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Imaging the City: The Place of Media in City Design and Development, Fall 1998
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Subject: Social Sciences
Collection: MIT OpenCourseWare
Grade Level:
Post-secondary
Abstract: Kevin Lynch's landmark volume, The Image of the City (1960), emphasized the perceptual characteristics of the urban environment, stressing the ways that individuals mentally organize their own sensory experience of cities. Increasingly, however, city imaging is supplemented and constructed by exposure ... More »
Theory of City Form, Spring 2004
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Subject: Arts, Social Sciences
Collection: MIT OpenCourseWare
Grade Level:
Post-secondary
Abstract: Theories about cities and the form that settlements should take will be discussed. Attempts will be made at a distinction between descriptive and normative theory, by examining examples of various theories of city form over time. The class will concentrate on the origins of the modern city and theories ... More »