11.332J | Fall 2003 | Graduate

Urban Design

Calendar

CLASS # TOPICS SPEAKERS / ACTIVITY MANAGERS KEY DATES
1 - 8 Part 1: Double ‘Readings’: Built Form / Life & Learning Robert Brown (Class #1)
Jeff Roberts (Class #3)
Prof. Hansman, Prof. Stewart, Prof. Williams, Prof. Silbey (Class #4)
Beth Rubenstein and Roger Boothe(Class #6)
John Curry (Class #7)

Assignment for Part #1 Handed Out (Class #1)

Review of Part #1(Class #8)

Assignment for Part #2 Handed Out (Class #8)

9 - 11 Part 2: Individual Brainstorming

Part 3: Detailed Development of Proposal

12 - 20 Part 3(a): Conceptual Plan / Open Spaces / Uses Review: Andrea Kahn, Daniel Winny, Ann Pendleton-Jullian, Shun Kanda (Class #12)
Jim Stockard (Class #13)
Todd Kohr (Class #15)
O. Robert Simha (Class #16)
Emily Greeves (Class #17)
Paul Parravano and Ken Reeves(Class #18)
Dan Malinow (Class #19)
Eric Orozco (Class #20)

Review for Part #2 (Class #12)

Assignment for Part #3a Handed Out (Class #12)

21 - 26 Part 3(b): Streets / Blocks / Parcels Ray Hodges (Class #21)
Chris Reed (Class #22)
Review: Chris Reed, Bill Porter, Bill Hubbard, Shun Kanda (Class #24)
Phil Bernstein (Class #25)

Review of Part #3a (Class #24)

Assignment for Part #3b Handed Out (Class #24)

27 - 31 Part 3(c): Building Typologies / Design Guidelines Review: David Clem and Dan Winny(Class #27)

Review for Part #3b (Class #27)

Assignment for Part #3c Handed Out (Class #27)

Pin-Up for Part #3c (Class #31)

Assignment for Part #4 Handed Out (Class #31)

32 - 34 Part 4: Test Outcomes

35 - 38 Part 5: Formatting / Layout

Review for Part #4 (Class #35)

Assignment for LAYOUT Handed Out (Class #35)

39 - 40 Part 6: Preparation for Final Presentation

Pin-Up for LAYOUT (Class #39)

Assignment for FINAL Handed Out (Class #39)

Review of FINAL (Class #40)

Speaker List / Schedule

Class #1: Speaker - Robert Brown, MIT Provost.

Class #3: Speaker - Jeff Roberts, MIT.

Class #4: Speakers - MIT Profs. Hansman, Stewart, Williams, Silbey.

Class #6: Speaker - Beth Rubenstein and Roger Boothe, City of Cambridge.
SPECIAL EVENT: Dinner with selected student leaders.

Class #7: John Curry, MIT EVP.

Class #8: Review 1.

Class #12: Review 2 - Andrea Kahn, “Urban Constellations”. Reveiwers: Daniel Winny, Lyme Properties; Ann Pendleton-Jullian, MIT; Shun Kanda, MIT.

Class #13: Speaker - Jim Stockard, Cambridge Housing Authority.

Class #15: Activity Manager - Todd Kohr, “Modifying Boundaries of Solution Space”.

Class #16: Speaker - O. Robert Simha, former MIT Director of Planning.

Class #17: Activity Manager - Emily Greeves, “Consider Whats Not There/Ethics” (continued from Class #16).

Class #18: Speaker - Paul Parravano, MIT Office of Govt. & Community Relations; Ken Reeves, Cambridge City Council and former Mayor of Cambridge.

Class #19: Activity Manager - Dan Malinow, “If ‘x’ then ‘y’” (continued from Class #18).

Class #20: Activity Manager - Eric Orozco, “Merging Properties” (continued from Class #19).

Class #21: Activity Manager - Ray Hodges, “Plasticine Visions by ‘Advocates’”.

Class #22: Speaker - Chris Reed, Principal of the Landscape Urban Design Firm StoSS, “Urbanism in Flux”.

Class #24: Stocktaking - Reviewers: Chris Reed, StoSS; Bill Porter, MIT; Bill Hubbard, MIT; Shun Kanda, MIT.

Class #25: Speaker - Phil Bernstein, Autodesk, “Characteristics of Project Delivery”.

Class #27: Speaker - David Clem and Dan Winny, Lyme Properties.

Class #28: Pin-Up - “Main Ideas”.

Class #30: Meet with the CMS.881 class.

Class #40: Final Review.

Course Info

As Taught In
Fall 2003
Level
Learning Resource Types
Written Assignments
Design Assignments