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Urban Intellectuals - Scholarly Interventions in the Cities
>>Urban Studies Postgraduate Course
>>University of Helsinki, 2 - 20 August, 2004
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>>This summer school course will explore the role of intellectuals in the
>>shaping of urban life and urban development. We will attempt to
>>determine 1) who are urban intellectuals and on what grounds can they be
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>>called intellectuals, 2) the extent of their influence in cities around
>>the world, and, particularly 3) the distinctive features in the visions
>>of Nordic intellectuals. This course will focus on the various
>>/practical/ influence that urban theories and intellectuals have had on
>>the historical shaping of city spaces. In addition it will examine how
>>the ideas of visionaries, intellectuals and scholars can shape urban
>>planning and the ways urban environments are experienced.
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>>Lecturers on the course include Professor Robert A. Beauregard (New
>>School University, New York), Professor Anne Haila (University of
>>Helsinki), and leading contemporary urban intellectuals of Finland.
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>>For more information, please see http://summerschool.helsinki.fi/ or
>>contact [log in to unmask] or Dr Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen
>>([log in to unmask]) or Ms Hanna Ahlgren-Leinvuo
>>([log in to unmask]).
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