Media in City Design and Development OpenCourseWare: MIT's Free Online Graduate Level Urban Development Course
'Imaging the City: The Place of Media in City Design and Development' explores how individual's perceptions of cities are shaped by both their exposure to visual media and their personal sensory experiences. This free OpenCourseWare from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is part of the graduate program in Urban Studies and Planning and is intended for advanced students.
Imaging the City: The Place of Media in City Design and Development: Course Specifics
| Degree Level | Free | Audio | Video | Downloads |
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| Graduate | Yes | No | No | Yes |
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Imaging the City: The Place of Media in City Design and Development: Course Description
Institutions and individuals, including city planners, often revise and manipulate city images to craft ideal visions of the areas they seek to promote. Students in this free OpenCourseWare will learn that image building goes beyond aesthetics to include strategies for economic and environmental advancements. They also will examine the importance of why images are built, who builds them and whom they are built for. MIT Professors Lawrence Vale and Sam Warner guide this graduate class and co-wrote its core text, 'Imaging the City: Continuing Struggles and New Directions.' This course was developed by the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
Lists of readings and assignments, along with extensive lecture notes, are available for free online. If you're interested in taking this course, visit the Media in City Design and Development course page.
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