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Power of Place: Media Technology, Youth, and City Design and Development
Fall 2002 · Research Topics in Architecture: Citizen-Centered Design of Open Governance Systems
Topics
- Slashdot as Example
- Name and Identity
- Project Examples
- Project Critique at Midterm
- Identity, Input, and Output
- Transactions
- Disputes
- Digital Space
- Final Presentations and Critique
Readings
- Mitchell, William. City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn .
- Norman, Donald. The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution .
- Brown University Study on State and Federal E-Government in the United States, 2002
- EXPLORING VIRTUAL LEGAL PRESENCE: THE PRESENT AND THE PROMISE, Law Review Article by Jessica M. Natale, 2002 (Note: Virtual Legal Presence is A Concept Coined at MIT’s E-Commerce Architecture Program).
Spring 2001
Topics
- The West Philadelphia Landscape Project.
- Frameworks for Action: Water, Infrastructure, Architecture, People.
- Professional Expertise and Local Knowledge: Understanding the Neighborhood.
- Tracing the Past, Envisioning the Future: Historical Context for Projects.
- Tracing the Past, Envisioning the Future: Historical Context for Projects (continued).
- The Internet and Community Design and Development.
- Proposals for Projects Due: Presentation and Discussion.
- Revised Proposals Due. Determine Class Topics.
- Field trip to Philadelphia. Work with Sulzberger students.
- Work on Projects.
- Work on Projects (continued).
- Finish Projects.
- Reflect on Projects.
- Discussion.
Readings
- Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Language of Landscape. Yale University Press, 1998.
- Spirn, Anne Whiston. The West Philadelphia Landscape Plan: A Framework for Action. Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1991.
- Jackson, Kenneth. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Oxford University Press, 1987.
- Schon, Donald, Bish Sanyal, and William Mitchell. High Technology and Low-Income Communities . MIT Press, 1998.
- Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History . MIT Press, 1995.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2002
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.