Modern & PostmodernCity:  and Major Themes

General History

Major Themes: Understand Cities and City   Life

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What is Urbanism?

1. "Toronto: The Meeting Place" -- NFB ;

        2.  "Taipei, Taipei" --Jay Shih

        3. Selections from 《城市人》 詹宏志

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3/4

Ararat by Atom Egoyan

In the Skin of a Lionby Michael Ondaatje

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3/11

古都

大國民

5.

3/18

Excerpts Invisible City by Italo Calvino

Yo-Yo Ma - Inspired by Bach Vol. 1, The Music Garden

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3/25

〈系統的多重關係〉 by 黃凡

〈馬桶〉〈上班族的天空〉〈文明幾何〉by 林燿德

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4/1

"Metropolis: The City as Text" 1.2; 2.2

"A City is not a Tree" ;《徵婚啟事》

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4/8

Group Report :眷村

I've Heard the Mermaid Sing  by Patricia Rozema

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4/15

"Metropolis: The City as Text" 3 Unreal City :A "Metropolis: The City as Text" 3 Unreal City :B

《愛情萬歲》蔡明亮

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4/22

"I'm Running for My Life" by Austin Clarke

"Blossom"  by Dionne Brand ;

         Exotica by Atom Egoyan

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《孽子》a

《孽子》b

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5/6

《孽子》(2)

"The Robber Bride" (chaps 39-49) from The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

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5/13

Group Report︰History and Renovation--華山特區，光點，岵嶺街 *

Robber Bride (2)

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5/20

《愛情來了》陳玉勳; 〈城市飛行〉黃銘正 ;〈公寓導遊〉張大春

〈台灣的文化編入與脫落－依賴城市都市象徵支初步觀察

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5/27

In Various Restaurants"  by Daniel Jones

Cosmos

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6/3

Group Report︰Taipei's Taxi Drivers

Group Report︰MRT Stations,