CRP 211 CITY IN HISTORY
Course Code:
1210211
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):
3(3-0)
ECTS Credit:
4.0
Department:
City and Regional Planning
Language of Instruction:
English
Level of Study:
Undergraduate
Course Coordinator:
Prof.Dr. Burcu Erciyas
Offered Semester:
Fall Semestre
Course Content:
General introduction to theoretical and methodological problems in historical analysis of cities and
urbanization; the supply of changing spatial and physical pattern of cities in relation to changing socioeconomic structure of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, the Greek and the Roman worlds.
Syllabus:
Week One City/Civilization: Theoretical background, Neolithic settlements
Week Two Earliest Cities: Uruk and Lower Mesopotamia
Week Three Cities of Indus Valley, Egypt and the New World, Anatolia, a general background on the
type of data, environment, population
Week Four Bronze Age Cities of Anatolia
Week Five Bronze Age Cities of Anatolia
Week Six Mid-term Exam
Week Seven Iron Age Cities of Anatolia
Week Eight Bronze and Iron Ages in the Aegean: Minoans, Myceneans and Greek Colonization
Week Nine The Greek Polis :Archaic and Classical Periods
Week Ten II. Midterm Exam
Week Eleven The Hellenistic Urbanization
Week Twelve The Roman City: Rome
Week Thirteen The Roman City: The Provinces