Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	“The City and the Storm” - Megacities, Superstorms, and Other Big Problems
2	Present Day Paradox - “Smart Cities” vs. Global Crises How are we so connected, yet so at risk? And, Why plan? Why plan big?
3	Boston Redevelopment Authority Field Trip Visit to Boston planning office, meet with Prataap Patrose, Deputy Director
4	Library Research on Big Plans Presentation by Peter Cohn, MIT Libraries How to (Read a) Plan	Assignment 1 Out
5	Big Plans Past, Present, … And what is the future big plan?
6	Rethinking: No Boundaries (Scale) Exploding the city – what is urban anyway? / the “urban age”?
7	Workshop: Diagramming and CS Suite 1 (Illustrator Tutorial, available in Assignments page)
8	Rethinking: No Boundaries (Disciplines) What / where / how is the city? Science, economics, sociology, art, and grassroots activism discuss the urban Trans-disciplinary Urbanism
9	Group work / “Desk Crits”
10	Assignment 1 Project Presentations	Assignment 1 Due
11	Assignment 1 Project Presentations (cont.) Discussions on Post-Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Initiatives	Assignment 2 assigned
12	How to Read a Photograph: Initial Data Collection
13	Workshop: CS Suite 2 (Photoshop Tutorial, available in Assignments page)	Assignment 2 Initial Deliverables Due
14	Re-envision: New Urban Form Guest Lecture – Alan Berger, MIT DUSP
15	Assignment 2 Initial Discussion	Assignment 2 Report Due Before Lecture
16	Rethinking: The “Just” City? Social justice and the city? Guest Discussant – Karilyn Crockett, MLK Visiting Scholar, MIT
17	Assignment 2 Presentation & Discussions	Assignment 3 Out
18	Walking Tour of Southwest Corridor, with Tunney Lee, Prof Emeritus, MIT.
19	Assignment 3 Preliminary Discussion Local design at the scale of the global	Assignment 3 Initial Deliverables Due
20	Work on draft final project presentations Workshop: In Design Tutorial (available in assignments page)
21	Rethinking: No Boundaries (“Worlding”) Local design at the scale of the global
22	Final Project Draft Presentations
23	Re-envision: Post-Disaster Planning Guest Lecture – Miho Mazereeuw, MIT Architecture	Assignment 3 Final Deliverables Due
24	Group work
25	Final Project Presentations
26	Final Project Presentations (cont.)	Individual essay due 4 days after lecture