2025/2026
Историческая урбанистика
Лучший по критерию «Полезность курса для расширения кругозора и разностороннего развития»
Лучший по критерию «Новизна полученных знаний»
Статус:
Маго-лего
Кто читает:
Департамент истории
Где читается:
Санкт-Петербургская школа гуманитарных наук и искусств
Когда читается:
1, 2 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Преподаватели:
Бекасова Александра Викторовна
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
6
Контактные часы:
40
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The aim of this course is to introduce interdisciplinary trends of urban studies and focus on the functioning of these processes through historical perspective. Special attention will be given to research studies focusing on urbanization in the context of social, ecological, and technological history as well as history of science. This is a graduate course that examines the major topics of urban history from a transnational perspective. Moving through the modern period to the late 20th century, this course will focus on the analytic trends, major questions and issues shaping urban history studies today. Themes will include urban migration, mobility and governance, the city as an artefact of technology and environment, cities as the loci of various practices and places for production of knowledge and identities. This class is reading and discussion intensive.
Learning Objectives
- To give an idea of the directions and approaches in contemporary research in Urban History.
- To develop intellectual skills to discuss and provide arguments for defending their point of view, formulate questions for general discussion and moderate it.
- To develop research skills, including the preparation of a collective research project proposal.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Able to perform research with modern research methods and techniques, using knowledge of the humanities and social sciences and close scientific fields of knowledge
- Is able to postulate topical scientific problems, the study of which can enrich historical science, and to solve promising research and application problems
- Is able to perform a professional or business activity, and make choices based on the principles of social responsibility
- Is able to search, analyze and present information, to work with humanities' databases
Course Contents
- What is the City? What is Urban History? How Сities Matter?
- Thinking Spatially: Urban Space as a Site of Planning and Governance
- Migration, Mobilities and Urban Change in Historical Perspective
- Urban Cultural Heritage, Collective Memories and Identities
- Urban Everyday Cultures: Food, Consumption, Social Rhythms
- Cultural Politics of Urban Mobility. Pedestrians in Transnational Perspective. The Gender of Walking
- Infrastructural Imaginaries and Regimes of Urban Expertise
- Urban Futures in the Making
- Situating and Approaching Urban Natures and Tackling the “Urban Agency” Issue
- Concluding seminar. Presentations of essays and discussion
Assessment Elements
- Moderation one of the seminars discussion (list of questions and discussion-leading)
- Attendance +Participation (thoughtful contributions in the class)
- Presentation of results at the concluding seminar and participation in the discussion.
- Essay
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 2nd module0.25 * Attendance +Participation (thoughtful contributions in the class) + 0.3 * Essay + 0.25 * Moderation one of the seminars discussion (list of questions and discussion-leading) + 0.2 * Presentation of results at the concluding seminar and participation in the discussion.
