What is a city? What were the conditions as well as socio-historical contexts in which modern cities came about? How does the formation and transformation of the urban space have impacts to the people living in that city? What are the relationships between a city and its people, along with their feelings, consciousness, identities, professions, social conduct, consumption, and all the various practices? How do cultural practices like movie and literature reveal a city; how do they help us shape ideas of this or that city?
They are all questions that concern virtually us all. Humankind in the 21st century is increasingly becoming a species living in a highly compact and complex space that we call “city”, yet there always seems to be so much we need to know of living in the city. And we learn of the city mostly from images, yet the relations between images and the city are often underexplored. In this class we explore topics regarding urban culture and urban life from cultural and social scientific perspectives. We take examples from some of the significant world cities today, including New York, Paris, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas; we also look at the cities we are more familiar with, like Taichung and Taipei. These cities may concern us in their own ways; we may be born/raised there, we may have traveled or lived there for some time, or their social history involves how we perceive what a “modern/worldly city” should be about. Throughout the semester we look at the city in relations to subject matters like gender, migration, and subculture. With all the examples as well as film appreciation in correspondence with certain topics, we try and understand how cultural production reflects on and interact with urban culture and social change.What is a city? What were the conditions as well as socio-historical contexts in which modern cities came about? How does the formation and transformation of the urban space have impacts to the people living in that city? What are the relationships between a city and its people, along with their feelings, consciousness, identities, professions, social conduct, consumption, and all the various practices? How do cultural practices like movie and literature reveal a city; how do they help us shape ideas of this or that city ?
They are all questions that concern virtually us all. Humankind in the 21st century is increasingly becoming a species living in a highly compact and complex space that we call “city”, yet there always seems to be so much we need to know of living in the city. And we learn of the city mostly from images, yet the relations between images and the city are often underexplored. In this class we explore topics regarding urban culture and urban life from cultural and social scientific perspectives. We take examples from some of the significant world cities today, including New York, Paris, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas; we also look at the cities we are more familiar with, like Taichung and Taipei. These cities may concern us in their own ways; we may be born/raised there, we may have traveled or lived there for some time, or their social history involves how we perceive what a “modern/worldly city” should be about. Throughout the semester we look at the city in relations to subject matters like gender, migration, and subculture. With all the examples as well as film appreciation in correspondence with certain topics, we try and understand how cultural production reflects on and interact with urban culture and social change.
Edward Glaeser。《城市的勝利》。時報出版，2012年
Peter Hall (1988). Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentirth Century. (明日城市：二十世紀城市規劃設計的思想史).
Joel Kotkin. The City: A Global History. Modern Library, 2006.
Barbara Mennel (2008). Cities and Cinema. (城市與電影)
Doug Saunders。《落腳城市：最終的人口大遷徙與世界的未來》。麥田，2011年
Richard Sennett (1996). Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization. W.W. Norton and Company.
Richard Sennett。《再會吧！公共人》。群學，2007
Sudhir Venkatesh。《地下紐約：一個社會學家的性、毒品、底層生活觀察記》。八旗文化，2014
殷寶寧。《情欲、國族、後殖民：誰的中山北路？》。左岸文化，2006
五十嵐太郎。《關於現代建築的16章》。田園城市，2013
五十嵐太郎、磯達雄。《我們夢想的未來都市》。田園城市，2014
台北城市散步。《台北城市散步》。奇異果文創，2017
包樂史(Leonard Blussé)。《看得見的城市：全球史視野下的廣州、長崎與巴達維亞》。蔚藍文化，2015
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李志銘。《單聲道：城市的聲音與記憶》。聯經，2013
鹿島茂。《想要買馬車：19世紀巴黎男性的社會史》。台北，如果，2013
黃孫權。《綠色推土機》。獨立媒體，2012
葉素科。《芝加哥學派》。遠流，1993
施植明。《柯布》。台北，商周出版，2015
Edward Glaeser. "The Triumph of the City". Published by The Times, 2012
Peter Hall (1988). Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentirth Century.
Joel Kotkin. The City: A Global History. Modern Library, 2006.
Barbara Mennel (2008). Cities and Cinema. (Cities and Cinema)
Doug Saunders. "Settlement Cities: The Final Great Migration and the Future of the World." Wheat field, 2011
Richard Sennett (1996). Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization. W.W. Norton and Company.
Richard Sennett. "Goodbye!" "Public Man". Group Studies, 2007
Sudhir Venkatesh. "Underground New York: A Sociologist's Observations on Sex, Drugs, and Underclass Life." Eight Banners Culture, 2014
Yin Baoning. "Eros, Nation, Postcolonial: Whose North Zhongshan Road?" 》. Left Bank Culture, 2006
Taro Igarashi. "16 Chapters on Modern Architecture". Garden City, 2013
Taro Igarashi, Tatsuo Iso. "The Future City of Our Dreams". Garden City, 2014
Taipei city walk. "Taipei City Walk". Kiwi Cultural Creation, 2017
Leonard Blussé. "Visible Cities: Guangzhou, Nagasaki and Batavia from the Perspective of Global History". Azure Culture, 2015
Yoshimi Junzai. "The Politics of Fairs." Group Studies, 2010
Wu Zhengzheng. "Kitchen Dance: An Examination of the Geography of Body and Space in Daily Life", Lianjing, 2010
Lu Shaoli. "Showing Taiwan: Imagery Representations of Power, Space, and Colonization." Wheat field, 2005
Li Zhiming. Mono: Sound and Memory of the City. Lian Jing, 2013
Shigeru Kashima. Wanting to Buy a Carriage: A Social History of Men in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Taipei, if, 2013
Huang Sunquan. "Green Bulldozer". Independent Media, 2012
Phyllaceae. "Chicago School". Yuanliu, 1993
Shi Zhiming. "Cobb". Taipei, Shangzhou Publishing House, 2015
| 評分項目 Grading Method | 配分比例 Grading percentage | 說明 Description |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance and Student PracticesAttendance and Student Practices attendance and student practices |
30 | 20% attendance |
| Response PapersResponse Papers response papers |
40 | 20% each |
| Midterm ProjectMidterm Project midterm project |
30 |
