Topic:  Envisioning the City

ABOVE SECTION IS A SERVICE LEARNING COURSE

In S101:  Envisioning the City you will learn to understand how
landscape and buildings create different kinds of social spaces
which are used by different groups of people at different times of
the day, week, and year.  You will learn how to disaggregate the
various components of city life in order to analyze them and put
them back together.  For example, as we walk down an alley you might
notice that the residential end has canopy, sub-canopy, and
understory trees, while the commercial end has only canopy trees
surrounded by pavement.  If commercial areas had the same mix of
trees as residential ones do, they would be much more habitable
places.  You will also read about the history of cities and
contemporary problems.  The course will consider cities all over the
world, but the major field site will be Bloomington, Indiana.

Other topics may include:
*The marks of skateboarders
*Occupiable private space/public space made private
*Public art and the creation of public space
*Developers versus preservationists?
*Making therapeutic landscapes
*Safe and sophisticated parking garages

This is a studio-style course.  You will spend much of your time in
class visiting sites in Bloomington and representing their
characteristics in a variety of media.  For example, you might take
photographs, make drawings, plot out a map, or construct a model to
answer a question such as “Who is on the streets on Tuesday at
midnight?”

Text:  Nancy Kleniewski. Cities, Change, and Conflict.

Requirements:  Three project, three tests, one portfolio project.