2022/23

This module explores urban change in the twentieth century through a close analysis of the built form of towns and cities of the West Midlands. It gives students the skills to interpret and trace historical processes in the everyday built environment. Much of the teaching will be done ‘on the ground’ in places easily accessible from the University – asking how their architecture and urban form were responses to intellectual ideas about urban development, as well as being shaped by more abstract forces including the welfare state, social polarisation, deindustrialisation, narratives of crisis, and changing patterns of mobility and energy usage.