Upon the successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

·  understand the basic concepts of urban planning and its interlinkage with the socio-economic and political conditions

·  be acquainted with the historical evolution of urban planning

·  be familiar with the urban planning history of modern Greece

·  analyze and recognize the urban form of European cities in their different time periods

·  understand the ways of urban development, and in particular, the standards, methods, practices of formulating and planning the urban space

·  become familiar with the methods and the techniques of the representations of urban space

The general skills that the student should have acquired are:

·  Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies

·  Decision making

·  Autonomous work

·  Promotion of creative thinking and inductive reasoning

The course deals with the evolution of cities and the specific elements of urban space (such as the road, the square, the skyline) from the Middle Ages until approximately the end of the 20th century. Emphasis is put on the theoretical approaches, the methods and the mechanisms of the city planning and urban design, before and after the establishment of urban planning as a distinct scientific field.

In particular, the content of the course is organized in two parts. The first part focuses on the development of the European city from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, as well as the evolution of the relative theories of urban planning. The second part focuses on the urban planning history of modern Greece from the foundation of the modern Greek state until today. It addresses with the historical factors and conditions that gradually shaped the current image of the Greek city taking into account the urban planning policies which have been adopted from the foundation of the new Greek state until today.

The topics of the course are developed as it follows:

·  Introduction to the concepts of city and urban planning

·  The European city during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

·  The city in the early 19th Century: Industrial Revolution and Utopia

·  Examples of urban interventions in the 19^th Century: Paris, Vienna, Barcelona

·  Ideology, planning theory and practice in Interwar Europe

·  The legacy of the Modern Movement in urban planning

·  Urban environment and planning after the Second World War

·  Greek town planning in the 19th century – The plan of Athens

·  Planning northern Greek cities in the period of the Ottoman Reforms

·  The Greek city during the interwar period (1922-1940)

·  The post-war Greek city and urban planning

Students are evaluated by:

(a) Final written examination (80%)

(b) Individual work (20%)

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