Gateway to the Profession of Planning

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	GUEST SPEAKERS
Week 0: Introductions
1	What is the scope of planning
Week 1: Olmstead Jr. vs. Marsh
2	American exceptionalism in planning
3	Marsh’s position
4	Group meeting
Week 2: Regionalism and regional planning
5	Regions: The economics and politics of territory	Amy Glasmeier, Department Head, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
6	Against regionalism	Karen Polenske, Professor of Regional Political Economy and Planning, MIT
7	Facilitated session	Ceasar McDowell, Director, Center for Reflective Community Practice, MIT
Week 3: Possibilities and limits of planning (post Depression era)
8	The necessity of planning/response to the Depression City, state, national relationships	Alan Altshuler, Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Fred Salvucci, Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Association, MIT
9	The dangers of planning
10	Alumni panel: Planners of color in the profession
Week 4: Development planning
11	For development planning
12	Against development planning
13	Group meeting
Week 5: Technology
14	Technology: Modeling transportation and land use	Joe Ferreira, Professor of Urban Planning and Operations Research, MIT
15	Immigration	Kent Wong, Director, Center for Labor Research and Education, UCLA
Week 6: Rational comprehensive vs. strategic incrementalist
16	For comprehensive planning
17	Against comprehensive planning
18	Postindustrial Cities	Emma Rothschild, Director, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University
Week 7: Planning and dissent
19	Advocacy and radical planning	Phil Thompson, Associate Professor of Urban Politics, MIT
20	The role of dissent in planning	Mel King, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, MIT
21	Group meeting
Week 8: Top down vs. Moses vs. Jacobs
22	Bottom up planning	Ceasar McDowell, Director, Center for Reflective Community Practice, MIT
23	Top down planning
24	Group meeting
Week 9: Is planning the “Handmaiden” of capitalism?
25	Capitalism	Peter Marcuse, Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning, Columbia University
26	Globalization and planning
27	Addressing income inequality	Robert Solow, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, MIT
Week 10: Just processes vs. just outcomes
28	Process: Consensus building	Larry Susskind, Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, MIT
29	Just processes vs. just outcomes	Daphne Spain, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
30	Outcomes	Susan Fainstein, Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Week 11: Design
31	New urbanism	Brent Ryan, Assistant Professor of Urban Design and Public Policy, MIT
Week 12: Methodology
32	Measurement/expert knowledge/professionalism	Amy Glasmeier, Department Head, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
33	Storytelling/local knowledge	James Throgmorton, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Iowa
34	Alumni panel: How should you be thinking about the next three semesters?
Week 13: Final week
35	e-Governance	Joe Ferreira, Professor of Urban Planning and Operations Research, MIT
36	Education of city planners: Reflective practitioner, specialist, generalist