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Urban Design Studio
See description under subject 4.163[J] .
Spring 2005 · Urban Design Studio: Providence
Topics
- Briefing and Reconnaissance
- Documentation and Analysis
- Interpretive Analysis
- Alternative Concepts
- Urban Design: Public Spaces, Building Typologies and Plots, Facades and Streets, Urban Plan and Massing and Program
- Illustrative Design and Guidelines: Urban Guidelines, Streets, Spaces
- Documentation and Presentation
Readings
- Nealy, Craig. Urban Redevelopment of Burlington, Vermont . 1981.
- Koetter, Kim and Associates. Boston Plan .
- Cornell Urban Design Studio. “Foreword,” “Buffalo Waterfront,” and “Marylebone District Development.” Urban Design Handbook .
- Cornell Urban Design Studio. “LeCorbusier.” Urban Design Handbook .
- Peterson Littenberg Architecture and Urban Design. Clinton Community Master Plan . 1988.
- Peterson Littenberg Architecture and Urban Design. Lower Manhattan Vision Plan . 2002.
- Peterson Littenberg Architecture and Urban Design. Lower Manhattan Urban Design Plan . 1994.
- le Corbusier. “A Contemporary City.” In The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning . Translated by Frederick Etchells. New York, NY: Dover Press, 1987. ISBN: 0486253325.
- “Urban Components.” Architectural Design 54 (July/Aug 1984): 43-49. Also in: Léon Krier: Houses, Palaces, Cities. Edited by Demetri Porphyrios. London, UK: Academy Publications, 1984. ISBN: 0312479905.
- Willis, Carol, ed. The Lower Manhattan Plan: The 1966 Visions for Downtown New York . Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002. ISBN: 1568983808.
- Katz, Peter. “Lake West.” In chapter 2 “Reconstructing the Urban Fabric.” In The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1993, pp. 146-153. ISBN: 0070338892.
- Katz, Peter. “Cite Internationale.” In Chapter 2 “Reconstructing the Urban Fabric.” In The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1993, pp. 118-125. ISBN: 0070338892.
- Graves, Michel, ed. “Roma Interrotta.” AD profiles 20, vol. 49, no. 3-4. London, UK, 1979.
Fall 2003 · Urban Design
Topics
- Part 1: Double ‘Readings’: Built Form / Life & Learning
- Part 2: Individual Brainstorming
- Part 3(a): Conceptual Plan / Open Spaces / Uses
- Part 3(b): Streets / Blocks / Parcels
- Part 3(c): Building Typologies / Design Guidelines
- Part 4: Test Outcomes
- Part 5: Formatting / Layout
- Part 6: Preparation for Final Presentation
Readings
- Final Report of the MIT Task Force on Student Life & Learning: “Task Force on Student Life and Learning,” Profs. R. J. Hansman and R. J. Silbey, chairs - September 1998.
- Williams, Rosalind H. Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. Ch. 1 (pp. 1-28) and Ch. 4 (pp. 145-195).
- Simha, O. Robert. MIT Campus Planning 1960-2000: An Annotated Chronology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001, pp. 4-36, 109-141.
- Roberts, Jeffrey C. “Is MIT a Good Place to Live? The University Campus as a Residential Environment.” MCP Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003.
- Report on the Mayor’s Committee on University-Community Relationships. City of Cambridge, 9 December, 1991.
- “Cambridgeport Neighborhood Study.” City of Cambridge: Cambridgeport Neighborhood Committee and Cambridge Community Development Department, May, 2000.
- “Cambridge Neighborhood Study - Update.” City of Cambridge: Cambridge Community Development Department, March, 2003.
- 2002 Urban Design Studio Briefing Book.
- “Graduate Student Life Survey Summary Report.” MIT Graduate Student Council, Housing and Community Affairs Committee, January, 2003.
- “Graduate Student Cost of Living Report 2002-2003.” MIT Graduate Student Council, Housing and Community Affairs Committee, 2003.
- The MIT Faculty Newsletter Vol. XV No. 4 (February/March 2003). This is the issue containing info on faculty housing from which your readings were taken. Includes a summary of the Faculty Housing Survey.
Prerequisites & course information
Same subject as 4.163[J] Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Fall) Units arranged Can be repeated for credit.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2005
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- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2003
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- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.