32102
Advanced Seminar
SoSe 17: Urban Imaginaries in Postwar America
Utku Mogultay
Comments
Visions of what a city is and should be have acted as forceful undercurrents in American history and culture. Oscillating between cautionary tale and utopian promise, such urban imaginaries developed through political rhetoric, planning paradigms, place marketing, architectural and design movements as well as literature, visual and popular culture. In this seminar we will explore the conceptual forces that have shaped, and continue to shape, the structural transformations of North American cities. Following an introduction to a number of foundational city-related ideas and issues reaching back to the colonial period, we will examine a variety of cultural forms (literature, film, photography, advertising, art and architecture) from the 1940s to the early 21st century, tracing the complex reconfigurations of urban tropes and imagery. Thus, delineating a range of urban models (e.g. suburbia, modernist city, postmetropolis, cybercity, fortress city, infrastructural city) and their corresponding spatial logics, generic conventions, medialities and materialities, this seminar aims at fostering a deeper understanding of the American urban landscape. close
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2017-04-20 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-04-27 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-05-04 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-05-11 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-05-18 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-06-01 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-06-08 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-06-15 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-06-22 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-06-29 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-07-06 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-07-13 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-07-20 10:00 - 12:00