Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall 1998

Papers

(Abstracts are also available.)

 

Monday, Sept 14: The Mediated City

The Conflict Between Image and Process
Richard Sennett

Urban Competition
Julian Beinart

 

Monday, Sept 21:

WeNew York?: Mapping the Urban Imagination in the American Cinema
Henry Jenkins

 

Monday, Sept 28:

The City in Cyberspace: Representation of Community and Place
Anne Beamish
Thomas J. Campanella

 

Monday, October 5:

Rating Place-Ratings
John de Monchaux

 

Wednesday, Oct. 14

Place-Marketing: Using Media to Promote Cities
Briavel Holcomb

Monday, October 19

Negotiating Conflicting Images
Eugenie Birch

 

Monday, October 26: Transforming Negative Images

Fabricating Heritage Narratives: Locale, Region, Nation
David Lowenthal

Designing Local and Regional Heritage Narratives
Dennis Frenchman

 

Monday, November 2

Re-imaging the Rust Belt: The New Cleveland Campaign
Edward Hill
Patricia Burgess
Ruth Durack

 

Monday, November 9

Architectural Mega-Projects in Asia: New City Images and New City Form
Larry R. Ford

 

Monday, November 16

Programming, Ephemera, and Imaging
J. Mark Schuster

 

Monday, November 23

Inner Cities and Outer Cities
Dolores Hayden
Alex MacLean

 

Monday, November 30

The Images of Commonplace Living in Modern City Regions
Judith Martin
Sam Bass Warner, Jr.

 

Monday, December 7: New Directions for Designing the Mediated City

City-Imaging After Lynch

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