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CLASS # TOPICS
Part I: Reading the City
1 How Can Cities Be Read and Why
2 The Once and Future City: Processes That Shape
3 Reading and Writing the City: The Case of Philadelphia
4

Perspectives on MIT Sites

Project Assignment 1: Select A Site due

Part II: City and Nature: Processes as Agents of Change
5 Boston, A Natural Environment Transformed
6 Field Trip: Processes and Patterns of Air, Earth, Water, and Life
7 Observing, Analyzing, and Explaining How Natural Processes Shape the City
8 Discussion of Findings on Student Sites
9

Adapting the City to Natural Processes

Project Assignment 2: Your Site and Natural Processes due

10 MIT Sites: What Patterns Emerged?
Part III: City and Society: Social Processes as Agents of Change
11 Change Over Time: Discovering and Explaining Patterns
12 Workshop: Observing Change
13 Observing Change
14 Analyzing Change
15 Discovering and Analyzing Patterns of Change
16 Explaining Changes Over Time, Making an Argument
17

MIT's Neighborhoods in Historical Context

Project Assignment 3: Your Site Through Time due

18 MIT Sites: What Patterns Emerged?
Part IV: Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Envisioning and Shaping Future Cities
19 Field Trip: Discovering and Photographing Artifacts, Traces, and Trends
20 Discussion of Findings
21

West Philadelphia Landscape Project

Project Assignment 4: Artifacts, Layers, Traces and Trends due

22 MIT Sites: What Patterns Emerged?
Part V: Boston Sites: How Have They Evolved, Where Are They Headed
23 Presentation and Discussion of Sites
24 Presentation and Discussion of Sites (cont.)
25 Presentation and Discussion of Sites (cont.)
26

What Patterns Emerged?

Revision of Selected Assignment due