Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities  /  Participating Institutions
University of California at Los Angeles
urbanhumanities.ucla.edu
Cities Studied

Berkeley, Berlin, Detroit, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Mumbai, Shanghai, St. Louis, Tokyo,

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS

Dana Cuff
School of Architecture and Urban Design

Todd Presner
Department of Germanic Languages

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Department of Urban Planning

Diane Favro
Department of Architecture and Urban Design

The Urban Humanities Initiative at UCLA brings together the humanities, design, and urban studies to study collective life in Pacific Rim megacities.  We invite a broad audience to speculate about the history, contemporary conditions, and future of the metropolis through an intensive core curriculum for graduate students, public lectures, exhibitions, and publications.

Sample Projects

Please see an archive of Urban Humanities projects at our website: www.urbanhumanities.ucla.edu

 

Resources

Anxieties of Interdisciplinarity

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Anxieties of Interdisciplinarity

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University of California at Los Angeles,

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Symposia & Lectures

Locations:

Los Angeles, Tokyo,

In light of  “新新宿 Shin-Shinjuku: New Tokyo, Again," this symposium considered a variety of interdisciplinary means and methods used to examine a broad range of topics including pedestrian movement, public spaces, and other existing social patterns.

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Design Knowledge: Making Urban Humanities

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Design Knowledge: Making Urban Humanities

Institution:

University of California at Los Angeles,

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Symposia & Lectures

Locations:

Los Angeles,

A two-day symposium convened to explore new scholarly working models that bridge the disciplines of design, urban studies, and the humanities.

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Now Shanghai

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Now Shanghai

Institution:

University of California at Los Angeles,

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Symposia & Lectures

Locations:

Shanghai,

The UHI End-of-Year symposium concluded one year of courses, research, and projects by the 2014-15 cohort of Urban Humanities students focused on issues of identity and contests space in Shanghai.

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University of California at Los Angeles Core Curriculum

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University of California at Los Angeles Core Curriculum

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University of California at Los Angeles,

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Syllabi

Locations:

Los Angeles, Mexico City, Shanghai, Tokyo,

UCLA's seminars and studios are linked by a broad conceptual theme which demonstrates overlapping cultural and historical dynamics, including: risk and resilience, identity, and density.

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