Introduction to negotiation theory and practice. Applications in government, business, and nonprofit settings are examined. Combines a "hands-on" personal skill-building orientation with a look at pertinent tactical and strategic foundations.

The Cybersecurity Clinic provides an opportunity for MIT students to become certified in methods of assessing the vulnerability of public agencies (particularly agencies that manage critical urban infrastructure) to the risk of cyberattack.  Certification involves completing an 8 hour self-paced online set of four modules during the first four weeks of the semester.

This independent study subject is for MIT NEET (New Engineering Education Transformation) Digital Cities thread students.

Concentrates on core set of skills and knowledge necessary for teaching in secondary schools. Topics include classroom management, student behavior and motivation, curriculum design, educational reform, and the teaching profession. Classroom observation is a key component.

Provides an in-depth look at a modern institution of oppression: the ghetto. Uses literature to examine ghettoization over time and across a wide geographical area, from Jews in Medieval Europe to African-Americans and Latinos in the 20th-century United States. Also explores segregation and poverty in the urban "Third World."

Combines online weekly face-to-face negotiation exercises and in-person lectures designed to empower budding entrepreneurs with negotiation techniques to protect and increase the value of their ideas, deal with ego and build trust in relationships, and navigate entrepreneurial bargaining under constraints of economic uncertainty and complex technical considerations.

Gateway will not meet during the first five weeks of term but instead the class 11.S188/11.S951 "Racial Justice Teach-In For Urban Studies and Planning" will meet during this schedule. It will be open to all DUSP students.

Develops logical, empirically based arguments using statistical techniques and analytic methods. covers elementary statistics, probability, and other types of quantitative reasoning useful for description, estimation, comparison, and explanation. Emphasis on the use and limitations of analytical techniques in planning practice. Restricted to first-year MCP students.

Seminar dissects ten transportation studies from head to toe to illustrate how research ideas are initiated, framed, analyzed, evidenced, written, presented, criticized, revised, extended, and published, quoted and applied. Students design and execute their own transportation research. 

The Cybersecurity Clinic provides an opportunity for MIT students to become certified in methods of assessing the vulnerability of public agencies (particularly agencies that manage critical urban infrastructure) to the risk of cyberattack.  Certification involves completing an 8 hour self-paced online set of four modules during the first four weeks of the semester.

This seminar will study how the messy and complex forces of politics, planning and the real estate market have collectively shaped Boston’s urban fabric and skyline in the last two decades.

Explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, or investigating urban landscapes and expressing ideas. Readings, observations, and photographs form the basis of discussions on light, detail, place, poetics, narrative, and how photography can inform design and planning. Enrollment limited.

Studies key issues of principal development- phase agreements, through the lens of the real estate developer, in connection with the site con- trol, entitlement, capitalization, and construction phases of a real estate development venture.

Examines the role of science in US and international environmental policymaking. Surveys the methods by which scientists learn about the natural world; the treatment of science by experts, advocates, the media, and the public and the way science is used in legislative, administrative and judicial decision making.

Provides students with a concise overview of the range of building systems that are encountered in professional commercial real estate development practice in the USA.

Provides a rigorous introduction to the fundamentals of modern finance including valuation, risk analysis and investment decisions. Where possible, applications and examples drawn from real estate and mortgage markets.

Investigates sustainable development, taking a broad view to include not only a healthy economic base, but also a sound environment, stable employment, adequate purchasing power, distributional equity, national self-reliance, and maintenance of cultural integrity.

Provides a rigorous and critical introduction to the history, foundation, structure, and operation of the human rights movement. Focuses on key ideas, actors, methods and sources, and critically evaluates the field.

This course is designed for students who aspire to shape the future of mobility. The course explores technological, policy, behavioral and systems-wide frameworks for innovation in transportation systems, complemented with case studies across the mobility spectrum, from autonomous vehicles to urban air mobility to last-mile sidewalk robots.

Covers core analytical and numerical methods for modeling, planning, operations, and control of transportation systems. Traffic flow theory, vehicle dynamics and behavior, numerical integration and simulation, graphical analysis. Properties of delays, queueing theory, resource allocation, optimization models, linear and integer programming. Autonomy in transport, Markov Decision Processes, rein

Introduces principal issues in the field of advanced urbanism for discussion and exploration. Includes theoretical linkages between ideas about the culture of cities, processes of urbanization, and urban design. Involves events co-organized by faculty and doctoral students to further engage and inform research.

Explores changes in the built environment expected from transportation investments, and how they can be used to promote sustainable and equitable cities. Reflects on how notable characteristics of cities can be explained by their historical and current transportation features.

This course will take place during the first five weeks of time previously scheduled for Gateway, it is open to all students in DUSP.

This class provides an introduction to the concept of sustainability from the perspectives of different disciplines, including, business and economics, science, engineering, social sciences and the humanities.

When looking upon gentrification, our vision depends on our vantage. New residents may see an affordable rent. Existing residents may see displacement. Developers may see profit opportunities. City officials may see a balanced budget. Academics may not see much, as data and measurement imprecisions kaleidoscope the truth.

Housing is a key site of social stratification. Race, class, gender, sexuality: all are enacted through our homes. Our homes provide access to our communities, and public goods like primary education are allocated less to families than to the occupants of houses. Housing is the key to wealth for the middle classes.

This class provides an introduction to the concept of sustainability from the perspectives of different disciplines, including, business and economics, science, engineering, social sciences and the humanities.

This limited enrollment seminar engages students in preparing for their own grounded research projects around “equity” in the infrastructure space.  It helps students prepare for grounded field-research domestically or internationally by first introducing students to different analytical constructs of equity (and debates therein) within published empirical research and in political philosophy a

Survey of the latest transportation research offered by 12 MIT faculty each presenting their on-going research. Students are required to attend the classes, read the assigned articles, and write a brief reflection memo.  

Provides an overview of affordable and mixed-income housing development for students who wish to understand the fundamental issues and requirements of urban scale housing development, and the process of planning, financing and developing such housing. Students gain practical experience assembling a mixed-income housing development proposal.