Massachusetts Institute of Technology courses

..."First World" and "Third World" cities in a sophisticated and genuinely useful manner, the seminar is structured around a series of readings...

...with the social and political dynamics that are present at each stage of the disaster management cycle. Therefore, this course will provide students... Learn about: IT risk, Land Use...

...academic institutions and non-profits. The seminar, which will operate as a workshop, will be interactive and dependent upon a high degree of student participation and initiative... Learn about: Decision Making...

...Students who have taken the two-semester regional economics sequence in 11.481 and 11.482 will find this seminar especially useful, but others are very welcome...

...on gathering information to assist in resolving the Cape Wind project, the dispute concerning the placement of wind farms in waters adjacent to Nantucket...

...The other students will role play as the "client" - each student representing a certain "stakeholder" (i.e., government official, transit operator... Learn about: Quality Training, Public Sector, Land Use...

...There's no signup, and no start or end dates. Knowledge is your reward. Use OCW to guide your own life-long learning, or to teach others. We don't offer... Learn about: Urban Design...

...visiting the class, and contact additional representatives via phone and email in order to conduct research and get feedback on their work. A 10-day...

...the MIT Center for Reflective Community Practice (CRCP), the North End Campus Committee, and the North End Outreach Network (NEON). The class project...

...environment, historic preservation, or many other topics. Discussing why the transition poses unique challenges to the selected planning issue and... Learn about: Professor Training...

...free speech (no PowerPoint!) but brief hand-out required. Content: review of main arguments (not narrative) of class readings, then focus on responding...

...The class is designed to examine the largely untold history of the historic preservation movement in this country, and explore how laws, public policies... Learn about: Built Environment...

...between immigrant and non-immigrant communities, as well as how the planning profession does and should respond to those differences. Finally...

...key challenges and questions to the group at the beginning of class. Participation and presence at all of the sessions is essential to the course's research objective... Learn about: Urban Design, Real Estate...

...the course requires students to prepare a sustainable development plan for a community-based non-profit organization. Through this client-based planning project... Learn about: Team Training...

...seeking innovative ways to alter perceptions of urban, suburban, and regional areas. City imaging, in this sense, is the process of constructing visually-based...

...Iraq is an in-conflict country. Its people live under foreign occupation and experience daily confrontations and hostilities. The country is politically unstable...

...Some of the weeks have more reading than others - the reading load generally varies inversely with its difficulty. In addition to general attendance/participation...

...MIT OpenCourseWare is a free & open publication of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum. No enrollment or registration...

...We have tried to integrate the notion of sustainable development in every step of the process. We interpret sustainable development as the balancing of economic development... Learn about: Urban Design, Quality Training...