Community Growth and Land Use Planning

Aerial photograph with the Centralville neighborhood highlighted in pink.

Aerial photo highlighting the Centralville neighborhood in Lowell, MA. (Image courtesy of MIT.)

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MIT Course Number

11.360

As Taught In

Fall 2005

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

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Course Description

This course combines a seminar format with fieldwork to examine strategies of planning and control for growth and land use, chiefly at the municipal level. Specific topics include growth and its local consequences; land use planning approaches; and implementation tools including innovative zoning and regulatory techniques, physical design, and natural systems integration. Projects are arranged with small teams serving municipal clients.

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Eran Ben-Joseph, and Terry Szold. 11.360 Community Growth and Land Use Planning. Fall 2005. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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