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Advanced Seminar: Urban Nature and City Design

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States11.308J
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2024English
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This course will explore the mutual influences of ideas of nature, theories of city design and planning, and practices of urban design, construction, and management. We will investigate how natural processes shape urban landscapes (from the scale of street corner to region) and how to intervene strategically in those processes in order to achieve certain goals. We will examine cases of cities that adapted successfully to natural processes and those that did not.

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