{"id":239,"date":"2009-07-26T09:30:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T13:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cityblock.wordpress.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2009-07-26T09:30:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T13:30:53","slug":"lecturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/26\/lecturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecturing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/City-Shaped-Patterns-Meanings-Through\/dp\/0821220160\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"The City Shaped\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/61x2qAMw3xL._SL500_AA240_.jpg?resize=175%2C175\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been going through some of Spiro Kostoff&#8217;s lectures from his teaching of a course at Cal in 1991.\u00a0 The lectures accompany Kostof&#8217;s research for his 1991 book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/City-Shaped-Patterns-Meanings-Through\/dp\/0821220160\"><em>The City Shaped<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 I mentioned the lectures previously <a href=\"http:\/\/cityblock.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/24\/dcs-public-spaces\/\">here<\/a>, but they really help illuminate Kostof&#8217;s book.\u00a0\u00a0 The book is easily the best primer for the history and elements of urban design I&#8217;ve come across.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of videos available from Cal is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.berkeley.edu\/MRC\/kostof.html\">available here<\/a>.\u00a0 All in all, there are 25 lectures to choose from.<\/p>\n<p>As a complete aside, 1991 obviously predates PowerPoint &#8211; it&#8217;s interesting to see a professor delivering a lecture with actual slides.\u00a0 Needless to say, this was not <em>quite<\/em> my academic experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been going through some of Spiro Kostoff&#8217;s lectures from his teaching of a course at Cal in 1991.\u00a0 The lectures accompany Kostof&#8217;s research for his 1991 book The City Shaped.\u00a0 I mentioned the lectures previously here, but they really help illuminate Kostof&#8217;s book.\u00a0\u00a0 The book is easily the best primer for the history and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pHcGQ-3R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}