Colonialism and imperialism can be interpreted as part of larger ideological and sociopolitical systems that continue to inform changing cultural values today. This seminar uses sites of colonial urbanism to investigate ways that spatial organization is used to produce historical knowledge. We consider alterations made to pre-existing cities as well as new city plans, both built and projected, in the Americas, in Asia and around the Mediterranean rim.particularly in countries around the Mediterranean rim, which were at one time under the political control of Britain, France, Holland, Italy or Spain.