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The Once and Future City

Subject: History

Art: Bernard Ratzer, Plan of the City of New York, in North America surveyed in the Years…, 1767 · Public domain

Instructor
Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn
Term
Spring 2015
Level
Undergraduate
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3 videos · 2 readings · 12 other files · 14 web pages
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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 11.016J The Once and Future City, Spring 2015, Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 22, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

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Assignment 1: Select A Site

Assignment 2: Your Site and Natural Processes

Assignment 3: Your Site Over Time

Assignment 4: Artifacts, Layers, Traces, and Trends

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