Syllabus
Themes
Introduction
The City as Palimpsest – Discovering the historical "layers". Is there a “European City”?
Layer of postsocialism UNESCO heritage in Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia - marketing heritage in regions defined as rural or backward, or peripheral.
The legacy of socialist building and housing for the future in post industrial city - (workshop with Lydia Coudroy de Lille)
SAPA – Vietnamese district in Prague (Tereza Horáčková)
The Layer of Socialism / Minsk: the Experience of Postwar Reconstruction ( Natalie Linitskaya )
The Layer of Modernism in Urban Palimpsest: Cubist Architecture in Prague, "Green City" inspiration - Ořechovka, worker housing: Louny, factory employees housing – Zlín
"Musealization or Disneyfication? Authenticity and Changing Urban Landscapes in the Age of Global Tourism" with special emphasis placed on the question of what is authenticity in an urban context.
Urban wasteland (Peter Clark)
Layer of Industrialization in Urban Palimpsest: Karlín - first planned and industrial suburb of Prague. Factory plants, worker´s housing
Layer of nation building - innovations of new elites
Layer of feudalism,
Layer of medieval roots
Conclusion
Annotation
The city is a palimpsest, composed of layers which can be observed and read. The exploration of historical layers offers a reverse perspective of explaining the city against the time, starting with present situation, and descending into past.
The course presents history of cities from the perspective of social historians, anthropologists, and architects. Workshop with Visegrad Lecturer prof, Lydia Coudroy de Lille, lectures of TEMA visiting scholar prof.
Peter Clark will be part of the course. The lectures and the reader to the course require advanced knowledge of English and at least basic knowledge of French (reading skills).