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City to City, as a class, will jump into the complexity of planning in New Orleans, a post-disaster city. City-to-City will ask how a post-disaster city grapple with its ideas of identity, what it is, who it represents, and how it projects its sense of self to residences, businesses, tourists, and to the outside world. In considering its people, how do city planners think about who lives where and why? At the same time, how can city planners celebrate a city's history and its culture and how can these elements be woven into reconstruction? Students will travel from Cambridge to New Orleans over Spring Break to meet and consult with their alumni clients, and continue to work on projects.

This class is intended to introduce students to understandings of the city generated from both social science literature and the field of urban design. The first part of the course examines literature on the history and theory of the city. Among other factors, it pays special attention to the larger territorial settings in which cities emerged and developed (ranging from the global to the national to the regional context) and how these affected the nature, character, and functioning of cities and the lives of their inhabitants. The remaining weeks focus more explicitly on the theory and practice of design visions for the city, the latter in both utopian and realized form. One of our aims will be to assess the conditions under which a variety of design visions were conceived, and to assess them in terms of the varying patterns of territorial "nestedness" (local, regional, national, imperial, and global) examined in the first part of the course. Another will be to encourage students to think about the future prospects of cities (in terms of territorial context or other political functions and social aims) and to offer design visions that might reflect these new dynamics.

Do you want to think about ways to help solve New Orleans' problems? CityScope is a project-based introduction to the contemporary city. "Problem solving in complex (urban) environments" is different than "solving complex problems." As a member of a team, you will learn to assess scenarios for the purpose of formulating social, economic and design strategies to provide humane and sustainable solutions. A visit to New Orleans is planned for spring break 2007.

Este curso se presenta como una asignatura más en el área de aprendizajes sociales

Curso para ciudadanos más activos y comprometidos con su sociedad y su comunidad.

This course is a service-learning, project-based studio course that focuses on collaborative design of civic media. Students will work in diverse teams with community partners to create civic media projects grounded in real-world community needs. This course covers co-design and lean UX methods, and best practices for including communities in iterative stages of project ideation, design, prototyping, testing, launch, and stewardship. Students should have an interest in collaboration with community-based organizations.

This course is a service-learning, project-based studio course that focuses on collaborative design of civic media. Students will work in diverse teams with community partners to create civic media projects grounded in real-world community needs. This course covers co-design and lean UX methods, and best practices for including communities in iterative stages of project ideation, design, prototyping, testing, launch, and stewardship. Students should have an interest in collaboration with community-based organizations.

Lecture Series on Transportation Engineering - II by Dr.Rajat Rastogi, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee.

Lecture Series on Building Materials and Construction by Dr. B. Bhattacharjee, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delh

Lecture Series on Engineering Geology by Prof.Debasis Roy, Department of Civil Engineering,I.I.T.Kharagpur.

Lectures by Prof. Mukesh SharmarnDepartment of Civil EngineeringrnIIT Kanpur

Lectures by Prof. T.I.Eldho Dept. of Civil Engineering IIT Bombay.

Lecture Series on Foundation Engineering by Dr.N.K.Samadhiya and Dr.Priti Maheshwari Department of Civil Engineering, II

Lecture Series on Hydraulics by Dr.Arup Kumar Sarma, Department of Civil Engineering,IIT Guwahati.

Lecture Series on Introduction to Transportation Engineering by Prof. Bhargab Maitra and Prof. K. Sudhakar Reddy, Depart

Lecture Series on Mechanics of Solids by Prof.M.S.Siva Kumar , Department of Applied Mechanics ,I.I.T.Madras.

Lecture Series on Modern Surveying Techniques by Prof.S.K.Ghosh, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee.

Lectures by rnProf. A.K.SenguptarnDepartment of Civil EngineeringrnIIT Madras

Lecture Series on Soil Mechanics by Prof.B.V.S. Viswanadham and Prof. G. Venkatachalam, Department of Civil Engineering,

Lecture Series on Strength of Materials by Prof. S.K.Bhattacharyya, Department of Civil Engineering,I.I.T.,Kharagpur.