Calendar

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