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Urban Design Seminar: Perspectives on Contemporary Practice

2-0-7 units · Graduate

Examines innovations in urban design practice occurring through the work of leading practitioners in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. Features lectures by major national and global practitioners in urban design. Projects and topics vary based on term and speakers but may cover architectural urbanism, landscape and ecology, arts and culture, urban design regulation and planning agencies, and citywide and regional design. Focuses on analysis and synthesis of themes discussed in presentations and discussions.

Spring 2016 · Urban Design Seminar

Topics

  • Introduction to course
  • Nina Rappaport , Vertical Urban Factory
  • Discussion of Lecture 1
  • Byran Bell , SEED Network
  • Discussion of Lecture 2
  • Discussion in preparation for Lecture 3
  • Ideas Workshop 1
  • Discussion in preparation for Lecture 4
  • Alejandro Echeverri , Social Urbanism
  • Discussion in preparation for Lecture 5
  • Ideas Workshop 2
  • Chelina Odbert , Kounkuey Design Initiative
  • Urban Design Project Final Presentations
  • Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman , Informal Market Worlds

Readings

Spring 2005 · Urban Design Seminar

Topics

  • Designing Places and Policies
  • Assessing the Current State of Urban Design
  • Urban Design Competitions and How to Judge Them
  • Evaluating Urban Design
  • Discussion of Assignment 1
  • Past Futures
  • Topic 1: Inventing New Ways of Living: Homes and Neighborhoods
  • Topic 2: Distributing Work: The New Workplace
  • Topic 3: The Advent of “Mediated” Space: Public Places and Technology
  • Topic 4: Creating a City of Learning: Schools and Stories in the City
  • Topic 5: Reclaiming the Industrial landscape: Land and Water Infrastructure
  • Topic 6: Rediscovering Nature: Natural Systems in the City
  • What Have We Missed?
  • Redesigning Urban Design

Readings

  • WEEK #: 2 · TOPICS: Assessing the Current State of Urban Design · READINGS: Lang, Jon. “The Nature of Urban Design Today,” and “Basic Attitudes in Urban Design.” In Urban Design: The American Experience. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994, pp. 68-123. ISBN: 0471285420.
    Reading assignment
  • Goldberger, Paul. “Urban Warriors.” The New Yorker , September 15, 2003.
    Listed reading
  • The Municipal Art Society. “Imagine NYII: The People’s Response Summary Report,” January 2003.
    Listed reading
  • ———. “Imagine New York: Toward the People’s Memorial Summary Report,” December 2003.
    Listed reading
  • NY Times and NY Times Magazine selected articles.
    Listed reading
  • WEEK #: 4 · TOPICS: Evaluating Urban Design · READINGS: View the 2003 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence and previous awards at the Foundation Web site . ↗
    Reading assignment
  • Corn, Joseph, and Brian Horrigan. “The Community of Tomorrow.” In Yesterday’s Tomorrows. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1984, pp. 34-53. ISBN: 0671541331.
    Listed reading
  • Jencks, Charles. “Philosophies of the Future,” and “Inexorable Trends.” In Architecture 2000: Predictions and Methods . London, UK: Studio Vista, 1971, pp. 9-48. ISBN: 027549280X.
    Listed reading
  • Cook, Peter, ed. “Instant City.” In Archigram . New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999, pp. 86-101. ISBN: 1568981945.
    Listed reading
  • Ross, Michael. “Megastructuring,” and “Architechnology.” In Beyond Metabolism: The New Japanese Architecture . New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1978, pp. 22-36, and 55-70. ISBN: 007053893X.
    Listed reading
  • Lubow, Arthur. “How Architecture Rediscovered The Future.” New York Times Magazine , May 18, 2003.
    Listed reading
  • Larson, Kent. “A Machine Crafted Home of the Future.” Architecture and Urbanism 361 (October 2000).
    Listed reading
  • Blank, Thomas. “Future of Housing for Older Persons.” In Older Persons and Their Housing: Today and Tomorrow . Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas Pub. Ltd., 1988, pp. 175-224. ISBN: 0398053774.
    Listed reading
  • Jenkins, Susan. “Housing That Works.” Builder Magazine , September 1998.
    Listed reading
  • “ Live/Work 2001 .” Builder Magazine , February 4, 2001. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Russell, James S. “Introduction,” and “Form Follows Fad.” In On the Job: Design and the American Office . Edited by Donald Albrecht and Broikos Chrysanthe. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000, pp. 17-29 and 49-73. ISBN: 1568982410.
    Listed reading
  • Duffy, Francis. “Two Traditions,” and “New Ways of Working.” The New Office . London, UK: Conrad Octopus, 1997, pp. 12-67. ISBN: 1850298912.
    Listed reading
  • Architekten, Henn. Die Glaeserne Manufactur . Hamburg, Germany: Junius Verlag, 2003. ISBN: 3885065436.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Stahl und Form . Dusseldorf: Stahl-Informations-Zentrum, 2001, pp. 1-18 and 30-31. ( PDF - 2.7 MB ) ↗
    Listed reading
  • Gladwell, Malcolm. “Designs for Working.” The New Yorker , December 11, 2000, 60-70.
    Listed reading
  • Castells, Manuel. “The Culture of Cities in the Information Age.” In The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory . Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002, pp. 367-389. ISBN: 0631219331.
    Listed reading
  • Horan, Thomas. “The Recombinant Landscape,” and “Building Our City of Bits.” In Digital Places . Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, 2000, pp. 3-27 and 115-135. ISBN: 0874208459.
    Listed reading
  • Frenchman, Dennis. “Media Street Elements, Guidelines, and Illustrations.” Working Paper (MIT), January 27, 2003.
    Listed reading
  • Joroff, Michael, and Dennis Frenchman, et. al. DMC: Digital Media Street . Seoul, South Korea: Seoul Metropolitan Government, 2003. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Buy at MIT Press Mitchell, William J. “Software: New Genius of the Place.” In E-topia . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 0262133555. ↗
    Listed reading
  • City Design and Development Group, CRE, Media Lab. New Century Cities: Real Estate Value in a Digital World . (PDF) Cambridge, MA: MIT, January, 2005. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Strickland, Roy. “Neighborhoods for Learning.” Places 13, no. 1 (Winter 2000): 58-65.
    Listed reading
  • Frenchman, Dennis. “Narrative Places and the New Practice of Urban Design.” In Imaging the City . Edited by Larry Vale and Sam Bass Warner. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Researh, 2001, pp 257-282. ISBN: 0882851705.
    Listed reading
  • Wansborough, Matthew, and Andrea Mageean. “The Role of Urban Design in Cultural Regeneration.” Journal of Urban Design 5, no. 2 (2000): 181-197.
    Listed reading
  • Community Partners Consultants. Arts District Master Plan. Worcester, MA, June 2002.
    Listed reading
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture. New American School Design Project. “Pre-programming PreK and Related Facilities for the Union City Board of Education.” September 1998.
    Listed reading
  • Icon Architecture and Roy Strickland with Urban Partner Isles, Inc. “Trenton Community-Based Schools Master Plan.” May 2002.
    Listed reading
  • Campbell, Robert. “A Paris Match?” Boston Globe , March 12, 2002.
    Listed reading
  • Pieprz, Dennis. “Regenerating the Recovered Waterfront.” Aquapolis (2002): 34-41.
    Listed reading
  • Breen, Ann, and Dick Rigsby. The New Waterfront: A Worldwide Urban Success Story . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1996, pp. 11-23. ISBN: 0070074542.
    Listed reading
  • Song, Kimberly. “In Seoul, a Splash of the Past,” Wall Street Journal , January 7, 2004.
    Listed reading
  • Spirn, Anne Whiston. “Reclaiming Common Ground, Water, Neighborhoods and Public Spaces.” In The American Planning Tradition . Edited by Robert Fishman. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1999, pp. 297-313. ISBN: 094387596X.
    Listed reading
  • ———. “Epilog, Visions of the Future.” In The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design . New York, NY: Basic Books, 1984, pp. 263-275. ISBN: 0465026990.
    Listed reading
  • Callenbach, Ernest. “William Weston on His Journey to Ecotopis.” In Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston . New York, NY: Bantam, 1990, pp. 3-37. ISBN: 0553348477.
    Listed reading
  • Van der Ryn, Sim, and Peter Calthorp. “The New Suburban Fabric.” In Sustainable Communities . San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1991. ISBN: 087156629X.
    Listed reading
  • Lang, Jon. “Redesigning Urban Design.” In Urban Design: The American Experience . New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994, pp. 124-134. ISBN: 0442013604.
    Listed reading
  • Buy at MIT Press Lynch, Kevin. “City Design: What It is and How It Might Be Taught.” In City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch . Edited by Tridib Banerjee and Michael Southworth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990, pp. 652-59. ISBN: 0262121433. ↗
    Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Same subject as 4.244[J] Prereq: None G (Spring) 2-0-7 units

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