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Lecture Notes

Each lecture contains a sampling of the images presented in that lecture, and a list of topics covered. In each lecture, clicking on the thumbnail will bring up a larger version of the image. Unless otherwise noted, all images are by the faculty or in the public domain. All are used with permission.

Lecture 1: Ways of Seeing the City
Lecture 2: Forces that made Boston
Lecture 3: Design of American Cities
Lecture 4: Urban Design and the American Workplace
Lecture 5: Development Controls and Planning
Lecture 6: Three Urban Utopias
Lecture 7: New Towns
Lecture 8: Suburbs
Lecture 9: New Urbanism / Neo-traditionalism
Lecture 10: Capital Cities
Lecture 11: Regional Planning / Changes in Metropolitan Form
Lecture 12: Urban Renewal
Lecture 13: Public Housing
Lecture 14: Privatized Public Space
Lecture 15: Alternatives to New Urbanism
Lecture 16: Community Activism

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