Urban Studies

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Urban Energy Systems and Policy
Prof. David Hsu
This class is about figuring out together what cities and users can do to reduce their energy use and carbon...
Urban Studies Energy Social Sciences
intermediate
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Introduction to Urban Design and Development
Prof. Susan Silberberg
This course examines the evolving structure of cities and the way that cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas can...
Environmental Design Urban Studies Architecture
intermediate
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The Making of Cities
Dr. Roi Salgueiro Barrio
This iteration of 4.241 is structured around four key topics: 1) the city and the urban, 2) spatial forms of...
Urban Studies Art, Design & Architecture Architecture
advanced
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Theory of City Form
Prof. Julian Beinart
This course covers theories about the form that settlements should take and attempts a distinction between...
Sociology Urban Studies Architecture
advanced
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Real Estate Economics
Prof. William Wheaton
This course, offered by the MIT Center for Real Estate, focuses on developing an understanding of the macroeconomic...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies Real Estate
advanced
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Interactive Data Visualization and Society
Prof. Arvind Satyanarayan
The world is awash with increasing amounts of data, and we must keep afloat with our relatively constant perceptual...
Visualization Computer Science Engineering
intermediate
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Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
This course explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, as a research method, and as a medium of inquiry...
Visual Arts Urban Studies Architecture
advanced
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Urban Transportation Planning
Frederick Salvucci
This course examines the policy, politics, planning, and engineering of transportation systems in urban areas, with...
Engineering Policy and Administration Urban Studies
advanced
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A Workshop on Geographic Information Systems
Prof. Joseph Ferreira
This class uses lab exercises and a workshop setting to help students develop a solid understanding of the planning...
Engineering Computer Science Civil Engineering
advanced
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Power of Place: Media Technology, Youth, and City Design and Development
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
This workshop provides an introduction to urban environmental design and explores the potential of information...
Architecture Sociology Urban Studies
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Urban Design Seminar
Jota Samper
This seminar focuses on understanding the role of high-quality design as a tool to address urban social problems....
Architecture Real Estate Civil Engineering
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Site and Infrastructure Systems Planning
Prof. Eran Ben-Joseph
This course is a client-based land analysis and site planning project. The primary focus of the course changes from...
Urban Studies Architecture Civil Engineering
advanced
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Crafting Research Questions and Qualitative Methodology
Prof. Judith Tendler
This course covers approaches to research and evaluation in the planning field, for those preparing to write...
Urban Studies Literature Humanities
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Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods
Richard C. Larson
The class will cover quantitative techniques of Operations Research with emphasis on applications in transportation...
Mathematics Urban Studies Systems Engineering
advanced
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Getting Things Implemented: Strategy, People, Performance, and Leadership
Prof. Xavier de Souza Briggs
An old saying holds that “there are many more good ideas in the world than good ideas implemented.” This is a case...
Management Urban Studies Organizations & Leadership
advanced
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Transportation Systems Analysis: Demand and Economics
Michael Frumin
The main objective of this course is to give broad insight into the different facets of transportation systems,...
Urban Studies Economics Civil Engineering
advanced
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American Urban History
Ezra Haber Glenn
This is a seminar on the history of institutions and institutional change in American cities from roughly 1850 to...
History Urban Studies Humanities
intermediate
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Wanderings in Psychogeography: Exploring Landscapes of History, Biography, Memory, Culture, Nature, Poetry, Surreality, Fantasy, and Madness
Ezra Haber Glenn
In this seminar we explore the history, present, and future of psychogeography, hoping to map the center and the...
Urban Studies Geography Philosophy
advanced
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Planning, Communications, and Digital Media
Prof. Lorlene Hoyt
This course focuses on methods of digital visualization and communication and their application to planning issues....
Communication Urban Studies Computer Science
advanced
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An Introduction to Intelligent Transportation Systems
Prof. Joseph Sussman
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) represent a major transition in transportation on many dimensions. This...
Urban Studies Civil Engineering Engineering
advanced
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Financing Economic Development
Prof. Karl Seidman
This course focuses on the tools and programs available to economic development practitioners to address capital...
Business & Management Social Sciences Policy and Administration
advanced
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Facilitative Leadership in the Public Sector
Prof. Lawrence Susskind
This four-part dinner series was created by Prof. Lawrence Susskind at the request of a group of students in MIT’s...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies Communication
advanced
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Transportation Systems
Prof. Joseph Sussman
Approaching transportation as a complex, large-scale, integrated, open system (CLIOS), this course strives to be an...
Engineering Urban Studies Civil Engineering
advanced
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The Ancient City
Prof. William Broadhead
This course focuses on the archaeology of the Greek and Roman city. It investigates the relationship between urban...
History Anthropology Urban Studies
intermediate
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Spatial Database Management and Advanced Geographic Information Systems
Prof. Joseph Ferreira
This semester long subject (11.521) is divided into two halves. The first half focuses on learning spatial database...
Engineering Computer Science Civil Engineering
advanced
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Urban Design
Prof. Carol Burns
For many years, Cambridge, MA, as host to two major research universities, has been the scene of debates as to how...
Urban Studies Architecture Environmental Design
advanced
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Tools for Analysis: Design for Real Estate and Infrastructure Development
Prof. Richard de Neufville
This course is an introduction to the analytical tools that support design and decision-making in real estate and...
Systems Thinking Urban Studies Real Estate
advanced
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Ecological Urbanism
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
Ecological urbanism weds the theory and practice of city design and planning, as a means of adaptation, with the...
Urban Studies Social Sciences
advanced
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Research Design for Policy Analysis and Planning
Prof. JoAnn Carmin
This course develops skills in research design for policy analysis and planning. The emphasis is on the logic of the...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies Social Sciences
advanced
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Planning Economics
Prof. Frank Levy
Planning Economics will apply microeconomic theory to issues that markets don’t always handle well and so are not...
Urban Studies Economics Social Sciences
advanced
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Quantitative Reasoning & Statistical Methods for Planners I
Ezra Haber Glenn
This course develops logical, empirically based arguments using statistical techniques and analytic methods....
Mathematics Urban Studies Social Sciences
advanced
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Urban Transportation, Land Use, and the Environment
Prof. Pericles (Chris) Zegras
This course is aimed at the aspiring planning practitioner, policy-maker, or industry decision-maker with an...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies International Development
advanced
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Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City
Prof. Eran Ben-Joseph
The course is designed to be an introduction to methods of analyzing, evaluating, and recording the urban...
Art, Design & Architecture Environmental Design Urban Studies
advanced
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Practice of Participatory Action Research (PAR)
Prof. Lawrence Susskind
This course introduces students to the techniques of participatory action research (PAR) and the practice of case...
Policy and Administration Sociology Urban Studies
advanced
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Introduction to Environmental Policy and Planning
Prof. Lawrence Susskind
This course focuses on national environmental and energy policy-making; environmental ethics; the techniques of...
Climate and Energy Policy Policy and Administration Urban Studies
advanced
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Planning for Sustainable Development
Prof. David Laws
This course explores policy and planning for sustainable development. It critically examines concept of...
Engineering Adaptation and Resilience Climate Science
advanced
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The Once and Future City
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
Class website: The Once & Future City What is a city? What shapes it? How does its history influence future...
Architecture Geography Sociology
intermediate
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Comparative Land Use and Transportation Planning
Prof. Pericles (Chris) Zegras
This course focuses on the land use-transportation “interaction space” in metropolitan settings. The course aims to...
Urban Studies Social Sciences
advanced
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Legal Aspects of Property and Land Use
Prof. Balakrishnan Rajagopal
This course is designed to offer an advanced introduction to key legal issues that arise in the area of property and...
Humanities Real Estate Law
advanced
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Airline Schedule Planning
Prof. Cynthia Barnhart
Explores a variety of models and optimization techniques for the solution of airline schedule planning and...
Urban Studies Systems Engineering Systems Thinking
advanced
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City to City: Comparing, Researching and Writing about Cities
Cherie Miot Abbanat
This course introduces undergraduate planning students to the role of the planner in researching issues in cities...
Urban Studies Social Sciences
intermediate
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Urban Sociology in Theory and Practice
Prof. Justin Steil
This course explores the creative dialectic—and sometimes conflict—between sociology and urban policy and design....
Sociology Urban Studies Social Sciences
advanced
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The City in Film
Ezra Haber Glenn
Using film as a lens to explore and interpret various aspects of the urban experience in both the U.S. and abroad,...
Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts Urban Studies
intermediate
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Metropolis: History of New York City
Prof. Craig Wilder
Hitherto it had gone by the original Indian name Manna-hatta, or as some still have it, ‘The Manhattoes’; but this...
Humanities History Anthropology
intermediate
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City Visions: Past and Future
Prof. Diane Davis
This class is intended to introduce students to understandings of the city generated from both social science...
Environmental Design History Sociology
advanced
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Beijing Urban Design Studio
Prof. Dennis Frenchman
The Beijing Urban Design Studio is a joint program between the MIT and Tsinghua University Schools of Architecture...
Environmental Design Urban Studies Economics
advanced
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Public Transportation Systems
Prof. Nigel Wilson
This course discusses the evolution and role of urban public transportation modes, systems, and services, focusing...
Urban Studies Civil Engineering Engineering
advanced
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Introduction to Housing, Community and Economic Development
Prof. Langley Keyes
As an introduction to the field of Housing, Community, and Economic Development (HCED), the course is structured...
Policy and Administration Sociology Urban Studies
advanced
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New Century Cities: Real Estate, Digital Technology, and Design
Prof. David Geltner
The course draws on faculty members from the Center for Real Estate, the City Design and Development Group...
Environmental Design Urban Studies Real Estate
advanced
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free
Sustainable Economic Development
Prof. Karl Seidman
This course explores the application of environmental and economic development planning, policy and management...
Economics Policy and Administration Sociology
advanced
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free
Urban Design Policy and Action
Prof. J. Mark Schuster
Governments at every level assume a measure of responsibility for seeking good design. Some of that responsibility...
Art, Design & Architecture Policy and Administration Urban Studies
advanced
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free
Urbanizing China: A Reflective Dialogue
Prof. Jinhua Zhao
The course explores the interactions between state and market as instigators of China’s urbanization, and its...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies Economics
advanced
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free
Air Traffic Control
Prof. John Hansman
This course introduces the various aspects of present and future Air Traffic Control systems. Among the topics in...
Urban Studies Aerospace Engineering Engineering
advanced
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Sites in Sight: Photography as Inquiry
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
This course explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, of investigating landscapes and expressing ideas....
Environmental Design Art, Design & Architecture Visual Arts
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Transportation Systems
Prof. Joseph Sussman
1.201J/11.545J/ESD.210J is required for all first-year Master of Science in Transportation students. It would be of...
Urban Studies Social Sciences
advanced
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free
Social Theory and the City
Prof. Richard Sennett
This course explores how social theories of urban life can be related to the city’s architecture and spaces. It is...
Sociology Urban Studies Anthropology
advanced
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Sustainable Design and Technology Research Workshop
Prof. Leon Glicksman
This workshop investigates the current state of sustainability in regards to architecture, from the level of the...
Adaptation and Resilience Climate Science Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
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History and Theory of Historic Preservation
Prof. Max Page
This class examines the history and theory of historic preservation, focusing on the United States, but with...
Social Sciences History Urban Studies
advanced
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Urban Climate Adaptation
Prof. JoAnn Carmin
“Designing a dream city is easy. Rebuilding a living one takes imagination.”    -Jane Jacobs This...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies International Development
advanced
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Economic Development Planning
Jeffrey Levine
This course examines why we plan for economic development, how government is funded in the US, what strategies are...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies Economics
advanced
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Introduction to International Development Planning
Prof. Balakrishnan Rajagopal
This introductory survey course is intended to develop an understanding of key issues and dilemmas of planning in...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies Economics
advanced
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free
American Urban History II
Prof. Robert Fogelson
This is a seminar course that explores the history of selected features of the physical environment of urban...
History Urban Studies Policy and Administration
intermediate
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Architectural Design Workshops: Computational Design for Housing
Gabriela Celani
An intensive nine day remote collaborative workshop involving MIT and Miyagi University in Japan. The objective is...
Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Urban Studies
advanced
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free
Media Technology and City Design and Development
Prof. Ceasar McDowell
This workshop explores the potential of media technology and the Internet to enhance communication and transform...
Communication Urban Studies Media Studies
advanced
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Intentional Public Disruptions: Art, Responsibility, and Pedagogy
B. Stephen Carpenter II
During the fall of 2017, art educator B. Stephen Carpenter II began a residency at the MIT Center for Art, Science...
Visual Arts Policy and Administration Sociology
intermediate
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Water and Sanitation Infrastructure in Developing Countries
Susan Murcott
This course deals with the principles of infrastructure planning in developing countries, with a focus on...
Engineering Public Health Policy and Administration
advanced
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Urban Development in Conflict Cities: Planning Challenges and Policy Innovations
Jota Samper
Economic, religious, gender, and ethnic differences must be negotiated every day in the urban arena. When tensions...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies International Development
advanced
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Advanced Seminar: Urban Nature and City Design
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
This course will explore the mutual influences of ideas of nature, theories of city design and planning, and...
Urban Studies Social Sciences
advanced
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Property Rights in Transition
Prof. Annette M. Kim
This course examines the theories and policy debates over who can own real property, how to communicate and enforce...
Humanities Real Estate Law
advanced
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free
Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes
Kian Goh
This course explores the physical, ecological, technological, political, economic, and cultural implications of big...
Urban Studies Social Sciences
intermediate
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Literary Interpretation: Literature and Urban Experience
Prof. Sarah Brouillette
Alienation, overcrowding, sensory overload, homelessness, criminality, violence, loneliness, sprawl, blight. How...
Urban Studies Literature Philosophy
intermediate
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free
Research Seminar on Urban Information Systems
Prof. Joseph Ferreira
Seminar participants and invited guests will lead critical discussions of current literature and ongoing research....
Digital Business & IT Urban Studies Computer Science
advanced
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Poverty and Economic Security
Prof. Amy Glasmeier
This course explores the evolution of poverty and economic security in the United States, within a global context....
Sociology Urban Studies International Development
intermediate
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Disaster, Vulnerability and Resilience
Prof. Jennifer Leaning
In recent years, the redistribution of risk has created conditions for natural and technological disasters to become...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies Philosophy
advanced
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free
Gateway to the Profession of Planning
Prof. Bishwapriya Sanyal
The purpose of the course is to cultivate the sensibilities necessary for effective planning practice. This...
Urban Studies Social Sciences
advanced
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free
Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries
Prof. Annette M. Kim
This readings-based course analyzes the structure and operation of government systems in developing countries, with...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies Finance & Accounting
advanced
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free
Case Studies in City Form
Prof. Michael Dennis
This course serves as an introduction to urban form and design, focusing on the physical, historical, and social...
Urban Studies Architecture Art, Design & Architecture
advanced
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free
Urban Design Politics
Prof. Lawrence Vale
This is a seminar about the ways that urban design contributes to the distribution of political power and resources...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies Political Science
advanced