Learning Outcomes
Students acquire basic theoritical and historical knowledge on city planning and development issues. The course is an introduction to the urban phenomenon and the evolution of the cities and provides an understanding of the emergence and the evolution of town planning. The course examines the concepts, the theoretical approaches, the models and policies, the mechanisms and procedures for the formation and design of the urban space before and after the emergence of town planning as a distinct scientific discipline.
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course includes the following thematic areas:
1.City and planning: basic elements.
2.Evolution of the urban phenomenon: from the walled to endless city.
3.Evolution and transformations of the European cities and their planning from the ancient ages to enlightenment.
4.Formation of town planning as a modern discipline: Theoretical approaches and applications (19th cent.-1940).
5.Post war urban development and planning: Urban planning of the welfare state
6.Evolution of the modern-Greek city and town planning in Greece: From the 19th century to mid-war period and from the post-war period up to the 1980s planning reform.
7.Urban development and planning in Europe and in Greece from the 1990s until today
8.Evolutionary analysis of the city and main planning theories
9.Central issues of urban planning
10.Urban plans as tools for planning and regulating urban development
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
1.Ανδρικοπούλου Ε., Γιαννακού Α., Καυκαλάς Γ., Πιτσιάβα-Λατινοπούλου Μ., Πόλη και Πολεοδομικές Πρακτικές για τη Βιώσιμη Ανάπτυξη, εκδόσεις Κριτική, Αθήνα, 2η αναθεωρημένη έκδοση, 2014.
2.Καρύδης Δ., Τα Επτά Βιβλία της Πολεοδομίας, Εκδόσεις Παπασωτηρίου, Αθήνα, 2006.
3.Hall T., Αστική Γεωγραφία, Εκδόσεις Κριτική, Αθήνα, 2005.
Additional bibliography for study
Καυκαλάς Γ. Καυκαλάς, Γ., Βιτοπούλου Α., Γεμενετζή Γ., Γιαννακού Α., Τασοπούλου Α., Βιώσιμες πόλεις: Προσαρμογή και Ανθεκτικότητα σε Περιόδους Κρίσης, Αθήνα: Ελληνικά Ακαδημαϊκά Ηλεκτρονικά Συγγράμματα και Βοηθήματα-Κάλλιπος, 2015, https://repository.kallipos.gr/handle/11419/2227