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The Once and Future City

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

See description under subject 11.016[J] . 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 11.016[J] Prereq: None U (Spring) Not offered regularly; consult department 3-0-9 units. HASS-H; CI-H

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