The Making of Cities
4.241J · Architecture, Urban Studies and Planning · Graduate · Spring 2025
Dr. Roi Salgueiro Barrio
<p>This iteration of 4.241 is structured around <strong>four key topics</strong>: 1) the city and the urban, 2) spatial forms of the political, 3) world systems and urban economies, and 4) environmentalism. We will analyze these topics both cross-historically and cross-geographically, consistently moving between historical and contemporary urban formations.</p> <p>The class explores these four topics by examining the various artifacts and mechanisms that make up the urban environment (infr…
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