| Part I. Reading the City |
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How Can Cities Be Read and Why |
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The Once and Future City: Processes That Shape |
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| 3 |
Reading and Writing the City |
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| 4-5 |
Perspectives on Boston Sites
Project Review |
Project assignment 1 (select a site) due |
| 6 |
Review of Assignment 1 |
Assignment 1 due |
| Part II. City and Nature: Natural Processes as Agents of Change |
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The Granite Garden: Boston, A Natural Environment Transformed |
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| 8 |
Workshop: Designing Your Web site |
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| 9 |
Guides to Reading Boston |
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| 10 |
Earth and Water |
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| 11 |
Air and Life |
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| 12 |
Project Review |
Project assignment 2 (your site and natural processes) due |
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Boston Sites: What Patterns Emerged? |
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| Part III. City and Society: Social Processes as Agents of Change |
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Looking at Maps |
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| 15 |
Technology, Innovation, and Change |
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Economics, Politics, and Change |
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| 17 |
Culture, Fashion, and Change |
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| 18 |
Boston in Historical Context |
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| 19 |
Project Review |
Project assignment 3 (your site through time) due |
| 20 |
Boston Sites: What Patterns Emerged? |
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| Part IV. Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Envisioning and Shaping Future Cities |
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Looking Back, Looking Ahead |
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| 22 |
Shaping Future Cities (Panel) |
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| 23 |
Project Review |
Project assignment 4 (artifacts, layers, traces, and trends) due |
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Top-Down / Bottom-Up: Frameworks for Action |
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| Part V. Boston Sites: Where Have They Been, Where Are They Headed |
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Presentation and Discussion of Sites |
Final presentations and sites due |
| 26 |
Field Trip |
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| 27-29 |
Presentation and Discussion of Sites |
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| 30-31 |
Workshop |
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