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MIT OpenCourseWare
Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes
- Instructor
- Kian Goh
- Term
- Spring 2014
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 13 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 11.123 Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes, Spring 2014, Kian Goh — 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 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Assignments
13 files
- ACERSAC7 Download
- Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes, Assignment 2 Download
- Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes, Assignment 3 Download
- Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes, Assignment 3 Reminder Download
- Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes, Illustrator Workshop Download
- PEOPL206 Download
- PEOPL233 Download
- PEOPL230 Download
- PEOPL234 Download
- PEOPL235 Download
- 11.123 big plans S14 assignment1 Download
- Photoshop Workshop Materials Download
- InDesign Tutorial Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Present Day Paradox - “Smart Cities” vs. Global Crises How are we so connected, yet so at risk? And, Why plan? Why plan big?
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Lecture 3: Boston Redevelopment Authority Field Trip Visit to Boston planning office, meet with Prataap Patrose, Deputy Director
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Lecture 4: Library Research on Big Plans Presentation by Peter Cohn, MIT Libraries How to (Read a) Plan
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Lecture 5: Big Plans Past, Present, … And what is the future big plan?
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Lecture 6: Rethinking: No Boundaries (Scale) Exploding the city – what is urban anyway? / the “urban age”?
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Lecture 7: Workshop: Diagramming and CS Suite 1 (Illustrator Tutorial, available in Assignments page)
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Lecture 8: Rethinking: No Boundaries (Disciplines) What / where / how is the city? Science, economics, sociology, art, and grassroots activism discuss the urban Trans-disciplinary Urbanism
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Lecture 9: Group work / “Desk Crits”
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Lecture 10: Assignment 1 Project Presentations
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Lecture 11: Assignment 1 Project Presentations (cont.) Discussions on Post-Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Initiatives
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Lecture 12: How to Read a Photograph: Initial Data Collection
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Lecture 13: Workshop: CS Suite 2 (Photoshop Tutorial, available in Assignments page)
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Lecture 14: Re-envision: New Urban Form Guest Lecture – Alan Berger, MIT DUSP
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Lecture 15: Assignment 2 Initial Discussion
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Lecture 16: Rethinking: The “Just” City? Social justice and the city? Guest Discussant – Karilyn Crockett, MLK Visiting Scholar, MIT
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Lecture 17: Assignment 2 Presentation & Discussions
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Lecture 18: Walking Tour of Southwest Corridor, with Tunney Lee, Prof Emeritus, MIT.
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Lecture 19: Assignment 3 Preliminary Discussion Local design at the scale of the global
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Lecture 20: Work on draft final project presentations Workshop: In Design Tutorial (available in assignments page)
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Lecture 21: Rethinking: No Boundaries (“Worlding”) Local design at the scale of the global
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Lecture 22: Final Project Draft Presentations
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Lecture 23: Re-envision: Post-Disaster Planning Guest Lecture – Miho Mazereeuw, MIT Architecture
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Lecture 24: Group work
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Lecture 25: Final Project Presentations
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Lecture 26: Final Project Presentations (cont.)
MIT OpenCourseWare, Kian Goh, 11.123 Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes, Spring 2014.
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