MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Source URL: http://dusp.mit.edu/subject/fall-2013-11165

Energy and Infrastructure Technologies

Examines efforts in developing and advanced nations and regions to create, finance, and regulate infrastructure and energy technologies from a variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives. Explores how an energy crisis can be an opportunity for making fundamental changes to improve collapsing infrastructure technologies. Introduces the challenges to modern society concerning energy and infrastructure technologies. Reviews the moral hazard aspects of infrastructure and the common arguments for withholding adequate support from new energy and infrastructure technologies. Seminar is conducted with intensive in-class discussions and debates. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments.

Room number: 
10-401
Credits: 
3-0-9
U/G
Schedule: 
MW (11:00-12:30)
Attachments: 
File 11_165-11_477_syllabus_August_12_2013 AR-KRP.docx [1]
Semester: 
Fall 2013 [2]
Project Images: 
Linked: 
Yes
Subject number: 
11.165
Joint subjects: 
11.477, 1.286
GIR: 
HASS-S
Instructor(s) (non-users): 
Karen R. Polenske
Subject Level: 
Undergraduate [3]
Graduate [4]
Combined Level: 
2

Links:
[1] http://dusp.mit.edu/sites/dusp.mit.edu/files/attachments/course/11_165-11_477_syllabus_August_12_2013%20AR-KRP.docx
[2] http://dusp.mit.edu/semester/fall-2013
[3] http://dusp.mit.edu/subject-level/undergraduate
[4] http://dusp.mit.edu/subject-level/graduate