MIT OpenCourseWare
Introduction to Urban Design and Development
- Instructor
- Prof. Susan Silberberg
- Term
- Spring 2006
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 18 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 11.001J Introduction to Urban Design and Development, Spring 2006, Prof. Susan Silberberg — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
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How this course was organized
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Lecture Notes
15 files
- imageatt.pdf Download
- Ways of Seeing the City Download
- The Forces That Made Boston Download
- The Design of American Cities Download
- The Industrial City and Its Critics Download
- Development Controls Part I: The Institutionalization of Planning and Zoning Download
- Development Controls Part II: Beyond Zoning: Urban Design Guidelines, Design Review and Development Incentives Download
- Three Urban Utopias Download
- New Towns in the United States and Abroad Question of the day: What motivates planners to design new towns? Download
- The Suburbs Part I: The Origins and Growth of Suburbs Download
- The Suburbs Part II: Rethinking American Suburbs Download
- Shaping Private Development/Growth Management Download
- Urban Renewal and Its Critics Download
- Cultural Districts, Heritage Areas and Tourism: If You Name It, Will They Come? Download
- The Secure City - The Fortification of Space Download
Assignments
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Susan Silberberg, 11.001J Introduction to Urban Design and Development, Spring 2006.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2006 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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