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