Class will generally meet Monday, 6:05 - 8:00 PM in Room 9-451. Guest speakers will present either during the Monday evening slot or occassionally during other time slots (most likely lunchtime and, on occasion, during the Fall 2015 PhD workshop, Wed., 12:30 - 2:00):
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.' Restricted access materials are available on the class Stellar site: https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/11/fa15/11.522/index.html Alternatively, to access them from machines supporting AFS, you need to be on the 11.522 mailing list and use your MIT email ID together with OpenAFS or sftp. Note that the course homepage: http://mit.edu/11.522/www/ is the same location as: \\afs\athena.mit.edu\course\11\11.522\www
| 14-Sept |
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| 21-Sept |
- Discussion of 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
- Extension of bank loan spreadsheet for 'population projection' and urban modeling
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| 28-Sept |
- Evolution of urban models and current challenges: Joe Ferreira
- Additoinal discussion
- Current use of urban models in urban and regional planning
- Impacts of GIS, web services, urban information infrastructure, crowdsourcing
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| 5-Oct |
- Student-led discussion, Part 1: Jingsi Shaw
- Student-led discussion, Part 2: Roberto Ponce Lopez
- Topic Brief: Studying the Linkage between Local Labor Markets, Urban Form and Social Stratification
- Articles to read (see: ./11.522/www/discussion_notes/papers and on Stellar)
- Bertaud, Alain "The Spatial Organization of Cities: Deliberate Outcome or Unforeseen Consequence," Background Paper to World Development Report" (2003).
- Zhong, Chen, Stefan Müller Arisona, Xianfeng Huang, and Gerhard Schmitt. "Identifying spatial structure of urban functional centers using travel survey data: a case study of Singapore." In Proceedings of The First ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Models of Place, pp. 28-33 (2013).
- Lambert, Paul, and Mark Birkin. "Occupation, education and social inequalities: a case study linking survey data sources to an urban microsimulation analysis." In Employment Location in Cities and Regions, pp. 203-222. Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2013).
- Supplementary (optional) articles:
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| 13-Oct |
Tuesday session since Monday, Oct. 12, is a holiday
- Student-led discussion, part 1: Rida Qadri
- Topic Brief: Spatial Analysis of Informal Economic Systems
- Articles to read (see: ./11.522/www/discussion_notes/papers and on Stellar)
(For the Annette Kim article, please note that I have made annotations indicating which parts of the paper are more or less important for today's discussion. If you are interested in Annette’s fascinating work, please go ahead and read the other parts but they are not as crucial for understanding the methodology she uses.)
- Student-led discussion, part 2: Laura Wainer
- Topic Brief: Spatial Analysis of Informal Economic Systems
- Articles to read (see: ./11.522/www/discussion_notes/papers and on Stellar)
- The study on which I based my analysis:
Bertaud, A., & Malpezzi, S. (1999). The spatial distribution of population in 35 World Cities: the role of markets, planning and topography. The Center for urban land and economic research, The University of Wisconsin.
- A paper that reviews mobility and labor dynamics in Cape Town.
Lall, S. V., Brink, R. V. D., Dasgupta, B., & Leresche, K. M. (2012). Shelter from the storm--but disconnected from jobs: lessons from urban South Africa on the importance of coordinating housing and transport policies. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, (6173).
- A paper that discusses the density models and urban structures in informal economies
Kahimbaara, J. A. (1986). The population density gradient and the spatial structure of a third world city: Nairobi, a case study. Urban Studies, 23(4), 307-322.
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| 19-Oct |
- Student-led discussion (continued): Laura Wainer
- see notes and readings from Oct. 13
- Student-led discussion, part 1: Philip Kreycik
- Topic Brief: Policy Implications of Variable Gas Price Elasticities
- Articles to read (see: ./11.522/www/discussion_notes/papers and on Stellar)
- Cambridge Systematics. "Moving Cooler: An Analysis of Transportation Strategies for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions." Urban Land Institute, 2009.
- (skim) Ewing, Reid H., and Robert Cervero. "Travel And The Built Environment: A Meta-Analysis." Journal Of The American Planning Association 76.3 (2010): 265-294.
- Wang, Tingting, and Cynthia Chen. "Impact Of Fuel Price On Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT): Do The Poor Respond In The Same Way As The Rich?." Transportation 41.1 (2014): 91-105.
- Gillingham, Kenneth, Alan Jenn, and Ines Lima Azevedo. "Heterogeneity in the Response to Gasoline Prices: Evidence from Pennsylvania and Implications for the Rebound Effect." Forthcoming in Energy Economics. 2015.
- (optional) Hughes, Jonathan E., Christopher R. Knittel, and Daniel Sperling. Evidence Of A Shift In The Short-Run Price Elasticity Of Gasoline Demand. n.p.: Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, c2006.
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26-Oct |
- General discussion: Progress on individual projects and retrospective on Seminars to date:
- Roundtable update on individual projects (topic, data, tools, issues)
- Comparing and contrasting notions of
- Planning support systems
- Public data, and
- Urban information infrastructure
- Student-led discussion: Jeff Rosenblum
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| 2-Nov |
- Student led discussion (continued): Jeff Rosenblum
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| 9-Nov |
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| 16-Nov |
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| 23-Nov |
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| 30-Nov |
- Final Project Presentations
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| 7-Dec |
- Final Project Presentations
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