Urban Studies

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MIT OCW
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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...
Social Sciences Urban Studies Energy, Climate & Sustainability
intermediate
MIT OCW
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design
intermediate
MIT OCW
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture Real Estate Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology Visualization Computer Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Social Sciences Policy and Administration Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Business & Management Digital Business & IT Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
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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....
Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Social Sciences Urban Studies Humanities
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Business & Management Systems Thinking Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Business & Management Organizations & Leadership Management
advanced
MIT OCW
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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,...
Social Sciences Economics Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Social Sciences Urban Studies Humanities
intermediate
MIT OCW
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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...
Social Sciences Geography Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Planning, Communications, and Digital Media
Prof. Lorlene Hoyt
This course focuses on methods of digital visualization and communication and their application to planning issues....
Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology Visualization Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Social Sciences Urban Studies Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
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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 Finance & Accounting Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Business & Management Organizations & Leadership Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Social Sciences Urban Studies Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
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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...
Business & Management Digital Business & IT Data Science, Analytics & Computer Technology
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture Real Estate Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Social Sciences Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Social Sciences Policy and Administration Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Social Sciences Economics Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
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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....
Social Sciences Urban Studies Science & Math
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Social Sciences Policy and Administration Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
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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 Architecture Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Social Sciences Policy and Administration Sociology
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Social Sciences 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...
Social Sciences Urban Studies Science & Math
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...
Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Social Sciences
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...
Social Sciences Urban Studies
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...
Art, Design & Architecture Real Estate Social Sciences
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...
Business & Management Systems Thinking Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Social Sciences Urban Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
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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....
Social Sciences Sociology Urban Studies
advanced
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free
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 Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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...
Social Sciences Anthropology Urban Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
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...
Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
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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...
Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Public Transportation Systems
Prof. Nigel Wilson
This course discusses the evolution and role of urban public transportation modes, systems, and services, focusing...
Social Sciences Urban Studies Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Social Sciences Economics Policy and Administration
advanced
MIT OCW
free
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...
Art, Design & Architecture Architecture Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
free
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
free
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
MIT OCW
free
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
MIT OCW
free
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
MIT OCW
free
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
MIT OCW
free
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
free
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
free
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
MIT OCW
free
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
MIT OCW
free
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
MIT OCW
free
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
MIT OCW
free
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
free
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
free
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
MIT OCW
free
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
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
MIT OCW
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
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free
Dialogue in Art, Architecture, and Urbanism
Prof. Antonio Muntadas
In this class we will examine how the idea of the city has been “translated” by artists, architects, and other...
Visual Arts Urban Studies Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Engaging Community: Models and Methods for Designers and Planners
Prof. Ceasar McDowell
This course proposes that most cities have neither the infrastructure nor the processes in place to support the...
Sociology Urban Studies Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Computers in Public Management II
Prof. Joseph Ferreira
Second of two modules facilitating a basic understanding of computing in planning and public management. Students...
Digital Business & IT Urban Studies Systems Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Gaoming Studio - China
Prof. Eran Ben-Joseph
The studio will focus on the district of Gaoming, located in the northwest of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) - the...
Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Environmental Design
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Transportation Flow Systems
Prof. Ismail Chabini
Design, operation, and management of traffic flows over complex transportation networks are the foci of this course....
Urban Studies Systems Engineering Civil Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Analyzing and Accounting for Regional Economic Growth
Prof. Karen R. Polenske
This course focuses on alternative ways in which the issues of growth, restructuring, innovation, knowledge,...
Urban Studies Economics Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Healthy Cities: Assessing Health Impacts of Policies and Plans
Prof. Mariana Arcaya
This class examines the built, psychosocial, economic, and natural environment factors that affect health behaviors...
Policy and Administration Sociology Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Production of Space: Art, Architecture and Urbanism in Dialogue
Prof. Ute Meta Bauer
This seminar engages in the notion of space from various points of departure. The goal is first of all to engage in...
Visual Arts Urban Studies Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Planning in Developing Countries
Prof. Jennifer Davis
This course examines the policy and planning for the provision of water supply and sanitation services in developing...
Public Health Policy and Administration Environmental Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Information and Communication Technologies in Community Development
Prof. Langley Keyes
This practicum subject integrates theory and practice through the design, implementation, and evaluation of a...
Digital Business & IT Sociology Communication
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Cities in Conflict: Theory and Practice
Prof. Diane Davis
This course’s aims are two-fold: to offer students the theoretical and practical tools to understand how and why...
Policy and Administration Sociology Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Technology and Nature in American History
Jamie Pietruska
This course considers how the visual and material world of “nature” has been reshaped by industrial practices,...
History Urban Studies Civil Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
D-Lab: Waste
Kate Mytty
This introductory course will provide you with a multidisciplinary approach to managing waste in low- and...
Climate Science Adaptation and Resilience Climate and Energy Policy
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
U.S. Military Power
Prof. Barry Posen
The purpose of this course is to acquaint the student with the missions, capabilities, and costs of the largely...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies Political Science
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Community Growth and Land Use Planning
Prof. Eran Ben-Joseph
This course combines a seminar format with fieldwork to examine strategies of planning and control for growth and...
Policy and Administration Sociology Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Transit Management
Prof. Nigel Wilson
This course discusses management methods of relevance to public transportation systems. Topics include strategic...
Urban Studies Operations Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
American Urban History I
Prof. Robert Fogelson
This course is a seminar on the history of institutions and institutional change in American cities from roughly...
Humanities History Urban Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Regional Socioeconomic Impact Analyses and Modeling
Prof. Karen R. Polenske
The seminar is designed to provide advanced graduate students with a thorough understanding of selected regional...
Urban Studies Economics Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Environmental Management Practicum: Brownfield Redevelopment
James Hamilton
Through site-specific client-based work, this course will allow students to materially contribute to redevelopment...
Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Policy and Administration
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Air Transportation Systems Architecting
Earll Murman
This course addresses the architecting of air transportation systems. The focus is on the conceptual phase of...
Engineering Urban Studies Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Technology and Cities
Prof. Joseph Ferreira
This seminar is an introduction to the usage and impacts of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on...
Engineering Visualization Computer Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Global Cityscope - Disaster Planning and Post-Disaster Rebuilding and Recovery
Cherie Miot Abbanat
This class is designed to expose you to the cycles of disasters, the roots of emergency planning in the U.S., how to...
Climate Science Civil Engineering Environmental Engineering
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Doctoral Research Seminar: Knowledge in the Public Arena
Prof. Frank Levy
This is a course about how research knowledge and other types of knowledge come to be actionable and influential in...
Communication Political Science Policy and Administration
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Downtown
Prof. Bernard Frieden
This seminar focuses on downtowns in U.S. cities from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century....
History Urban Studies Architecture
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Urban Design Studio: Providence
Prof. Greg Morrow
This studio discusses in great detail the design of urban environments, specifically in Providence, RI. It will...
Environmental Design Urban Studies Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Transportation Policy, Strategy, and Management
Prof. Joseph Coughlin
This class surveys the current concepts, theories, and issues in strategic management of transportation...
Urban Studies Operations Business & Management
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Introduction to Planning & Institutional Processes in Developing Countries
Prof. Judith Tendler
This introductory course helps students learn to pose questions and analyze problems in the field of planning in...
Economics Organizations & Leadership Policy and Administration
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Politics of Reconstructing Iraq
Prof. Yosef Jabareen
This course is being offered in conjunction with the colloquium The Politics of Reconstructing Iraq, which is...
Economics Political Science Policy and Administration
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Planning in Transition Economies for Growth and Equity
Prof. Annette M. Kim
During the last fifteen years, nations across the globe embarked on a historic transformation away from centrally...
Urban Studies Economics Philosophy
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Targeting the Poor: Local Economic Development in Developing Countries
Prof. Judith Tendler
This course treats public-sector policies, programs, and projects that attempt to increase employment through...
Sociology Urban Studies Economics
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Leveraging Urban Mobility Disruptions to Create Better Cities
Prof. Pericles (Chris) Zegras
In this course, we explore how new mobility systems can be leveraged to promote equity, improve health outcomes, and...
Energy Built Environment Climate and Energy Policy
beginner
MIT OCW
free
Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions
Prof. Annette M. Kim
A truly inter-disciplinary course, Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions reviews how law, economics,...
Social Sciences Policy and Administration Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
International Environmental Negotiation
Prof. William Moomaw
This seminar will explore the difficulties of getting agreement on global definitions of sustainability; in...
Political Science Policy and Administration Environmental Engineering
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Springfield Studio
Prof. Ceasar McDowell
The Springfield Studio is a practicum design course that focuses on the physical, programmatic, and social renewal...
Sociology Urban Studies Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Brownfields Policy and Practice
James Hamilton
There are several hundred thousand Brownfield sites across the country. The large number of sites, combined with how...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Growth and Spatial Structure of Cities
Prof. Diane Davis
This course examines the economic, political, social, and spatial dynamics of urban growth and decline in cities and...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Special Studies in Urban Studies and Planning - The Cardener River Corridor Workshop
Prof. Eran Ben-Joseph
This landscape and environmental planning workshop investigates and propose a framework for the enhancement,...
Environmental Engineering Urban Studies Architecture
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Housing and Human Services
Prof. Langley Keyes
This class focuses on how the housing and human service systems interact: how networks and social capital can build...
Policy and Administration Sociology Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Development, Planning, and Implementation: The Dialectic of Theory and Practice
Prof. Bishwapriya Sanyal
This is an advanced graduate-level seminar that will analyze the effectiveness of development and planning theories...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Urbanization and Development
Dr. Daniel Esser
The course examines the causes and effects of rapid urbanization in developing countries. Using case studies from...
Humanities Policy and Administration Sociology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
A Sustainable Transportation Plan for MIT
Frederick Salvucci
This seminar-style class will focus on evaluating and recommending alternative commuter and business-related...
Adaptation and Resilience Climate Science Policy and Administration
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Malaysia Sustainable Cities Practicum
Prof. Lawrence Susskind
The Malaysia Sustainable Cities Practicum is an intensive field-based course that brings 15 graduate students to...
Climate and Energy Policy Geography Political Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Planning Communication
Prof. Deborah Kobes
This three-week module, centered on a focal case, represents the second part of the Department’s introduction to the...
Urban Studies Communication Sociology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Foshan China Workshop
Prof. Tunney Lee
This practicum focuses on applying the principles of sustainability to improve the quality of life and activity...
Urban Studies Economics Earth Science
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Gateway: Planning Action
Prof. Xavier de Souza Briggs
This course introduces incoming students in the Master in City Planning (MCP) program to the theory and history of...
Urban Studies Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Advanced Urban Public Finance: Collective Action and Provisions of Local Public Goods
Prof. Yu-Hung Hong
In analyzing fiscal issues, conventional public finance approaches focus mainly on taxation and public spending....
Economics Policy and Administration Sociology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Learning by Comparison: First World/Third World Cities
Dr. Aseem Inam
The primary purpose of this seminar is to enable students to craft approaches to so-called “First World”/ “Third...
Sociology Urban Studies International Development
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Citizen Participation, Community Development, and Urban Governance in the Developing World
Prof. Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Citizen participation is everywhere. Invoking it has become de rigueur when discussing cities and regions in the...
Policy and Administration Sociology Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Carrier Systems
Prof. Cynthia Barnhart
Carrier systems involve the design, operation and management of transportation networks, assets, personnel, freight...
Engineering Urban Studies Operations
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Revitalizing Urban Main Streets: Mission Hill & Egleston Square, Boston
Prof. Karl Seidman
Revitalizing Urban Main Streets focuses on the physical and economic renewal of urban neighborhood Main Streets by...
Policy and Administration Sociology Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Race, Immigration, and Planning
Prof. J. Phillip Thompson
This course provides an introduction to the issues of immigrants, planning, and race. It identifies the complexities...
Humanities Sociology Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Revitalizing Urban Main Streets: Hyde/Jackson Square & Roslindale Square, Boston
Prof. Karl Seidman
This course focuses on the physical and economic renewal of urban neighborhood Main Streets by combining classroom...
Urban Studies Economics Social Sciences
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Special Studies in Urban Studies and Planning: Economic Development Planning Skills
Prof. Karl Seidman
This intensive and brief 4-day seminar, taught during MIT’s Independent Activities Period in January, uses a case...
Sociology Urban Studies Economics
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Frameworks of Urban Governance
Prof. Deborah Kobes
Urban governance comprises the various forces, institutions, and movements that guide economic and physical...
Policy and Administration Urban Studies Economics
advanced
MIT OCW
free
The Sustainability Response to COVID-19
Jim Aloisi
This course explores the importance of public transportation to social and economic recovery from the COVID-19...
Climate and Energy Policy Urban Studies Public Health
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Revitalizing Urban Main Streets: St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans
Prof. Karl Seidman
This course focuses on the physical and economic renewal of urban neighborhood Main Streets by combining classroom...
Environmental Design Policy and Administration Sociology
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Imaging the City: The Place of Media in City Design and Development
Prof. Lawrence Vale
Kevin Lynch’s landmark volume, The Image of the City (1960), emphasized the perceptual characteristics of the urban...
Art, Design & Architecture Media Studies Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
City to City: Comparing, Researching and Writing about Cities: New Orleans
Cherie Miot Abbanat
City to City, as a class, will jump into the complexity of planning in New Orleans, a post-disaster city....
Urban Studies Social Sciences
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
CityScope: New Orleans
Cherie Miot Abbanat
Do you want to think about ways to help solve New Orleans’ problems? CityScope is a project-based introduction to...
Art, Design & Architecture Engineering Urban Studies
intermediate
MIT OCW
free
Katrina Practicum
Prof. Ceasar McDowell
In the wake of Katrina the entire gulf coast is embroiled in a struggle over what constitutes “appropriate”...
Policy and Administration Environmental Engineering Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Downtown Management Organizations
Prof. Lorlene Hoyt
This course focuses on the origins, functions, and implications of downtown management organizations (DMOs), such as...
Policy and Administration Sociology Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Feeding Cities in the Global South: Challenges and Opportunities for Action in Cartagena
Alejandro Guarín
The purpose of this seminar is to provide a context for understanding the challenges of urban food provisioning from...
Policy and Administration Supply Chain Urban Studies
advanced
MIT OCW
free
Urban Housing: Paris, London, New York
Prof. Michael Dennis
This class presents an analysis of the development of housing models and their urban implications in Paris, London,...
Urban Studies Social Sciences
advanced