The course aims to provide students the ability to combine urbanisation process with specific social, cultural, economic and political conditions that change in the course of time. The course covers around ten thousand years of human history with special reference to the utilisation of space, from the earliest settlements to contemporary cities, the most important periods of human history reflecting specific forms of human development, their spatial, socio-economic and political backgrounds. 

The course puts all elements of the city (or settlements in general) as well as some architectural references into analysis to think urban history spatially. The course topics focus on the political life, transportation, everyday life (its routines and disruptions), production and consumption modes, conflicts and problems, festivals and wars throughout history, all affecting the form and life of the cities, and in turn, being affected by it