Term	Week	Lecture Topic	Seminar Theme
Autumn Term	2	Cities and towns in modern history	The "urban" and its history
	3	Writing the history of urban disasters	Risks, disasters, and opportunities
	4	Urban vulnerabilities since the 19th century	Urbanisation and industrialisation in the British world
	5	The urban problem: science and governance	The Garden City movement
		~ Reading Week: no lectures or seminars ~	~ Reading Week: no lectures or seminars ~
	7	Facing disaster: (dis)order and solidarity in the early twentieth century	Elite panic and community responses to disaster in Valparaiso and San Francisco (1906)
	8	The political economy of relief operations	Relief, shelter, and the reshaping of the urban space: Messina, 1908
	9	The urban aftermath of the First World War	The political economy of reconstruction in cities of the Western Front
	10	The disaster problem: science and practice	The Red Cross in an age of calamity
Spring Term	1	Urban disasters and "nation-building"	The 1923 Kantō earthquake and its aftermath
	2	The urban aftermath of the Spanish Civil War	Urban planning for a new regime (Madrid, Barcelona)
	3	Rebuilding cities after the Second World War	Rebuilding Coventry
	4	Cities in the "Great Acceleration": Urbanisation after 1945	Reconstruction and memory (Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Sevastopol)
	5	Shaking the State: Earthquake in the second half of the 20th century	Urban disasters as crisis of the state (Mexico)
		~ Reading Week: no lectures or seminars ~	~ Reading Week: no lectures or seminars ~
	7	Economic decline and urban renewal	The "ruination" of industrial cities (Detroit, Flint, Michigan)
	8	Urbicide in contemporary history	The reconstruction of Sarajevo
	9	War and reconstruction in Beirut	Beirut since 2020: urban disaster or systemic failure?
	10	How terrorism is reshaping global cities	London in the age of "terror"
Summer Term	1	Katrina: A secular catastrophe	Resilience as a category of historical analysis (New Orleans)
	2	Epidemics and the city	How to write an urban history of Covid-19?
	3	The rebuilding of Ukraine	Revision