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Part I. Reading the City
1How Can Cities Be Read and Why
2The Once and Future City: Processes That Shape
3Reading and Writing the City
4-5Perspectives on Boston Sites

Project Review
Project assignment 1 (select a site) due
6Review of Assignment 1Assignment 1 due
Part II. City and Nature: Natural Processes as Agents of Change
7The Granite Garden: Boston, A Natural Environment Transformed
8Workshop: Designing Your Web site
9Guides to Reading Boston
10Earth and Water
11Air and Life
12Project ReviewProject assignment 2 (your site and natural processes) due
13Boston Sites: What Patterns Emerged?
Part III. City and Society: Social Processes as Agents of Change
14Looking at Maps
15Technology, Innovation, and Change
16Economics, Politics, and Change
17Culture, Fashion, and Change
18Boston in Historical Context
19Project ReviewProject assignment 3 (your site through time) due
20Boston Sites: What Patterns Emerged?
Part IV. Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Envisioning and Shaping Future Cities
21Looking Back, Looking Ahead
22Shaping Future Cities (Panel)
23Project ReviewProject assignment 4 (artifacts, layers, traces, and trends) due
24Top-Down / Bottom-Up: Frameworks for Action
Part V. Boston Sites: Where Have They Been, Where Are They Headed
25Presentation and Discussion of SitesFinal presentations and sites due
26Field Trip
27-29Presentation and Discussion of Sites
30-31Workshop

 








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