CRS 2021 Cosmopolitan Culture and Hong Kong Urbanscape.doc

CRS 2021 Cosmopolitan Culture and Hong Kong Urbanscape Course Content Introduction: Urban Planning and the Development of Cities This session provides a general discussion on the formation and evolution of urban culture tracing the evolution of the planning of living environment from tribal hunting society to urban living, with focuses on the relationship between the urban planning and the social and political needs of community. Joel Kotkin The City Modern Library Chronicles, 2006 Urban Divisions This session studies some of the main compositions of urban city and the categorization and division of urban space as a reflection of social, political and economical power. Spiro Kostof, The City Assembled Thames Hudson, P.245-296, Thames Hudson, 2004 Modernity, Utopia and its Failure This session studies some of the new trends in design and architecture during the early 20th Century, taking the German design school Bauhaus and some of the modernist architects as focus of students. It will also study the failure of the idealism of the early modernists in their attempts to build a modern utopia. Stephen Toulmin, Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity, P. 89-174, University of Chicago Press, 1992 Robert Hughes, ‘Trouble in Utopia’, Chapter 4, The Shock of the New Knopf, 1981 Tom Wolfe From Bauhaus to Our House, Sphere Books, NY 1981 Metropolis and urban-cultures This session studies the impacts of urban living, social segregation and technological development on the formation of various forms of high art, applied art as well as sub-cultures, including popular cultural expression such as graffiti and rap music. Douglas Madeleine Johnson, The Age of Illusion: Art and Politics in France 1918-1940 Thames and Hudson, 1987 Richard Hoggart, Mass Media in A Mass Society P.1-23, Continuum Books, 2004 Hong Kong: A History of Urban development This session studies the history of the urban development of Hong Kong since themed 19th Century, linking it to the political a