Comparative Land Use and Transportation Planning

Calendar

Ses #	Topics	KEY DATES
Introduction
1	Comparative Land Use and Transportation Planning? Course Overview, Objectives, Expectations, Logistics, Student Interests, Basic Course Framework, Why Comparative Land Use and Transportation Planning?	Introductory Assignment (Your Neighborhood) out
Part I: Understanding the Metropolitan-“izing” World
2	Metropolitan-ization Forces, Patterns and Trends, Concerns
3	“Models” of the Metropolis	Introductory Assignment due
4	“Regional Architectures”: Institutions of the Metropolis
Part II: The Basics of Activities and Travel
5	Accessibility: The Land Use-Transportation Link
6	Basics of Travel Demand: Persons and Firms	Assignment I (Accessibility Management in the Metropolis) out
Part III: The Influence of Land Use on Mobility and Accessibility
7	Mobility/Accessibility = f (Land Use): Something New?
8	Mobility/Accessibility = f (Land Use): Conceptualizing the Effects	Assignment I due
9	Mobility/Accessibility = f (Land Use): Analytical Approaches
10	Mobility/Accessibility = f (Land Use): A Matter of Scale	Assignment II (Santiago de Chile) out
11	Measuring Urban Form and Urban Design
12	Implications for Planning Policies and Tools	Assignment II due Assignment III (North Point, Cambridge) out
13	Financial Instruments
Part IV: The Influence of Transportation on Land Use
14	Transportation and Metropolitan Growth: History of Effects	Assignment III due Assignment IV (Passaic Urban Design Studio) out
15	Public Transportation and Metropolitan Growth
16	Public Transportation and Metropolitan Growth: Case Studies in Integration
17	Passaic Studio Presentation	Assignment IV due (Student groups will present their results of the passaic studio analysis to the studio)
18	Roadways and Metropolitan Growth
19	Roadways and Metropolitan Growth: São Paulo Case Guest Speaker: Ciro Biderman	Assignment V (São Paulo Ring Road) out
20	Transportation and Metropolitan Growth: Financial Instruments
21	Transportation Networks and Travel Behavior	Assignment V due
Part V: Metropolitan Futures
22	Pulling It All Together: Land Use, Mobility, Accessibility Guest Speaker: Chris Porter, Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
23	Back to the Future? Land Use Mobility, Accessibility in Metropolitan China	Assignment VI (China Metropolitan Futures) out
24	The Future of the Metropolis: Theoretical Speculations
25	The Future of the Metropolis: Tools and Models Guest Speaker: Mikel Murga
26	Student Presentations	Assignment VI due