Urban History Geography 2

Code:

PEUS132

Acronym:

GUH_2

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S (edição n.º 1)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Geography
Course/CS Responsible:	Higher Education Studies for Older People

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PEUS	28	Study Plan	1	-		20	20

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- Understand the fundamental transformations in cities over the last 200 years;
- Analyse the importance of urban planning in the construction of the contemporary city;
- Relate the urban morphology of cities to their historical development.

Learning outcomes and competences

- Understand the city as a place of historical continuity;
- Analytical skills in urban morphology;
- Decoding the main theories and methods of urban planning and territorial management.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. The major urban and social changes of the late 18th century
2. The Industrial City – characteristics and problems
3. The proposals for addressing the problems created by industrialization
4. Origins of contemporary planning
5. The Garden City and the Regional City
6. The Athens Charter
7. Models from the Chicago School and Walter Christaller's proposal
8. Post-War options
9. The crisis of the modern city
10. Problems and challenges of the contemporary city

Mandatory literature

ALLAIN, Rémy ; Morphologie urbaine, Géographie, aménagement et architecture de la ville, Paris, Armand Colin, 2004
BUTLIN, Robin ; Historical Geography – through the gates of space and time, Londres, Edward Arnold, 1993
CARTER, Harold ; An Introduction to Urban Historical Geography, London, Edward Arnold, 1983
CHERRY, Gordon E. ; Cities and plans: the shaping of urban Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, London, Edward Arnold, 1991
CHOAY, Françoise ; O Urbanismo, São Paulo, Editora Perspectiva, 2003
PACIONE, Michael ; Historical geography: progress and prospect, London, Croom Helm, 1987
GIROUARD, Mark ; Cities and People, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1985
GRAVAGNUOLO, Benedetto ; História del Urbanismo en Europa, Madrid, Akal, 1998
HALL, Peter ; Cidades do Amanhã, São Paulo, Editora Perspetiva, 1988
JOHNSON, J; POOLEY C. ; The structure of the nineteenth century cities, London, Croom Helm, 1982
KNOX, Paul ; Urban Social Geography – an introduction, London, Longman, 1982
KOSTOF, Spiro ; The City Shaped, London, Thames & Hudson, 1991
LOWENTHAL, David ; The past is a foreign country, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985
MUMFORD, Lewis ; A Cidade na História (2004, 1ª edição 1961), São Paulo, Martins Fontes
RYKWERT, Joseph ; The Seduction of Place – The History and Future of the City, New York, Vintage Books, 2002
VANCE, J. E. ; The Continuing City: Urban Morphology in Western Civilization, Maryland, John Hopkins University Press, 1990

Teaching methods and learning activities

- Lectures
- Practical assignments
- Field trips

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	20,00
Total:	20,00

Eligibility for exams

75% attendance.

Calculation formula of final grade

n/a