11.S944 Housing & Land Rights for Planners
Fall 2014
Instructor: Miloon Kothari
Lecture: Tuesday 3 pm - 5 pm (5-232)
Information:
The course will begin with a rigorous and critical introduction
to the history, foundation, structure, and operation of the human
rights movement. While the course will begin with an introduction
to the full range of international human rights, the primary focus
will be on the critical connection of housing and land rights to
the ethical dimensions of planning and the role of planners in
tackling the current global crisis of urbanisation and urban and
rural poverty. Requires familiarity with global affairs or ethics
and social justice issues.
The course is part of the MIT Displacement Research and Action
Network (DRAN) http://displacement.mit.edu/
and will draw on the considerable documentation and methodological
resources of the Network. One such resource is the mapping exercise
developed by MIT students in the August 2014 Practicum in New
Delhi, India (11.S943). The course will include a brief overview of
this work as well as a discussion on the practical application of
such methodologies across the world.
The course will also include the participation of eminent
scholars and activists and eminent experts (including United
Nations Special Rapporteurs) as guest lecturers.
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