . B. Blackwell. Cambridge, Mass.
- Ingersoll, Richard (1999) “Sprawlscape: il paesagio come redenzione”. In de Rossi, Antonio; Durbiano, Giovanni; Governa, Francesca; Reinerio, Luca; Robiglio, Matteo . Linee nel paesaggio. Esplorazioni nei territori della trasformazione . Torino: UTET Università.
- Koolhas, Rem. (1997) “The Generic City”. From Domus , 791, march.
- Lehrer, Ute Angelika (1994) "Images of the periphery". In Environment and Planning D: Society and Space . vol.12 (187-205).
- Marcuse, Peter (1993) "What's so new about divided cities?". In International Journal of Urban and Regional Research . vol. 17. num. 3. (355-365).
- Marcuse, Peter (1995) "Not chaos, but walls: potmodernism and the partitioned city". In Watson, Sophie; Gibson, Katherine (eds. 1995) Postmodern cities and spaces . Blackwell. Oxford.
- Newman, Peter; Thornley, Andy (1996) Urban planning in Europe. International competition, national systems and plannning projects. Routledge. London.
- Page, Stephen (1995) Urban tourism. Routledge.
- Urry, John (1995) Consuming Places . The International Library of Sociology. Routledge, London.
- Urry, John (1996 ) The Tourist Gaze. Leisure and Travel in Contemporary societies . (1st de. 1990) SAGE, London.
- Ventury, Marco (ed.) (1994) Grandi eventi. La festivalizzazione della politica urbana . Il Cardo ed. Venezia.
- Zukin, Sharon (1991) Landscapes of Power. From Detroit to Disney World . University of California Press. Los Angeles.

2. Recommended readings
- Asher, Francoise (1995) Metapolis ou l'avenir des villes . Odile Jacob, Paris.
- Augé, Marc (1992 ) Non-lieux. Introduction a une anthropologie de la surmodernité . La Seuil , Paris.
- Dal Pozzolo, Luca (ed, 2002). Fuori città, senza campagna. Paesaggio e progetto nella città difusa . Milano: FrancoAngeli.
- Dubois-Taine, Genenviève; Chalas, Yves (1997). La ville émergente . Saint-Étienne:Éditions de l'Aube.
- Kirby, Andrew (2002) “From Berlin wall to garden wall: boundary formation around the home”. 98 th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles.
- Martinotti, Guido (1993) Metropoli. La nuova morfologia sociale della città . Il Mulino. Bologna.
- Mitchell, William, J. (1995) City of Bits. Space, place and the infobahn . The Mit Press. London.
- Muñoz, Francesc (2002) “The Multiplied city. Metropolis of territoriants”. In Musco, Francesco (ed.) City, Architecture, Landscape , (75-109). Venice: Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, IUAV-SdS.
- Muñoz, Francesc (2003) “Lock Living: Urban Sprawl in Mediterranean Cities”. In Cities, International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning , volum 20, issue 6 (381-385) desembre.
- Olalquiaga, Celeste (1991) Megalopolis. Contemporary Cultural Sensibilities . Monte Avila eds. Caracas.
- Räder, Marc (1999) Scanscape. A Visual Essay About a Global Phenomenon . Barcelona: Actar.
- Relph, Edward (1987) The modern urban landscape . The Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore.
- Shurmer-Smith, Pamela; Hannam, Kevin (1994) Worlds of Desire, Realms of Power. Edward Arnold. London.
- Sorkin, Michael (1992) Variations on a theme park - the new american city and the end of public space . Hill&Wang. N.Y.
- Sudjic, Deyan (1993) The 100 mile city . Flamingo. London.
- Tester, Keith (1993) The life and times of postmodernity . Routledge, London.
- Virilio, Paul (1986) "The over-exposed city". In Zone 1/2. (14-39).
- Zukin, Sharon (1998) Urban Lifestyles: Diversity and Standardisation in Spaces of Compsumtion . From Urban Studies, vol. 35, nº 5/6, may, 825-840.