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Tokyo & Japanese Urbanism

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this seminar will explore Japanese urbanism and Tokyo. Urban theories, history, geography, fictions, films, sociology and anthropology along with cultural critiques will help situate the more personal experiences of the metropolis and the new “global city.” In considering the formation of urban/geographical entities, its infrastructure and underlying ideologies of these urban constructs, we will also attempt to uncover the mechanisms of the development of collective identities and individual reconciliations. Theoretical readings, traditional strategies for penetrating cities will be juxtaposed to literature, film and personal testimonies.

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Exotic Moderns

This seminar explores the fragmented, complex, and paradoxical urbanism of contemporary cities outside the conventional West. Do all cities have to resemble the urbanism of Western Europe and North America to be modern? In an interconnected world of global flows, can we see these cities as modern, albeit, a different modern? We will examine what happens when global modernity engages with particular places, localities, and traditions.
 

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East by Eastwest

This seminar intends to discuss the contemporary culture of world cities from a theoretically and historically grounded perspective, rather than immediate observation alone. It is designed to raise epistemological and ethical questions in approaching the architectural culture of the so-called ‘non-Western’ cities, and cultivate criticism against different forms of colonization. The scholarly works on Orientalism, colonialism and Eurocentrism after 1978 have illustrated that the dominant perception of the world is predicated on hierarchical dualities, such as `West` and `non-West.`

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