The Once and Future City

Calendar

CLASS #	TOPICS
Part I: Reading the City
1	How Can Cities Be Read and Why
2	The Once and Future City: Processes That Shape
3	Reading and Writing the City: The Case of Philadelphia
4	Perspectives on MIT Sites Project Assignment 1: Select A Site due
Part II: City and Nature: Processes as Agents of Change
5	Boston, A Natural Environment Transformed
6	Field Trip: Processes and Patterns of Air, Earth, Water, and Life
7	Observing, Analyzing, and Explaining How Natural Processes Shape the City
8	Discussion of Findings on Student Sites
9	Adapting the City to Natural Processes Project Assignment 2: Your Site and Natural Processes due
10	MIT Sites: What Patterns Emerged?
Part III: City and Society: Social Processes as Agents of Change
11	Change Over Time: Discovering and Explaining Patterns
12	Workshop: Observing Change
13	Observing Change
14	Analyzing Change
15	Discovering and Analyzing Patterns of Change
16	Explaining Changes Over Time, Making an Argument
17	MIT’s Neighborhoods in Historical Context Project Assignment 3: Your Site Through Time due
18	MIT Sites: What Patterns Emerged?
Part IV: Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Envisioning and Shaping Future Cities
19	Field Trip: Discovering and Photographing Artifacts, Traces, and Trends
20	Discussion of Findings
21	West Philadelphia Landscape Project Project Assignment 4: Artifacts, Layers, Traces and Trends due
22	MIT Sites: What Patterns Emerged?
Part V: Boston Sites: How Have They Evolved, Where Are They Headed
23	Presentation and Discussion of Sites
24	Presentation and Discussion of Sites (cont.)
25	Presentation and Discussion of Sites (cont.)
26	What Patterns Emerged? Revision of Selected Assignment due