Urban design policy and action

Lectures: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session

11.301J Introduction to Urban Design and Development

How does urban design get done, and what is the role of democratically-elected local government in this process? While there has been a lot of attention paid recently to American and European urban designers crafting spectacular projects in the autocratic regions of the world (e.g. China, Dubai, Abu Dhabi), we will focus on the majority of the democratic world's struggles with the public policy and implementation of urban design at the local level. The seminar is designed to be a collective and interactive inquiry into critical questions:

In order to address these questions, the seminar is structured around a series of thematic investigations around specific readings, as described in the following section.

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