MIT City Design & Development Brochure by Eran BenJoseph

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING

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CITY DESIGN AT MIT THE JOINT PROGRAM IN CITY DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT (CDD) IS AN ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH PROGRAM CONCERNED WITH SHAPING AND DESIGNING THE BUILT & NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF CITIES AND SUBURBAN TERRITORIES.

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ERAN BEN-JOSEPH HEAD

City Design & Development Group SANDRA ELLIOTT COORDINATOR

Room 10-485 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Phone: 617 253 5155 Fax: 617 258 8081 Email: sandrame@mit.edu

CDD is a collaboration of the MIT Departments of Urban Planning and Architecture, also involving the Center for Real Estate and the Media Lab. As such, it joins key actors and disciplines that are shaping cities. Together, we seek to better understand the changing urban environment and to invent new architectural forms, public policies, development products, and technologies that will improve the quality of urban life. The program is led by scholars and practitioners who are committed to interdisciplinary research as well as action in the field, developing new modes of professional intervention. Our extensive course offerings and projects allow advanced students to develop specialized skills, while enabling those new to the field to achieve professional competence in city design. The program addresses both cities and urban regions. It examines ways that they have been designed, planned, and developed in the past, while proposing new visions for the future. It is also international in scope, with studios and research projects in the US and worldwide. In all of these venues the faculty brings a commitment to reflective practice, to involving those who will be affected by city design decisions, to sustaining the natural setting and local culture, and to promoting a long range perspective on the consequences of actions that shape the urban fabric.

Bilbao Urban Design Studio

Students in CDD come from many countries with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Some have prior professional degrees in architecture, landscape architecture, and planning; others come from varied academic fields in the sciences and arts. Faculty advisors help students to tailor the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extensive subject offerings and research opportunities into individualized areas of study, supported by the unparalleled information and technology resources of MIT. CDD.MIT.EDU

THE PROSPECT OF CDD CITIES ARE NOW TRANSFORMING AT A BREATHTAKING SPEED. WHILE ASIA CONFRONTS RAPID URBANIZATION, SOME CITIES IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE US ARE DISPERSING. NEW TECHNOLOGIES ARE LEADING TO DIFFERENT WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING AND ORGANIZING CITIES. BUT RESOURCES ARE DWINDLING. HOW DO WE DESIGN IN THIS CONTEXT?

New models of form, modes of intervention, and strategies are needed, but there is no consensus among theorists and practitioners about what these should be. For this reason, the Joint Program in City Design and Development takes a threepronged approach: First, CDD provides a place for the exploration of ideas about the future city. It is a space of agendas, devoted not only to debate, but also to the development of alternative urban forms, techniques, policies, and codes. We research these alternatives by testing them in design. We therefore see design as central to the analysis of the city, and to understanding the consequences of more general agendas for urban change. Second, CDD undertakes concrete projects in cities. Many of these projects build on our research, helping cities to cope with the changes confronting them. Members of the Joint Program have close ties to practice, as architects, landscape architects, planners, policy-makers, transportation engineers, and developers. This practical experience is in turn integrated into CDDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s propositional thinking. Third, CDD grounds its work in history and theory. We study the historical traditions from which various contemporary propositions for the city have emerged. This is important not only to avoid past mistakes, but also to become conscious of the broader, age-old project of building the city that each of us has chosen to be a part of. These characteristics distinguish the Joint Program in City Design and Development from planning institutions devoted predominantly to the analysis of the city, as well as from architectural schools occupied with the designed object in and of itself. By contrast, the purpose of CDD is to study, define and realize propositions about the city, consistent with MITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus on innovation. Since its founding by Kevin Lynch and others almost 50 years ago, CDD has provided critical paradigms about the city.

Landscape + Urbanism Studio, Mumbai, India Urban Design Studio, Beijing, China

KEY THEMES & QUESTIONS CURRENTLY ENGAGING PEOPLE IN THE GROUP INCLUDE:

Site Reconnaissance Gaoming China Urban Planning Studio

URBAN TRANSFORMATION

DESIGN PARADIGMS MEDIATED CITY This theme builds on work done by Kevin Lynch in the early years of the program and focuses on how form and meaning are perceived and communicated in the current city. At issue are the effects of advanced information technology on contemporary culture, as well as the increasing importance of narrative on the form and design of cities. Our work around this theme seeks to understand how urban experience is shaped by the preservation of culture, history and memory, by the development of new kinds of â&#x20AC;&#x153;mediatedâ&#x20AC;? places and activities in the public realm. We are also interested in the tools and technologies by which changes in urban form and landscape can be visualized and understood.

With the re-evaluation/ repudiation of modernism as the dominant perspective on design, this theme takes to task the development of design paradigms appropriate to contemporary urban circumstances both in the United States and other parts of the globe. Our inquiries around this theme center on the making of good public places, the expression of private and public environments in the city, the aesthetics of popular demand, the reshaping of the form of lowdensity cities, and the role that design can play in the changing peripheries of cities.

This theme is concerned with the future of cities and regions of the 20th century. Industrial land, infrastructure, warehouses, ports and waterfronts, rail-lines and depots, mines and oil fields, are among an inventory of abandonment, all seeking temporary and permanent re-use. Our inquiries around this theme hope to clarify new design approaches to urban and regional transformation, involving elements such as education, ecology, retrofitting and cultural development as well as new forms of housing and transportation.

URBAN PERFORMANCE

The quality of urban life and work is currently being challenged and shaped by many forces such as demographic patterns (aging and disability, for example), international economics (globalization and the demise of distance), and environmental pressures (sustainability, resource conservation, energy). Our inquiries around this theme ask how cities can be reshaped in the face of these forces; how design and construction standards affect livability and energy cosumtion; what role citizens should play in determining urban quality in a contemporary democracy; and how one understands the form of the vast, poor urban areas of the world and the enormous discrepancy between them and places of wealth. Study of logistics landscape in Baltimore, Maryland. After-City Studio

Proposed urban village with rooftop argriculture, and transit oriented development. Beijing Urban Design Studio

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

CDD OFFERS STUDY AT THE PROFESSIONAL MASTERS AND PHD LEVELS, SERVING A CORE GROUP OF APPROXIMATELY SEVENTY-FIVE STUDENTS DRAWN MAINLY FROM ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING. WHILE EACH STUDENTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PROGRAM IS UNIQUE, TYPICAL AREAS OF CONCENTRATION INCLUDE: URBAN DESIGN, COMMUNITY AND LAND USE PLANNING, ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM, OR URBAN DEVELOPMENT.

URBAN DESIGN Urban design focuses on the physical transformation of large-scale areas in cities. In CDD we are concerned with shaping the form of buildings, public spaces and infrastructure, as well as understanding the institutions and mechanisms that affect form, and how to implement physical change in the city. Graduates in this area typically practice urban design in private architecture or planning firms, or in public agencies, shaping the design of urban districts, large scale mixed use projects, residential neighborhoods, or transportation facilities. CDD offerings in the urban design arena include a comprehensive array of studios and research workshops, subjects on the history and theory of city form, design skills and techniques, public policy and regulation, and development processes. Urban design studios engage students with real world issues such as: the revitalization of Southwest Washington, DC; redevelopment of former industrial sites in downtown Singapore; and creation of mixed income housing in Sao Paulo. Practicum: Cartagena, Colombia

Boston, home of MIT and the Joint Program in City Design and Development.

ARCHITECTURE + URBANISM Architecture and Urbanism is concerned with the theory and history of city form and design, including patterns of settlement, the imaging of urban environments, and relationships between politics and the form of cities, as well as the design of new urban tissue. Students in this area generally couple their studies with an associated area, such as urban design, or proceed to doctoral studies in theory and history. Many graduates teach; a number also follow professional practice careers in architecture and planning.

COMMUNITY + LAND USE PLANNING Community & Land Use Planning concentrates on the planning of communities at a local and regional scale, including understanding natural systems, transportation options, the regulatory framework that controls land use, and the impacts and management of growth. Students make use of geographic information systems and simulation tools to aid in their analyses and proposals for communities and sites. Graduates in this area may work as municipal or regional planners, managers of large scale environments for specialized agencies, or as professional consultants to cities and towns. Subjects cover topics such as: growth management, site and systems planning, legal issues, transportation planning, and ecological approaches to greenfield and brownfield development. Workshops in concert with local communities address issues such as: revitalizing traditional New England village centers, planning for transit oriented development, achieving â&#x20AC;&#x153;smartâ&#x20AC;? growth in the suburbs, and pumping new life into dying main streets.

Subjects in architecture and urbanism encompass the theory of city form, urban history, imaging and photography, the morphology of the city, and ideal city form. Recent studios have examined the role of history and memory in designing cities, new models of campus design in cities, and potentials of high density, monumental architecture on the urban fringe. LANDSCAPE + URBANISM URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Cardener River Corridor Study regional planning, Catalunya, Spain. Environmental Planning Workshop

Urban Development links with the Center for Real Estate and includes the design and implementation of development projects, the economics and finance of real estate, and management of the development process. Some students in this area complete a dual degree in real estate (MSRED). Graduates work as real estate developers, architects and planners who couple their first professional skills with an understanding of development, and as managers of urban planning and development agencies. Subjects in this area include finance, real estate economics, legal issues, project management, real estate products and affordable housing development. The Real Estate Development studio provides an opportunity for students to synthesize large scale, complex projects in real world settings, from suburban residential development to reuse of industrial sites.

Landscape + Urbanism focuses on analyzing the forces that shape the built and natural environment and using that understanding to design strategic solutions to pressing environmental and social challengesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including climate change, renewable energy, water conservation, landscape toxicity, deindustrialization, environmental justice, adaptive reuse and the design of cultural landscapes. Graduates in this area may work as urban and regional planners, environmental planners, designers of large scale urban transformations and new infrastructure for public or private development entities. Subjects offered by six landscape architects in the school and CDD cover a broad range of landscape + urbanism topics and engagements. Studios focus on the transformation of urban systems and under utilized areas, such as the former industrial waterfront of Mumbai, into more productive use.

PROFESSIONAL MASTER’S LEVEL STUDY

CITY DESIGN IS PRACTICED IN DIVERSE PLACES, SUBJECT TO POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FORCES. ACCORDINGLY, CDD PROVIDES EXPOSURE TO A WIDE ARRAY OF PROFESSIONAL CHALLENGES AND EMPHASIZES HANDS-ON, MULTIDISCIPLINARY SUBJECTS THAT GIVE STUDENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY THEORY WHILE DEVELOPING SKILLS IN PRACTICE. Students in CDD are mainly drawn from the Master of Science in Architecture Studies program and the Master in City Planning program where students may choose to specialize in City Design & Development. The program also serves a wide array of other students from other programs and departments at MIT and in the Cambridge community. CDD.MIT.EDU/PROGRAM/MASTERS-STUDY/

CURRICULUM Students who specialize in CDD must fulfill the core requirements of their professional degree program, and then assemble their own set of additional subjects with the aid of an advisor. Subjects offered by faculty associated with the Joint Program in City Design and Development are listed in the accompanying table. The table also indicates typical subjects selected by students focusing in different areas of study. Students who choose to pursue an Urban Design Certificate, must choose from a specific set of subjects and meet special requirements described in detail to below. URBAN DESIGN CERTIFICATE The Department of Architecture and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning offer a joint professional program in urban design, and recognize the completion of this program by awarding a Certificate in Urban Design. The purpose of the program is to provide the fundamental knowledge and special skills required to design urban and suburban environments. These abilities are rooted in architecture and planning. They combine creativity and a critical eye for quality of the environment usually associated with architecture with mastery of decision-making and a long range vision that planners generally possess. Students who complete the program have the skills to begin work as professional urban designers. Students in the Master in City Planning (MCP), Master of Science in Urban Studies and Planning (SM), Master of Architecture (MArch), Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS), or Ph.D. degree programs are eligible for a Certificate in Urban Design if they complete a specified set of subjects drawn from the two departments. Students must, of course, complete the other requirements for their degrees, and may count subjects in the urban design curriculum towards those requirements. The Certificate can be achieved without adding additional time to what it normally takes to achieve a degree. To earn the Certificate in Urban Design students must complete at least one subject in each of six curriculum areas. At least one subject must be at an intensive level, chosen from among those identified by a “+.” in the chart. The Urban Design Seminar, covering key issues and future trends in city design, is a required subject for all certificate students, providing a common experience and base of knowledge. Students pursuing the Certificate in Urban Design complete a thesis on a topic substantially related to urban design, and at least one member of their thesis committee must be from CDD or affiliated faculty. Students wishing to pursue a Certificate in Urban Design need to declare this at least two semesters before graduation, and must complete a program statement indicating which of the Certificate subjects they intend to take. They are assigned a faculty advisor in the area, and through discussions with the advisor, make subject choices, modifying the program as necessary. The certificate is awarded by MIT at graduation. CDD.MIT.EDU/PROGRAM/URBAN-DESIGN-CERTIFICATE/

DOCTORAL LEVEL STUDY

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THE DEPARTMENT OF URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING OFFERS A DOCTORAL (Ph.D.) PROGRAM TO PREPARE ADVANCED SCHOLARS FOR CAREERS IN RESEARCH AND TEACHING. THE PROGRAM IS FOUNDED ON A CLOSE WORKING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS AND THEIR FACULTY ADVISORS. IN CDD, DOCTORAL STUDENTS TAKE ON TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES AND HELP TO LEAD THE GROUP’S RESEARCH INITIATIVES. On average, approximately sixty Ph.D. students are registered in DUSP. Each year the department admits between eight and twelve new Ph.D. students; generally one or two of these students have been selected to study in the City Design and Development area. Almost all students enter the doctoral program with a Master’s degree in a related field. Most Ph.D. students are enrolled for at least six semesters; however, the number of terms needed to complete the program can vary, depending on each student’s prior academic preparation. Each Ph.D. student develops a course of study with his or her advisor in order to take full advantage of the resources available at MIT and in the Cambridge area. Much of the student’s coursework and independent study are focused on preparation for the general examination. The nature of the preparation varies widely depending on the candidate’s background and research interests. Often the City Design and Development Group holds facultystudent research seminars on topics of common interest, and there is considerable flexibility in creating such opportunities. Doctoral students have access to most courses in other departments at MIT, Harvard, and Tufts. Collaborative research projects and teaching are also key parts of the doctoral experience. In CDD students are given substantial teaching responsibilities, particularly in the introductory courses offered by the group. Recent Ph.D. students have served as instructors in Urban Design and Development, Planning Action, Big Plans, and Urban Design Studios.

7 Doctoral students have also played key roles in research projects in collaboration with City Design and Development faculty including work on public housing renewal, technology and the city, suburban development, and design standards. The Doctoral program is built around the following requirements: • Completion of several required subjects including 11.233 Research Design and Methodology; 11.800 Doctoral Research Seminar; and one quantitative and one qualitative methods subject from an approved list. • A Doctoral Research Paper, written during a student’s first year in the program. • General Exams in a f irst (disciplinary) f ield and a second (problem-focused) field, normally taken late in the second year. Students in CDD normally choose this as their first field. • A Dissertation Proposal approved by the student’s committee and presented in a colloquium, normally completed within the third year. At this point, doctoral students can qualify for non-resident status and reduced tuition. • A completed dissertation and a formal defense of the dissertation. Ph.D. study is also available in Architecture in the History, Theory, and Criticism area. Urban Design Studio, Kyiv, Ukraine

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BERGER

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ADVANCED SEMINAR IN URBAN FORM

BEINART

4.625J / 11.378J

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4.216J / 11.316J

LANDSCAPE & URBAN HERITAGE CONSERVATION

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SILBERBERG, SEIDMAN

WATER, LANDSCAPE & URBAN DESIGN

SPIRN, WESCOAT

4.214J / 11.314J

DIGITAL CITY DESIGN WORKSHOP

FRENCHMAN, RATTI

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WORKSHOPS / SKILLS 4.254J / 11.303J 11.360

4.255J / 11.304J 11.439 4.213J / 11.309J

COMPREHENSIVE STUDIOS 4.163J / 11.332J / 11.338J

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BERGER, D’HOOGHE, RYAN

4.181-5J / 11.307J

BEIJING URBAN DESIGN STUDIO

FRENCHMAN, WAMPLER

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STUDIOS & WORKSHOPS STUDIOS AND WORKSHOPS UNDERTAKE URBAN DESIGN PROJECTS IN AN ACTION SETTING, USING SITES AND CITIES IN THE US AND MANY COUNTRIES. WORK INVOLVES FIELD STUDY, FOLLOWED BY EXPLORATIONS OF ALTERNATIVE FORMS, ACTIVITIES, AND ACCESS. PROJECTS ENGAGE CONSTITUENCIES OR CLIENTS WHO PLAY AN ACTIVE ROLE IN THE PROCESS.

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This Urban Design studio studied design strategies for the area connecting the historic city of Bilbao to the Atlantic Ocean through an elongated system of road, harbor and marine infrastructures. The projects covered different scales from the territorial to the architectural, and ecological to technological. Marine and landscape systems, as well as architectural infrastructures will be investigated in order to devise a strategy for the very large scale. The Studio ran in conjunction with a studio at the CEU Madrid.

The Site and Environmental Systems Planning workshop worked in the Bronx, NYC at sites along the Harlem River with the aim of offering ecologically and culturally based strategies for reclaiming the water edge and connecting the river to nearby neighborhoods. The project won the For the City / By the City design competition, part of the 2011 Urban Design Week in NYC.

Urban Design Studio is a collaborative program of the MIT Joint Program in City Design and Development and Tsinghua University that brings together students and faculty of the two schools. In 2006, the studio celebrated its 20th anniversary. Recent projects have included redevelopment of Beijingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former Capital Steel Plant, one of the largest in the world, closed prior to the Olympic Games. Work of the studio has been published as a cover story in World Architecture (March 2005).

Opposite: Large-scale infrastructure plan for Bilbao, Urban Design Studio

Below: Warehouse retrofitting and stormwater system design in Lowell, MA. Community Growth + Land Use Practicum

DIGITAL CITY DESIGN: THESSALONIKI + COPENHAGEN Built around the Senseable City Lab partneships with the City of Thessaloniki, Greece, and the City of Copenhagen, Denmark, the workshop focused on several themes common to both cities. Each city contains a major seaport and seeks to develop their waterfront in ways that improve quality of life. Throughout the semester, students were introduced to applications of pervasive computing that improve livability in these cities, addressing urban issues around public space and transportation.

AFTER-CITY: BUFFALO + BALTIMORE The After-City studios are series of studios on shrinking cities. The studio addresses the question of what planners and designers can learn from the shrinking city phenomenon, and how transforming the urban condition in these places might reveal new urban paradigms. The studios proposes to address the phenomenon of the shrinking city, characterized by extremes of population loss, degradation of the physical fabric, and socioeconomic problems starting with a plastic conception of scale of the city to identify the nature (subjects of negotiation of the urban condition), the extend (continuities and discontinuities), and the dynamics (development profiles of growing or shrinking spaces) of the urban condition. LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS Community Growth and Land-Use workshop has worked with the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s planning department and citizens in three neighborhoods to prepare plans for the community. Including infrastructure, building preservation and re-use, neighborhood services and affordable housing, building on the unique assets of this mixed-income and culturally diverse city, known as the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution.

PROJECTS & RESEARCH RESEARCH GROUPS & PROJECTS PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MASTERS AND DOCTORAL STUDENTS TO COLLABORATE WITH FACULTY ON STUDIES AND DESIGN INVESTIGATIONS AT THE LEADING EDGE OF THE FIELD. WORK ACROSS A BROAD RANGE OF TOPICS IS FUNDED BY CITIES, COMPANIES, & PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS. Reclamation of Arno River Embankment in Florence, Italy. Digital City Design Workshop

DIGITAL CITY DESIGN CARLO RATTI, DENNIS FRENCHMAN, MICHAEL JOROFF, KENT LARSON

Digital City Design investigates the emergence of digital urban systems and their impact on the public realm. Recent projects have included Technology, Livability and the Historic City, enhancing mobility, trash collection, public lighting, the craft industry, and the Arno riverfront in the historic center of Florence, Italy. The project resulted in a book: Technological Imagination and the Historic City published by Ligouri in Italian and English. Other projects have included the Zaragoza Digital Mile in Spain, a new technology district with a responsive public realm, and design of the Seoul Digital Media City in Korea a global industry cluster that is now under construction.

PROJECT FOR RECLAMATION EXCELLENCE / P-REX ALAN BERGER

The Project for Reclamation Excellence, is a sustained effort to understand, represent and design reclaimed environments associated with large-scale natural resource extraction. P-REX addresses the challenges of landscape alteration through unique trans-disciplinary collaborations with engineers, economists, ecologists, geologists, and policy experts. LABORATORY FOR CULTURAL LANDSCAPES ERAN BEN-JOSEPH, DENNIS FRENCHMAN

A longstanding collaboration between CDD and the Universitat Politechnia de Catalu単a in Barcelona, Spain, that explores contemporary design rooted in local culture, heritage, and the arts. Projects have included Event Places, which investigated the growing importance of public events to the design of cities in the US and Europe. Over 100 event places were surveyed leading to guidelines for developing successful projects, published in the book Event Places. Another project, Designing the Llobregot Corridor proposed a cultural framework for regional development north of Barcelona. The lab has published a journal entitled ID/Identities.

PUBLIC HOUSING RENEWAL LAWRENCE VALE

Has engaged many students over the years in assisting Professor Larry Vale to examine the fifty year rise, fall, and redevelopment of public housing projects from the perspective of their tenants and design professionals. The work has led to two books: From the Puritans to the Projects (Best Book in Urban Affairs, 2001), and Reclaiming Public Housing (Paul Davidoff Award, 2005). The work continues with evaluation of public housing redevelopment in seven American cities. NEW CENTURY CITIES MICHAEL JOROFF

FUTURE MOBILITY (FM) CHRIS ZEGRAS, CARLO RATTI

FM is a 5-year inter-disciplinary research project aiming to develop, in and beyond Singapore, new paradigms for the planning, design and operation of future urban mobility systems. The goals are to harness and enhance distributed, mobile networked computing and communication technologies, develop advanced decision models to support the pervasive use of real-time information in mobility planning and operations, and assess mobility innovations’ implications for urban development, design, planning, and policy.

New Century City projects are the test-beds of emerging ideas about city design, urban planning, public-private partnerships and infrastructure delivery. These projects seek to develop the human and social capital that will make these economic sectors competitive in the globalized economy. These projects use the real estate development process as a mechanism to achieve a broader economic development outcome.

URBAN SIMULATION CARLO RATTI

The SENSEable City Laboratory is a collaboration with the CDD to develop new ways of interacting with intelligent 3-dimensional models of urban places and landscapes. Work by the director Carlo Ratti, Professor Eran BenJoseph, Professor Hiroshi Ishii, and students has been widely published. SUSTAINABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT + CLEAN ENERGY CITIES TUNNEY LEE, DENNIS FRENCHMAN, CHRIS ZEGRAS, ERAN BEN-JOSEPH, ADELE SANTOS

The research is dedicated to improving the quality and efficiency of residential development. Over a series of projects in China, Japan and Israel the work has investigated the livability of existing housing being built retrofitting existing development and new models for community design. The “Clean Energy City” in China aims to create tools and models for creating more energy efficient urban development projects. The work combines empirical models of household energy use, neighborhood embodied energy, sun and wind effects and renewable energy generation potential to develop a tool, the “Energy Proforma” to estimate the “energy bottom line” of urban development projects in China.

AFFILIATED RESEARCH LABS & CENTERS

The Copenhagen Wheel is a new emblem for urban mobility. It transforms ordinary bikes into hybrid e-bikes that also function as mobile sensing units. Senseable City Lab

PLATFORM FOR A PERMANENT MODERNITY

AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

The Platform for a Permanent Modernity (PPM) investigates operational templates of public form that integrate architecture, infrastructure, and landscape into elements of a lasting territorial order. Its hypothesis entails the possibility of a public reading of the territory through forms of permanence, while accommodating uncertainty and change within and around these interventions.

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) at MIT is dedicated to the study of Islamic architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, and conservation. It prepares students for careers in research, design, and teaching and aims to enhance the understanding of Islamic architecture and urbanism in light of contemporary issues and to increase the visibility of Islamic cultural heritage in the modern world.

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The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed – alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory. FOR MORE INFORMATION & CREDITS, PLEASE SEE SEANSEABLE.MIT.EDU

CENTER FOR ADVANCED URBANISM The Center for Advanced Urbanism is a research based institution dedicated to implementing new integrative models of design and development for cities and regions.

New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of long distance telephone and IP data flow. This reveals the relative strength of connections between individual neighborhoods, blocks, and cities across the world.

CHANGING PLACES

Trash Track is an investigation into understanding the ‘removal-chain’ in urban areas and it represents a type of change that is taking place in cities: a bottom up approach to managing resources and promoting behavioral change through pervasive technologies.

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The Changing Places group proposes that fundamentally new strategies must be found for creating the places where people live/work, and the mobility systems that connect these places, in order to meet the profound challenges of the future. The group is developing technology to understand and respond to human activity, environmental conditions, and market dynamics. It is interested in finding optimal combinations of automated systems, just-in-time information for personal control, and interfaces to persuade people to adopt sustainable behaviors.

DEBATE

THE CDD FORUM

THE CITY DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT FORUM EXAMINES A PIVOTAL ISSUE FACING CITIES THROUGH A PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES AND A SPECIAL SUBJECT OPEN TO THE SCHOOL. THE FORUM, ALONG WITH CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED BY FACULTY AND STUDENTS, BRING DESIGNERS, PUBLIC LEADERS, HISTORIANS, ARTISTS, AND SCHOLARS FROM ACROSS THE WORLD INTO THE CDD COMMUNITY. NEW CENTURY CITIES CONFERENCE LED BY MICHAEL JOROFF & DENNIS FRENCHMAN

The Conference, held biannually since 2005, brings together technology companies, real estate developers, and cities from Europe, Asia, and the US to focus on development of new industry clusters enabled by technology. Co-sponsored since 2007 by the Urban Land Institute and CDD. FORUM ON FUTURE CITIES LED BY CARLO RATTI

Topics for the Forum are drawn from our research and projects. Many have resulted in published books. Forum topics have included: Imaging the City examined the effects of media on urban form and function, extending the work of Kevin Lynch. Remaking Crisis Cities looked at strategies to revitalize distressed American cities such as Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. that are rebounding from decline. The Future City-Region in Europe explored the reinvention of older industrial cities including Berlin, Bilbao, Glasgow, Lille, and the Ruhr Valley. Housing the City examined how metropolitan development patterns shape housing options in the US and the developing world. Urban Narratives: Making the City Speak focused on the emerging role of information technology in shaping public space. Recent forums have included The Resilient City, which reviewed the experience of cities across the globe that have endured traumatic episodes like 9/11 or the major earthquakes and have prevailed. Regulating Place examined the role of codes and standards in the design of American cities. Event Places explored the growing phenomenon of public events shaping city form and identity. Securing Public Space explored the design and urban social implications of efforts to make cities safer. Photography as Inquiry brought nationally known photographers to CDD to discuss their work as a method of urban analysis. Finally, Landscape + Urbanism introduced the new concentration in CDD, focused on the intersection of cities and natural processes.

CHINA PLANNING NETWORK CONFERENCE ADVISED BY LARRY VALE

The China Planning Network (CPN) conference, launched in 2004 and held nearly every year in Beijing and other cities, focuses on the planning challenges of China’s rapid urbanization: housing, transportation and urban development. The conference, which has drawn as many as 1,000 participants, has brought together Western scholars with China’s academic community, public sector, and development professionals. CPN, launched at MIT but now independent, continues to initiate new projects.

SMART GROWTH: FORM & CONSEQUENCES ORGANIZED BY TERRY SZOLD

Smart Growth: Form and Consequences explored the Smart Growth movement and interventions including design standards, land use regulation, property rights, and environmental ethics. Co-sponsored with the Lincoln Land Institute.

Over the next few decades, the world is preparing to build more urban fabric than has been built by humanity ever before. At the same time, new technologies are disrupting the traditional principles of city making and urban living. This new condition necessitates the creation of innovative partnerships between government, academia, and industry to meet tomorrow’s challenges including higher sustainability, better use of resources and infrastructure, and improved equity and quality of life.

Landscape + Urbanism at MIT

Landscape + Urbanism focuses on analyzing the forces that shape the built and natural environment and using that understanding to design strategic solutions to the most pressingenvironmental and social challenges of our time – including climate change, renewable energy, water conservation, landscape toxicity, deindustrialization, environmental justice, adaptive reuse and the design of cultural landscapes. Photo: © Ryan Shepard

The Resilient City reviewed the experience of cities across the globe that have endured traumatic episodes like 9-11 or major earthquakes and have prevailed.

With six landscape architects on its faculty, the joint program in City Design and Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture and Planning is exploring how landscape and design can redirect contemporary urbanization.

Landscape + Urbanism at MIT focuses on analyzing the forces that shape the built and natural environment and using that understanding to design strategic solutions to the most pressing environmental and social challenges of our time – including climate change, renewable energy, water conservation, landscape toxicity, deindustrialization, environmental justice, adaptive reuse and the design of cultural landscapes. Architects, landscape architects, urban planners and those in related ﬁelds are encouraged to further their professional and academic career by engaging in this unique line of inquiry and practice.

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Department of Urban Studies and Planning • Department of Architecture School of Architecture + Planning • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Reflections on the work of John de Manchaux around city design, real estate development, international development, public policy, big plans, and historic preservation.

Event Places explored the growing phenomenon of public events shaping city form and identity.

Photography as Inquiry brought nationally known photographers to CDD to discuss their work as a method of urban analysis.

Sponsored by the World Bank, the conference explored opportunities for using digital technologies and data sharing as tools for capacity building for cities.

FACULTY

ALAN BERGER M.L.A. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF URBAN DESIGN & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Alan Berger is Tenured Associate Professor of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he PROFESSOR OF LANDSCAPE teaches courses open to the entire student body. ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING He is founding director of P-REX, The Project HEAD, CITY DESIGN & for Reclamation Excellence at MIT, a research DEVELOPMENT GROUP lab focusing on the design and reuse of waste landscapes Eran Ben-Joseph is the Head of the worldwide. His work emphasizes City Design and Development Group. the link between our consumption His research and teaching areas include of natural resources, and the waste urban and physical design, standards and and destruction of landscape, to regulations, sustainable site planning help us better understand how to technologies and urban retrofitting. proceed with redesigning around He published numerous articles, our wasteful lifestyles for more monographs, book chapters and authored intelligent outcomes. He coined and co-authored the books: Streets the term “Systemic Design” and the Shaping of Towns and Cities, to describe the reintegration Regulating Place, The Code of the City of disvalued landscapes into and ReNew Town. Eran worked as a city our urbanized territories and planner, urban designer and landscape regional ecologies. In addition architect in Europe, Asia, the Middle to his award winning books East and the United States on projects Drosscape: Wasting Land in including new towns and residential Urban America, and Reclaiming developments, streetscapes, stream the American West, his other restorations, and parks and recreation books include Designing the planning. He has led national and Reclaimed Landscape, Nansha international multi-disciplinary projects in Singapore, Barcelona, Santiago, Tokyo Coastal City: Landscape and Urbanism in the Pearl River Delta and Washington DC among other (with Margaret Crawford). His places. Eran is the recipient of the Wade most recently published books are Award for his work on Representation Systemic Design Can Change the of Places – a collaboration project World and Landscape + Urbanism with MIT Media Lab and the Milka Around the Bay of Mumbai Bliznakov Prize for his historical work (with Rahul Mehrotra). Prior to on Pioneering Women of Landscape MIT he was Associate Professor Architecture. of Landscape Architecture at Harvard-GSD, 2002-2008. He is a Prince Charitable Trusts Fellow MICHAEL DENNIS of The American Academy in B.ARCH, PROFESSOR Rome. OF ARCHITECTURE

JULIAN BEINART

ERAN BEN-JOSEPH

M.ARCH, MCP

PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE

Julian Beinart’s teaching, research and practice is about the form and design of cities. He’s been a Herbert Baker Rome Scholar, President of the IDCA, a founder of ILAUD in Italy, American editor of Space& Society, a Fellow of the WBSI, and Director of the Mellon Foundation study of architectural education. In the 1960s his studies of African popular art and jazz were the subject of a BBC film. Recent publications include studies of the Olympic Games, the U.S. downtown, 19th century grid form, history/ memory relationships, image construction in pre-modern cities, and urban resilience. He co-chaired the first two Jerusalem Architecture Seminars and has worked in Jerusalem, and with MOPIC in Palestine. Other projects include work in Russia, Southern Africa, the UAE, Jordan, Taiwan and Chandigarh (India). In the US, work includes projects in Washington, Miami and Alliance Airport region in Texas. JOHN DE MONCHAUX M.ARCH U.D. EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING

John de Monchaux studied architecture at Sydney University and urban design at Harvard’s GSD. His work has included planning assistance to community organizations in Watts, East Los Angeles, Detroit and Chicago; a major program for slum upgrading and new housing in the Philippines ; and urban plans throughout Australia . From 1981 to 1992 he served as Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning. He served as General Manager of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, a foundation concerned with the quality of architecture Michael Dennis teaches Urban Design, Theory, and Urban Housing in the SMArchS and urban conditions in the Muslim program. He has also taught at Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Rice and Columbia . world. From 1996 to 2004 he directed He has been the Thomas Jefferson Professor at the University of Virginia , and the MIT’s SPURS. His interests include city EeroSaarinen Professor at Yale. Dennis has lectured widely and authored Court and design, implementation, measures of city Garden: From the French Hôtel to the City of Modern Architecture (MIT Press, performance, and settlement issues in the 1986), as well as numerous articles. He also has an award-winning architecture developing world. He was the founding and urban design practice in Boston . His firm’s work focuses on campus plans and Chairman of the Boston Civic Design buildings, and has been published nationally and internationally, including: the Commission from 1988 to 1992 and has Art Museum for UC Santa Barbara; the Science/Technology building at Syracuse recently been a Senior Visiting Professor University; the Carnegie Mellon campus design and buildings; performing arts centers at the School of Architecture at Tsinghua for Emory, Ball State, and UNC Chapel Hill; and master plans for USC, Ohio State, University in Beijing. and Texas A&M. In design are projects at Miami, OSU, Maryville, and Michigan.

ALEXANDER D’HOOGHE

DENNIS FRENCHMAN

PH.D.

LEVENTHAL PROFESSOR

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM

Alexander D’Hooghe is associate professor in Architectural Urbanism at MIT. He conducts a research group called ‘Platform for a Permanent Modernity’, and a design office called ‘Office for Permanent Modernity’, located in Boston and Brussels. He develops architectures of the territory: durable formal orders handling complexity within a simplified frame. The formalization of infrastructures is key. The group won several large-scale buildings and competitions overseas, currently in various stages of permitting; and published internationally, most recently with ‘the Liberal Monument’ (Princeton, Fall 2010), D’Hooghe published his dissertation ‘the Liberal Monument’, a re-activation of a late-modernist urban design template, in 2010 with Princeton Architectural Press. He is publishing widely, including Germany, Israel, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, US, etc. D’Hooghe obtained his Ph.D. at the Berlage Institute in 2007 i.c.w. T.U.Delft, after achieving a Masters in Urban Design at the Harvard GSD in 2001.

M.ARCH, MCP OF URBAN DESIGN & PLANNING

Dennis Frenchman is Leventhal Professor of Urban Design and Planning. He is a founder of ICON architecture in Boston , an international architecture, urban design and planning firm. He was External Advisor on urban livability to World Bank President James Wolfenson, and has served on the boards of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the National Architectural Accrediting Board. His work focuses on the transformation of underutilized areas of cities, including many significant world heritage sites, and he has played a major role in the renewal of urban neighborhoods, housing, and downtown centers. He is also an expert on the application of advanced communications and media to city design, consulting in Europe and Asiaon large-scale technology centered developments. His work has been widely published and citied three times as the most outstanding in the US by the American Planning Association.

TUNNEY LEE B.ARCH EMERITUS

PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE & CITY PLANNING,

Tunney Lee is former Head, Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, and the former Head of the Department of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong . He served as Chief of Planning and Design at the Boston Redevelopment Authority and was also Deputy Commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Capital Planning and Operations. His research and teaching at MIT has focused on the process of community-based design and he has led many studios involving Boston area neighborhoods including East Boston , Fenway, and Alewife. Most recently, his research has focused on urban development of the Pearl River Delta in China, and an Atlas of Urban Residential Densities. He teaches the Planning Studio in the spring. CARLO RATTI PH.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE AND DIRECTOR, SENSEABLE CITY LABORATORY

An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti practices in Italy and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the Senseable City Lab. He graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later earned his MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. Ratti has co-authored over 200 publications and holds several patents. His work has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the Venice Biennale, the Design Museum Barcelona, the Science Museum in London, GAFTA in San Francisco and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. His Digital Water Pavilion at the 2008 World Expo was hailed by Time Magazine as one of the Best Inventions of the Year. He has been included in Esquire Magazine’s Best and Brightest list, in Blueprint Magazine’s 25 People who will Change the World of Design and in Forbes Magazine’s People you need to know in 2011. Ratti was a presenter at TED 2011 and is serving as a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Urban Management. He is a regular contributor to the architecture magazine Domus and the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. He has also written as an op-ed contributor for BBC, La Stampa, Scientific American and The New York Times.

FACULTY (CONTINUED) BRENT RYAN PH.D.

ADELE NAUDÉ SANTOS

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF URBAN DESIGN

M.ARCH U.D., M.ARCH, MCP

& PUBLIC POLICY

PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE & URBAN PLANNING

Brent D. Ryan believes that design and planning must work more closely together than ever before to solve pressing urban problems. In particular he is interested in how urban design can improve cities characterized by economic failure, building abandonment, and falling populations, in America and elsewhere. These places, commonly known as ‘shrinking cities’,allow us to reimagine urban design beyond conventional market-driven esthetics and practice, and to recover the optimism in both critical design and interventionist state policy that vanished with the end of Modernism. His work has been published in a variety of urban design and urban planning journals and his book Design After Decline: How America rebuilds shrinking cities, will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in early 2012. Brent has practiced as an urban planner in New York City, Boston, and Chicago, and has taught at Harvard University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in urban design and planning from MIT, an M.Arch. from Columbia University, and a B.S. from Yale University. SUSAN SILBERBERG MCP LECTURER IN URBAN DESIGN & PLANNING

ANNE WHISTON SPIRN M.L.A. PROFESSOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE & REGIONAL PLANNING

DEAN, MIT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING

Adèle Naudé Santos earned the AA Diploma from the Architectural Association (London), MAUD from Harvard University, and MCP and MArch from the University of Pennsylvania. As an educator, she has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Rice University, and Harvard University; was chair of the architecture department at the University of Pennsylvania; and was founding dean of the School of Architecture at the University of California at San Diego. Her teaching and research focus on the design of housing environments and collaborative urban problem solving. As an award-winning practitioner and principal in the San Francisco-based firm Santos Prescott and Associates, she is recognized for her sculptural, spatially inventive designs and intensely livable, environmentally responsive spaces. Her professional projects include affordable and luxury housing, arts centers, children’s centers, civic institutions, and urban planning.

Susan Silberberg is an architect, urban designer, and planner. She consults to community based organizations, municipalities, public agencies, foundations, and cultural groups to teach practicum-based courses. She has consulted to UNESCO World Heritage Sites, museums, and municipalities. In 2002 she completed a master plan for the Arts District in Worcester , MA . This work received awards from the American Planning Association as well as the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She also led efforts to create a “20/20 Vision for Concord , NH” that won a 2002 Congress for New Urbanism Charter Award. Her most recent efforts have focused on waterfront planning in the City of Boston . She completed a citywide study of public uses of the waterfront for the Boston Redevelopment Authority in 2004. In 2005 she directed a study and waterfront activation plan for the Charlestown Navy Yard. This plan provides an interpretive and urban design framework for the creation of an active public Charlestown waterfront.

Anne Whiston Spirn received a B.A. from Radcliffe College and M.L.A. from the University of Pennsylvania . Books include The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design, which won the President’s Award of Excellence from the American Society and The Language of Landscape. She is director of the West Philadelphia Landscape Project — integrating teaching, research, and community service — cited as a “Model of Best Practice” at a White House summit in March 1999 for forty leading “Scholars and Artists in Public life.” Spirn has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Center, Bunting Institute, California Humanities Research Institute, and NEA. She has been honored by the Philadelphia School District for the Mill Creek Project, a collaboration with inner city teachers and students, and in 2001, she received the prestigious International Cosmos Prize for a lifetime of research contributing to the “harmonious co-existence of nature and mankind.”

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TERRY S. SZOLD M.R.P. ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF LAND USE PLANNING

Terry Szold, MRP, is Adjunct Professor of Land Use Panning and principal of Community Planning Solutions. She has more than 20 years of experience in land use, strategic, and comprehensive planning. She was Planning Director for the Town of Burlington, Massachusetts, from 1988 to 1994, and served in a variety of senior planning positions in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. She is co-editor of the books: Smart Growth: Form and Consequences, published by The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in 2002, and, with Eran Ben-Joseph, Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America, published by Routledge Press in 2005. Her article, “Mansionization and Its Discontents: Planners and the Challenge of Regulating Monster Homes,” was published in the Journal of the American Planning Association, in spring, 2005. Ms. Szold’s consulting work includes the preparation of smart growth and mixed use zoning regulations in various cities and towns in the New England region. LAWRENCE VALE D.PHIL. FORD PROFESSOR OF URBAN DESIGN & PLANNING

Lawrence Vale holds degrees from Amherst College (B.A.), M.I.T.(S.M.Arch.S.), and the University of Oxford (D.Phil.). Vale is the author or editor of six books examining urban design and housing. These include Architecture, Power, and National Identity (1992, Spiro Kostof Book Award, SAH; 2nd ed. 2008); From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors (2000, Best Book in Urban Affairs, UAA); Reclaiming Public Housing (2002, Paul Davidoff Award, ACSP); and The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover From Disaster (ed., with Thomas Campanella, 2005). His other awards and honors include a Rhodes Scholarship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Chester Rapkin Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, an EDRA/ Places Award for “Place Research,” and the John M. Corcoran Award for Community Investment. He is currently completing work on two new books: Planning Ideas that Matter (ed., with Bish Sanyal and Christina Rosan) and Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities.

CHRISTOPHER ZEGRAS PH.D.

JAMES WESCOAT PH.D. AGA KHAN PROFESSOR

James Wescoat is interested in water management and policy issues in the western U.S. and South Asia (primarily Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh). He received his Bachelors in Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University, and both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Chicago. In 2003, he published Water for Life: Water Management and Environmental Policy with geographer Gilbert F. White (Cambridge University Press); and in 2007 he co-edited Political Economies of Landscape Change: Place of Integrative Power (Springer Publishing) for LAF Landscape Futures Initiative.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF URBAN PLANNING & TRANSPORTATION

Christopher Zegras’ teaching and research interests include the inter-relations between transportation and the built and natural environments, transportation system finance and policy, and integrated system modeling. He has co-taught urban design and planning studios and Practica in Beijing, Santiago de Chile, Mexico City, and Cartagena, Colombia. His journal articles have been published in Energy Policy, Journal of Urban Planning and Development, Transport Policy, Transportation Research Record, and Urban Studies; he has numerous book Chapters; and he co-edited the book, From Understanding to Action: Sustainable Urban Development in MediumSized Cities in Africa and Latin America. Current research projects include: Future Urban Mobility; Making the “Clean Energy City” in China; Travel Behavior of the Baby Boomers; and, Implementing Bus Rapid Transit: The Institutional Dimensions. Zegras has consulted widely, including for the International Energy Agency, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Canadian, German, US, and Peruvian Governments, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and the United Nations Center for Regional Development. Zegras previously worked for the International Institute for Energy Conservation in Washington, DC and Santiago de Chile and for MIT’s Laboratory for Energy and the Environment. He currently serves as the MIT Lead for the MIT-Portugal Program Transportation Systems Focus Area, on the Faculty Advisory Council of the Transportation@MIT Initiative, and on the Transportation in Developing Countries Committee of the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council.

ASSOCIATED FACULTY YUNG HO CHANG M.ARCH A.S., MCP

TONY CIOCHETTI

DAVID GELTNER

PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE

PH.D. (REAL ESTATE)

Yung Ho comes to MIT from Peking University where he was Head and Professor of the Graduate Center of Architecture. He received his MArch from the University of California at Berkeley and taught in the United States for 15 years before returning to Beijing to establish China’s first private architecture firm, Atelier FCJZ. His current research is interdisciplinary and focuses on the city, materiality, and tradition. REINHARD GOETHERT DR.-ING. M.ARCH PRINCIPAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Dr. Goethert focuses his interests in developing countries in settlement design, housing and participatory process. He coordinates the SIGUS Program which offers special workshops during the term and field based workshops oriented toward community development. He is recipient of the UN Habitat Scroll of Honour for “outstanding contributions in the development of innovative methodologies, training and field practice in “Community Action Planning.” Recent work includes planning workshops in Peru, Indonesia, Venezuela and Bhutan. SHUN KANDA M.ARCH SENIOR LECTURER IN ARCHITECTURE

Shun Kanda divides his time between teaching, research and practice at MIT and in Japan with particular interests in the area of urban housing and city design. In Japan, he consults to government agencies, institutions and the private sector. He directs the annual MIT Japan Design Workshop. He is the author of The Form of Neighborly Cluster (Sagami Shob, 1990) and Boston by Design (Process Architecture Pub. Co., 1991.

THOMAS G. EASTMAN CHAIR & CHAIRMAN, MIT CENTER FOR REAL ESTATE

Tony Ciochetti is the Thomas G. Eastman Chair and Chairman of the MIT Center for Real Estate. His primary responsibilities at MIT are to enhance the Centers mission of improving the global built environment through industry relevant research and teaching, and to promote more informed professional practice. Dr. Ciochetti received his B.A. in Finance from the University of Oregon, and both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. HIROSHI ISHII PH.D. (MEDIA) MURIEL R. COOPER PROFESSOR OF MEDIA ARTS & SCIENCES, MIT MEDIA LAB

Director of the MArch Program. Teaches graduate design studios and research workshops, as well as coordinator for the MArch design thesis program. He has held various teaching positions in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada since 1982. Graduate of the University of Manchester in the UK where he obtained his undergraduate degree and his professional degree. The focus of his research and practice work is around issues of sustainability and climate change as they relates to the design of cities - their systems, buildings, urban housing and infrastructure.

DIRECTOR, MIT CENTER FOR REAL ESTATE

David Geltner is a Professor of Real Estate Finance in the Department of Urban Studies & Planning, and Director of the Center for Real Estate. As Director of the MIT/CRE, Dr. Geltner heads MIT’s Master of Science in Real Estate Development program. Dr Geltner received his PhD in 1989 from MIT, in the Civil Engineering Department. Dr. Geltner is co-author of Commercial Real Estate Analysis & Investments, a new graduate-level real estate investments textbook. MICHAEL L. JOROFF MCP SENIOR LECTURER IN DUSP

Michael Joroff conducts research with corporations and cities to create next generation projects that promote the knowledge workforce and enable new ways of working, living, and learning. Current projects range from planning large-scale developments and science cities in Brazil, Spain and Korea to implementing programs to support distributed and mobile work in the USA, Japan and Europe. He is co-author of Excellence by Design: Transforming Work and the Workplace and many articles about the workplace. ANNETTE M. KIM

PH.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF URBAN & REGIONAL PLANNING

Annette Kim is interested in the relationship between spatial and institutional change and is currently completing a book on Sidewalk Cities in Vietnam. She has served as a consultant to the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, the World Bank, African and Asian governments, as well as community-based nongovernmental organizations in the United States and overseas.

23 PETER ROTH

KENT LARSON

M.ARCH, M.S.R.E.D.

(MEDIA)

LECTURER IN REAL ESTATE

DIRECTOR, CHANGING PLACES GROUP

Peter Roth is a developer and consultant with national experience in the area of adaptive reuse and affordable housing. His consulting work focuses on developing sustainable and diverse economic and real estate strategies for large complex industrial and waterfront sites. He is president of New Atlantic Development Corporation, which has developed a wide range of housing projects in the Boston area and with a particular emphasis on service-enriched housing for special needs populations. ANDREW SCOTT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

JAN WAMPLER M.ARCH U.D. PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE

An ecological plan for the Harlem River in the Bronx, NYC. Site & Systems Planning Studio

MEDIA LAB

Kent Larson directs the Media Labâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Changing Places group. Since 1998, he has also directed the MIT House_n research consortium in the School of Architecture and Planning. His current research is focused on four related areas: responsive urban housing, new urban vehicles, ubiquitous technologies, and living lab experiments. Larson practiced architecture for fifteen years in New York City. Jan Wampler teaches architectural design studios focusing on international settings and cities in distress, and co-teaches the Beijing Urban Design Studio with Dennis Frenchman. His articles have been published and buildings featured in many architectural magazines. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and was awarded the Distinguished Professor honor from the ASCA. He received his BS in Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design and a MAUD from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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