Contemporary Urban Design in Barcelona Seminar (UO ARCH 410/510)

Instructor

Philip Speranza

Location

Barcelona, Spain

Course Description

This course teaches the urban design idea of the importance of social interaction and cohesion at the human scale of cities. Fundamental contemporary principles are taught including self-sufficiency of city blocks and superblocks, and urban ecology of cities as organisms of interrelated systems, Contextualization of Barcelona urban design is done through studies of neighborhood morphologies in Barcelona, Girona and Granada.

Syllabus