LARC 2330 — Cities, Landscape, and Modern Culture
4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath ERNUpath SINUpath WIusually offered: falltypical days: MBostonTraditional
Seeks to instill basic landscape literacy enabling students to read urban landscapes and recognize different ways of knowing landscapes, including everyday landscapes. Presents key concepts, ethical debates, and iconic works that gave shape to modernism in landscape architecture and urbanism. Focusing on eighteenth-century through mid-twentieth-century projects and designers, examines contextual factors and resulting formal, spatial, organizational, and material characteristics of built works. Using case studies, challenges students to analyze the entangled histories of landscape preservation and urban segregation and to apply theories of environmental ethics and environmental justice to questions about the built environment and the relationship between natural and social systems. Offers students an opportunity to practice formulation of a critical design perspective and landscape interpretation via reading responses, project analysis, written work, podcasts, and StoryMaps.
Prerequisites
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | 2 | 28 | 39 | 72% | 5.5 |
| Fall 2024 | 1 | 25 | 26 | 96% | 1.0 |
| Fall 2025 | 1 | 28 | 28 | 100% | 0.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 90% · T 0% · W 10% · Th 0% · F 0%
Common patterns: M (90% of sections), W (10% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Nicholas Brown (65% of students) · reviews
- Igor Ekstajn (35% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
Official catalog (LARC course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All LARC courses · Plan it at numap.app