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11.001J Introduction to Urban Design and Development ( ) (Same subject as 4.250J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 URL: http://architecture.mit.edu/subjects/fa08/4250.html Examines the evolving structure of cities and the way that cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas can be designed and developed. Boston and other American cities studied to see how physical, social, political and economic forces interact to shape and reshape cities over time. S. Silberberg-Robinson
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11.002J Making Public Policy ( ) (Same subject as 17.30J ) Prereq: None Units: 4-0-8 URL: http://web.mit.edu/17.30j/www/ You must enter the HASS-D lottery to take this subject. Lecture: TR11-12.30 ( 32-141 ) Recitation: R EVE (7 PM) ( 2-146 ) or R EVE (8 PM) ( 2-146 ) or R EVE (7 PM) ( 2-147 ) or R EVE (8 PM) ( 2-147 ) or F10 ( 2-146 ) or F11 ( 2-146 ) Examines how the struggle among competing advocates shapes the outputs of government. Considers how conditions become problems for government to solve, why some political arguments are more persuasive than others, why some policy tools are preferred over others, and whether policies achieve their goals. Investigates the interactions among elected officials, think tanks, interest groups, the media, and the public in controversies over global warming, urban sprawl, Social Security, health care, education, and other issues. more information ... J. Layzer, A. Campbell
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11.003J Methods of Policy Analysis ( ) (Same subject as 17.303J ) Prereq: 11.002J , 17.30J , Coreq: 14.01 Units: 3-0-9 Provides students with an introduction to public policy analysis. Examines various approaches to policy analysis by considering the concepts, tools, and methods used in economics, political science, and other disciplines. Students apply and critique these approaches through case studies of current public policy problems. Staff
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11.004J CityScope ( ) (Same subject as 4.001J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Project-based introduction to the contemporary city as a complex system within a context of limited resources and competing interests. Learn to assess scenarios for the purpose of formulating social, economic and design strategies that provide optimized solutions that are humane and sustainable. Group projects develop and advocate visions for housing, urban planning, regeneration of natural ecologies and other sectors of the city. Travel may be involved that will be funded, but not required. Includes exercises in written and oral communication and team building. Limited to 15 participants. Preference to freshmen. J. Fernandez, P. Thompson
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11.005 Introduction to International Development ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Introduction to ideas and institutions in international development using a quantitative approach. Explores why some poor countries are able to develop faster than others. Topics include planning challenges and models, foreign constraints on policy rights, stakeholders, and building sustainability into planning. A. Amsden
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11.011 The Art and Science of Negotiation ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 An introduction to bargaining and negotiation in public, business, and legal settings. Combines a "hands-on" skill-building orientation with a look at pertinent social theory. Strategy, communications, ethics, and institutional influences are examined as they influence the ability of actors to analyze problems, negotiate agreements, and resolve disputes in social, organizational, and political circumstances characterized by interdependent interests. L. Susskind
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11.012J The Ancient City ( ) (Same subject as 21H.405J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Subject Cancelled Historical topography of the Greek and Roman city. Investigates the relationship between urban architecture and the political, social, and economic role of cities in the Greek and Roman world. Analyzes a range of archaeological and literary evidence relevant to the use of space in Greek and Roman cities (Athens, Paestum, Rome, and Pompeii). Subjects of detailed study include the sanctuary of Athena on the Athenian Acropolis, the atrium houses of Roman Pompeii, the Athenian Agora and the Roman Forum, feeding the ancient city, and the great bath complexes of Imperial Rome. W. Broadhead
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11.013J American Urban History I ( ) (Same subject as 21H.231J ) Prereq: None Units: 2-0-7 Seminar on the history of institutions and institutional change in American cities from roughly 1850 to the present. Among the institutions to be looked at are political machines, police departments, courts, schools, prisons, public autorities, and universities. Focuses on readings and discussions. R. M. Fogelson
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11.014J American Urban History II ( ) (Same subject as 21H.232J ) Prereq: None Units: 2-0-7 Lecture: W3-5 ( 10-401 ) Seminar on the history of selected features of the physical environment of urban America. Among the features considered are parks, cemeteries, tenements, suburbs, zoos, skyscrapers, department stores, supermarkets, and amusement parks. Focuses on readings and discussions. R. M. Fogelson
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11.015J Riots, Strikes, and Conspiracies in American History ( ) (Same subject as 21H.104J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 You must enter the HASS-D lottery to take this subject. Lecture: TR2-3.30 ( 4-253 ) Readings and discussions focusing on a series of short-term events that shed light on American politics, culture, and social organization. Events studied include the Boston Tea Party of 1773; the crisis at Boston over the case of Anthony Burns, an escaped slave, in 1854; the Homestead strike of 1892; and the student uprisings at Columbia University in 1968. Emphasis on finding ways to make sense of these complicated, highly traumatic events, and on using them to understand larger processes of change in American history. more information ... P. Maier, R. M. Fogelson
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11.016J The Once and Future City ( ) (Same subject as 4.211J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Examines the evolving structure of cities, the dynamic processes that shape them, and the significance of a city's history for its future development. Develops the ability to read urban form as an interplay of natural processes and human purposes over time. Field assignments in Boston provide the opportunity to use, develop, and refine these concepts. Enrollment limited. A. Spirn
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11.019J Migration and Immigration in US History ( ) (Same subject as 21H.221J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Examines the history of the United States as a "nation of immigrants" within a broader global context. Considers migration from the mid-19th century to the present through case studies of such places as New York's Lower East Side, South Texas, Florida, and San Francisco's Chinatown. Examines the role of memory, media, and popular culture in shaping ideas about migration. Includes optional field trip to New York City. C. Capozzola
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11.020 Poverty, Public Policy, and Controversy ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Introductory subject to the study of poverty, a persistent controversial issue in the United States, viewed from an international perspective. Focus on how society should respond to poverty, race, and the related issues of the politics of welfare, out-of-wedlock births, homelessness, crime, and drugs. Investigates how particular research findings are brought to controversies. Examines knowledge about poverty and community empowerment from social science research, and how this knowledge is incorporated into public discourse and politics. Experience of other countries is introduced to make explicit the assumptions on which American approaches to poverty are based. Consult Department Headquarters
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11.021J Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Pollution Prevention and Control ( ) (Same subject as 1.801J , 17.393J ) (Subject meets with 1.811J , 11.630J , ESD.133J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Lecture: TR4 ( E51-057 ) Recitation: TBA +final Introduction to important issues in contemporary environmental law, policy, and economics. Discusses the roles and interactions of Congress, federal agencies, state governments, and the courts in dealing with environmental problems. Topics include common law, administrative law, environmental impact assessments required by the National Environmental Policy Act, and legislation and court decisions dealing with air pollution, water pollution, the control of hazardous waste, pollution and accident prevention, community right-to-know, and environmental justice. Explores the role of science and economics in legal decisions, and economic incentives as an alternative or supplement to regulation. Analyzes pollution as an economic problem and a failure of markets. Introduction to basic legal skills: how to read and understand cases, regulation, and statutes; how to discover the current state of the law in a specific area; and how to take action toward resolution of environmental problems. N. Ashford, C. Caldart
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11.022J Regulation of Chemicals, Radiation, and Biotechnology ( ) (Same subject as 1.802J ) (Subject meets with 1.812J , 11.631J , ESD.134J ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Focuses on policy design and evaluation in the regulation of hazardous substances and processes. Includes risk assessment, industrial chemicals, pesticides, food contaminants, pharmaceuticals, radiation and radioactive wastes, product safety, workplace hazards, indoor air pollution, biotechnology, victims' compensation, and administrative law. Health and economic consequences of regulation, as well as its potential to spur technological change, are discussed for each regulatory regime. N. Ashford, C. Caldart
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11.023 Bridging Cultural and Racial Differences ( ) Prereq: None Units: 4-0-8 Explores cultural and racial stereotypes to increase understanding and appreciation of differences. Emphasis on developing techniques for conflict resolution in a more diversified America in the next century. Attention to economic status, residential segregation, education, political participation, and crime through current readings, films/videos, and guest speakers. C. G. Williams
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11.024 Great Cities ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-6 Seminar that explores the attributes of cities that are described by a variety of sources, including members of the class, as "great cities." Class concerns a variety of criteria that have been, or might be, used to ascribe greatness to cities, such as attractiveness, quality of life, and richness of opportunity, and examines the consistency and/or contradictory evidence in judgments about cities. J. P. de Monchaux
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11.025J D-Lab: Development ( ) (Same subject as SP.721J ) (Subject meets with 11.472 ) Prereq: None Units: 3-2-7 Compulsory: 1st Mtg Sept 8 3.30-5 Pm Lecture: MW3.30-5 ( 4-153 ) Recitation: F3.30-5 ( 4-153 ) Issues in international development, appropriate technology and project implementation addressed through lectures, case studies, guest speakers and laboratory exercises. Students form project teams to partner with community organizations in developing countries, and formulate plans for an optional IAP site visit. (Previous field sites include Ghana, Brazil, Honduras and India.) Recitation sections focus on specific project implementation, and include cultural, social, political, environmental and economic overviews of the target countries as well as an introduction to the local languages. Enrollment limited by lottery; must attend first class session. A. B. Smith, B. Sanyal
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11.026J Downtown ( ) (Same subject as 21H.234J ) (Subject meets with 11.339 ) Prereq: None Units: 2-0-7 Seminar on downtown in US cities from the late 19th century to the late 20th. Emphasis on downtown as an idea, place, and cluster of interests, on the changing character of downtown, and on recent efforts to rebuild it. Considers subways, skyscrapers, highways, urban renewal, and retail centers. Focus on readings, discussions, and individual research projects. Meets with graduate subject 11.339, but assignments differ. R. M. Fogelson
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11.027 City to City: Comparing, Researching and Writing about Cities ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Introduction to research in urban planning. Study a domestic and a foreign city, focussing on a planning issue common to both. Develop a research question; create a research strategy; interview faculty and other field experts; write and present findings to US and international audiences. Students encouraged to visit one of the study cities for research. Enrollment limited to 10. C. Abbanat
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11.122 Society and Environment ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Examines environmental policy and planning from a societal perspective, with a focus on the sociopolitical contexts through which individuals and organizations influence environmental decision making. Topics include environmental values, environmental movements and mobilization, environmental justice, risk perception and communication, and collaborative environmental planning. J. Carmin
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11.123 Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-6 Explores the physical, ecological, technological, political, economic and cultural implications of big plans and mega-urban landscapes in a global context. Uses local and international case studies (such as Boston's Central Artery and Rose Kennedy Greenway, the Pontine Marshes in Italy, and Emscher Park in Germany) to understand the process of making major changes to urban landscape and city fabric, and to regional landscape systems. Includes lectures by leading practitioners. Assignments consider planning and design strategies across multiple scales and time frames. A. Berger
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11.124 Introduction to Education: Looking Forward and Looking Back on Education ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-6-3 Lecture: TR2.30-4 ( 1-150 ) One of two introductory subjects on teaching and learning science and mathematics in a variety of K-12 settings. Topics include education and media, education reform, the history of education, simulations, games, and the digital divide. Students gain practical experience through weekly visits to schools, classroom discussions, selected readings, and activities to develop a critical and broad understanding of past and current forces that shape the goals and processes of education, and explores the challenges and opportunities of teaching. Students work collaboratively and individually on papers, projects, and in-class presentations. E. Klopfer
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11.125 Introduction to Education: Understanding and Evaluating Education ( ) Prereq: None Units: 3-6-3 One of two introductory subjects on teaching and learning science and mathematics in a variety of K-12 settings. Topics include student misconceptions, formative assessment, standards and standardized testing, multiple intelligences, and educational technology. Students gain practical experience through weekly visits to schools, classroom discussions, selected readings, and activities to develop a critical and broad understanding of past and current forces that shape the goals and processes of education, and explores the challenges and opportunities of teaching. Students work collaboratively and individually on papers, projects, and in-class presentations. E. Klopfer
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11.126J Economics of Education ( ) (Same subject as 14.48J ) (Subject meets with 11.249 ) Prereq: 14.01 Units: 4-0-8 Discusses the economic aspects of current issues in education, using both economic theory and econometric and institutional readings. Topics include discussion of basic human capital theory; the growing impact of education on earnings and earnings inequality; statistical issues in determining the true rate of return to education; the labor market for teachers, implications of the impact of computers on the demand for worker skills; the effectiveness of mid-career training for adult workers; the roles of school choice, charter schools, state standards and educational technology in improving K-12 education, and the issue of college financial aid. F. Levy
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