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11.255
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Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in the Public Sector
|
Investigates social conflict and distributional disputes in the public sector. While theoretical aspects of conflict and consensus building are considered, focus is on the practice of negotiation and dispute resolution. Comparisons between unassisted and assisted negotiation are reviewed along with the techniques of facilitation and mediation.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
4-0-8
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.256[J]
|
Revealing the City
|
Through study of the essay as a literary form and mode of writing, students explore the promise and perils of the variegated city. Participants create artful narratives by examining how various literary forms — poetry, fiction, and essay — illuminate our understanding of cities. Special emphasis is on the writer as the reader's advocate, with the goal of writing with greater creativity and sophistication for specialized and general-interest audiences. Limited to 12. Preference to Course 4 and 11 graduate students who have completed at least two semesters.
| false |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
2-0-10
| null |
4.256[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.257
|
China's Growth: Political Economy, Business, and Urbanization
|
Examines different aspects of the growth of China, which has the second largest economy in the world. Studies the main drivers of Chinese economic growth and the forces behind the largest urbanization in human history. Discusses how to understand China's booming real estate market, and how Chinese firms operate to attain their success, whether through hard-working entrepreneurship or political connections with the government. Explores whether the top-down urban and industrial policy interventions improve efficiency or cause misallocation problems, and whether the Chinese political system in an enabler of Chinese growth or a potential impediment to the country's future growth prospects. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-3
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.258
|
Sustainable Urbanization Research Seminar
|
Reviews the seminal as well as latest research on the driving forces of urbanization, real estate markets, urban sustainability in both developed and developing economies. Examines the tensions as well as synergies between urbanization and sustainability, and designs and evaluates policies and business strategies that can enhance the synergies while reduce the tensions. Covers various research topics under the umbrella of urbanization under three modules (sustainable urbanization; sustainable real estate; urbanization in emerging economies) where students study the initiation of an idea to its publication, including but not limited to, analyzing, framing, writing and critiquing as parts of the process. Sessions are organized as a semi-structured dialogue.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
2-0-1 [P/D/F]
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.259
|
Entrepreneurial Negotiation
|
Combines online weekly face-to-face negotiation exercises and in-person lectures designed to empower budding entrepreneurs with negotiation techniques to protect and increase the value of their ideas, deal with ego and build trust in relationships, and navigate entrepreneurial bargaining under constraints of economic uncertainty and complex technical considerations. Students must complete scheduled weekly assignments, including feedback memos to counterpart negotiators, and meet on campus with the instructor to discuss and reflect on their experiences with the course. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
1-3-2 [P/D/F]
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.260
|
Sustainable Development and Institutions
|
Explores the theory and application of the principles of sustainable development as they relate to organizational change management, decision-making processes, goal setting methodology and solution development. Leverages the MIT campus as a living laboratory to gain unique insight into the change management and solution development process. Limited to 18.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.263[J]
|
Urban Last-Mile Logistics
|
Explores specific challenges of urban last-mile B2C and B2B distribution in both industrialized and emerging economies. Develops an in-depth understanding of the perspectives, roles, and decisions of all relevant stakeholder groups, from consumers to private sector decision makers and public policy makers. Discusses the most relevant traditional and the most promising innovating operating models for urban last-mile distribution. Introduces applications of the essential quantitative methods for the strategic design and tactical planning of urban last-mile distribution systems, including optimization and simulation. Covers basic facility location problems, network design problems, single- and multi-echelon vehicle routing problems, as well as associated approximation techniques. Requires intermediate coding skills in Python and independent quantitative analyses Python.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
2-0-4
|
SCM.254 or permission of instructor
|
1.263[J], SCM.293[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.265
|
Topics on Housing Finance and Social Equity (New)
|
Examines the challenges facing communities of color around home-buying opportunities and access to quality rental housing. Introduces the central institutions in the field of housing finance, provides a review of past housing finance policy, and explores how future policy could advance social equity and climate resilience. Guest speakers include leaders in the field from government, nonprofits, and industry.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-3
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.267[J]
|
Global Energy: Politics, Markets, and Policy
|
Focuses on the ways economics and politics influence the fate of energy technologies, business models, and policies around the world. Extends fundamental concepts in the social sciences to case studies and simulations that illustrate how corporate, government, and individual decisions shape energy and environmental outcomes. In a final project, students apply the concepts in order to assess the prospects for an energy innovation to scale and advance sustainability goals in a particular regional market. Recommended prerequisite: 14.01. Meets with 15.2191 when offered concurrently. Expectations and evaluation criteria differ for students taking graduate version; consult syllabus or instructor for specific details.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null |
15.219[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.268
|
Laws of the Land: Land Use and Environmental Law and Policy
|
Environmental justice and climate change are pressing contemporary concerns. Crucial dimensions of the exposure of households to environmental harms and benefits are determined by land use and environmental laws. Land use and environmental laws are also central to reducing carbon emissions and building environmentally sustainable and resilient communities. Introduces students to the legal and social science dimension of these two crucial areas of law that is well-covered in the current curriculum. Enrollment limited to 30.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-3
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.269
|
Global Climate Policy and Sustainability
|
Examines climate politics both nationally and globally. Addresses economic growth, environmental preservation, and social equity through the lens of sustainability. Uses various country and regional cases to analyze how sociopolitical, economic and environmental values shape climate policy. Students develop recommendations for making climate policy more effective and sustainable. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 25.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.270
|
Cities and Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation
|
Examines climate adaptation and mitigation responses at the city level. Discusses factors of greatest concern in adapting cities to climate change, including infrastructure; energy, food, and water systems; health; housing; and environmental justice. Various city and regional cases are used to analyze how cities are mobilizing to face climate change and integrate core considerations into urban planning. Working on independent case studies, students analyze how cities make urban planning decisions with respect to climate adaptation. In the process, students practice analytical skills to better understand how urban policies are made, and how they can be improved. Students develop recommendations for making climate adaptation more effective and sustainable at the city level. Assignment requirements differ for students completing the graduate version. Limited to 25.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.271
|
Indigenous Environmental Planning
|
Examines how Indigenous peoples' relationships to their homelands and local environments has been adversely affected by Western planning. Explores how these relationships have changed over time as American Indians, Alaska Natives, and other groups indigenous to North America and Hawai'i have adapted to new conditions, including exclusion from markets of exchange, overhunting/overfishing, dispossession, petrochemical development, conservation, mainstream environmentalism, and climate change. Seeks to understand current environmental challenges and their roots and discover potential solutions to address these challenges. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 25.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.273[J]
|
Infrastructure Design for Climate Change
|
In this team-oriented, project-based subject, students work to find technical solutions that could be implemented to mitigate the effects of natural hazards related to climate change, bearing in mind that any proposed measures must be appropriate in a given region's socio-political-economic context. Students are introduced to a variety of natural hazards and possible mitigation approaches as well as principles of design, including adaptable design and design for failure. Students select the problems they want to solve and develop their projects. During the term, officials and practicing engineers of Cambridge, Boston, Puerto Rico, and MIT Facilities describe their approaches. Student projects are documented in a written report and oral presentation. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
0-2-4
|
Permission of instructor
|
1.303[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.274
|
Cybersecurity Clinic
|
Provides an opportunity for MIT students to become certified in methods of assessing the vulnerability of public agencies (particularly agencies that manage critical urban infrastructure) to the risk of cyberattack. Certification involves completing an 8-hour, self-paced, online set of four modules during the first four weeks of the semester followed by a competency exam. Students who successfully complete the exam become certified. The certified students work in teams with client agencies in various cities around the United States. Through preparatory interactions with the agencies, and short on-site visits, teams prepare vulnerability assessments that client agencies can use to secure the technical assistance and financial support they need to manage the risks of cyberattack they are facing. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 15.
| true |
Fall, Spring
|
Graduate
|
2-4-6
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.301[J]
|
Introduction to Urban Design and Development
|
Examines the physical and social structure of cities and ways they can be changed. Includes significant thinkers in urban form, 20th-century American city design, urban design and society, global urban design, and design of neighborhoods and streets. Core lectures are supplemented by student papers examining the relationship of contemporary projects to history and theory, and factors of high quality global urban design and development. Guest speakers present cases involving current projects or research illustrating scope and methods of urban design theory and practice. Intended for those seeking an introduction to fundamental knowledge of theory and praxis in city design and development.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
Permission of instructor
|
4.252[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.302[J]
|
Urban Design Politics
|
Examines ways that urban design contributes to distribution of political power and resources in cities. Investigates the nature of relations between built form and political purposes through close study of public and private sector design commissions and planning processes that have been clearly motivated by political pressures, as well as more tacit examples. Lectures and discussions focus on cases from both developed and developing countries.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
Permission of instructor
|
4.253[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.303[J]
|
Real Estate Development Studio
|
Focuses on the synthesis of urban, mixed-use real estate projects, including the integration of physical design and programming with finance and marketing. Interdisciplinary student teams analyze how to maximize value across multiple dimensions in the process of preparing professional development proposals for sites in US cities and internationally. Reviews emerging real estate products and innovative developments to provide a foundation for studio work. Two major projects are interspersed with lectures and field trips. Integrates skills and knowledge in the MSRED program; also open to other students interested in real estate development by permission of the instructors.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
6-0-12
|
Permission of instructor
|
4.254[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.304[J]
|
Site and Environmental Systems Planning
|
Introduces a range of practical approaches involved in evaluating and planning sites within the context of natural and cultural systems. Develops the knowledge and skills to analyze and plan a site for development through exercises and an urban design project. Topics include land inventory, urban form, spatial organization of uses, parcelization, design of roadways, grading, utility systems, off-site impacts, and landscape strategies.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
6-0-9
|
Permission of instructor
|
4.255[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.305
|
Doing Good by Doing Well: Planning and Development Case Studies that Promote both the Public Good and Real Estate Value
|
Seminar studies how the messy and complex forces of politics, planning and the real estate market have collectively shaped Boston's urban fabric and skyline in the last two decades. Using some of the city's most important real estate development proposals as case studies, students dissect and analyze Boston's negotiated development review and permitting process to understand what it takes beyond a great development concept and a sound financial pro forma to earn community and political support. Throughout the term, students identify strategies for success and pitfalls for failure within this intricate approval process, as well as how these lessons can be generalized and applied to other cities and real estate markets.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
2-0-1 [P/D/F]
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.307[J]
|
China Urban Design Studio
|
Design studio that includes architects, urban designers, and city planners working in teams on a contemporary development project of importance in China, particularly in transitional, deindustrializing cities. Students analyze conditions, explore alternatives, and synthesize architecture, city design, and implementation plans. Lectures and brief study tours expose students to history and contemporary issues of urbanism in China. Offered every other spring at MIT in parallel with urban design studio at Tsinghua University, Beijing, involving students and faculty from both schools. Field visit to China will occur in January prior to studio. Limited to 10.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
0-21-0
|
Permission of instructor
|
4.173[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.308[J]
|
Ecological Urbanism Seminar
|
Weds the theory and practice of city design and planning as a means of adaptation with the insights of ecology and other environmental disciplines. Presents ecological urbanism as critical to the future of the city and its design, as it provides a framework for addressing challenges that threaten humanity — such as climate change, rising sea level, and environmental and social justice — while fulfilling human needs for health, safety, welfare, meaning, and delight. Applies a historical and theoretical perspective to the solution of real-world challenges. Enrollment limited.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
Permission of instructor
|
4.213[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.309[J]
|
Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry
|
Explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, and as a medium of inquiry and of expressing ideas. Readings, observations, and photographs form the basis of discussions on landscape, light, significant detail, place, poetics, narrative, and how photography can inform research, design and planning, among other issues. Recommended for students who want to employ visual methods in their theses. Enrollment limited.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null |
4.215[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.312
|
Engaging Community: Models and Methods for Strengthening Democracy
|
Examines the demographic complexity of cities and their fundamental design challenges for planners and other professions responsible for engaging the public. Working with clients, participants learn design principles for creating public engagement practices necessary for building inclusive civic infrastructure in cities. Participants also have the opportunity to review and practice strategies, techniques, and methods for engaging communities in demographically complex settings.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.313
|
Advanced Research Workshop in Landscape and Urbanism
|
In-depth research workshop on pressing socio-economic and environmental design issue of our time, includes discussion and practices with real-world stakeholders experimenting with new development typologies and technologies. The goal is to generate well-grounded, design-based solutions and landscape infrastructural responses to the physical design problem being addressed. Specific focus and practicum status is adjusted on a year-to-year basis.
| false |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
Permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.315[J]
|
Disaster Resilient Design
|
Seminar examines the linkages between natural hazards and environmental design. Engages theoretical debates about landscapes of risk, vulnerability, and resilience. Participants generate proposals for disaster resilience through combinations of retrofit, reconstruction, resettlement, commemorative, and anticipatory design. Methods include rapid bibliographic search, risk analysis, landscape synthesis, and comparative international methods. Projects vary and may focus on current crises or involve collaboration with the Aga Khan Development Network and other humanitarian organizations. Additional work required of students taking the graduate version. Limited to 15.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-6
| null |
4.217[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.318
|
Senseable Cities
|
Studies how ubiquitous and real-time information technology can help us to understand and improve cities and regions. Explores the impact of integrating real-time information technology into the built environment. Introduces theoretical foundations of ubiquitous computing. Provides technical tools for tactile development of small-scale projects. Limited to 24.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
Permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.320
|
Digital City Design Workshop
|
Students develop proposals, at the city and neighborhood scales, that integrate urban design, planning, and digital technology. Aims to create more efficient, responsive, and livable urban places and systems that combine physical form with digital media, sensing, communications, and data analysis. Students conduct field research, build project briefs, and deliver designs or prototypes, while supported by lectures, case studies, and involvement from experts and representatives of subject cities. Limited to 12.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
Permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.321
|
Data Science and Real Estate
|
Introduces the principles of data science and how data science is impacting cities and real estate, with a combination of fundamental lectures, guest speakers, and use cases. Explores how data science has been adopted by the real estate industry — from developers to city planners. Presents practical skills in data science and provides the opportunity for students to produce their own work and practice basic coding skills applied to real estate.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
4-0-8
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.323
|
International Real Estate Transactions
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Focuses on analyzing a variety of unique international real estate investment and development transactions. Blends real estate investing and development decision-making with discussion-based learning from a multidisciplinary standpoint. Seeks to facilitate a richer understanding of domestic (US) real estate transaction concepts by contextualizing them in the general analytical framework underpinning international real estate investment decision-making.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-3
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.324
|
Modeling Pedestrian Activity in Cities
|
Investigates the interaction between pedestrian activity, urban form, and land-use patterns in relatively dense urban environments. Informed by recent literature on pedestrian mobility, behavior, and biases, subject takes a practical approach, using software tools and analysis methods to operationalize and model pedestrian activity. Uses simplified yet powerful and scalable network analysis methods that focus uniquely on pedestrians, rather than engaging in comprehensive travel demand modeling across all modes. Emphasizes not only modeling or predicting pedestrian activity in given built settings, but also analyzing and understanding how changes in the built environment — land use changes, density changes, and connectivity changes — can affect pedestrian activity. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.325
|
Technological Change & Innovation for Real Estate and Cities
|
Seeks to examine the technological change and innovation that is disrupting the foundation of how we create the built environment. Through a series of educational workshops, students scout, catalog, and track technologies by looking at new real estate uses, products, processes, and organizational strategies at MIT labs and around the globe. Participants contribute to an interactive web tool, "The Tech Tracker," which provides technology intelligence to students and real estate professionals to enhance their understanding of technological progress.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
2-0-4
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.328[J]
|
Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City
|
Introduces methods for observing, interpreting, and representing the urban environment. Students draw on their senses and develop their ability to deduce, question, and test conclusions about how the built environment is designed, used, and valued. The interrelationship of built form, circulation networks, open space, and natural systems are a key focus. Supplements existing classes that cover theory and history of city design and urban planning and prepares students without design backgrounds with the fundamentals of physical planning. Intended as a foundation for 11.329.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
4-2-2
| null |
4.240[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.329[J]
|
Advanced Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City
|
Through a studio-based course in planning and urban design, builds on the foundation acquired in 11.328 to engage in creative exploration of how design contributes to resilient, just, and vibrant urban places. Through the planning and design of two projects, students creatively explore spatial ideas and utilize various digital techniques to communicate their design concepts, giving form to strategic thinking. Develops approaches and techniques to evaluate the plural structure of the built environment and offer propositions that address policies and regulations as well as the values, behaviors, and wishes of the different users.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
4-2-4
|
11.328 or permission of instructor
|
4.248[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.330[J]
|
The Making of Cities
|
Examines the complex development of cities through history by tracing a diachronic accumulation of forms and spaces in specific cities, and showing how significant ideas were made manifest across distinct geographies and cultures. Emphasizes how economic, spiritual, political, geographic and technological forces have simultaneously shaped and, in turn, been influenced by the city.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
rranged
|
11.001, 11.301, or permission of instructor
|
4.241[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.332[J]
|
Urban Design Studio
|
The design of urban environments. Strategies for change in large areas of cities, to be developed over time, involving different actors. Fitting forms into natural, man-made, historical, and cultural contexts; enabling desirable activity patterns; conceptualizing built form; providing infrastructure and service systems; guiding the sensory character of development. Involves architecture and planning students in joint work; requires individual designs or design and planning guidelines.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
rranged
|
Permission of instructor
|
4.163[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.333[J]
|
Urban Design Seminar: Perspectives on Contemporary Practice
|
Examines innovations in urban design practice occurring through the work of leading practitioners in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. Features lectures by major national and global practitioners in urban design. Projects and topics vary based on term and speakers but may cover architectural urbanism, landscape and ecology, arts and culture, urban design regulation and planning agencies, and citywide and regional design. Focuses on analysis and synthesis of themes discussed in presentations and discussions.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
2-0-7
| null |
4.244[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.334[J]
|
Advanced Seminar in Landscape and Urbanism
|
Explores theories, practices, and emerging trends in the fields of landscape architecture and urbanism, such as systemic design, landscape urbanism, engineered nature, drosscapes, urban biodiversity, urban mobility, megaregions, and urban agriculture. Lectures, readings, and guest speakers present a wide array of multi-disciplinary topics, including current works from P-REX lab. Students conduct independent and group research that is future-oriented.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
Permission of instructor
|
4.264[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.337[J]
|
Urban Design Ideals and Action
|
Examines the relationship between urban design ideals, urban design action, and the built environment through readings, discussions, presentations, and papers. Analyzes the diverse design ideals that influence cities and settlements, and investigates how urban designers use them to shape urban form. Provides a critical understanding of the diverse formal methods used to intervene creatively in both developed and developing contexts, especially pluralistic and informal built environments.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
2-0-7
| null |
4.247[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.338
|
Urban Design Studio
|
Examines the rehabilitation and re-imagination of a city, region, or territory. Analyzes human settlement at multiple scales: regional, citywide, neighborhood, and individual dwellings. Aims to shape innovative design solutions, enhance social amenity, and improve economic equity through strategic and creative geographical, urban design and architectural thinking. Intended for students with backgrounds in architecture, community development, urban design, and physical planning. Limited to 12 via application and lottery.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
rranged
|
11.328 or permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.339
|
Downtown
|
Seminar on downtown in US cities from the late 19th century to the late 20th. Emphasis on downtown as an idea, place, and cluster of interests, on the changing character of downtown, and on recent efforts to rebuild it. Topics considered include subways, skyscrapers, highways, urban renewal, and retail centers. Focus on readings, discussions, and individual research projects. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
2-0-7
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.344[J]
|
Innovative Project Delivery in the Public and Private Sectors
|
Develops a strong strategic understanding of how best to deliver various types of projects in the built environment. Examines the compatibility of various project delivery methods, consisting of organizations, contracts, and award methods, with certain types of projects and owners. Six methods examined: traditional general contracting; construction management; multiple primes; design-build; turnkey; and build-operate-transfer. Includes lectures, case studies, guest speakers, and a team project to analyze a case example.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
2-0-4
| null |
1.472[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.345[J]
|
Entrepreneurship in the Built Environment
|
Introduction to entrepreneurship and how it shapes the world we live in. Through experiential learning in a workshop setting, students start to develop entrepreneurial mindset and skills. Through a series of workshops, students are introduced to the concept of Venture Design to create new venture proposals for the built environment as a method to understand the role of the entrepreneur in the fields of design, planning, real estate, and other related industries.
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Fall
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Graduate
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2-0-4
|
Permission of instructor
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1.462[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.348[J]
|
Contemporary Urbanism Proseminar: Theory and Representation (New)
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Critical introduction to key contemporary positions in urbanism to the ends of researching, representing, and designing territories that respond to the challenges of the 21st century. Provides an overview of contemporary urban issues, situates them in relation to a genealogy of urban precedents, and constructs a theoretical framework that engages the allied fields of architecture, landscape architecture, political ecology, geography, territorial planning, and environmental humanities. Comprised of three sections, first section articulates a framework on the urban as both process and form, shifting the emphasis from city to territory. Second section engages a series of related urban debates, such as density/sprawl, growth/shrinkage, and codes/exception. Third section calls upon urban agency in the age of environment through the object of infrastructures of trash, water, oil, and food. Limited to 25.
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Fall
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Graduate
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rranged
|
Permission of instructor
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4.228[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
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False
|
11.350
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Sustainable Real Estate: Analysis and Investment
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Offers insight into tension and synergy between sustainability and the real estate industry. Considers why sustainability matters for real estate, how real estate can contribute to sustainability and remain profitable, and what investment and market opportunities exist for sustainable real estate products and how they vary across asset classes. Lectures combine economic and business insights and tools to understand the challenges and opportunities of sustainable real estate. Provides a framework to understand issues in sustainability in real estate and examine economic mechanisms, technological advances, business models, and investment and financing strategies available to promote sustainability. Discusses buildings as basic physical assets; cities as the context where buildings interact with the built environment, policies, and urban systems; and portfolios as sustainable real estate investment vehicles in capital markets. Enrollment for MSRED, MCP, and MBA students is prioritized.
| true |
Spring
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Graduate
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3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.351
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Real Estate Ventures I: Negotiating Development-Phase Agreements
|
Focuses on key business and legal issues within the principal agreements used to control, entitle, capitalize, and construct a mixed-use real estate development. Through the lens of the real estate developer and its counter-parties, students identify, discuss, and negotiate the most important business issues in right of entry, purchase and sale, development, and joint-venture agreements, as well as a construction contract and construction loan agreement. Students work closely with attorneys who specialize in the construction of such agreements and with students from area law schools and Columbia University and New York University. Enrollment limited to approximately 25; preference to MSRED students. No listeners.
| true |
Fall
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Graduate
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3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.352
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Real Estate Ventures II: Negotiating Leases, Financings, and Restructurings
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Focuses on key business and legal issues within the principal agreements used to lease, finance, and restructure a real estate venture. Through the lens of the real estate developer and its counter-parties, students identify, discuss and negotiate the most important business issues in office and retail leases, and permanent loan, mezzanine loan, inter-creditor, standstill/forbearance, and loan modification (workout) agreements. Students work closely with attorneys who specialize in the construction of such agreements and with students from area law schools and New York University and Columbia University. Single-asset real estate bankruptcy and the federal income tax consequences of debt restructuring are also addressed. Limited to 25; preference to MSRED students; no Listeners.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
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3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.353[J]
|
Securitization of Mortgages and Other Assets
|
Investigates the economics and finance of securitization. Considers the basic mechanics of structuring deals for various asset-backed securities. Investigates the pricing of pooled assets, using Monte Carlo and other option pricing techniques, as well as various trading strategies used in these markets. Limited to 55.
| true |
Spring
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Graduate
|
3-0-3
|
11.431, 15.401, or permission of instructor
|
15.429[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.355
|
International Housing Economics and Finance
|
Presents a theory of comparative differences in international housing outcomes. Introduces institutional differences in ways housing expenditures are financed, and economic determinants of housing outcomes (construction costs, land values, housing quality, ownership rates). Analyzes flow of funds to and from the different national housing finance sectors. Develops an understanding of the greater financial and macroeconomic implications of mortgage credit sector, and how policies affect ways housing asset fluctuations impact national economies. Considers perspective of investors in international real estate markets and risks and rewards involved. Draws on lessons from international comparative approach, applies them to economic and finance policies at the local, state/provincial, and federal levels within country of choice. Meets with 11.145 when offered concurrently. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
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3-0-6
|
11.202, 11.203, 14.01, or permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
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False
|
11.356
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Healthy Cities: Assessing Health Impacts of Policies and Plans
|
Examines the built, psychosocial, economic, and natural environment factors that affect health behaviors and outcomes, including population-level patterns of disease distribution and health disparities. Introduces tools designed to integrate public health considerations into policy-making and planning. Assignments provide students opportunities to develop experience bringing a health lens to policy, budgeting, and/or planning debates. Emphasizes health equity and healthy cities, and explores the relationship between health equity and broader goals for social and racial justice. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 30.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.360
|
Community Growth and Land Use Planning
|
Seminar, workshops, and fieldwork on strategies to use municipal land use regulations to shape urban growth and equity. Practicum workshop builds skills in civic engagement, policy-relevant research, zoning regulations, and physical design and planning. The workshop begins with implementation of qualitative and quantitative research into the existing built environment, social, economic, and political context. It continues with the planning, design, and implementation of community engagement strategies to shape goals and vision for the projects. The practicum then explores land use scenarios, design and innovative zoning and regulatory techniques, to improve equity in the areas of housing, environment, economic development, mobility, and the public realm. Projects arranged with small teams serving municipal clients experiencing pressures of urban growth and change in Massachusetts. Preference to MCP second year students.
| true |
Fall
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Graduate
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3-0-9
|
Permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.365
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Sustainable Urbanization Practicum
|
Working with a city development client (city government/real estate developer/NGO) in a fast-urbanizing region, practicum provides students an opportunity to synthesize policy, planning or urban science solutions towards sustainable urbanization, within the constraints of a client-based project. Priority is given to MCP students.
| true |
Spring
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Graduate
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3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.367
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Land Use Law and Politics: Race, Place, and Law
|
Explores conceptions of spatial justice and introduces students to basic principles of US law and legal analysis, focused on land use, equal protection, civil rights, fair housing, and local government law, in order to examine who should control how land is used. Examines the rights of owners of land and the types of regulatory and market-based tools that are available to control land use. Explores basic principles of civil rights and anti-discrimination law and focuses on particular civil rights problems associated with the land use regulatory system, such as exclusionary zoning, residential segregation, the fair distribution of undesirable land uses, and gentrification. Introduces basic skills of statutory drafting and interpretation. Assignments differ for those taking the graduate version.
| true |
Spring
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Graduate
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3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.368
|
Environmental Justice: Law and Policy
|
Introduces frameworks for analyzing and addressing inequalities in the distribution of environmental benefits and burdens, particularly by race and by class. Explores the foundations and principles of the environmental justice movement from the perspectives of social science, public policy, and law. Introduces basic principles of US constitutional and environmental law, with a focus on equal protection and civil rights. Applies environmental justice principles to contemporary issues in urban policy and planning, including effects of and responses to climate change and global heating. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
| true |
Fall
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Graduate
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3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.371[J]
|
Sustainable Energy
|
Assessment of current and potential future energy systems. Covers resources, extraction, conversion, and end-use technologies, with emphasis on meeting 21st-century regional and global energy needs in a sustainable manner. Examines various energy technologies in each fuel cycle stage for fossil (oil, gas, synthetic), nuclear (fission and fusion) and renewable (solar, biomass, wind, hydro, and geothermal) energy types, along with storage, transmission, and conservation issues. Emphasizes analysis of energy propositions within an engineering, economic and social context. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
| true |
Fall
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Graduate
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3-1-8
|
Permission of instructor
|
1.818[J], 2.65[J], 10.391[J], 22.811[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.373[J]
|
Science, Politics, and Environmental Policy
|
Examines the role of science in US and international environmental policymaking. Surveys the methods by which scientists learn about the natural world; the treatment of science by experts, advocates, the media, and the public and the way science is used in legislative, administrative and judicial decision making. Through lectures, group discussions, and written essays, students develop a critical understanding of the role of science in environmental policy. Potential case studies include fisheries management, ozone depletion, global warming, smog, and endangered species. Students taking the graduate version complete different assignments.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
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3-0-6
|
Permission of instructor
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12.885[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.381
|
Infrastructure Systems in Theory and Practice
|
Examines theories of infrastructure from science and technology studies, history, economics, and anthropology in order to understand the prospects for change for many new and existing infrastructure systems. Examines how these theories are then implemented within systems in the modern city, including but not limited to, energy, water, transportation, and telecommunications infrastructure. Seminar is conducted with intensive group research projects, in-class discussions and debates.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
(14.01 and (11.202 or 11.203)) or permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.382
|
Water Diplomacy: The Science, Policy, and Politics of Managing Shared Resources
|
Examines the history and dynamics of international environmental treaty-making, or what is called environmental diplomacy. Emphasizes climate change and other atmospheric, marine resource, global waste management and sustainability-related treaties and the problems of implementing them. Reviews the legal, economic, and political dynamics of managing shared resources, involving civil society on a global basis, and enforcing transboundary agreements. Focuses especially on principles from international relations, international law, environmental management, and negotiation theory as they relate to common-pool resource management.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
Permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.383[J]
|
People and Profits: Shaping the Future of Work
|
Examines managing work in the 21st century in the interests of both people and profits through the context of rising inequality, technological change, globalization, and the growth of the gig economy. Students evaluate various business and policy interventions intended to improve work through critical analysis of the evidence, interviews with workers and evaluations of firms, and guest speakers. Guests include business leaders at leading-edge firms and labor leaders experimenting with new ways of providing workers a voice in the workplace. Draws on materials from the MIT Task Force on Work of the Future and the online course Shaping Work of the Future.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-1-8
| null |
15.662[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.387
|
Environmental Finance and Political Economy
|
Examines the sociopolitical, cultural and economic dimensions of the financialization of environmental goods and services. Provides an introduction to key financial terms, practices, and institutions; analyzes the logics and origins of environmental finance, as well as the operation and implications of particular systems such as carbon-trading, REDD and ecosystem service pricing and swapping. Limited to 15.
| true |
Fall
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Graduate
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3-0-9
|
Permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.388[J]
|
Dimensions of Geoengineering
|
Familiarizes students with the potential contributions and risks of using geoengineering technologies to control climate damage from global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions. Discusses geoengineering in relation to other climate change responses: reducing emissions, removing CO2 from the atmosphere, and adapting to the impacts of climate change. Limited to 100.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
2-0-4
| null |
1.850[J], 5.000[J], 10.600[J], 12.884[J], 15.036[J], 16.645[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.401
|
Introduction to Housing, Community, and Economic Development
|
Provides a critical introduction to the shape and determinants of political, social, and economic inequality in America, with a focus on racial and economic justice. Explores the role of the city in visions of justice. Analyzes the historical, political, and institutional contexts of housing and community development policy in the US, including federalism, municipal fragmentation, and decentralized public financing. Introduces major dimensions in US housing policy, such as housing finance, public housing policy, and state and local housing affordability mechanisms. Reviews major themes in community economic development, including drivers of economic inequality, small business policy, employment policy, and cooperative economics. Expectations and evaluation criteria differ for students taking graduate version.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.402
|
Urban Politics: Race and Political Change
|
Examines the place of US cities in political theory and practice. Particular attention given to contemporary issues of racial polarization, demographic change, poverty, sprawl, and globalization. Specific cities are a focus for discussion.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.403
|
Urban China Research Seminar
|
Examines the behavioral foundations and key policy issues of urban development, real estate markets, and sustainability in China. Discusses urban agglomeration economies, place-based investment, and urban vibrancy; economic geography of innovation and entrepreneurship; real estate dynamics and housing policies; land use and transportation; and urban quality of life and green cities, focusing on China but with some international comparisons.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
2-0-7
|
Permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.404
|
Housing Policy and Planning in the US and Abroad
|
Explores the policy tools and planning techniques used to formulate and implement housing strategies at local, state and federal levels. Topics include America's housing finance system and the causes of instability in mortgage markets; economic and social inequity in access to affordable housing; approaches to meeting community housing needs through local and state planning programs; programs for addressing homelessness; and emerging ideas about sustainable development and green building related to housing development and renovation. Introduces comparative policy approaches from other countries.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.405
|
Political Economy & Society
|
Focuses on the connection (or not) between mind (theory) and matter (lived experience). Examines basic tenets of classical and recent political economic theories and their explication in ideas of market economies, centrally planned economies, social market economies, and co-creative economies. Assesses theories according to their relation to the lived experiences of people in communities and workplaces.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-6
|
Permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.407
|
Economic Development Planning and Policy
|
Introduces tools and techniques in economic development planning. Extensive use of data collection, analysis, and display techniques. Students build interpretive intuition skills through user experience design activities and develop a series of memos summarizing the results of their data analysis. These are aggregated into a final report, and include the tools developed over the semester. Students taking graduate version will complete modified assignments focused on developing computer applications.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
Permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.409
|
The Institutions of Modern Capitalism: States and Markets
|
Investigates the relationship between states and markets in the evolution of modern capitalism. Critically assesses the rise of what Karl Polanyi and Albert Hirschman have referred to as "market society:" a powerful conceptual framework that views the development of modern capitalism not as an outcome of deterministic economic and technological forces, but rather as the result of contingent social and political processes. Exposes students to a range of conceptual tools and analytic frameworks through which to understand the politics of economic governance and to consider the extent to which societal actors can challenge its limits and imagine alternative possibilities. Sub-themes vary from year to year and have focused on racial capitalism, markets and morality, urban futures, and the global financial crisis. Limited to 25.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
2-0-10
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.413
|
The Economic Approach to Cities and Environmental Sustainability
|
Provides a systematic framework of the interplay (both tension and synergy) between urbanization and environmental sustainability from a global perspective. Enhances analytical reasoning and quantitative skills to assist evidence-based empirical study and policy design evaluation. Explores the causes and consequences of urban environmental quality dynamics, and provides econometric tools to quantify such relationships. Examines state-of-the-art research in this field by introducing empirical studies from both developing and developed countries (highlighting fast urbanization). Themes include urban production, households, transportation and form, as well as political economy and climate resilience. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
11.220, 14.300, or permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.422[J]
|
Law, Technology, and Public Policy
|
Examines how law, economics, and technological change shape public policy, and how law can sway technological change; how the legal system responds to environmental, safety, energy, social, and ethical problems; how law and markets interact to influence technological development; and how law can affect wealth distribution, employment, and social justice. Covers energy/climate change; genetic engineering; telecommunications and the role of misinformation; industrial automation; effect of regulation on technological innovation; impacts of antitrust law on innovation and equity; pharmaceuticals; nanotechnology; cost/benefit analysis as a decision tool; public participation in governmental decisions affecting science and technology; corporate influence on technology and welfare; and law and economics as competing paradigms to encourage sustainability. Students taking graduate version explore subject in greater depth.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null |
15.655[J], IDS.435[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.426
|
Urban Emergency Medical Services: Clinical, Operational, and Social Dimensions
|
Examines clinical, operational, and social dimensions of urban emergency medical services. Reviews triage and treatments in the field for major trauma and medical emergencies. Analyzes how to create a culture of safety in EMS and build skills in crew resource management. Analyzes social determinants of health, presents fundamentals of research design for EMS, and examines how EMS and community paramedicine can play roles in reducing racial disparities in health and advancing health equity. Designed to meet the National Continued Competency Program and Massachusetts Office of Emergency Medical Services EMTB recertification requirements. Students can choose to take the subject for 6 units, which meets the recertification requirements, or 12 units. The 12-unit version includes additional homework and advising from the teaching team on research design in EMS and on creating new knowledge about EMS through original analysis EMS data.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
rranged
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.427[J]
|
Labor Markets and Employment Policy
|
Research-based examination of how labor markets work — and how they have evolved over time — through trends such as rising income inequality, technological change, globalization, falling worker power, and the fissuring of the workplace. Through reading and engaging with economics research papers, students use theoretical frameworks and rigorous empirical evidence to analyze public policy interventions in the labor market, including unemployment insurance, minimum wage, unions, family leave, anti-discrimination policies, and workforce development. Preference to graduate and PhD students.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
Permission of instructor
|
15.677[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.428
|
PropTech Ventures (New)
|
Showcases the real estate technology, or PropTech, landscape, through the presentation of recent disruptions in the real estate industry. Through a better understanding of the sector, students begin to develop entrepreneurial ideas and skills necessary to produce the PropTech ventures of the future. Focuses on PropTech that improves the way we buy, rent, sell, manage, construct, and design real estate to help make better investment and development decisions.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-3
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.429[J]
|
Real Estate Markets: Macroeconomics
|
Applies the latest economic thinking and research to the task of analyzing aggregate real estate market time series, assessing risk, and developing forecasts. Presents the premise that because of capital durability and construction lags, real estate markets exhibit some degree of mean reversion and as such are at least partially predictable. Examines the extent and causes of market volatility across different markets and types of property. Long-term aggregate trends impacting the real estate sector, from demographics to technology, discussed. Limited to 30.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-3
|
11.431 or permission of instructor
|
15.022[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.430[J]
|
Leadership in Real Estate
|
Designed to help students deepen their understanding of leadership and increase self-awareness. They reflect on their authentic leadership styles and create goals and a learning plan to develop their capabilities. They also participate in activities to strengthen their "leadership presence" - the ability to authentically connect with people's hearts and minds. Students converse with classmates and industry leaders to learn from their insights, experiences, and advice. Limited to 15.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-3
| null |
15.941[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.431[J]
|
Real Estate Finance and Investment
|
Concepts and techniques for analyzing financial decisions in commercial property development and investment. Topics include property income streams, discounted cash flow, equity valuation, leverage and income tax considerations, development projects, and joint ventures. An introduction to real estate capital markets as a source of financing is also provided. Limited to graduate students.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
4-0-8
|
Permission of instructor
|
15.426[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.433[J]
|
Real Estate Economics
|
Develops an understanding of the fundamental economic factors that shape the market for real property, as well as the influence of capital markets in asset pricing. Analyzes of housing as well as commercial real estate. Covers demographic analysis, regional growth, construction cycles, urban land markets, and location theory as well as recent technology impacts. Exercises and modeling techniques for measuring and predicting property demand, supply, vacancy, rents, and prices.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
4-0-8
|
14.01, 15.010, or 15.011
|
15.021[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.435
|
Mixed-Income Housing Development
|
Provides an overview of affordable and mixed-income housing development for students who wish to understand the fundamental issues and requirements of urban scale housing development, and the process of planning, financing and developing such housing. Students gain practical experience assembling a mixed-income housing development proposal.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-3
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.437
|
Financing Economic Development and Housing
|
Studies financing tools and program models to support and promote local economic development and housing. Overview of public and private capital markets and financing sources helps illustrate market imperfections that constrain economic and housing development and increase race and class disparaties. Explores federal housing and economic development programs as well as state and local public finance tools. Covers policies and program models. Investigates public finance practice to better understand how these finance programs affect other municipal operations. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 25.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.438
|
Economic Development Planning
|
Focuses on the policy tools and planning techniques used to formulate and implement local economic development strategies. Includes an overview of economic development theory, discussion of major policy areas and practices employed to influence local economic development, a review of analytic tools to assess local economies and how to formulate strategy. Coursework includes formulation of a local economic development strategy for a client. Limited to 15.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
11.203, 11.220, and permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.439
|
Revitalizing Urban Main Streets
|
Workshop explores the integration of economic development and physical planning interventions to revitalize urban commercial districts. Covers: an overview of the causes of urban business district decline, revitalization challenges, and the strategies to address them; the planning tools used to understand and assess urban Main Streets from both physical design and economic development perspectives; and the policies, interventions, and investments used to foster urban commercial revitalization. Students apply the theories, tools and interventions discussed in class to preparing a formal neighborhood commercial revitalization plan for a client business district. Limited to 15.
| false |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
4-0-11
|
Permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.440
|
Housing and Social Stratification in the United States
|
Investigates how housing — markets, policies, and individual and collective actions — stratifies society. Students develop structural frameworks to understand the processes of stratification. Grounding work and research in history, students identify the ways that housing markets and housing market interventions reflect, reinforce, and (occasionally) combat social inequities. Through extensive writing and rewriting, students frame their work in terms of overlapping crises, including gentrification, flight, shortage, and homelessness.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.441
|
Planning, Economic Development, and Municipal Public Finance
|
Explores the relationship between municipal planning initiatives and local public finance. Introduces a variety of tools, including annual fiscal year budgeting, development of capital improvement plans, user fees, and local property taxation. Municipal powers to levy taxes on items such as meals, hotel rooms, and sales and their effects on land use decisions are analyzed. Tools for economic development, such as tax increment finance, explored in the context of the potential benefits and drawbacks of such tools for a local economy. Also explores how planners can encourage more inclusive budgeting decisions through tools such as participatory budgeting. Students complete a final project on a municipal finance tool and its relationship to local planning goals.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.442
|
Geography of the Global Economy
|
Analyzes implications of economic globalization for communities, regions, international businesses and economic development organizations. Uses spatial analysis techniques to model the role of energy resources in shaping international political economy. Investigates key drivers of human, physical, and social capital flows and their roles in modern human settlement systems. Surveys contemporary models of industrialization and places them in geographic context. Connects forces of change with their implications for the distribution of wealth and human well-being. Looks backward to understand pre-Covid conditions and then returns to the present to understand how a global pandemic changes the world. Class relies on current literature and explorations of sectors. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
| true |
Fall, Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.449
|
Decarbonizing Urban Mobility
|
Focuses on measuring and reducing emissions from passenger transportation. After examining travel, energy, and climate conditions, students review existing approaches to transport decarbonization. Evaluates new mobility technologies through their potential to contribute to (or delay) a zero emission mobility system. Students consider the policy tools required to achieve approaches to achieve change. Frames past and future emission reductions using an approach based on the Kaya Identity, decomposing past (and potential future) emissions into their component pieces. Seeks to enable students to be intelligent evaluators of approaches to transportation decarbonization and equip them with the tools to develop and evaluate policy measures relevant to their local professional challenges. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-3-6
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.450
|
Real Estate Development Building Systems
|
Provides students with a concise overview of the range of building systems that are encountered in professional commercial real estate development practice in the USA. Focuses on the relationship between real estate product types, building systems, and the factors that real estate development professionals must consider when evaluating these products and systems for a specific development project. Surveys commercial building technology including Foundation, Structural, MEP/FP, Envelope, and Interiors systems and analyzes the factors that lead development professionals to select specific systems for specific product types. One or more field trips to active construction sites may be scheduled during non-class hours based on student availability.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
2-0-1
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.452
|
Planning against Evictions and Displacement
|
Combines state-of-the-art research on evictions and displacement globally (in the context of the global crisis of evictions, land grabbing, and gentrification) with the study of policy and practical responses to displacement, assisted by selected case studies. First half covers explanations about the mechanisms and drivers of displacement, while the second half introduces and evaluates policy and legal responses developed by many actors. Analyzes the use of UN and national standards on displacement as well as the use of tools such as the Eviction Impact Assessment Tool. Limited to 15 graduate students.
| false |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.454
|
Big Data, Visualization, and Society
|
Data visualizations communicate the insights found in data to non-technical audiences. Students develop technical skills to work with big data to expose societal issues and communicate the insights. Focuses on different topics each year. After framing that topic, the first half of the subject focuses on learning to analyze the data with Python. The second half of the subject focuses on learning web-based data visualization tools (JavaScript and D3). Students learn data storytelling concepts and produce web-based data visualizations for their final projects. Throughout, students learn ethical data practices. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.C85[J]
|
Interactive Data Visualization and Society
|
Covers the design, ethical, and technical skills for creating effective visualizations. Short assignments build familiarity with the data analysis and visualization design process. Students participate in hour-long studio reading sessions. A final project provides experience working with real-world big data, provided by external partners, in order to expose and communicate insights about societal issues. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-1-8
| null |
6.C85[J], IDS.C85[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.457
|
More than Data: Smart Cities, Big Data, Civic Technology and Policy
|
Discussions of future directions in the 'smart cities' debate. Begins by framing the current smart city with past trends such as the efficient city movement of the 1930s and the Modernist city of the 1950s and 60s. Examines current trends in big data, civic apps, Code for America, the open data movement, DIY data collections devices, and their policy impacts.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-6
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.458
|
Crowd Sourced City: Civic Tech Prototyping
|
Investigates the use of social medial and digital technologies for planning and advocacy by working with actual planning and advocacy organizations to develop, implement, and evaluate prototype digital tools. Students use the development of their digital tools as a way to investigate new media technologies that can be used for planning. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.466[J]
|
Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development
|
Investigates sustainable development, taking a broad view to include not only a healthy economic base, but also a sound environment, stable and rewarding employment, adequate purchasing power and earning capacity, distributional equity, national self-reliance, and maintenance of cultural integrity. Explores national, multinational, and international political and legal mechanisms to further sustainable development through transformation of the industrial state. Addresses the importance of technological innovation and the financial crisis of 2008 and the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and inflation, as well as governmental interventions to reduce inequality.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
Permission of instructor
|
1.813[J], 15.657[J], IDS.437[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.469
|
Urban Sociology in Theory and Practice
|
Introduction to core writings in urban sociology. Explores the nature and changing character of the city and the urban experience, providing context for the development of urban studies research and planning skills. Topics include the changing nature of community, neighborhood effects, social capital and networks, social stratification, feminist theory and critical race theory, and the interaction of social structure and political power. Subject will take place in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk with half of the class from MIT and half of the class from MCI-Norfolk. Limited to 25.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.472[J]
|
D-Lab: Development
|
Issues in international development, appropriate technology and project implementation addressed through lectures, case studies, guest speakers and laboratory exercises. Students form project teams to partner with community organizations in developing countries, and formulate plans for an optional IAP site visit. (Previous field sites include Ghana, Brazil, Honduras and India.) Recitation sections focus on specific project implementation, and include cultural, social, political, environmental and economic overviews of the target countries as well as an introduction to the local languages. Enrollment limited by lottery; must attend first class session.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-2-7
| null |
EC.781[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.474
|
D-Lab: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
|
Focuses on disseminating Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) innovations in low-income countries and underserved communities worldwide. Structured around project-based learning, lectures, discussions, and student-led tutorials. Emphasizes core WASH principles, appropriate and sustainable technologies at household and community scales, urban challenges worldwide, culture-specific solutions, lessons from start-ups, collaborative partnerships, and social marketing. Mentored term project entails finding and implementing a viable solution focused on education/training; a technology, policy or plan; a marketing approach; and/or behavior change. Guest lecturers present case studies, emphasizing those developed and disseminated by MIT faculty, practitioners, students, and alumni. Field trips scheduled during class time, with optional field trips on weekends. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 20.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.477[J]
|
Urban Energy Systems and Policy
|
Examines efforts in developing and advanced nations and regions. Examines key issues in the current and future development of urban energy systems, such as technology, use, behavior, regulation, climate change, and lack of access or energy poverty. Case studies on a diverse sampling of cities explore how prospective technologies and policies can be implemented. Includes intensive group research projects, discussion, and debate.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
11.203, 14.01, or permission of instructor
|
1.286[J]
| false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.478
|
Behavioral Science, AI, and Urban Mobility
|
Integrates behavioral science, artificial intelligence, and transportation technology to shape travel behavior, design mobility systems and business, and reform transportation policies. Introduces methods to sense travel behavior with new technology and measurements; nudge behavior through perception and preference shaping; design mobility systems and ventures that integrate autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, and public transit; and regulate travel with behavior-sensitive transport policies. Challenges students to pilot behavioral experiments and design creative mobility systems, business and policies. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
| true |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
Permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.480
|
Urbanization and Development
|
Examines developmental dynamics of rapidly urbanizing locales, with a special focus on the developing world. Case studies from India, China, Mexico, Brazil, and South Africa form the basis for discussion of social, spatial, political and economic changes in cities spurred by the decline of industry, the rise of services, and the proliferation of urban mega projects. Emphasizes the challenges of growing urban inequality, environmental risk, citizen displacement, insufficient housing, and the lack of effective institutions for metropolitan governance. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.484
|
Project Appraisal in Developing Countries
|
Covers techniques of financial analysis of investment expenditures, as well as the economic and distributive appraisal of development projects. Critical analysis of these tools in the political economy of international development is discussed. Topics include appraisal's role in the project cycle, planning under conditions of uncertainty, constraints in data quality and the limits of rational analysis, and the coordination of an interdisciplinary appraisal team. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Enrollment limited; preference to majors.
| true |
Spring
|
Graduate
|
3-0-9
|
Permission of instructor
| null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
11.485
|
Southern Urbanisms
|
Guides students in examining implicit and explicit values of diversity offered in "Southern" knowledge bases, theories, and practices of urban production. With a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, considers why the South-centered location of the estimated global urban population boom obligates us to examine how cities work as they do, and why Western-informed urban theory and planning scholarship may be ill-suited to provide guidance on urban development there. Examines the "rise of the rest" and its implications for the making and remaking of expertise and norms in planning practice. Students engage with seminal texts from leading authors of Southern urbanism and critical themes, including the rise of Southern theory, African urbanism, Chinese international cooperation, Brazilian urban diplomacy, and the globally-driven commodification of urban real estate.
| false |
Fall
|
Graduate
|
2-0-10
| null | null | false | false | false |
False
|
False
|
False
|
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