Urban Planning: Cities as Systems

Outcomes

Students will understand some of the complexity of the following:

• The impact of city systems on the welfare of the city
• The criteria institutions use in decision-making processes in a city.
• The economic system, banking system, governmental systems, justice system, welfare system, transport system, physical infrastructures, educational systems, urban planning and environment, communications and media systems.
• Processes of centralization, bureaucracy, power, fiscal decisions, welfare and reforms, investment, re-distribution, transport, environmental issues, and urban planning.

Readings

de Soto, Informal Trade. In The Other Path, pp 59-92. (to be added)
Landry, Charles. (2000)  The New Thinking. In The Creative City. pp 41-71.

Tonna, Benjamin. (1982). Urban Planning in A Gospel for the Cities A Socio-Theology of Urban Ministry. Maryknoll: Orbis.

Dorfman