All lectures are taught on Mondays, in the afternoon, from 14 o’clock to 17 o’clock.

Lecture 1 (18th of April 2005):

• Topics:
  Introduction to the lectures,
  Social issues in programs of urban regeneration,
  Neighbourhood contracts in Brussels

Lecture 2 (25th of April2005):

• Topics:
  Sociologic questions in masterplanning,
  applied to different cases in Brussels
  
• Reader-based discussion:
  GIDDENS, A. (2001), Sociology, 4th edition, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.,- Chapter 18, Cities and urban Spaces,
  > pp. 570-598;
  LeGATES R., STOUT F. (2000) The city reader, London:Routledge- one article from the chapter ‘Urban Culture and Society’, > pp. 89 - 142.

Lecture 3 (2nd of May 2005):

• Topics:
  Change in Brussels: strategic alliances between the supra-local and local, between the spatial and social programme
  
• Reader-based discussion:
  LOZE P., CARTUYVELS V., CLAISSE J. (et al.) (2004) Change: Brussels, Capital of Europe , Bruxelles: Prisme Editions
  > The XX century, pp. 51-73,
  > Projects (select one), pp.127 - 301.

Lecture 4 (9th of May 2005):

• Topics:
  Planned and unplanned development of social and physical spaces, Modernism and anti-modernism in Brussels
  
• Reader-based discussion:
  GAUSA M., GUALLART V., MÜLLER W. (et al.) (2004), The Metapolis dictionary of advanced architecture; City, Technology and Society in the information age, Actar;
  STUDIO OPEN CITY (1998), Brussels, A Moving City, Brussel: Studio Open city, Centrum voor Architectuur en Design

16th of May 2005: Pentecost Monday, no lecture

Lecture 5 (23rd of May 2005)

• Topics:
  Sociologic questions in masterplanning,applied to the development of the Josaphatstation (presentations by students)
  
• Reader-based discussion:
  BORDEN I, KERR J., RENDELL J. (eds.) (2001), The Unknown City, Contesting Architecture and Social Space, Massachusetts: the MIT Press