This course seeks to explain the rise of Anglo-American planning, by studying exemplars, thinkers, and schemes during the modern period, such as utopian visions like Titus Salt's 1849 milltown: "I will do all I can to avoid evils so great as those resulting from polluted air and water, and hope to surround me a well-fed, contented and happy body of operatives." San Francisco's 1883 laundry restrictions, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, New York's Zoning Resolution of 1916, practitioners like Kessler, Bartholomew, Nolen, and Clathorpe, the new towns of Columbia and Reston, theorists like Lynch will be among the topics for discussion and analysis, in a seminar stressing the visual and spatial foci of plans. Format: seminar. Evaluation will be based on class participation, class presentations, a final research paper. No prerequisites. Enrollment limit: 15 (expected: 15).