11.302J / 4.235J Urban Design Politics, Spring 2003
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Author(s)
Vale, Lawrence
Alternative Title
Urban Design Politics
Date Issued
June 2003
Abstract
This is a seminar about the ways that urban design contributes to the distribution of political power and resources in cities. "Design," in this view, is not some value-neutral aesthetic applied to efforts at urban development but is, instead, an integral part of the motives driving that development. The class investigates the nature of the relations between built form and political purposes through close examination of a wide variety of situations where public and private sector design commissions and planning processes have been clearly motivated by political pressures, as well as situations where the political assumptions have remained more tacit. We will explore cases from both developed and developing countries.
Subjects
urban design
urban politics
design politics
political extremes
urban resilience
public housing
architecture
political values
aesthetics
gender politics
power
capitol design
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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