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The Once and Future City

3-0-9 units. HASS-H; CI-H · Undergraduate

Examines the evolving structure of cities, the dynamic processes that shape them, and the significance of a city's history for its future development. Develops the ability to read urban form as an interplay of natural processes and human purposes over time. Field assignments in Boston provide the opportunity to use, develop, and refine these concepts. Enrollment limited.

Spring 2015

Topics

  • How Can Cities Be Read and Why
  • The Once and Future City: Processes That Shape
  • Reading and Writing the City: The Case of Philadelphia
  • Boston, A Natural Environment Transformed
  • Field Trip: Processes and Patterns of Air, Earth, Water, and Life
  • Observing, Analyzing, and Explaining How Natural Processes Shape the City
  • Discussion of Findings on Student Sites
  • MIT Sites: What Patterns Emerged?
  • Change Over Time: Discovering and Explaining Patterns
  • Workshop: Observing Change
  • Observing Change
  • Analyzing Change
  • Discovering and Analyzing Patterns of Change
  • Explaining Changes Over Time, Making an Argument
  • Field Trip: Discovering and Photographing Artifacts, Traces, and Trends
  • Discussion of Findings
  • Presentation and Discussion of Sites
  • Presentation and Discussion of Sites (cont.)

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Prerequisites & course information

Same subject as 4.211[J] Prereq: None U (Spring) Not offered regularly; consult department 3-0-9 units. HASS-H; CI-H

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