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PLAN6775-1 / Spring 2021

Cities in Crisis: Planning in Comparative Perspectives

This course focuses on the role of planning in cities facing crises such as hurricanes, earthquakes, explosions, economic crisis, and racial violence. The course will explore the use of the controversial term “crisis,” critiques of the term, and what it means to be a “city in crisis.” Thinking comparatively across cities in the Global North and South, we will review case studies both recent and historical. We will consider what happened in the event, what planning interventions followed, and what the implications- or repercussions-of those interventions may be. Case studies will include hurricanes and earthquakes in Santiago (Chile), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Mexico City (Mexico), Zagreb (Croatia), and San Juan (Puerto Rico); explosions in Fukushima (Japan), Maputo (Mozambique), and Beirut (Lebanon); economic crises in Caracas (Venezuela), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Athens (Greece), and Dakar (Senegal); racial violence in Sanford, Florida (USA), Paris (France), and Bogota (Colombia).

Location & Time

REMOTE

TH 11 AM - 1 PM

Session & Points

FULL SEMESTER

3 Points
Sequence
Call Number

12803

Other Semesters & Sections
Course Semester Title Student Work Instructor Syllabus Requirements & Sequence Location & Time Session & Points Call No.
PLAN6775 Spring 2023
Cities in Crisis: Planning in Comparative Perspectives
Hiba Bou Akar
204 FAYERWEATHER
TH 1 PM - 3 PM
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
11535