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11.123 Big PlansSpring 2005 Instructor: John de Monchaux TA: La Tonya Green Lecture: MW9.30-11 (10-401) Information: Plans describe a path of actions, often undertaken by many different parties, intended to achieve a certain purpose. The making of plans calls for thought, debate and commitment in advance of action. Ideally plans are an amalgam of the commitments by the parties responsible for the proposed actions and the willingness of the parties likely to be affected by those same actions. Large projects call for large and complex plans. The stories of how large projects are conceived and built are at the core of this subject. We will get to know these plans through readings and by inviting to the class individuals who have played a significant role in making and implementing those plans We will bring together issues of technology, politics, economics and culture. Big projects and their large and complex plans magnify the obstacles confronting their realization, and they sometimes make the benefits and dis-benefits easier to see. The stories about big plans will speak to the questions of social and economic priorities, professional competencies, budgets and finance, political commitments and the tension between the dynamic of each of these moving parts and the need to agree and determine an unambiguous feasible path of action. Inevitably, the stories about big plans raise the question of alternative approaches to the conceptualization and realization of urban and regional change. The classes in this subject will tell and discuss all these stories. AnnouncementsNo announcements
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