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This experimental series of sessions brings together DUSP faculty and others to debate key issues in applied planning theory, while providing a parallel opportunity for incoming doctoral students to consider a range of ideas and perspectives that cover many aspects of planning and development. Sessions focus on questions of livability, territoriality, governance, and reflective practice. These four overarching ideas form the framework used in the required text, Planning Ideas That Matter, edited by Bishwapriya Sanyal, Lawrence J. Vale, and Christina D. Rosan (MIT Press, 2012). The intent of the debates is to identify some of the “planning ideas that matter” while opening up the question of just what a “planning idea” might actually entail. The debates and associated seminar cannot be either a full “history of planning theory” or, for that matter, a “theory of planning history,” but instead can provide windows into thinking about what such frameworks ought to include. We want to encourage participants to identify the “planning ideas” that matter most to them.
Coordinators: Prof. Larry Vale and Prof. Jinhua Zhao
Wednesdays 12:30-2:00, MIT 9-450
Speakers: Brent Ryan; Eran Ben-Joseph; Susan Silberberg; Larry Susskind
Video of the debate; Transcription of the debate; Student Questions; Student Reflections
Speakers: Larry Vale; Jim Wescoat; Justin Steil; Anne Spirn; Kian Goh, Northeastern
Video; Transcription; Questions; Reflections
Speakers: Gary Hack, University of Pennsylvania and MIT; Ann Forsyth, Harvard; Dennis Frenchman; Alan Berger
Video; Transcription; Questions; Reflections
Reading: Gary Hack on “Urban Flux” from Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, eds. Companion to Urban Design (Routledge, 2011), 446-462.
Speakers: Michael Teitz, UC Berkeley; Janelle Knox-Hayes; Balakrishnan Rajagopal; Amy Glasmeier
Video; Transcription; Questions; Reflections
Michael Teitz, “Regional Development Planning,” in Sanyal, Vale, and Rosan, eds., Planning Ideas that Matter, pp. 127-152.
Speakers: Mariana Arcaya; Phil Thompson; Bish Sanyal
Video; Transcription; Questions; Reflections
Speakers: Carlo Ratti; Joe Ferreira; David Hsu; Sarah Williams; Chris Zegras; Jennifer Light
Video; Transcription; Questions; Reflections
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