These on-line lecture notes will be updated and posted over the course of the semester. They are not meant to be a substitute for your own notes, and they certainly are not meant to be an alternative to showing up to class. But hopefully you'll find them a useful supplement to help you fill in the gaps come study time.

1. What is a city? What is urban?
2. Urbanization: The world urban system today
3. Urban morphology: the shape of our cities

The First Urban Revolutions

4. Ancient civilization and the rise of cities
5. Pre-industrial urbanism in Europe
6. Historical urbanism outside the “West”
7. The colonial imprint
8. Our local and continental context: Southern California and the North American urban system
9. Rise of the industrial metropolis

Our Global Present and Future

10. The birth of urban planning: responses to the squalor of the slums
11. The sprawling suburbs of “Megalopolis”
12-13. Edge cities and the decline and rebirth of downtown
14. Globalization and patterns of world urbanization