Exhibition – The City: Histories of Urbanism and the Built Environment

4 December 2015 – 31 January 2016

Opening Reception
Friday 4th December 2015
3pm – 5pm
Common Core Lounge (MB150)
1/F Main Building, HKU

What is a city? Through what processes is our built environment constituted? How do we dwell in our cities and how do different kinds of urban space shape our sense of place and community belonging?

This course explores practices of urbanism across a range of contexts from antiquity to the present day. By doing so it allows students to develop insights into the social relations and human struggles that have been produced by, and continue to produce, particular types of built forms in different places over time. In the broadest sense, the course uses urbanism as a lens to understand the relationship between urban forms and the complex, multiple processes that constitute cities and their urban milieus.

This exhibition is a showcase of the first two assignments of the course.