Course Details

1. Outline the main characteristics of the modern city.
2. Identify the complex factors that form and transform the city.
3. Define the main elements in urban design.
4. Develop an urban design toolbox.

1.    The industrial city

2.     Network city

3.     The metropolitan region

4.     Examination of the Eastern Mediterranean city.

• Αίσωπος Γιάννης - Σημαιοφορίδης Γιώργος, 2001, Μετάπολις 2001, Η Σύγχρονη Ελληνική Πόλη. Αθήνα: Metapolis Press
• Castells Manuel, 1996, The Rise of the Network Society Volume 1, Oxford: Blackwell

• Koolhaas Rem, 1978, Delirious New York, New York: Oxford University Press
• Koolhaas Rem with Mau Bruce, 1995, S,M,L,XL, Rotterdam: 010 Publishers
• Studio Beirut, 2010, Beyrouts, A Guide to Beirut

The teaching of the course is supplemented by lectures for its theoretical background. The aim of the lectures is to supplement the educational process and to broaden the areas of interest of students asking questions, concerns, providing references and specific examples and suggesting approaches and methodologies.
Educational visits are essential to the process of education because students are the means of personal contact and personal experience of each student with the object.
The presentations are an integral part of the educational process, enhancing on many levels. As a mean of self-assessment and as a tool working time students.