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Media Technology and City Design and Development

Undergraduate · Historical course

Spring 2002

Topics

  • Prologue
  • Open House: Springfield IAP Course
  • WPLP Web site: Media Technology and Planning
  • Field Trip to West Philadelphia: Understanding the Neighborhood
  • Review Philadelphia Trip: Professional Expertise and Local Knowledge
  • Field Trip to Springfield
  • Review Springfield Trip
  • Community Design Studio Conference, Harvard GSD
  • What Can the Brightwood/Northend Communities (and other communities) Learn from WPLP
  • Workshop: Launching the Implementation Project
  • Review of Projects-in-Progress
  • Review of Projects-in-Progress (cont.)
  • Presentation, Discussion, and Dinner with Philadelphia and Springfield Representatives

Readings

  • Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Language of Landscape. Yale University Press Publishing, 1998. ISBN: 0300082940. (Especially sections on Mill Creek: pp. 10-11, 70-74, 91-93, 160-163, 183-188, 210-215, 267-272.)
    Listed reading
  • ———. The West Philadelphia Landscape Plan: A Framework for Action . Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1991.
    Listed reading
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