No. 02 (1995): Teaching Urbanism. An European perspective

The chosen topic for the second fascicle of Ciudades, the teaching of urbanism on the Schools of Architecture, has an evident relevance presently. On the one hand the introduction of new study plans on the universities of the European Union, more or less oriented to their common guidelines, increases the feeling of transition and the recent factors of disciplinal crisis. On the other hand the badly articulated proliferation of postgraduate programs on urbanism and land planning, born from private interests or the isolated action of some universities, asks the question of what is the knowledge on urbanism that must take place in the Schools.

The natural consequence should rest on a broad consideration, as it manifests on every article of this magazine, and yet the debate isn’t been intense, something that increases even more the value of the different opinions that are developed here. In this introduction we underscore then relevant aspects both in the three opinion pieces by three Spanish professors as well as the four monographs by four foreign professors, each referred to their own country.