MIT OpenCourseWare

Browse materialsMIT 11.945 · Spring 2004

Springfield Studio

Art: Claude Rocher, Nouveau plan de la Ville de Paris : Capitale du Royaume de France.…, 1700 · Public domain

Instructors: Prof. Ceasar McDowell, Prof. Susan Silberberg
Term: Spring 2004
Level: Graduate
What's inside: 1 reading · 11 other files · 5 web pages
Materials open: MIT OCW

Other versions of this course

11.945 · Fall 2005 · Study here
11.945 · Spring 2004 · Study here (this version)

Start here

Start course: Lecture 1: Course Introduction Urban Neighborhood Decline…Find a topic

Progress is saved in this browser.

Export or import progress

About this course

Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 11.945 Springfield Studio, Spring 2004, Prof. Ceasar McDowell, Prof. Susan Silberberg — 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.

Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.

Before you start

Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.

How this course was organized

What's here, and what isn't

A lecture sequence of 31 items is confirmed. It stays as organized materials rather than a full course order.

Materials by section

Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.

Assignments

2 files

11 images

Projects

9 files

MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Ceasar McDowell, Prof. Susan Silberberg, 11.945 Springfield Studio, Spring 2004.

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2004 · Open the original course on OCW ↗

Organized by RedLectern, independent of MIT and not endorsed by MIT.

Per-resource rights are recorded on each resource; All-Rights-Reserved items are link-only, never mirrored.

Springfield Studio

Before you start

What's here, and what isn't

Materials by section

Assignments

Projects

Lecture 1: Course Introduction Urban Neighborhood Decline: Causes, Consequences, Challenges in Springfield

Lecture 2: Ways of Seeing: Assessing the Physical and Social Environment of a Community

Lecture 3: Field Trip to the North End, Springfield, Massachusetts

Lecture 4: Field Trip Debriefing and Resource Review

Lecture 5: Work Session: Urban Design Analysis Goals and Techniques

Lecture 6: Work Session: Urban Design Analysis Guest: Andrew Grace, Senior Urban Designer Boston Redevelopment Authority

Lecture 7: Community Needs: Programming

Lecture 8: Work Session: Case Studies Guests: LaTonya Green, and Steve Heikin

Lecture 9: Community Capacity

Lecture 10: Physical Design Strategies Part 1

Lecture 11: Physical Design Strategies Part 2

Lecture 12: Working Session

Lecture 13: Presentation of Student Work

Lecture 14: Working Session: Presentation Revisions

Lecture 15: Field Trip to North End, Springfield: Client Presentations

Lecture 16: Working Session: Development of a Conceptual Plan

Lecture 17: Working Session: Development of a Conceptual Plan (cont.)

Lecture 18: Presentations of Conceptual Plans

Lecture 19: Implementation Techniques Guest: Karl Seidman

Lecture 20: Working Session

Lecture 21: Working Session

Lecture 22: Working Session

Lecture 23: Working Session: Synthesis of Ideas

Lecture 24: Working Session: Synthesis of Ideas (cont.)

Lecture 25: Synthesis - Final Plan Integration, Key Findings and Themes

Lecture 26: Presentation of Draft Plans

Lecture 27: Presentation of Draft Plans (cont.)

Lecture 28: Course Conclusion / Reflections

Lecture 29: Final Report / Plans Due

Lecture 30: Presentations to the Client

Lecture 31: Final Presentations