Class will generally meet Wednesday, 6:05 - 8:00 PM in Room 9-451. Guest speakers will present either during the Wednesday evening slot or occassionally during other time slots (most likely lunchtime and, on occasion, during the Fall 2012 PhD workshop, Wed., 12:30 - 2:00, in the same room):
This list of 11.522 presentations will be updated as student-led sessions are scheduled. Note: Some of these web links are not world readable so browser access is 'forbidden.' To access them, you need to be on the 11.522 mailing list and use your MIT email ID together with OpenAFS or sftp. Note that http://mit.edu/11.522/www/ is the same location as: \\afs\athena.mit.edu\course\11\11.522\www
| 5-Sept |
- Overview of current UIS projects, recent theses, and UIS-related General Exams
- Introduction and selection of focus areas and class presentations
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| 12-Sept |
- Discussion of recent JAPA article: Echinique, et al., "Growing Cities Sustainably: Does Urban Form Really matter?" JAPA, Vol. 78:2 (2012), :pp 121-137. )
- Related discussion on PLANET listserv for Planning Academics
- See web links from the 11.522 'Resources' webpage
- Added for post-class exploration: spreadsheets for the simple 'bank loan,' 'population projection,' and 'Lowry' models are available in the 'simple models' folder.
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| 19-Sept |
- Evolution of urban models
- Current use in urban and regional planning
- Impacts of GIS, web services, urban information infrastructure, crowdsourcing
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| 26-Sept |
- Student-led discussion, part 1: Rob Goodspeed,
- Topic Brief: Metropolitan Infrastructures for Participatory Spatial Planning
- Articles to read (see: ./11522/www/discusion_notes and on Stellar)
- Moore_Article.pdf : Moore, T. (2008), "Planning Support Systems: What are Practicing Planners Looking For?" Chapter 11 in Planning Support Systems for Cities and Regions, R. Brail editor, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, ISBN 978-1-55844-182-8.
- Lincoln_2027_1352_OpeningAccess_to_ScenarioPlanningTools.pdf : Jim Holway, C.J. Gabbe, Frank Hebbert, Jason Lally, Robert Matthews, and Ray Quay (2012), "Opening Access to Scenario Planning tools," Policy Focus Report or Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA.
- Lincoln report is also online here: https://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/dl/2027_1352_Opening%20Access%20to%20Scenario%20Planning%20Tools.pdf
- Student-led discussion, part 2: Shan Jiang
- Topic Brief: Paradigm Shifts in Urban Policies and Land-Use Transport Models
- Articles to read (see: ./11522/www/discusion_notes and on Stellar)
- Due to time constraints, read the Bhat article, skim Wegener, and focus on Shiftan’s 2011 article.
- Bhat, C. R. & F. S. Koppelman. (1999). Activity-Based Modeling of Travel Demand. In The Handbook of Transportation Science, ed. R. W. Hall, 35-61. Norwell, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Wegener, M. (2004). Overview of Land-Use Transport Models. In Handbook of transport geography and spatial systems, eds. D. A. Hensher, K. J. Button , K. E. Haynes & P. R. Stopher, 127-146. Pergamon/Elsevier Science.
- Shiftan, Y. & M. Ben-Akiva. (2011). A practical policy-sensitive, activity-based, travel-demand model. The Annals of Regional Science, 47, 517-541.
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| 3-Oct |
- no class (URISA conference); individual meetings on literature review and research
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| 10-Oct |
- Guest Lecture: Dr. Fabio Carrera (DUSP, 2004), "Implementing City Knowledge"
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| 16-Oct |
Extra session: (12 noon - 2 pm, in Room 9-250)
- Student-led discussion, part 1: Yi Zhu
- Topic Brief:: Data Visualization for Urban Planning and Modeling
- Articles to read (see: ./11522/www/discusion_notes and on Stellar)
- Due to time constraints, focus on reading the Keim and Batty/Steadman/Xie papers
- Keim, D. et al. (2008), "Visual Analytics: Definition, Process, and Challenges," Information Visualization, LNCS 4950, (Springer-Verlag) pp. 154–175.
- Batty, M. P. Steadman, P. and Xie, Y. (2006), "Visualization in Spatial Modeling,"
In J. Portugali (ed.) Complex Artificial Environments, Springer, Berlin, 49-70; also available here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/q041257h07878107/
- Cheshire, J., M. Batty, "Visualisation Tools for Understanding Big Data," editorial, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 2012, volume 39, pages 413 – 415.
- Student-led discussion, part 2: Roberto Ponce Lopez
- Topic Brief: Agent Based Models of Residential Segregation
- Articles to read (see: ./11522/www/discusion_notes and on Stellar)
- Crooks A.T. (2010), "Constructing and Implementing and Agent-Based Model of Segregation through Vector GIS," IJGIS, Vol. 24, No. 5, May 2010, 661-675.
- Schelling, T (1971)., "Dynamic Models of Segregation," J. of Mathematical Sociology, Vol. 1, pp 143-186.
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| 17-Oct |
- Student-led discussion, part 1: Jingsi Xu
- Topic Brief:: Linking Built Environment to Travel Behavior
- Articles to read (see: ./11522/www/discusion_notes and on Stellar)
- Due to time constraints, focus on reading the Crane and Mokhtarian papers
- Crane, R (2000)., "The Influence of Urban Form on Travel: An Interpretive Review," J. Planning Literature, v.15, No. 1.
- Mokhtarian, P., X. Cao (2008), "Examining the Impacts of Residential Self-Selection of Travel Behavior: A focus on methodologies," Transportation Research Part B, v. 42, pp. 204-228.
- Handy, S. (2006), "Self-Selection in the Relationship between the Built Environment and Walking: Empirical Evidence from Northern California," JAPA, v. 72, pp. 55-74.
- Student-led discussion, part 2: Jihoon Song
- Topic Brief:: Accessibility to Urban Open Spaces: How to Measure It?
- Articles to read (see: ./11522/www/discusion_notes and on Stellar)
- Due to time constraints, focus on reading the Handy and Talen papers
- Handy, S. (1997), "Measuring Accessibility: an exploration of issues and alternatives," Environment and Planning, Part A, Vol 29, pp 1175-1194.
- Talen, E. (1998), "Visualizing Fairness: Equity Maps for Planners," JAPA, Vol 64:1, pp. 22-38.
- Dalvi, M.Q., and K.M. Martin (1876), "The Measurement of Accessibility: Some Preliminary Results," Transportation, Vol. 5, pp. 17-42.
- Tsou, K., Y. Hung and Y. Chang (2005), "An Accessibility-based Integrated Measure of Relative Spatial Equity in Urban Public Facilities," Cities, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 424-435.
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| 24-Oct |
- Student-led discussion: Veronica Hannan
- Topic Brief:: "Factor Analysis and Defining Place"
- Articles to read (see: ./11522/www/discusion_notes and on Stellar)
- Focus on the first two readings
- Cervero, R. and K. Kockelman (1997), "Travel demand and the 3Ds: density, diversity, and design,"
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and the Environment, 2(3):199{219.
- Wall, M., Nicole Larson, Ann Forsyth, David Van Riper, Dan Graham, Mary Story, and Di-
anne Neumark-Sztainer (2012), "Patterns of Obesogenic Neighborhoods Features and Adolescent Weight, "
American Journal of Preventative Medicine, 42(5):65{75.
- Frenkel, A., Edward Bendit, and Sgial Kaplan (2012), "The linkage between the lifestyle of knowledge-
workers and their intra-metropolitan residential choice: A clustering approach based on self-
organizing maps," Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, (in press), online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2012.09.001
- Srinivasan, S. (2000), "Linking land use and transportation : measuring the impact of neighborhood-
scale spatial patterns on travel behavior," Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Urban Studies
and Planning, PhD Dissertation: http://mit.dspace.org/handle/1721.1/70335?show=full
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| 30-Oct |
Extra session: Tuesday evening, 6:00 - 8:00 pm: ACSP Talks - dress rehersals
- Rob Goodspeed, "Computer Modeling for Social Learning in Land Use Planning"
- Shan Jiang, "A Tale of Two Cities: In Search of Spatiotemporal Patterns of Human Activities,"
- Jingsi Xu, "The Impact of neighborhood-Level Built-Environment Characteristics on Vehicle Miles Travelled: A Case Study of Metro-Boston"
- Yi Zhu, "Bicycle Sharing in Chinese Cities: Current States and Operational Challenges"
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| 31-Oct |
- no class (ACSP conference)
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| 7-Nov |
- Student-led discussion: Szu-han Albert Chen
- Student-led discussion: ChengHe Guan
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| 14-Nov |
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| 21-Nov |
- no class (Thanksgiving eve)
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| 28-Nov |
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| 5-Dec |
- Final Project Presentations
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| 12-Dec |
- Final Project Presentations
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