都市是人類文明中極其複雜的一種集體存在狀態，我們每天生活在都市之中，我們的生活不止被我們所生活的都市空間所制約，我們集體的行為模式也影響著我們所居住的都市空間的集體風格。
作為一位一般的市民，這一門課將帶領我們嘗試閱讀歷史中各個不同階段的都市，透過對都市空間形式發展過程的閱讀瞭解這一個複雜存在的實體，以及練習在解讀的過程中理解都市發生與成長的動力。作為一位空間的專業工作者，這一門課則意圖經由近代都市空間設計與規劃工具，來理解都市規劃與都市設計這個專業究竟是為何而生，又意圖掌握/控制什麼？但本課程不僅止於協助理解都市規劃/設計究竟可以如何掌控都市，它更指向了要從都市的問題及進步的專業者的具體實踐經驗，去理解在既定的工具理性之外，都市的研究還有哪些應該觸及的核心概念。
課程的另一輔助性的目的，希望能夠建立同學閱讀的信心與方法，教導同學如何從徵兆式閱讀的方式趨近閱讀文本作者的問題意識與形成問題意識的脈絡，從而更快地進入可以在閱讀中與作者進行對話的愉悅閱讀經驗。
因此，本課程將透過兩條主線趨近都市：
1. 由都市發展的歷程理解都市的發生與成長
‧ 從聚落到集鎮，「聚」或「集」是一種狀態，還是一種過程？
‧ 集/聚如果作為都市成長的動力，成長的能量與條件為何？
‧ 如果「積累」是都市成長的動力所在，擴大積累的良性循環如何可能？
‧ 誰中介了「擴大積累」的制度，誰又可以仲裁積累過程的不公平分配？
‧ 積累的必要v.s.分配的正當，可以選邊站？
2. 由都市規劃的工具理解都市形式如何被規範？在規劃工具之外，都市又如何不完全受規範地繼續完成其自身；
‧ 殖民---一種成長的模式—自由港與城邦政體作為理解state與城市規劃的起點。
‧ 從代議政治到菁英論--都市空間的規劃設計與權力是否「選擇性的親近」？
‧ 中產階級的浮現與新的都市空間經理議程(agenda)
‧ 離散(diaspora)過程的移工與少數民族聚居
‧ 遠距離交易、世界體系與全球化下都市新議程(agenda)的形成
‧ 性別、族群、勞動力再生產的集體消費—都市研究的典範的轉移（paradigm shift）

The city is an extremely complex collective state of existence in human civilization. We live in the city every day. Our lives are not only restricted by the urban space we live in, but our collective behavior patterns also affect the collective style of the urban space we live in.
As ordinary citizens, this course will lead us to try to read cities at different stages in history, to understand this complex entity through reading the development process of urban spatial forms, and to practice understanding the dynamics of urban occurrence and growth in the process of interpretation. As a professional worker in space, this course aims to use modern urban space design and planning tools to understand why the profession of urban planning and urban design was born, and what is it intended to master/control? But this course not only helps to understand how urban planning/design can control the city, but also points to the specific practical experience of urban problems and progressive professionals to understand, in addition to the established instrumental rationality, what other core concepts should be touched in urban research.
Another auxiliary purpose of the course is to build students' confidence and methods in reading, and teach students how to approach the author's problem awareness and the context of problem awareness through symptomatic reading, so as to more quickly enter into a pleasant reading experience where they can have a dialogue with the author during reading.
Therefore, this course will approach the city through two main lines:
1. Understand the occurrence and growth of cities through the process of urban development
‧ From settlements to market towns, is "gathering" or "gathering" a state or a process?
‧ If agglomeration is the driving force for urban growth, what are the energy and conditions for growth?
‧ If "accumulation" is the driving force of urban growth, how is it possible to expand a virtuous cycle of accumulation?
‧ Who mediates the system of "expanded accumulation", and who can arbitrate the unfair distribution of the accumulation process?
‧ Necessity of accumulation vs. justification of distribution, can you choose sides?
2. Understanding how urban form is regulated through the tools of urban planning? How, outside of planning tools, the city continues to complete itself without being entirely regulated;
‧ Colonization---a model of growth-free port and city-state government as the starting point for understanding state and urban planning.
‧ From representative politics to elite theory - is there a "selective affinity" between urban space planning and design and power?
‧ The emergence of the middle class and the new urban space manager agenda (agenda)
‧ Migrant workers and ethnic minority settlement in the process of diaspora
‧ Long-distance transactions, world systems and the formation of a new urban agenda under globalization
‧ Gender, ethnicity, collective consumption of labor reproduction—paradigm shift in urban studies

請親洽建築系授課教師，電話04-23590263

Please contact the instructor of the Department of Architecture at 04-23590263

‧ Kostof, Spiro, 1991, The City Shaped, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson Ltd.
‧ Kostof, Spiro, 1991, The City Assembled, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson Ltd.
‧ Legates, Richard T. & Stout, Frederic eds. 1996 The City Reader. London:Routledge Press

‧ Kostof, Spiro, 1991, The City Shaped, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson Ltd.
‧ Kostof, Spiro, 1991, The City Assembled, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson Ltd.
‧ Legates, Richard T. & Stout, Frederic eds. 1996 The City Reader. London: Routledge Press