Subject 'History of Urban Design'

Year:   2015/2016    2016/2017    2017/2018    2018/2019    2019/2020    

The course gives an overview of the formation of towns and the beginning of urban design, from the Renaissance urban design to the present day complicated urbanization processes in modern European cities.

To give an overview of the history of formation of towns and town planning from the first settlements to the Middle Ages.

Students having completed the course know the principles of history of urban design and the factors affecting it, the social processes which have most influenced the global urbanization.

Lectures, seminars, students' reports.

1. Sisask, H., 2001 Peatükke linnaehituse ajaloost. Õppematerjal TTK
2. Härmson, P., 1984 Linnad läbi aegade, Tallinn
3. Härmson, P., 1986 Tänavad läbi aegade, Tallinn
4. Ateena Harta.
5. Hall,L. Cities of Tomorrow., 1988 An Intellectual of Urban Planning in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge.
6. Jauhiainen, J. 2005 Linnageograafia, Tallinn

Seminars, homeworks, written exam

2020: RA  

2019: RA  

2018: RA  

2017: RA  

2016: RA  

2015: RA