| LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The City and the Storm" - Megacities, Superstorms, and Other Big Problems | |
| 2 |
Present Day Paradox - "Smart Cities" vs. Global Crises How are we so connected, yet so at risk? And, Why plan? Why plan big? | |
| 3 |
Boston Redevelopment Authority Field Trip Visit to Boston planning office, meet with Prataap Patrose, Deputy Director | |
| 4 |
Library Research on Big Plans Presentation by Peter Cohn, MIT Libraries How to (Read a) Plan | Assignment 1 Out |
| 5 |
Big Plans Past, Present, … And what is the future big plan? | |
| 6 |
Rethinking: No Boundaries (Scale) Exploding the city – what is urban anyway? / the "urban age"? | |
| 7 | Workshop: Diagramming and CS Suite 1 (Illustrator Tutorial, available in Assignments page) | |
| 8 |
Rethinking: No Boundaries (Disciplines) What / where / how is the city? Science, economics, sociology, art, and grassroots activism discuss the urban Trans-disciplinary Urbanism | |
| 9 | Group work / "Desk Crits" | |
| 10 | Assignment 1 Project Presentations | Assignment 1 Due |
| 11 |
Assignment 1 Project Presentations (cont.) Discussions on Post-Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Initiatives | Assignment 2 assigned |
| 12 | How to Read a Photograph: Initial Data Collection | |
| 13 | Workshop: CS Suite 2 (Photoshop Tutorial, available in Assignments page) | Assignment 2 Initial Deliverables Due |
| 14 |
Re-envision: New Urban Form Guest Lecture – Alan Berger, MIT DUSP | |
| 15 | Assignment 2 Initial Discussion | Assignment 2 Report Due Before Lecture |
| 16 |
Rethinking: The "Just" City? Social justice and the city? Guest Discussant – Karilyn Crockett, MLK Visiting Scholar, MIT | |
| 17 | Assignment 2 Presentation & Discussions | Assignment 3 Out |
| 18 | Walking Tour of Southwest Corridor, with Tunney Lee, Prof Emeritus, MIT. | |
| 19 |
Assignment 3 Preliminary Discussion Local design at the scale of the global | Assignment 3 Initial Deliverables Due |
| 20 |
Work on draft final project presentations Workshop: In Design Tutorial (available in assignments page) | |
| 21 |
Rethinking: No Boundaries ("Worlding") Local design at the scale of the global | |
| 22 | Final Project Draft Presentations | |
| 23 |
Re-envision: Post-Disaster Planning Guest Lecture – Miho Mazereeuw, MIT Architecture | Assignment 3 Final Deliverables Due |
| 24 | Group work | |
| 25 | Final Project Presentations | |
| 26 | Final Project Presentations (cont.) | Individual essay due 4 days after lecture |