Browsing Urban Studies and Planning (11) - Archived by Title
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11.235 Analyzing Projects and Organizations, Spring 2008
(2008-06)Organizations and their programs often seem, at first glance, chaotic and without order. Students embarking on evaluations and similar research, therefore, feel perplexed when faced with a live organization. This is because ... -
11.235 Analyzing Projects and Organizations: How Organizations Behave, Fall 2006
(2006-12)Seminar builds analytic skills for evaluating programs and projects, organizations, and environments. Subject covers: using proxy indicators with poor data and limited time; preparing for, conducting, and interpreting ... -
11.237 / SP.660 Gender and Race, Work, and Public Policy, Spring 2005
(2005-06)This course provides an analytic framework for understanding the roles that gender and race play in defining the work worlds of women and men in our society, including ways in which gender intersects with race and class. ... -
11.255 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in the Public Sector, Spring 2005
(2005-06)This course investigates social conflict and distributional disputes in the public sector. While theoretical aspects of conflict are considered, the focus of the class is on the practice of dispute resolution. Comparisons ... -
11.301J / 4.252J Introduction to Urban Design and Development, Fall 2003
(2003-12)Examines both the structure of cities and ways they can be changed. Includes historical forces that have produced cities, models of urban analysis, contemporary theories of urban design, implementation strategies. Core ... -
11.301J / 4.252J Introduction to Urban Design and Development, Fall 2005
(2005-12)Examines both the structure of cities and ways they can be changed. Includes historical forces that have produced cities, models of urban analysis, contemporary theories of urban design, implementation strategies. Core ... -
11.301J / 4.252J Introduction to Urban Design and Development, Fall 2006
(2006-12)This course examines both the structure of cities and ways they can be changed. Its scope includes historical forces that have produced cities, models of urban analysis, contemporary theories of urban design, and implementation ... -
11.302J / 4.235J Urban Design Politics, Spring 2003
(2003-06)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 ... -
11.304J / 4.255J Site and Urban Systems Planning, Spring 2006
(2006-06)The planning of sites and the infrastructure systems which serve them. Site analysis, spatial organization of uses on sites, design of roadways and subdivision patterns, grading plans, utility systems, analysis of runoff, ... -
11.304J Site and Urban Systems Planning, Spring 2002
(2002-06)The planning of sites and the infrastructure systems which serve them. Site analysis, spatial organization of uses on sites, design of roadways and subdivision patterns, grading plans, utility systems, analysis of runoff, ... -
11.308J / 4.213J Advanced Seminar: Urban Nature and City Design, Fall 2005
(2005-12)This course explores the urban environment as a natural phenomenon, human habitat, medium of expression, and forum for action. The course has several major themes: how ideas of nature influence the way cities are perceived, ... -
11.309J / 4.215J Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry, Spring 2006
(2006-06)This course explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, of investigating landscapes and expressing ideas. Readings, observations, and photographs form the basis of discussions on landscape, light, significant ... -
11.328J / 4.240J Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City, Fall 2002
(2002-12)An introduction to the methods of recording, evaluating, and communicating about the urban environment. Through visual observation, field analysis, measurements, interviews, and other means, students learn to draw on their ... -
11.364 International Environmental Negotiation, Fall 2002
(2002-12)The class will explore the obstacles to achieving sustainability; in particular, the difficulties of managing common resources, achieving transboundary pollution control, making tradeoffs between economic and social ... -
11.380J / 1.252J / ESD.225J Urban Transportation Planning, Fall 2002
(2002-12)This class is an introduction to planning transportation in metropolitan areas. The approach, while rooted on the analytical tools which estimate outcomes and alternatives, is holistic. This means starting from ... -
11.384 / 11.385 / 11.386 Malaysia Sustainable Cities Practicum, Spring 2016
(2016-06)The Malaysia Sustainable Cities Practicum is an intensive field-based course that brings 15 graduate students to Malaysia to learn about and analyze sustainable city development in five cities in Malaysia.In the first part ... -
11.401 Introduction to Housing, Community and Economic Development, Fall 2004
(2004-12)This class explores how public policy and private markets affect housing, economic development, and the local economy. It provides an overview of techniques and specified programs, policies, and strategies that are (and ... -
11.422 Business Improvement Districts, Spring 2003
(2003-06)Focuses on the role of the business improvement district (BID) as a popular and contemporary tool for urban revitalization. Explores BID origins, theoretical underpinnings, enabling legislation, and organizational issues. ... -
11.431J / 15.426J Real Estate Finance and Investment, Fall 2002
(2002-12)Concepts and techniques for analyzing financial decisions in property development and investment. Topics: leasing and property income streams, pro forma analysis, equity valuation, tax analysis, options, risk, and the ... -
11.432J / 15.427J Real Estate Finance & Investments II: Macro-Level Analysis & Advanced Topics, Spring 2003
(2003-06)The evolving organization and operation of real estate capital markets. Sources of real estate capital. Primary and secondary mortgage markets. The investment behavior of real estate assets. The development of REITs and ...