Dates

Themes and Texts

References and ppt's

1. General Introduction:

1. 9/17

Modern & Postmodern City: General History and Major Themes

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

 

2. 9/24

"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

 
 Montreal, Taipei

2. Concept City-- History and System:

3. 10/1

  • Chapters I & II, In the Skin of a Lion (T-Macedonian) by Michael Ondaatje
  • La Sarrasine Paul Tana 1992 (M-Italian)
1, 2

4. 10/8

  • NO (Robert Lepage), Between the Solitudes (documentary)
  • "North" (Clarke Blaise)
1

5.  10/15

  • 〈古都〉

ref. 戰國廁; 《岵嶺街少年殺人事件》

1

6.  10/22

  • "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"
1

7. 10/29

  • 〈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
1

8. 11/5

  • "Rispontedemi" by Lea Pool
1, 2

9. 11/12

  • ref. "Postmodern Urbanism and Canadian Corporate City"
  • Group Report: Le confessional,《 兒子的大玩偶》(The Sandwich Man)

1, 2, pm urbanism

 

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

10. 11/19

(Mid-term week)

  • "Metropolis: The City as Text" 3 Unreal City
  • Eldorado Charles Biname

pm urbanism, 1, 2

11. 11/26

  • 《愛情萬歲》蔡明亮
  • "I'm Running for My Life" (ref. “Canadian Experience”)

愛情萬歲, "Running for My Life"

12. 12/3

  • “Bridge to Babel: The Cosmopolitan City” 天橋不見了

13. 12/10

  • What We All Long For (excerpt)

14. 12/17

  • Group Report (2): 《一一》、寶藏巖
Yi Yi; Treasure Hill

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

15. 12/24

  • 台北星期天》Pinoy Sunday--何蔚庭
  • 〈公寓導遊〉張大春
  • Ref.〈台灣的文化編入與脫落-依賴城市都市象徵初步觀察〉

"Apartment Guide" Pinoy Sunday

16. 12/31

  • 《流浪神狗人》陳芯宜、《一席之地》樓一安

17. 1/7

  • Group Report
  • Cosmos & The Five Senses
 

18. 1/14