DUSP Open Learning

DUSP Open Learning offers easy access to a range of digital materials produced by DUSP faculty including open online courses, podcasts, lecture recordings, and digital tools.

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Open Online Courses | Digital Certificate Courses | Lectures | Digital Tools

Featured Content

Socially-Responsible Real Estate Development

Explore socially-responsible real estate development, including the role of impact assessment and public consultation.

Digital Certificate Courses

Full Semester Course
Sustainable Real Estate

This course is designed for students who wish to gain deep insights into the tension and synergy between sustainability and the real estate industry. The operation and...

Open Online Courses
Forest City: A Case Study of a Real Estate Megaproject in Asia

What if Social and Environmental Impact Assessments were used not only to address regulatory concerns, but as a problem-solving opportunity, to work out differences among the...

Digital Publication

31 to 60 minutes
Economic Development Planning

This course examines why we plan for economic development, how government is funded in the US, what strategies are commonly used to attract and retain development, and how...

Open Online Courses

Full Semester Course
GTFS toolbox for ArcGIS Pro

The City Form Lab has released a free and open-source GIS toolbox for ArcGIS Pro for computing spatial accessibility via public transport using GTFS data. The toolbox computes...

Digital Tool
Planning Ideas that Matter

The Department of Urban Studies and Planning's podcast focused on exploring emerging trends, challenges, and innovations in the field of urban planning. Guests regularly...

Podcast

Up to 30 minutes

Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit

The primary goal of these resources and programming, created as part of a larger initiative to expand climate justice education at MIT, is to provide support to faculty...

Open Online Courses

Self-paced, full semester course

Community Growth And Land Use Planning

This course combines a seminar format with fieldwork to examine strategies of planning and control for growth and land use, chiefly at the municipal level. Specific topics...

Open Online Courses

Full Semester Course

COVID-19 in Slums & Informal Settlements: Guidelines & Responses

The COVID-19 pandemic epitomizes existing vulnerabilities. While multiple international and national guidelines have been released, it remains unclear the extent to which...

Open Online Courses

31 to 60 minutes

Economic Development Planning

This course examines why we plan for economic development, how government is funded in the US, what strategies are commonly used to attract and retain development, and how...

Open Online Courses

Full Semester Course

Environmental Justice Law and Policy

This seminar introduces students to basic principles of environmental justice and presents frameworks for analyzing and addressing inequalities in the distribution of...

Open Online Courses

Self-paced, full semester course

Gateway To The Profession Of Planning

The purpose of the course is to cultivate the sensibilities necessary for effective planning practice. This objective rests on one key assumption: that a set of key...

Open Online Courses

Full Semester Course

Institutions Of Modern Capitalism

This course introduces students to a set of analytic tools and conceptual frameworks through which to assess the origins and evolution of the institutions that constitute...

Open Online Courses

Self-paced, full semester course

Introduction To Spatial Analysis

Geographic Information System (GIS) software manages data that represent the location of features (geographic coordinate data) and what they are like (attribute data); it also...

Open Online Courses

Full Semester Course

Just Money: Banking as if Society Mattered

This course is for anyone who wants to understand the unique role banks play as intermediaries in our economy and how they can leverage that position to produce positive...

Open Online Courses

Self-paced, full semester course

Negotiation And Dispute Resolution In The Public Sector

Conventional legislative, administrative, and judicial means of resolving resource allocation and policy disputes in the public sector often produce less than satisfactory...

Open Online Courses

Self-paced, full semester course

Quantitative Reasoning for Planners - I

This course develops logical, empirically based arguments using statistical techniques and analytic methods. Elementary statistics, probability, and other types of...

Open Online Courses

Self-paced, full semester course

Self-Driving Cars and the Future of Real Estate: Challenges and Market Opportunities

Throughout the program, you’ll develop a comprehensive understanding of the current industry state of autonomous vehicles, on-demand delivery, ride-sharing, and micro-mobility...

Open Online Courses

Self-paced, full semester course

Sustainable Real Estate

This course is designed for students who wish to gain deep insights into the tension and synergy between sustainability and the real estate industry. The operation and...

Open Online Courses

The City in Film

Using film as a lens to explore and interpret various aspects of the urban experience in both the U.S. and abroad, this course presents a survey of important developments in...

Open Online Courses

Full Semester Course

The Once and Future City

This online course examines what constitutes a city, how it is shaped, and how history influences future development. These issues are explored through lectures, readings...

Open Online Courses

Self-paced, full semester course

The Sustainability Response To COVID-19

This course explores the importance of public transportation to social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and seeks to identify approaches to restoring transit...

Open Online Courses

Self-paced, full semester course

Urban Energy Systems And Policy

This course examines how cities and individuals can reduce energy use and carbon emissions, focusing on urban scales and practical solutions. It addresses complex issues like...

Open Online Courses

Self-paced, full semester course

Urban Sociology in Theory & Practice

This seminar introduces students to core writings in the field of urban sociology and explores the creative dialectic—and sometimes conflict—between sociology and urban policy...

Open Online Courses

Self-paced, full semester course

Wanderings in Psychogeography

In this seminar we explore the history, present, and future of psychogeography, hoping to map the center and the edges of this elusive field and to pioneer potential new...

Open Online Courses

Self-paced, full semester course

Water Diplomacy

This course, which examines ways of resolving conflicts over the allocation of water resources, is designed to raise student awareness of the state of freshwater resources...

Open Online Courses

Self-paced, full semester course