1

 23/09

Programme presentation. Bibliographic references.

Exploring the concept of culture.

2

 30/09

 City: questioning the concept.

Reading: Miles, Cities and Cultures, 2007

3

 07/10

The city: a diachronic perspective

Reading: Ackroyd, London the Biography, 2000 (excerpts)

4

 14/10

Imagined cities

The rise of utopian writing.

5

 21/10

Oral presentation themes distribution.

6

28/10

Reading of Thomas More’s Utopia.

7

04/11

Rural and urban spaces in 16^th-century England.

The impact of the Scientific Revolution. Reading Francis Bacon, New Atlantis

8

11/11

The rise of the urban phenomenon. The impact of industrialisation.

Reading: Lefebvre, The Urban Revolution, 2003

9

 18/11

 Imagined cities.

Dystopian narratives.

Reading: Susan Sontag, “The Imagination of Disaster”

10

 25/11

The city and globalisation.

Reading: Martinotti, G. The new social morphology of cities.

11

02/12

Reading: Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

12

 09/12

Oral Presentations

13

 16/12

Oral Presentations