ABSTRACT
Building upon interdisciplinary research trends in the spatial humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has recently funded a five-year initiative at the University of Pennsylvania called H+U+D (Humanities, Urbanism, and Design) that aims to foster critical and integrative dialogue between scholars in the humanities and in the design professions. In this chapter, the authors discuss pedagogical strategies for an undergraduate city seminar on the built environment of Paris that they co-taught in 2015 and 2016: The Making of Modern Paris. Through a two-pronged study of literature (by authors like Hugo, Baudelaire, Zola, Breton, and Modiano) and design (urban planning projects from Viollet-le-Duc and Haussmann to Mitterrand and Sarkozy) from the post-Revolutionary period to today, the chapter aimed to expand students' knowledge of how to "read" the spaces of a city as they develop over time.
