This course explores architecture and cities in the modern Mediterranean (1750-present) - a crucial period for understanding the contemporary city and relations between Europe and the Islamic world today. In the 19th century, technological and social revolutions had a huge impact on city form; at the same time, much of the eastern and southern shores of the sea came under European control. Ideas about the modern city and the historic city emerged in exchanges between Rome and Tripoli, Marseilles and Algiers. We follow this story through the post-colonial era, as cities continue to evolve under regimes of development assistance and global finance.