4.240/11.328 Urban Design Skills
Fall 2013
Instructors: Stephen F. Gray, Mary Anne Ocampo
TAs: Sneha Mandhan, Josselyn Francesca Ivanov
Lecture: F9-1 (10-485)
Information:
The Urban Design Skills course introduces urban planning students to methods for observing, interpreting, representing, and transforming the urban environment. Through various lenses of urban design, our surroundings can be understood and expressed within a framework of four methods of professional practice: Observation & Engagement, Analysis & Synthesis, Urban Design Tools, and Representation & Storytelling. The morphology of the city and the interrelationship of built form, circulation networks, open space and natural systems will be the primary subject of this course.
Announcements
Enrollment
Please note: The class is specifically geared towards first
year students without prior design background. It has limited enrollment.
Students with design or partial design background (architecture or landscape architecture) will not be admitted.
NOTE: First class meeting is Friday Sept 6th
First Recitation Wednesday Sept 11th (there is no class/recitation
on Wed. Sept 4th !!)
Announced on 16 August 2013 1:56 p.m. by Stephen F. Gray
