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11.301J Urban Design & Development

FALL 1999

MIT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING

11.301J/4.252J: URBAN DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

M-W 1:00-2:30; Room: W31-310 (CRE Lecture Hall)

Prof. Dennis Frenchman (Office: 10-485; 253-8847, 451-3333, dennisf@mit.edu)

Instructor: Amy Brown (868-9760, amyb@mit.edu)

TA: Byron Stigge (253-7628, biron@mit.edu)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This subject introduces graduate students to ideas about the form of cities and how they are designed and developed. The subject is organized into two parts:

Part 1 explores the Forces which act to shape and to change cities. Starting with Boston and the American city as a reference, we will examine key forces affecting contemporary urban development including: The market, social forces, public development, regulation of private development, and incentives to encourage good design. Finally we will consider how cities define a vision for their future and how these are articulated in plans and proposals. Lectures will be supplemented by guest presentations, case studies and field trips.

Part 2 surveys Models of urban design which have been invented in response to forces acting on cities. We will discuss the evolution of each model and its current impact on design and development in cities worldwide, located in Great Britain, Italy, China, and elsewhere. Included are notions about the Traditional City, the city as a Work of Art, the Efficient City, the Garden City, the Secure City, the Information City, and the Virtual City. The application of each model will be illustrated in case studies and guest presentations.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Work for the class will include readings, class discussions, and two papers, relating to the two units of the course. Approximately 75% of your grade will be based upon the two papers and 25% on participation in class. Readings provide background for class lectures and are also intended to expose students to the ideas of key urban design theorists, past and present, on the topics presented. All readings will be included in a reader, which will be available for purchase shortly after the start of the class and also on reserve in Rotch Library. Please complete all required readings in advance of each class.

FALL 1999

MIT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING

11.301J/4.252J: URBAN DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

SYLLABUS AND SCHEDULE

1. Wed. INTRODUCTION: Can cities be designed? Course structure and objectives.

Sept. 8

David Gosling and Barry Maitland. "The Nature of the Problem," Concepts of Urban Design (London: Academy Eds. 1984). pp. 9-24.

PART 1: FORCES AFFECTING URBAN DEVELOPMENT

2. Mon. VIEWPOINTS ON THE CITY: How are cities understood? City themes

Sept. 13 and city culture. Representations of cities as examples of viewpoints. The idea of imaging a city from the viewpoint of its inhabitants: Kevin Lynch. Lowell, MA as an example in changing the viewpoint on a city.

Grady Clay. "Introduction, Word Game, Fixes," Close Up (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980). pp. 11-37.

J. B. Jackson. "The Strangers Path," Landscapes (Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 1952). pp. 92-106.

Kevin Lynch. "City Image and Its Elements," Image of the City (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1960). pp. 46-90.

EXERCISE 1 DISTRIBUTED

3. Wed. THE FORCES THAT MADE BOSTON: How does a city grow? The city

Sept. 15 viewed in time as a process of cultural evolution. The recursive nature of form. How underlying forces are given form through design. Boston as an example of forces acting on the city and models of design applied to resolve them.

Walter Muir Whitehill. Boston: A Topographical History (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1975). On reserve in Rotch Library; entire book is a general reference for Exercise 1.

Kevin Lynch. "Form Values in Urban History," A Theory of Good City Form (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984). pp. 5-36.

4. Sat. WALKING TOUR OF BOSTON: 9:00AM - 12:15PM. Meet at the John

Sept. 18 Hancock Building Observatory Lobby (ground floor). We will conclude the tour with lunch in the North End.

5. Mon. THE MARKET: The City viewed as a business. Land use, land value and

Sept. 20 urban development. Understanding how uses are located: the bid rent curve; cities as central places. Functional patterns of market and form: concentric zones, sectors, nodes. Evolution of the patterns -- from the walkable city to edge city.

Richard Morrill. "The Urban System and Urban Structure," The Spatial Organization of Society (North Scituate, MA: Duxbury Press, 1974). pp. 155-174.

6. Wed. SOCIAL FORCES: The city from the viewpoint of those who live there.

Sept. 22 The dynamics of neighborhoods, class association and form. People and places: Dudley Street Initiative, Roxbury.

Jane Jacobs. "The Uses of City Neighborhoods," The Death and Life of Great American Cities. pp. 112-140.

Holly Sklar. "Creating a Sustainable Urban Village: The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative" and "Real Insurance," Orion, Vol 15, no 4, Autumn, 1996. pp. 28-38.

IDENTIFY PLACE FOR EXERCISE 1

7. Mon . CASE STUDY: BOSTON'S WEST END

Sept. 27 The power of a place. Guest: James Campano, Editor, The West Ender.

Herbert Gans. "The West End: An Urban Village" and "Redevelopment of the West End," The Urban Villagers (New York: London Free Press, 1982). pp. 3-41, 281-304.

Newsclips on Lowell Square Project (various sources), 1996-7.

The West Ender (newspaper of former residents; distributed in Class)

8. Wed. THE PUBLIC WILL. The city viewed by those in power. Public

Sept. 29 development and its arenas: Infrastructure, redevelopment and housing. How is public development financed and carried out? City form as a political response to problems: from Haussmann, to Robert Moses and Nelson Rockefeller.

Anthony Sutcliffe. "Grand Design," The Autumn of Central Paris (London: Edward Arnold, 1970). pp. 11-42.

Robert Caro. "The Warp On the Loom," The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (New York: Knopf, 1974). pp. 615-636.

John Tierney. "This Years Model," NY Times Magazine, Aug. 7, 1994

9. Mon. THE PUBLIC WISH. Balancing the public viewpoint and private rights.

Oct. 4 Regulation of private development: Zoning and incentives to influence what the market would otherwise provide. Evolution of land use control efforts to shape the "good" city; protect scarce resources. Zoning and the form of New York City, from Hugh Ferris to Battery Park City.

Jonathan Barnett, "Designing Cities Without Designing Buildings," An Introduction to Urban Design (New York: Harper and Row, 1982). pp. 57-97.

Francis P. Russell. "Battery Park City: An American Dream of Urbanism," Design Review: Challenging American Urban Aesthetic Control (New York: Chapman & Hall, 1994). pp. 197-209.

10. Tues. DISCUSSION SESSION (in sections; optional). Do you agree with

Oct. 5 Jonathan Barnett that we can design cities without designing buildings? Come

prepared with a point for discussion. Meet at 6:00 PM, 10-485.

11. Wed. CASE STUDY: SHAPING PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT / CAMBRIDGE Oct. 6 GROWTH MANAGEMENT Guest: Philip Herr, Philip B. Herr and Associates, Inc., community and regional planning consultant.

Martin Jaffee, AICP. "Performance Zoning A Reassessment," Land Use Law and Zoning Digest, Vol. 45, no. 3, March, 1993. pp 3-9.

Other readings to be distributed.

12. Wed. PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS. The entrepreneur's view. Mixing

Oct. 13 public and private interests. Revitalizing downtowns with new incentives, formulas for development, and types of projects. Mixed use: from the festival marketplace to urban waterfronts.

Bernard Frieden and Lynne Sagalyn, "Entrepreneurial Cities and Maverick Developers, Deal Making, Getting and Spending, Downtown, Inc. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990), pp. 107-154.

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Tridib Banerjee. Urban Design Downtown (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1998), pp. 103-148

13. Mon. FIELD VISIT: BOSTON REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. Meet at

Oct. 18 BRA offices, top floor Boston City Hall, Model Room. 12:45-1:45PM.

Readings for next two sessions.

Robert Cambell. "Waterfront Sprawl: The City's 'Master Plan' Should Go Back to the Drawing Board," Boston Globe, January 11, 1998; "Human Scale Is a Huge Issue In Boston's New Seaport District," Boston Globe, July 19, 1998.

Boston Redevelopment Authority, Seaport Public Realm Plan (Boston, 1999).

On reserve in Rotch Library

14. Wed. VISIONS. The city as viewed from the future. Types of plans and plan-makers.

Oct. 20 The planning process. The role of urban design projections in shaping city form and function: Who are the visionaries and where do their ideas come from? New themes and visions for Boston: South Boston and the Waterfront.

EXERCISE 1 DUE

15. Sat. WALKING TOUR OF PROVIDENCE / WATERFIRE. Leave Boston 3PM;

Oct 23 Return 11PM. Guide: James Vandermillon, Senior Planner, Providence Plan; Salvatore Galea, Urban Designer, City of Providence.

16. Mon. DISCUSSION OF EXERCISE 1 (in sections)

Oct. 25

PART 2: MODELS OF URBAN DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

17. Wed. THE TRADITIONAL CITY. The confluence of culture, geography, and

Oct. 27 form. The line and the grid as traditional models: Colonial towns in New England and Georgia. The new traditionalism: Poundbury, G.B.

John W. Reps. "New Towns in New England" and "Carolina and Georgia", Town Planning in Frontier America (Columbia: U. of Missouri Press, 1980). pp. 100-117, 162-180.

James Howard Kunstler. "Home From Nowhere", The Atlantic Monthly September, 1996.

Leon Krier. "Master Plan for Poundbury Development in Dorchester," Prince Charles and the Architectural Debate, AD, 1994. pp. 46-55.

"The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh Visit Poundbury," Press Release, Friday, March 8, 1998.

EXERCISE 2 DISTRIBUTED

William C. Baer, "General Plan Evaluation Criteria: An Approach to Making Better Plans," Journal of the American Planning Association, summer, 1997;

pp. 329-343. To be distributed in class.

18. Mon. CASE STUDY: DESIGN STANDARDS AND TRADITIONAL CITIES.

Nov. 1 Guest: Eran Ben-Joseph, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning

Readings to be distributed.

19. Wed. THE CITY AS A WORK OF ART. Power, symbol and form. From Rome

Nov. 3 Sixtus V to Chicago, and the Worlds Columbian Exposition. The City Beautiful

Movement and its continuing impact.

Jonathan Barnett. "The Monumental City," The Elusive City (New York, Harper and Row, 1986). pp. 5-62.

Rob Krier. "Reconstructing Devastated Spaces With Examples from the Center of Stuttgart," Urban Space (London: Academy Editions, 1991). pp. 89-111.

20. Mon. CASE STUDY: CAPITOL CITIES.

Nov. 8 Guest: Larry Vale

Lawrence Vale. "Capital and Capitol," Architecture, Power, and National Identity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995). pp. 1-43.

21. Wed. THE EFFICIENT CITY: The city as a machine for production. The utopian

Nov. 10 industrial city: the 1939 New York World's Fair. Impacts on urban development policy: public housing, highways, and urban renewal. The continuing tradition: urban development in Shanghai and Beijing.

Donald Bush. "The World of Tomorrow," The Streamlined Decade (New York: Brazillier, 1975). pp. 154-170.

Le Corbusier. "A Contemporary City", and "The Working Day", The City of To-Morrow and Its Planning (London: Architectural Press, 1987 (1928), pp. 158-194.

Thomas J. Campanella, "The Visible City," Metropolis, March, 1995.

22. Mon. THE CITY AND NATURE: The city as a home: reactions to the industrial

Nov. 15 city. Howard, Unwin and the Garden City Movement. New communities and the British experience: Milton Keynes. Contemporary Eco City models.

Derek Walker. "Reflections on Milton Keynes, Will Milton Keynes Feel Urban?" The Architecture and Planning of Milton Keynes. (London: Architectural Press, 1982) pp. 2-23.

Frederick Law Olmsted. "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" (Address to the American Social Science Foundation, 1870), Civilizing American Cities (Cambridge: IT Press, 1971). pp. 52-99. (Skim)

23. Tues DISCUSSION SESSION (in sections, optional) Is suburbia synonymous Nov. 16 with sprawl? What tools of change are most effective? Come prepared with a point for discussion. Meet at 6:00 PM, 10-485.

24. Wed. CASE STUDY: THE END OF THE SUBURBIA? Guest: Robert Fishman,

Nov. 18 author and critic.

Robert Fishman. "The American Garden City: Still Relevant?," The Garden City: Past Present and Future. (London: E&FN SPON, 1994). pp. 146-164

"Bye Bye Suburban Dream," Newsweek May 15, 1995.

25. Mon. THE SECURE CITY. City as a haven. From walled cities to gated

Nov. 22 communities: Ideas of the ideal city; Oscar Newman and housing security; the fortification ofneighborhoods. The case of public housing.

Michele Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens. "Planning", Living Architecture: Chinese (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1971). pp. 39-56.

Oscar Newman. "Defensible Space," Defensible Space (New York: Collier Books, 1974). pp. 1-21.

David Dillon, "Fortress America," Planning, June, 1994.

David Gutterson, "No Place Like Home", Harpers, Nov, 1992.

26. Wed. THE INFORMATION CITY. Self conscious experience past to present;

Nov. 24 impact of information on form: regional, edge city form; the theme as a force in urban development. Disney World, South St. Seaport, City Walk.

David Harvey. "Time- Space Compression and the Postmodern Condition," The Condition of Postmodernity (Basil Blackwell, 1990). pp. 285-307.

Edward W. Soja, "Inside Exopolis: Scenes from Orange County," and Michael Sorkin. "See You in Disneyland", Variations on a Theme Park (New York: Noonday, 1995). pp. 205-232.

27. Mon. CASE STUDIES IN DESIGNING THE INFORMATION

Nov. 29 ENVIRONMENT. Recent projects of ICON architecture: Gettysburg, others. Dennis Frenchman.

Readings to be distributed

28. Wed. THE VIRTUAL CITY. Information technologies and their impact on city

Dec. 1 understanding and city design. Guest: Dean William Mitchell

William J. Mitchell. "Soft Cities," City of Bits (1996). pp. 29-63.

29. Mon. THE GOOD CITY. Reconciling ideals and the real. Discussion of

Dec. 6 models of urban design and development and their applicability in practice.

Whose values should the city reflect?

Kevin Lynch. "Between Heaven and Hell," A Theory of Good City Form (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984). pp.51-72.

EXERCISE 2 DUE

30. Wed. WRAP UP. Discussion of Exercise 2.

Dec. 8

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11.301J Urban Design & Development
FALL 1999 MIT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING 11.301J/4.252J: URBAN DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT M-W 1:00-2:30; Room: W31-310 (CRE Lecture Hall) Prof. Dennis Frenchman (Office: 10-485; 253-8847, 451-3333, dennisf@mit.edu) Instructor: Amy Brown (868-9760, amyb@mit.edu) TA: Byron Stigge (253-7628, biron@mit.edu) COURSE DESCRIPTION This subject introduces graduate students to ideas about the form of cities and how they are designed and developed. The subject is organized into two parts: Part 1 explores the Forces which act to shape and to change cities. Starting with Boston and the American city as a reference, we will examine key forces affecting contemporary urban development including: The market, social forces, public development, regulation of private development, and incentives to encourage good design. Finally we will consider how cities define a vision for their future and how these are articulated in plans and proposals. Lectures will be supplemented by guest presentations, case studies and field trips. Part 2 surveys Models of urban design which have been invented in response to forces acting on cities. We will discuss the evolution of each model and its current impact on design and development in cities worldwide, located in Great Britain, Italy, China, and elsewhere. Included are notions about the Traditional City, the city as a Work of Art, the Efficient City, the Garden City, the Secure City, the Information City, and the Virtual City. The application of each model will be illustrated in case studies and guest presentations. COURSE REQUIREMENTS Work for the class will include readings, class discussions, and two papers, relating to the two units of the course. Approximately 75% of your grade will be based upon the two papers and 25% on participation in class. Readings provide background for class lectures and are also intended to expose students to the ideas of key urban design theorists, past and present, on the topics presented. All readings will be included in a reader, which will be available for purchase shortly after the start of the class and also on reserve in Rotch Library. Please complete all required readings in advance of each class. FALL 1999 MIT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING 11.301J/4.252J: URBAN DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT SYLLABUS AND SCHEDULE 1. Wed. INTRODUCTION: Can cities be designed? Course structure and objectives. Sept. 8 David Gosling and Barry Maitland. "The Nature of the Problem," Concepts of Urban Design (London: Academy Eds. 1984). pp. 9-24. PART 1: FORCES AFFECTING URBAN DEVELOPMENT 2. Mon. VIEWPOINTS ON THE CITY: How are cities understood? City themes Sept. 13 and city culture. Representations of cities as examples of viewpoints. The idea of imaging a city from the viewpoint of its inhabitants: Kevin Lynch. Lowell, MA as an example in changing the viewpoint on a city. Grady Clay. "Introduction, Word Game, Fixes," Close Up (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980). pp. 11-37. J. B. Jackson. "The Strangers Path," Landscapes (Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 1952). pp. 92-106. Kevin Lynch. "City Image and Its Elements," Image of the City (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1960). pp. 46-90. EXERCISE 1 DISTRIBUTED 3. Wed. THE FORCES THAT MADE BOSTON: How does a city grow? The city Sept. 15 viewed in time as a process of cultural evolution. The recursive nature of form. How underlying forces are given form through design. Boston as an example of forces acting on the city and models of design applied to resolve them. Walter Muir Whitehill. Boston: A Topographical History (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1975). On reserve in Rotch Library; entire book is a general reference for Exercise 1. Kevin Lynch. "Form Values in Urban History," A Theory of Good City Form (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984). pp. 5-36. 4. Sat. WALKING TOUR OF BOSTON: 9:00AM - 12:15PM. Meet at the John Sept. 18 Hancock Building Observatory Lobby (ground floor). We will conclude the tour with lunch in the North End. 5. Mon. THE MARKET: The City viewed as a business. Land use, land value and Sept. 20 urban development. Understanding how uses are located: the bid rent curve; cities as central places. Functional patterns of market and form: concentric zones, sectors, nodes. Evolution of the patterns -- from the walkable city to edge city. Richard Morrill. "The Urban System and Urban Structure," The Spatial Organization of Society (North Scituate, MA: Duxbury Press, 1974). pp. 155-174. 6. Wed. SOCIAL FORCES: The city from the viewpoint of those who live there. Sept. 22 The dynamics of neighborhoods, class association and form. People and places: Dudley Street Initiative, Roxbury. Jane Jacobs. "The Uses of City Neighborhoods," The Death and Life of Great American Cities. pp. 112-140. Holly Sklar. "Creating a Sustainable Urban Village: The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative" and "Real Insurance," Orion, Vol 15, no 4, Autumn, 1996. pp. 28-38. IDENTIFY PLACE FOR EXERCISE 1 7. Mon . CASE STUDY: BOSTON'S WEST END Sept. 27 The power of a place. Guest: James Campano, Editor, The West Ender. Herbert Gans. "The West End: An Urban Village" and "Redevelopment of the West End," The Urban Villagers (New York: London Free Press, 1982). pp. 3-41, 281-304. Newsclips on Lowell Square Project (various sources), 1996-7. The West Ender (newspaper of former residents; distributed in Class) 8. Wed. THE PUBLIC WILL. The city viewed by those in power. Public Sept. 29 development and its arenas: Infrastructure, redevelopment and housing. How is public development financed and carried out? City form as a political response to problems: from Haussmann, to Robert Moses and Nelson Rockefeller. Anthony Sutcliffe. "Grand Design," The Autumn of Central Paris (London: Edward Arnold, 1970). pp. 11-42. Robert Caro. "The Warp On the Loom," The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (New York: Knopf, 1974). pp. 615-636. John Tierney. "This Years Model," NY Times Magazine, Aug. 7, 1994 9. Mon. THE PUBLIC WISH. Balancing the public viewpoint and private rights. Oct. 4 Regulation of private development: Zoning and incentives to influence what the market would otherwise provide. Evolution of land use control efforts to shape the "good" city; protect scarce resources. Zoning and the form of New York City, from Hugh Ferris to Battery Park City. Jonathan Barnett, "Designing Cities Without Designing Buildings," An Introduction to Urban Design (New York: Harper and Row, 1982). pp. 57-97. Francis P. Russell. "Battery Park City: An American Dream of Urbanism," Design Review: Challenging American Urban Aesthetic Control (New York: Chapman & Hall, 1994). pp. 197-209. 10. Tues. DISCUSSION SESSION (in sections; optional). Do you agree with Oct. 5 Jonathan Barnett that we can design cities without designing buildings? Come prepared with a point for discussion. Meet at 6:00 PM, 10-485. 11. Wed. CASE STUDY: SHAPING PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT / CAMBRIDGE Oct. 6 GROWTH MANAGEMENT Guest: Philip Herr, Philip B. Herr and Associates, Inc., community and regional planning consultant. Martin Jaffee, AICP. "Performance Zoning A Reassessment," Land Use Law and Zoning Digest, Vol. 45, no. 3, March, 1993. pp 3-9. Other readings to be distributed. 12. Wed. PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS. The entrepreneur's view. Mixing Oct. 13 public and private interests. Revitalizing downtowns with new incentives, formulas for development, and types of projects. Mixed use: from the festival marketplace to urban waterfronts. Bernard Frieden and Lynne Sagalyn, "Entrepreneurial Cities and Maverick Developers, Deal Making, Getting and Spending, Downtown, Inc. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990), pp. 107-154. Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Tridib Banerjee. Urban Design Downtown (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1998), pp. 103-148 13. Mon. FIELD VISIT: BOSTON REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. Meet at Oct. 18 BRA offices, top floor Boston City Hall, Model Room. 12:45-1:45PM. Readings for next two sessions. Robert Cambell. "Waterfront Sprawl: The City's 'Master Plan' Should Go Back to the Drawing Board," Boston Globe, January 11, 1998; "Human Scale Is a Huge Issue In Boston's New Seaport District," Boston Globe, July 19, 1998. Boston Redevelopment Authority, Seaport Public Realm Plan (Boston, 1999). On reserve in Rotch Library 14. Wed. VISIONS. The city as viewed from the future. Types of plans and plan-makers. Oct. 20 The planning process. The role of urban design projections in shaping city form and function: Who are the visionaries and where do their ideas come from? New themes and visions for Boston: South Boston and the Waterfront. EXERCISE 1 DUE 15. Sat. WALKING TOUR OF PROVIDENCE / WATERFIRE. Leave Boston 3PM; Oct 23 Return 11PM. Guide: James Vandermillon, Senior Planner, Providence Plan; Salvatore Galea, Urban Designer, City of Providence. 16. Mon. DISCUSSION OF EXERCISE 1 (in sections) Oct. 25 PART 2: MODELS OF URBAN DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT 17. Wed. THE TRADITIONAL CITY. The confluence of culture, geography, and Oct. 27 form. The line and the grid as traditional models: Colonial towns in New England and Georgia. The new traditionalism: Poundbury, G.B. John W. Reps. "New Towns in New England" and "Carolina and Georgia", Town Planning in Frontier America (Columbia: U. of Missouri Press, 1980). pp. 100-117, 162-180. James Howard Kunstler. "Home From Nowhere", The Atlantic Monthly September, 1996. Leon Krier. "Master Plan for Poundbury Development in Dorchester," Prince Charles and the Architectural Debate, AD, 1994. pp. 46-55. "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh Visit Poundbury," Press Release, Friday, March 8, 1998. EXERCISE 2 DISTRIBUTED William C. Baer, "General Plan Evaluation Criteria: An Approach to Making Better Plans," Journal of the American Planning Association, summer, 1997; pp. 329-343. To be distributed in class. 18. Mon. CASE STUDY: DESIGN STANDARDS AND TRADITIONAL CITIES. Nov. 1 Guest: Eran Ben-Joseph, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning Readings to be distributed. 19. Wed. THE CITY AS A WORK OF ART. Power, symbol and form. From Rome Nov. 3 Sixtus V to Chicago, and the Worlds Columbian Exposition. The City Beautiful Movement and its continuing impact. Jonathan Barnett. "The Monumental City," The Elusive City (New York, Harper and Row, 1986). pp. 5-62. Rob Krier. "Reconstructing Devastated Spaces With Examples from the Center of Stuttgart," Urban Space (London: Academy Editions, 1991). pp. 89-111. 20. Mon. CASE STUDY: CAPITOL CITIES. Nov. 8 Guest: Larry Vale Lawrence Vale. "Capital and Capitol," Architecture, Power, and National Identity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995). pp. 1-43. 21. Wed. THE EFFICIENT CITY: The city as a machine for production. The utopian Nov. 10 industrial city: the 1939 New York World's Fair. Impacts on urban development policy: public housing, highways, and urban renewal. The continuing tradition: urban development in Shanghai and Beijing. Donald Bush. "The World of Tomorrow," The Streamlined Decade (New York: Brazillier, 1975). pp. 154-170. Le Corbusier. "A Contemporary City", and "The Working Day", The City of To-Morrow and Its Planning (London: Architectural Press, 1987 (1928), pp. 158-194. Thomas J. Campanella, "The Visible City," Metropolis, March, 1995. *22. Mon. THE CITY AND NATURE:* The city as a home: reactions to the industrial Nov. 15 city. Howard, Unwin and the Garden City Movement. New communities and the British experience: Milton Keynes. Contemporary Eco City models. Derek Walker. "Reflections on Milton Keynes, Will Milton Keynes Feel Urban?" The Architecture and Planning of Milton Keynes. (London: Architectural Press, 1982) pp. 2-23. Frederick Law Olmsted. "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" (Address to the American Social Science Foundation, 1870), Civilizing American Cities (Cambridge: IT Press, 1971). pp. 52-99. (Skim) 23. Tues DISCUSSION SESSION (in sections, optional) Is suburbia synonymous Nov. 16 with sprawl? What tools of change are most effective? Come prepared with a point for discussion. Meet at 6:00 PM, 10-485. 24. Wed. CASE STUDY: THE END OF THE SUBURBIA? Guest: Robert Fishman, Nov. 18 author and critic. Robert Fishman. "The American Garden City: Still Relevant?," The Garden City: Past Present and Future. (London: E&FN SPON, 1994). pp. 146-164 "Bye Bye Suburban Dream," Newsweek May 15, 1995. 25. Mon. THE SECURE CITY. City as a haven. From walled cities to gated Nov. 22 communities: Ideas of the ideal city; Oscar Newman and housing security; the fortification ofneighborhoods. The case of public housing. Michele Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens. "Planning", Living Architecture: Chinese (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1971). pp. 39-56. Oscar Newman. "Defensible Space," Defensible Space (New York: Collier Books, 1974). pp. 1-21. David Dillon, "Fortress America," Planning, June, 1994. David Gutterson, "No Place Like Home", Harpers, Nov, 1992. 26. Wed. THE INFORMATION CITY. Self conscious experience past to present; Nov. 24 impact of information on form: regional, edge city form; the theme as a force in urban development. Disney World, South St. Seaport, City Walk. David Harvey. "Time- Space Compression and the Postmodern Condition," The Condition of Postmodernity (Basil Blackwell, 1990). pp. 285-307. Edward W. Soja, "Inside Exopolis: Scenes from Orange County," and Michael Sorkin. "See You in Disneyland", Variations on a Theme Park (New York: Noonday, 1995). pp. 205-232. 27. Mon. CASE STUDIES IN DESIGNING THE INFORMATION Nov. 29 ENVIRONMENT. Recent projects of ICON architecture: Gettysburg, others. Dennis Frenchman. Readings to be distributed 28. Wed. THE VIRTUAL CITY. Information technologies and their impact on city Dec. 1 understanding and city design. Guest: Dean William Mitchell William J. Mitchell. "Soft Cities," City of Bits (1996). pp. 29-63. 29. Mon. THE GOOD CITY. Reconciling ideals and the real. Discussion of Dec. 6 models of urban design and development and their applicability in practice. Whose values should the city reflect? Kevin Lynch. "Between Heaven and Hell," A Theory of Good City Form (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984). pp.51-72. EXERCISE 2 DUE 30. Wed. WRAP UP. Discussion of Exercise 2. Dec. 8