Historical map and guide to Boston. As part of the course, students 'haunt' the city of Boston or Cambridge to produce a creative final project. Courtesy of Norman B. Leventhal Map Center on Flickr. Used under CC-BY.
Instructor(s)
Dr. Anna Jones Abramson
MIT Course Number
21L.488
As Taught In
Spring 2018
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
In this class we will focus on the connections between urban exploration and reading, attending to such shared concerns as pacing, legibility, transgression, attention and distraction, tracing and retracing, and memory. This idea of re-reading cities will be both a theme centering our discussions and a guiding principle of the course design, as we continuously loop back, returning to haunt texts we left behind earlier in the semester.