Urban Planning: Design Thinking on Space Demand and Sustainable Development

Course 4: Urban Planning: Design Thinking on Space Demand and Sustainable Development

I. Course Description

The data suggest that most of the worlds population today lives in urban environments. Compared with the previous forms of agricultural and rural settlement, the architectural landscape of the 21st century is composed of cities of various forms and patterns. Cities also have a special impact on female and gender relations.

In this course, we aim to introduce students to basic concepts in the field of gender and urban research and to provide guidance to help them analyze first-hand and secondary materials related to gender and urban research. Through this course, students will develop an understanding of the field of gender and urban research, learning about the challenges and limitations of acquiring specific experiences and perspectives. At the same time, they will learn to identify and collect secondary information related to gender and society to study specific issues or topics. This course will help students to comprehensively improve their academic ability and cognitive level in the field of gender and urban research, and provide the necessary foundation for their learning and professional development.

II. Professor Introduction

Sophie Gonick – Tenured professor at New York University

Professor Sophie Gonick He is currently a tenured associate professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She graduated from the Department of History and received a masters and PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.

Sophie He won the Anthony-Soucliffe Best Paper Award (Anthony Sutcliffe Award for Best Dissertation) from the International Society for the History of Planning (International Planning History Society) in 2016. The professor also worked as an editor of the prestigious journal Public Books, writing “deprivation and Dissent: Immigration and Housing Struggle in Madrid” (Dispossession and Dissent: Immigrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid).

III. Syllabus

1. Planning for colonial cities
2. Industrial cities and the capitalist economy
3. Housing and cities
4. Liquidity and cities
5. migration, urban and feminism
6. Isolation and urban inequality: gender inequality
7. Sex and the city
8. Speculation and the urban real estate market
9. Globalized concept of smart cities, the urban feminist movement
10. Discussion on digital smart city and virtual space