MIT OpenCourseWare
Imaging the City: The Place of Media in City Design and Development
- Instructors
- Prof. Lawrence Vale, Prof. Sam Warner
- Term
- Fall 1998
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 26 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 11.947 Imaging the City: The Place of Media in City Design and Development, Fall 1998, Prof. Lawrence Vale, Prof. Sam Warner — 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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Lecture Notes
13 files
- Process and Form, Work and Place - Richard Sennett, University Professor of the Humanities, NYU and Centennial… Download
- Tales of Manhattan: Mapping the Urban Imagination Through Hollywood Film - Henry Jenkins, Professor of Literature, MIT… Download
- The City in Cyberspace: Representation of Community and Place - Tom Campanella, Anne Beamish, Doctoral Candidates, DUSP, MIT Download
- Ephemera, Temporary Urbanism, and Imaging - J. Mark Schuster, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT Download
- Place-Marketing: Using Media to Promote Cities - Briavel Holcomb, Professor of Urban Studies and Community Health, Rutgers University Download
- Negotiating Conflicting Images - Eugenie Birch, Professor of City Planning, University of Pennsylvania Download
- Fabricating Heritage Narratives: Locale, Region, Nation - David Lowenthal, Professor Emeritus of Geography, University… Download
- Re-imaging the Rust Belt: The New Cleveland Campaign - Edward Hill, Cleveland State University, Patricia Burgess… Download
- Architectural Mega-Projects in Asia: New City Images and New City Form - Larry Ford, Professor of Geography, San Diego State University Download
- Rating Place-Ratings - John de Monchaux, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, MIT Download
- Inner Cities and Outer Cities - Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture and American Studies, Yale University, Alex… Download
- The Images of Commonplace Living in Modern City Regions - Judith Martin, Professor of Geography, University of… Download
- City-Imaging after Lynch - Sam Bass Warner, Jr. and Lawrence Vale Download
Assignments
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Lawrence Vale, Prof. Sam Warner, 11.947 Imaging the City: The Place of Media in City Design and Development, Fall 1998.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 1998 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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