Calendar 2004S

Dates Themes and Texts Assignments & References

1. General Introduction:

1. 3/1

Modern & PostmodernCity: General History and Major Themes

"When the Day Break"; Understanding Cities & City Life

Watch 3 short films; read one article
2. 3/8

"Urbanism as a Way of Life"

  • "Toronto: The Meeting Place" -- NFB
  • "Taipei, Taipei" --Jay Shih
  • "Canvas of Time" (from Montreal vu par (蒙特婁六重奏)
  • ref. Selections from 《城市人》 詹宏志

2. Concept City-- History and System:

3. 3/15
  • Chapters I & II, In the Skin of a Lion (T-Macedonian)by Michael Ondaatje
  • La Sarrasine Paul Tana 1992 (M-Italian)
4. 3/22
  • NO (Robert Lepage), Between the Solitudes (documentary) ; "North" (Clarke Blaise)


我所知道的蒙特婁
5. 3/29
  • 〈古都〉
  • 《岵嶺街少年殺人事件》
  • ref. 戰國廁
6. 4/5
Spring Break
 
7. 4/12
  • "Metropolis: The City as Text" 1.2; 2.2
  • Yo-Yo Ma - Inspired by Bach Vol. 1, The Music Garden
  • "The Street That Got Mislaid"
8. 4/19
  • 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
9. 4/26 1. Rispondetemi;
2. Mermaid
10. 5/3
  • ref. "Postmodern Urbanism and Canadian Corporate City"
  • Group Report: Taipei's Urban Design or History (228紀念公園﹐中山北路)

New Park;
中山北路

3. Lived City (1): Class, Race and Family Relations in the Cities

11. 5/10
  • "Metropolis: The City as Text" 3 Unreal City
  • Eldorado Charles Biname
  • 《愛情萬歲》蔡明亮
1. Postmodern Urbanism
2. City as Text
2. Eldorado and 愛情萬歲
12. 5/17
  • "I'm Running for My Life" by Austin Clarke
  • "Blossom"  by Dionne Brand
13. 5/24
  • Group Report 徵婚啟事》, and Exotica by Atom Egoyan
1. 2. 3

4. Lived City (2): Urban Flaneur (都市漫遊者), Chance Encounters, Space of Flows

14. 5/31
  • 《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-依賴城市都市象徵初步觀察〉
15. 6/7
  • Group Report on 7-11's Space of Flows and Prey
  • Cosmos
1.2
16. 6/14
  • Final Exam