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Urban Design Politics

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States11.302J
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2010English
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This is a seminar about the ways that urban design contributes to the distribution of political power and resources in cities. “Design,” in this view, is not some value-neutral aesthetic applied to efforts at urban development but is, instead, an integral part of the motives driving that development. The class investigates the nature of the relations between built form and political purposes through close examination of a wide variety of situations where public and private sector design…

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