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Calendar

SES # TOPICS
I. Reading the City
1 Overview: How Can Cities Be Read and Why?
2 Reading a City: Philadelphia
3 Reading the Past: Cities Upon Cities
4 Interpreting the Present, Imagining the Future
5 Guides to Reading Boston
6 Project Assignment #1 Due: Select a Site
7 Boston Sites: Prospectives
II. City and Region Over Time
8 The Historical Context: American Cities to 1830
9 The Historical Context: American Cities from 1830-1930
10 The Historical Context: American Cities from 1930-1990
11 Project Assignment #2 Due: Your Site Through Time
12 Boston Sites: What Patterns Emerged?
III. City and Nature: Natural Processes as Agents of Change
13 The Granite Garden: Boston, A Natural Environment Transformed
14 Air and Life
15 Earth and Water
16 Project Assignment #3 Due: Your Site and Natural Processes
17 Boston Sites: What Patterns Emerged?
IV. Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Envisioning and Shaping Future Cities
18 Community and Economic Development
19 Artifacts, Layers, Traces, and Trends
20 Project Assignment #4 Due: Artifacts, Layers, Traces, and Trends
21 Boston Sites: What Patterns Emerged?
22 Top-Down/Bottom-Up: Frameworks for Action
23 History as a Strategy for City Design and Development
24 Planning Sustainable Neighborhoods
V. Boston Sites: Where Have They Been, Where Are They Headed
25 Project Assignment #5 Due: Telling Your Site's Story
26 Presentation and Discussion of Sites
27 Presentation and Discussion of Sites
28 Presentation and Discussion of Sites
29 Presentation and Discussion of Sites