Highlights

Field trips include visits to a wide array of building types - from Oxford University to country houses to Westminster Abbey, to name a few - that serve residential, governmental, clubs and religious purposes. Below is the Urban Design in London 2009 excursion itinerary to give students an idea of what the 2010 itinerary might be:
Day 1: Boat trip down the Thames to Greenwich. Then a walk under the river and a return trip via the new light rail.
Day 2: Stonehenge, Bath and Stourhead (BUS).
Day 3: Museum of London. Walk through the City of London to St Paul's, the Barbican, Lloyd's Mansion House Square, The Bank of England.
Day 4: Ham House, Syon, Chiswick (BUS).
Day 5: Westminster Abbey, Parliament, The Whitehall, St Martin's in the Fields, Pall Mall.
Day 6: Victoria and Albert Museum Decorative Arts Collection and Leighton House.
Day 7: New Museums and Museum Additions. The Tate Modern, National Gallery, British Museum, National Portrait Gallery.
Day 8: Brighton.
Day 9: Thamesmead, Crossness Pumping Station and beam engines, Penshurst Place.
Day 10: Railroad Stations and Kew - Great iron buildings.
Day 11: The Soane Museum, Sommerset House, The Law Courts, The Embankment and St. Clement Dane.
Day 12: Oxford and Blenheim.
Day 13: New aspects of the City. Canary Wharf, the new tube stations, Thames Barrier.
Day 14: Multiple dwelling units. Streatham Street worker's housing, Pimlico, Greater London County Council housing units.
Day 15: To be announced.

Degree Level

Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Cost in US$:

USD3252 (4 points)

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