New courses in Urban Studies and Planning from MIT OpenCourseWare, provider of free and open MIT course materials. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning 2022-02-11T17:21:47+05:00 MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu en-US Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course, which examines ways of resolving conflicts over the allocation of water resources, is designed to raise student awareness of the state of freshwater resources globally and the need for more effective water governance. It builds on several case studies of transboundary water conflicts in different parts of the world while also helping students develop the negotiation and mediation skills they will need to resolve water disputes. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-382-water-diplomacy-spring-2021 Spring 2021 Gain, Animesh Susskind, Lawrence 2022-01-20T19:11:37+05:00 11.382 en-US freshwater transboundary waters water resources resource allocation water governance mediation negotiation stakeholder engagement roleplaying IWRM Nile Brahmaputra Indus Jordan MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course proposes that most cities have neither the infrastructure nor the processes in place to support the demographically complex public in fulfilling its role in democracy. Through this course, participants will learn a set of design principles for creating public engagement practices necessary for building inclusive civic infrastructure in cities. Participants will also have the opportunity to review and practice strategies, techniques, and methods for engaging communities in demographically complex settings. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-312-engaging-community-models-and-methods-for-designers-and-planners-spring-2020 Spring 2020 McDowell, Ceasar 2021-11-12T13:56:53+05:00 11.312 en-US community public engagement civic design democracy collaboration design principles design briefs blog posts MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Geographic Information System (GIS) software manages data that represent the location of features (geographic coordinate data) and what they are like (attribute data); it also provides the ability to query, manipulate, and analyze those data. Because GIS allows one to represent social and environmental data on maps, it is a powerful tool for analysis and planning in various fields. This course is meant to introduce students to the basic capabilities of GIS. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-205-introduction-to-spatial-analysis-fall-2019 Fall 2019 Williams, Sarah Huntley, Eric Robsky 2021-06-25T16:33:35+05:00 11.205 en-US spatial analysis GIS ARCGIS ESRI geographic information systems cartography mapping data visualization geo-processing MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course explores the importance of public transportation to social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and seeks to identify approaches to restoring transit ridership, with a focus on Metro Boston. We will attempt to (1) understand whether and how the COVID-19 pandemic can advance sustainable mobility, and specifically the role(s) of public transportation in the COVID-19 recovery process, and (2) identify policies and/or interventions that may encourage pre-COVID transit riders to return to transit and attract net new transit ridership. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-s955-the-sustainability-response-to-covid-19-january-iap-2021 January IAP 2021 Aloisi, Jim 2021-06-14T15:45:20+05:00 11.S955 en-US transit coronavirus covid-19 pandemic public transportation mobility sustainability public health policy advocacy clean energy climate change MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm In this seminar we explore the history, present, and future of psychogeography, hoping to map the center and the edges of this elusive field and to pioneer potential new directions and applications for the principles we discover (or invent) along the way. We discuss classic and more recent texts—including novels, essays, poems, reviews, films, and other works of creative nonfiction and speculative fiction. Students also undertake their own psychogeographic wanderings and complete a final “carto-imagino-synthetic” project to document, describe, map, and otherwise “make sense of place” through these techniques. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-s942-wanderings-in-psychogeography-exploring-landscapes-of-history-biography-memory-culture-nature-poetry-surreality-fantasy-and-madness-fall-2020 Fall 2020 Glenn, Ezra Haber 2021-05-26T14:37:26+05:00 11.S942 en-US psychogeography Debord Situationism imagination travelogue essays biography Surrealism maps landscape poetry photography film MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course introduces students to a set of analytic tools and conceptual frameworks through which to assess the origins and evolution of the institutions that constitute modern capitalism. The course takes an inter-disciplinary political economy approach that draws insights from economics, sociology, political science, history, geography, science and technology studies, and law.  https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-409-institutions-of-modern-capitalism-spring-2020 Spring 2020 Jackson, Jason 2021-05-10T14:11:41+05:00 11.409 en-US capitalism political economy states market societies cities right-wing globalism governance futurity free markets neoliberalism postcolonialism MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Do you know what your bank does with your money? What is the role of a bank in producing societal well-being? This course looks into banks that operate differently, namely, “just banks" that use capital and finance as a tool to address social and ecological challenges. This course is for anyone who wants to understand the unique role banks play as intermediaries in our economy and how they can leverage that position to produce positive social, environmental, and economic change. Go to OCW’s Open Learning Library site for 11.405x: Just Money: Banking as if Society Mattered. The site is free to use, just like all OCW sites. You have the option to sign up and enroll in the course if you want to track your progress, or you can view and use all the materials without enrolling. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-405-just-money-banking-as-if-society-mattered-spring-2021 Spring 2021 Käufer, Katrin Thompson, J. Phillip 2021-03-16T18:43:13+05:00 11.405 en-US banking finance social justice environmental justice debt lending profit capital mission MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course examines why we plan for economic development, how government is funded in the US, what strategies are commonly used to attract and retain development, and how effective they are at accomplishing goals. We look at the tools and techniques of development through a variety of lenses, including those of effectiveness, equity, sustainability, and impacts on other aspects of public finance. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-438-economic-development-planning-spring-2020 Spring 2020 Levine, Jeff 2020-12-16T14:59:16+05:00 11.438 en-US development real estate urban renewal brownfields tax incentives zoning racial equity fiscal analysis finance MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This seminar introduces students to basic principles of environmental justice and presents frameworks for analyzing and addressing inequalities in the distribution of environmental benefits and burdens from the perspectives of social science, public policy, and law. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-368-environmental-justice-law-and-policy-fall-2019 Fall 2019 Steil, Justin Hall, Enjoli 2020-12-03T19:22:17+05:00 11.368 11.148 en-US environmental justice environmental justice analysis environmental policy and planning inequity injustice politics planning global environment sustainability environment green design anthropology ecology biological hazards Environmental Protection Agency MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course explores the city through writing—listening to the voices of poets, short story writers, novelists, journalists, critics, historians, ethnographers, urbanists, musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists. Through extensive reading that informs their work on a longform story, students will join the chorus of storytellers to richly represent the variegated city. Our focus is on three nonfiction forms—essay, memoir, literary narrative—with special emphasis on the writer-editor relationship and on revision as a heuristic to better thinking. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-s948-seeing-the-city-afresh-spring-2018 Spring 2018 Cadogan, Garnette 2020-04-20T10:36:08+05:00 11.S948 en-US city story writing essay memoir poetry literary narrative flaneur flaneuse MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course explores equity as a key value, measure, and framework for operationalizing local economic development plans and policies. It examines the implementation of local policy initiatives for equity in U.S. cities and investigates a wide range of contemporary theory and practice in the field of urban economic development, from contracting and municipal procurement to arts and culture-driven approaches. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-s945-equity-inclusion-local-policy-driven-strategies-for-economic-development-the-just-city-spring-2019 Spring 2019 Crockett, Karilyn 2019-06-20T16:18:50+05:00 11.S945 en-US equity economic development public policy social justice environmental justice urban planning urban renewal inclusion race gender neighborhoods community benefit MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm The Malaysia Sustainable Cities Practicum is an intensive field-based course that brings 15 graduate students to Malaysia to learn about and analyze sustainable city development in five cities in Malaysia. The students in the Practicum will help determine the extent to which these efforts have been successful. They will identify specific projects or policy-making efforts that the following year's cohort of International Visiting Scholars can examine more closely.  Lead Faculty Professor Larry Susskind Teaching Assistants Jessica Gordon Yasmin Zaerpoor Administrative Staff Takeo Kuwabara Selmah Goldberg   https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-384-malaysia-sustainable-cities-practicum-spring-2018 Spring 2018 Susskind, Lawrence 2018-09-15T01:07:53+05:00 11.384 11.385 11.386 en-US Malaysia practicum developing country sustainability policy sustainable development urbanization environment energy cultural awareness travel fieldwork MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This is an advanced graduate-level seminar that will analyze the effectiveness of development and planning theories from the perspective of practitioners who implement projects and policies based on such theories. The course will be organized around 12 implementation puzzles, which should be considered for re-theorizing both developmental and planning processes. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-s943-development-planning-and-implementation-the-dialectic-of-theory-and-practice-fall-2017 Fall 2017 Sanyal, Bishwapriya Ferreira Cardoso, Cauam 2018-07-03T18:09:21+05:00 11.S943 en-US development planning urban studies implementation theory policy modernity evaluation assessment practice MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This class is designed to expose you to the cycles of disasters, the roots of emergency planning in the U.S., how to understand and map vulnerabilities, and expose you to the disaster planning in different contexts, including in developing countries. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-027-global-cityscope-disaster-planning-and-post-disaster-rebuilding-and-recovery-spring-2017 Spring 2017 Abbanat, Cherie Miot 2018-01-09T19:45:49+05:00 11.027 en-US disaster planning rebuilding recovery cities natural disasters earthquakes floods tornados hurricanes blizzards climate change extreme weather oil spills disease terrorism emergency response sustainability mapping emergency management urban planning urban policy government GIS Chilé New Orleans Haiti MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course focuses on national environmental and energy policy-making; environmental ethics; the techniques of environmental analysis; and strategies for collaborative environmental decision-making. The primary objective of the course is to help students formulate a personal theory of environmental planning practice. The course is taught comparatively, with constant references to examples from around the world. It is required of all graduate students pursuing an environmental policy and planning specialization in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. This course is the first subject in the Environmental Policy and Planning sequence. It reviews philosophical debates including growth vs. deep ecology, "command-and-control" vs. market-oriented approaches to regulation, and the importance of expertise vs. indigenous knowledge. Emphasis is placed on environmental planning techniques and strategies. Related topics include the management of sustainability, the politics of ecosystem management, environmental governance and the changing role of civil society, ecological economics, integrated assessment (combining environmental impact assessment (EIA) and risk assessment), joint fact finding in science-intensive policy disputes, environmental justice in poor communities of color, and environmental dispute resolution. Environmental Problem-Solving (Susskind et. al, 2017, Anthem Press), a video-enhanced eBook, provides students with full access to all the assigned readings, faculty commentary on the readings, and examples of the best student performance on course assignments in previous years.  https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-601-introduction-to-environmental-policy-and-planning-fall-2016 Fall 2016 Susskind, Lawrence 2017-08-17T18:28:43+05:00 11.601 en-US environmental policy environmental planning environment policy making environmental ethics ethics environmental analysis environmental impact assessment sustainability analysis energy planning energy MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course focuses on the tools and programs available to economic development practitioners to address capital needs for businesses and economic development projects. It provides an overview of private capital markets and financing sources to understand capital market imperfections that constrain economic development, business accounting, financial statement analysis, federal economic development programs, and public finance tools. The course covers policies and program models, including revolving loan funds, guarantee programs, venture capital funds, bank holding companies, community development loan funds and credit unions, micro-enterprise funds, and the Community Reinvestment Act. The objective of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive overview of economic development finance practice in the United States, and to develop a knowledge base and skills to either be a development finance practitioner, or apply economic development finance approaches to other fields of planning and community development. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-437-financing-economic-development-fall-2016 Fall 2016 Seidman, Karl 2017-06-09T15:57:43+05:00 11.437 en-US financing tools private capital markets financing sources capital market imperfections economic development business accounting financial statement analysis federal economic development programs public finance tools funds; guarantee programs venture capital funds bank holding companies community development loan funds credit unions micro enterprise funds MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course examines both the structure of cities and the ways they can be changed. It introduces graduate students to theories about how cities are formed, and the practice of urban design and development, using U.S. and international examples. The course is organized into two parts: Part 1 analyzes the forces which act to shape and to change cities; Part 2 surveys key models of physical form and social intervention that have been deployed to resolve competing forces acting on the city. This course includes models of urban analysis, contemporary theories of urban design, and implementation strategies. Lectures in this course are supplemented by discussion periods, student work, and field trips. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-301j-introduction-to-urban-design-and-development-fall-2016 Fall 2016 Frenchman, Dennis Qiu, Colleen Xi 2017-04-26T22:19:51+05:00 11.301J 4.252J en-US urban design urban development design, development city design cities Boston market economics industrial production public development private development models, urban change urban planning shaping cities urban growth urban form MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This course explores the evolution of poverty and economic security in the United States, within a global context. It examines the impact of recent economic restructuring and globalization, and reviews the current debate about the fate of the middle class, sources of increasing inequality, and approaches to advancing economic opportunity and security. In this class, students will study the topic of poverty and economic security through the lens of the lived experience of Americans: individuals, families, and households; exploring the history, geography, and forces shaping the likelihood of being poor in America. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-006-poverty-and-economic-security-fall-2016 Fall 2016 Glasmeier, Amy 2017-03-21T19:37:00+05:00 11.006 en-US poverty economic security global poverty economic status employment economic disparity economic inequality equitable distribution of wealth middle class economy economic insecurity working poor demographics income race economic class MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm Class website: The Once & Future CityWhat is a city? What shapes it? How does its history influence future development? How do physical form and institutions vary from city to city and how are these differences significant? How are cities changing and what is their future? This course will explore these and other questions, with emphasis upon twentieth-century American cities. A major focus will be on the physical form of cities—from downtown and inner-city to suburb and edge city—and the processes that shape them. These questions and more are explored through lectures, readings, workshops, field trips, and analysis of particular places, with the city itself as a primary text. In light of the 2016 centennial of MIT's move from Boston to Cambridge, the 2015 iteration of the course focused on MIT's original campus in Boston's Back Bay, and the university's current neighborhood in Cambridge. Short field assignments, culminating in a final project, will provide students opportunities to use, develop, and refine new skills in "reading" the city. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-016j-the-once-and-future-city-spring-2015 Spring 2015 Spirn, Anne Whiston 2017-02-23T22:23:03+05:00 11.016J 4.211J en-US urban context history growth urban development the city storytelling writing landscape place narrative urban planning seeing digital photography digital editing community urban revitalization neighborhood 11.016J 11.016 4.211J 4.211 MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm This class examines the built, psychosocial, economic, and natural environment factors that affect health behaviors and outcomes. Students will be introduced to tools designed to integrate public health considerations into policy making and planning, and will be given hands-on training on the application of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) methodology. This class is designed to prepare graduate students from planning and policy fields to interface with public health organizations, agencies, or advocacy groups in professional contexts. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-s941-healthy-cities-assessing-health-impacts-of-policies-and-plans-spring-2016 Spring 2016 Arcaya, Mariana 2017-01-05T21:11:21+05:00 11.S941 en-US healthy cities health impacts health policy urban planning health impact assessment methodology environmental health MIT OpenCourseWare https://ocw.mit.edu Content within individual OCW courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. MIT OpenCourseWare materials are licensed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). For further information see https://ocw.mit.edu/terms/index.htm