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University of Michigan Master of Urban Design Program Uses Film to Show International Spatial RelationshipsIn a people-oriented discipline such as urban design, it is essential to familiarize designers with the relationships between human activity and urban form. University of Michigan's Master of Urban Design Program uses the medium of film to enable students to observe and compare these relationships across an international array of cities and cultures.
In the program's introductory studio, Urban Design Studio I, students view narrative films set in cities in the United States, South America, Europe, North Africa and Asia. The films depict a diverse range of settings -- some with a long tradition of architecture, history, and culture, and others that are modern, fast-paced commercial centers -- often reflecting the experience of the program's students, who come from around the world. Each film is followed by a discussion. Together, students and the instructor examine the background elements of the film's story and cinematography, and analyze themes such as space, landscape, skyline and traffic as they relate to the film's plot and character development. Lessons learned from the films are then applied to studio design projects. Students create project storyboards similar to those made by filmmakers to help visualize their work, and use them to clarify design intentions as they portray the projects in an accessible and compelling
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