| SES # | TOPICS | GUEST SPEAKERS |
|---|---|---|
| Week 0: Introductions | ||
| 1 | What is the scope of planning | |
| Week 1: Olmstead Jr. vs. Marsh | ||
| 2 | American exceptionalism in planning | |
| 3 | Marsh's position | |
| 4 | Group meeting | |
| Week 2: Regionalism and regional planning | ||
| 5 | Regions: The economics and politics of territory | Amy Glasmeier, Department Head, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT |
| 6 | Against regionalism | Karen Polenske, Professor of Regional Political Economy and Planning, MIT |
| 7 | Facilitated session | Ceasar McDowell, Director, Center for Reflective Community Practice, MIT |
| Week 3: Possibilities and limits of planning (post Depression era) | ||
| 8 |
The necessity of planning/response to the Depression City, state, national relationships |
Alan Altshuler, Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Fred Salvucci, Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Association, MIT |
| 9 | The dangers of planning | |
| 10 | Alumni panel: Planners of color in the profession | |
| Week 4: Development planning | ||
| 11 | For development planning | |
| 12 | Against development planning | |
| 13 | Group meeting | |
| Week 5: Technology | ||
| 14 | Technology: Modeling transportation and land use | Joe Ferreira, Professor of Urban Planning and Operations Research, MIT |
| 15 | Immigration | Kent Wong, Director, Center for Labor Research and Education, UCLA |
| Week 6: Rational comprehensive vs. strategic incrementalist | ||
| 16 | For comprehensive planning | |
| 17 | Against comprehensive planning | |
| 18 | Postindustrial Cities | Emma Rothschild, Director, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University |
| Week 7: Planning and dissent | ||
| 19 | Advocacy and radical planning | Phil Thompson, Associate Professor of Urban Politics, MIT |
| 20 | The role of dissent in planning | Mel King, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, MIT |
| 21 | Group meeting | |
| Week 8: Top down vs. Moses vs. Jacobs | ||
| 22 | Bottom up planning | Ceasar McDowell, Director, Center for Reflective Community Practice, MIT |
| 23 | Top down planning | |
| 24 | Group meeting | |
| Week 9: Is planning the "Handmaiden" of capitalism? | ||
| 25 | Capitalism | Peter Marcuse, Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning, Columbia University |
| 26 | Globalization and planning | |
| 27 | Addressing income inequality | Robert Solow, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, MIT |
| Week 10: Just processes vs. just outcomes | ||
| 28 | Process: Consensus building | Larry Susskind, Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, MIT |
| 29 | Just processes vs. just outcomes | Daphne Spain, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Virginia |
| 30 | Outcomes | Susan Fainstein, Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design |
| Week 11: Design | ||
| 31 | New urbanism | Brent Ryan, Assistant Professor of Urban Design and Public Policy, MIT |
| Week 12: Methodology | ||
| 32 | Measurement/expert knowledge/professionalism | Amy Glasmeier, Department Head, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT |
| 33 | Storytelling/local knowledge | James Throgmorton, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Iowa |
| 34 | Alumni panel: How should you be thinking about the next three semesters? | |
| Week 13: Final week | ||
| 35 | e-Governance | Joe Ferreira, Professor of Urban Planning and Operations Research, MIT |
| 36 | Education of city planners: Reflective practitioner, specialist, generalist | |