Историческая урбанистика

2026/2027

Статус: Маго-лего

Кто читает: Департамент истории

Где читается: Санкт-Петербургская школа гуманитарных наук и искусств

Охват аудитории: для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ

Преподаватели: Бекасова Александра Викторовна

Язык: русский

Кредиты: 6

Контактные часы: 40

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Аннотация

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.

Цель освоения дисциплины

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.

Планируемые результаты обучения

Able to perform research with modern research methods and techniques, using knowledge of the humanities and social sciences and close scientific fields of knowledge
Students would be able to perform professional activities, including research and development activities in the international environment
Students will be able to analyze critically the literature they have read, use their knowledge in seminar discussions
Students will master the conceptual framework of Urban history, methods and techniques of historical research and be able to use them in the preparation of collective research projects proposals
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

Содержание учебной дисциплины

What is urban history? Urban History as interdisciplinary field or research.
‘Urban machinery’: cities and technologies in historical perspective
The challenge of Modernity. From Ideal City to World Metropolis
City and Industry
City and Trade
City and Port
City and its past. The problem of urban heritage
The Growth of Cities in the Modern Era: Migration and Urban Change. Displaying History of Migration in the Museums
Knowledge and Urbanization. The City as Space of Knowledge
Historicizing Sustainable Urban Mobility: Transnational Perspective
Cities and environment. Resources of the city. Urban metabolism as historical phenomenon
Presentation of collective projects proposals. Reviews. General discussion
Сities as the loci of scientific practice
Growth and development of cities in the modern era: migration and urban change
Historicizing sustainable urban mobility: transnational perspective
What is the City? What is Urban History?
‘Urban Machinery’: Cities and Technologies in Historical Perspective
Concluding seminar. Presentations of collective projects and discussion
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
Concluding seminar. Presentations of essays and discussion
Situating and Approaching Urban Natures and Tackling the “Urban Agency” Issue
Urban Futures in the Making
Infrastructural Imaginaries and Regimes of Urban Expertise
Cultural Politics of Urban Mobility. Pedestrians in Transnational Perspective. The Gender of Walking
Urban Everyday Cultures: Food, Consumption, Social Rhythms
Urban Cultural Heritage, Collective Memories and Identities

Элементы контроля

Attendance +Participation (thoughtful contributions in the class)
Moderation one of the seminars discussion (list of questions and discussion-leading)
Presentation of results at the concluding seminar and participation in the discussion.
Essay

Промежуточная аттестация

2026/2027 2nd module
0.2 * Presentation of results at the concluding seminar and participation in the discussion. + 0.25 * Moderation one of the seminars discussion (list of questions and discussion-leading) + 0.25 * Attendance +Participation (thoughtful contributions in the class) + 0.3 * Essay

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Авторы

Чайковская Арина Алексеевна
Бекасова Александра Викторовна
Калеменева Екатерина Алексеевна

Программа дисциплины