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 »  MIT OpenCourseWare »  Urban Studies and Planning »  The City, Spring 2003


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I. Reading the City

1
Overview: How Can Cities Be Read and Why?

2
Reading a City: Philadelphia

3
Reading the Past: Cities Upon Cities

4
Interpreting the Present, Imagining the Future

5
Guides to Reading Boston

6
Project Assignment #1 Due: Select a Site

7
Boston Sites: Prospectives

II. City and Region Over Time

8
The Historical Context: American Cities to 1830

9
The Historical Context: American Cities from 1830-1930

10
The Historical Context: American Cities from 1930-1990

11
Project Assignment #2 Due: Your Site Through Time

12
Boston Sites: What Patterns Emerged?

III. City and Nature: Natural Processes as Agents of Change

13
The Granite Garden: Boston, A Natural Environment Transformed

14
Air and Life

15
Earth and Water

16
Project Assignment #3 Due: Your Site and Natural Processes

17
Boston Sites: What Patterns Emerged?

IV. Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Envisioning and Shaping Future Cities

18
Community and Economic Development

19
Artifacts, Layers, Traces, and Trends

20
Project Assignment #4 Due: Artifacts, Layers, Traces, and Trends

21
Boston Sites: What Patterns Emerged?

22
Top-Down/Bottom-Up: Frameworks for Action

23
History as a Strategy for City Design and Development

24
Planning Sustainable Neighborhoods

V. Boston Sites: Where Have They Been, Where Are They Headed

25
Project Assignment #5 Due: Telling Your Site's Story

26
Presentation and Discussion of Sites

27
Presentation and Discussion of Sites

28
Presentation and Discussion of Sites

29
Presentation and Discussion of Sites
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