Tama New Town is one of many new towns—planned residential communities, many of which are currently experiencing changes for the worse—built outside Tokyo, Japan. (Image courtesy of Eran Ben-Joseph)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Eran Ben-Joseph
MIT Course Number
11.304J / 4.255J
As Taught In
Spring 2009
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course is a client-based land analysis and site planning project. The primary focus of the course changes from year to year. This year the focus is on Japan's New Towns.
Students will review land inventory, analysis, and planning of sites and the infrastructure systems that serve them. They will also examine spatial organization of uses, parcelization, design of roadways, grading, utility systems, stormwater runoff, parking, traffic and off-site impacts, as well as landscaping. Lectures will cover analytical techniques and examples of good site-planning practice. Requirements include a series of assignments and a client-based project.
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