Modern & PostmodernCity: General History and Major Themes

Understanding Cities & City Life

"Urbanism as a Way of Life"

• "Toronto: The Meeting Place" -- NFB
• "Taipei, Taipei" --Jay Shih
• Selections from 《城市人》 詹宏志

• Chapter II, In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
• Ararat by Atom Egoyan

• 〈古都〉
• 《超級大國民》

• Excerpts Invisible City by Italo Calvino;
• Yo-Yo Ma - Inspired by Bach Vol. 1, The Music Garden

• 〈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

• "Metropolis: The City as Text" 1.2; 2.2
• "A City is not a Tree"
• 《徵婚啟事》

• Group Report :眷村
• I've Heard the Mermaid Sing  by Patricia Rozema

• "Metropolis: The City as Text" 3 Unreal City
• 《愛情萬歲》蔡明亮

• "I'm Running for My Life" by Austin Clarke
• "Blossom"  by Dionne Brand
• Exotica by Atom Egoyan

• 《孽子》

• 《孽子》(2)
• "The Robber Bride" (chaps 39-49) from The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

• Robber Bride (2)
• Group Report︰History and Renovation--華山特區，光點，岵嶺街 * Reference materials

PPT:
1. Gu-ling;
Huashan 1, 2,
Spot
The Robber Bride;

• 《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〉

• "Postmodern Urbanism and Canadian Corporate City"
• "In Various Restaurants"  by Daniel Jones;
• Cosmos

• "The Reconstruction of Social Meaning in the Space of Flows" Manuel Castells
• Group Report︰MRT Stations, Taipei's Taxi Drivers