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Students in Site Planning collaborate on design us-ing the Luminous Table, a real time simluation tool.

Affordable housing design for a migrant community. Beijing Urban Design studio.

City Design at MITThe Joint Program in City Design and Development/CDD is an academic program, a research community, and a forum for debating propositions about the future of city form.

http://dusp.mit.edu/cdd/

CDD is a collaboration of the MIT Departments of Architecture and Planning, 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 interdis-ciplinary research as well as action in the field, developing new modes of profes-sional 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 com-mitment to reflective practice, to involving those who will be affected by city design decisions, to sustaining the natural setting and local culture, and to promot-ing a long range perspective on the consequences of actions that shape the urban fabric.

Students in CDD come from many countries with diverse backgrounds and experi-ences. Some have prior professional degrees in architecture, landscape architec-ture, and planning; others come from varied academic fields in the sciences and arts. Faculty advisors help students to tailor the program’s extensive subject offer-ings and research opportunities into individualized areas of study, supported by the unparalleled information and technology resources of MIT.

Dennis Frenchman, DirectorDepartment of Urban Studies and Planning

Julian BeinartDepartment of Architecture

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCharlotte Liu, AdministratorRoom 10-485Cambridge, MA 02139 USAPhone: 617-253-5155Fax: 617-258-8847Email: kittykat@mit.edu

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The Prospect of CDDCities 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 dif-ferent 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 three-pronged 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 agen-das 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 CDD’s propositional thinking.

Third, CDD grounds its work in history and theory. We study the historical tradi-tions 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 MIT’s focus on innovation.

Since its founding by Kevin Lynch and others almost 50 years ago, CDD has provided critical paradigms about the city. Key themes and questions now engaging people in the group include:

Can advanced communications and media animate the public realm? This question is being explored in a series of projects for cities in Asia, North America, and Europe where we are designing new kinds of public spaces, streets, building facades, and infrastructure that can respond to the people who use them and changes in the environment. The aim is to make digital spaces that are highly malleable, and therefore more meaningful for diverse groups and activi-ties. The same technologies can provide information on patterns of activity and movement in cities in real time, helping us to understand the relationships between urban forms and function and, in turn, improve their design.

How does culture shape development? CDD’s work around this theme seeks to understand how the urban experience is shaped by the preservation of culture and memory, by the development of new kinds of programmed public places and activities, and by the growing importance of artistic expression to the identity and livelihood of cities. Projects have explored how historical narratives can enhance the value of places, how local culture can be used as an armature for city and regional design, and how the growing importance of “event-places” con-tributes to community development in Europe and the US.

How do we enhance the performance of cities? Research by CDD has shown that many city design codes and models derived in the past are produc-ing inefficient, unsustainable patterns of development in the present. Yet they continue to be applied with onerous results, particularly in developing countries, where numbingly repetitive projects are consuming cultural heritage, energy, and land. CDD projects in Shanghai, South America and the US suburbs have proposed ways of guiding growth that are more responsive to local conditions and long term needs. Other work has examined ways that cities can become resilient in the face of sudden disasters. We are also studying the critical links between land use, trans-portation and development, using new tools of urban simulation.

Is there a new ideal for urban form? The classic question of urban struc-ture has resurfaced in the face of rapid urbanization that is largely driven by large-scale private development. In this context, how do we create space for the public and an overarching sense of community? How do we plan for a common future? CDD is investigating new products of real estate that blur traditional distinctions between the public and private realms. Included on the one hand are proposals for very high-density projects in the suburbs , and on the other, humanely scaled projects in the city that offer radical mixes of public and private use.

Shanghai, China Beijing, China Students studying transpor-tation options for Trapelo Road, Belmont, Massachu-setts. Community Growth and Land-use Planning.

Plan for new waterfront neighborhood on the Pearl River in Gaoming, China. Planning Studio.

3 4 Proposed urban village with rooftop argriculture, and transit oriented develop-ment. Beijing Urban Design Studio.

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Projects and Research

Passaic New Jersey. A spring Urban Design Studio investigated potentials for reordering suburban sprawl through major public investments in new monumen-tal buildings and infrastructure. Students developed options for the design of a high-density civic complex and other regionally scaled development. Results were published in a special theme edition of Volume, October 2006.

Beijing, China. The Beijing Urban Design Studio is a joint program of the 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 a plan for the Sun Palace Neighborhood, an urban village of migrant residents threatened by high-rise devel-opment, and City on the Rail, design of transit-oriented development along a new line opened for the Olympic Games. Work of the studio has been published as a cover story in World Architecture (March 2005).

Sao Paulo, Brazil. A fall Urban Design Studio considered the potential for new forms of mixed income housing development in the central area of the city, in cooperation with local universities and the real estate community. Other recent projects of the fall Studio have included metropolitan restructuring plans for Kyiv, Ukraine, and design of a high technology, university based research cluster in Newcastle, UK.

Southwest Washington D.C. A fall Urban Design Studio examined potentials in a quadrant of the city bounded by the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers. Students proposed strategic infrastructure, housing, education, recreation, and waterfront development to revitalize the area and bring it back into the mainstream of city life. Concepts were prepared with extensive community involvement; sponsored by the D.C. Office of Planning.

Gaoming, China. A Planning Studio prepared plans for a new civic center and waterfront district in this city located in the Pearl River Delta. Design focused on ways of integrating water and hydrological factors into all aspects of the city to protect ecosystems and provide for economic, recreational and transportation development. Other projects of the Planning Studio have included plans for sus-tainable housing development in Shanghai.

Lowell, Massachusetts. A Community Growth and Land Use Planning work-shop worked with citizens of the Centralville neighborhood to propose reuse scenarios for the riverfront, building on unique assets of this mixed income and culturally diverse area that lies across the river from the city’s much-celebrated downtown.

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.

Study of building forms on the Toronto, Canada wa-terfront, used to generate design proposals. Spring Urban Design Studio.

Redevelopment of an in-dustrial area for mixed uses and energy production in Kyiv Ukraine. Fall Urban Design Studio.

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Our research is funded by cities, companies or private foundations. These projects provide opportunitiesfor masters and doctoral students to collaborate with faculty on studies and design investigations at the leading edge of practice.

West Philadelphia Landsape Project is a program integrating research, teaching, and community service. On-going since 1987, work has involved commu-nity organizations, neighborhood groups, teachers and students in public schools. Activities have included: design and construction of community landscape projects, maintenance of a digital database, stormwater management strategies, and curricu-lum for an inner-city junior high school. Anne Whiston Spirn

Event Places: Providence, R.I., WaterFire

Zaragoza Digital Mile Memory paving would record recurring paths of movement making a more responsive public space. Zaragoza, Spain Digital Mile.

Evauation of large scale housing typeologies and sustainability in Shanghai. Vanke Housing Research.

10 On-site assessment of public housing renewal in Boston, Massachusetts. Lawrence Vale.

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Event Places investigated the growing importance of public events and their set-tings to the design of cities in the US and Europe. Over 100 event places were sur-veyed, leading to guidelines for developing successful projects. Continuing a long-standing collaboration, the research was a joint effort of CDD and the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Spain, and published in the book Event Places. Other projects of the collaboration included Designing the Llobregat Corridor, a proposal for regional development north of Barcelona. Dennis Frenchman, J. Mark Schuster, Eran Ben-Joseph

Public Housing Renewal research has engaged many students over the years assisting Professor Larry Valeto examine the fifty-year rise, fall, and redevelopment of public housing projects from the perspective of their tenants and design profes-sionals The work has led to two books: From Puritans to the Projects (Best Book in Urban Affairs, 2001), and Reclaiming Public Housing (Paul Davidoff Award, 2005). Lawrence Vale

Zaragoza Digital Mile connects the historic center of Zaragoza, Spain, with the site of Expo 2008 on the outskirts of the city. The project proposes a set of responsive public spaces, streetscape elements, and buildings knit together by digi-tal media, which will engage citizens and solidify the city as a leader in advanced technology. The work has been published in Zaragoza Milla Digital: Designing a New Century Public Realm and exhibited in the Venice Biennale. The project continues research on digital city design, which has included design of the Seoul Digital Media City and other projects. Dennis Frenchman, Michael Joroff, William J. Mitchell

Sustainable Residential Development in Shanghai, sponsored by the Vanke Real Estate Group, evaluated the livability of existing housing projects built by the company in comparison to developments worldwide. The research resulted in model design guidelines for housing that is environmentally sound, economically viable, and accessible to all residents. Tunney Lee, Liang Zhao

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SENSEable City LaboratoryDigital technology is radically transforming the way we describe and understand cities – along with the tools we use to design them and their physical structure, itself. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a research initiative of CDD/DUSP and the Media Lab at MIT.

Mobile Landscapes. The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. Research projects of the lab such as Graz in Real Time harness the potential of mobile phones as a medium to sense and display the city in real-time. Because it is possible to simultaneously establish the precise location in space of thousands of users, these devices can be used as a highly dynamic tracking tool that describes how the city is used and transformed by its citizens. The idea has been carried further in Real Time Rome, the lab’s contribution to the 2006 Venice Biennale. The project aggregates data from cell phones, buses and taxis in Rome to better understand urban dynamics. The project shows how technology can help individu-als make more informed decisions about their environment, reducing the inefficien-cies of present day urban systems.

Tangible user interfaces for design. New simulation media can facilitate the process of designing cities by merging multiple representations used in design. They can also allow people to interact with computers via familiar tangible objects, therefore taking advantage of the richness of the tactile world combined with the power of numerical simulations. Two experimental systems, Illuminating Clay

and Sandscape, allow designers to shape a three-dimensional model of a road or landscape, for example, upon which is projected graphical information about the design in real time such as slope, drainage, shadows, and traveling time. These tools streamline the design process by bridging the gap between physical and digital models.

I-Spots. The I-SPOTS project describes changes in living and working at MIT by mapping the dynamics of the wireless network in real-time. Thus, the complex and dispersed individual movement patterns that make up the daily life of the campus can be revealed, helping to answer many questions: Which physical spaces are pre-ferred for work in the MIT community? How could future physical planning of the campus suit the community’s changing needs? Which location-based services would be most helpful for students, faculty, and staff?

Cannes Reloaded. Cannes today functions mostly as a tourist, festival, and retirement destination. But it has the potential to play a new, far more dynamic role. Its climate and lifestyle attractions, its connections to the film and media world, and its proximity to the Sophia Antipolis technopole, position it to become a leading center of the creative industries. Cannes has partnered with MIT to plan a new high-technology neighborhood near the downtown. A multidisciplinary team composed of students from CDD, the Media Lab and Harvard GSD developed architectural, and technological interventions to initiate urban change.

The SENSEable City Consortium brings together city officials, network operators, electronic hardward and software producers, and urban hardware manufacturers to investigate creatively the relationship between new technolo-gies, people and the urban environment. The simultaneous presence of these partners in MIT’s research environment allows us to contribute to one of the greatest challenges we face today: digitally reinventing urban life!

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I-SPOTS Venice Biennale exhibit of SENSEable City Lab in-cluding “Real Time Rome”, the Zaragoza Digital Mile, and other SAP projects..

“Real Time Rome” maps data on cell phone usage, buses and taxis in real time to give a dynamic view of the city.

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DebateEach year, the City Design and 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.

CDD ForumTopics 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 exam-ined 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 Katrina disaster 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. Finally, Photography as Inquiry brought nationally known photographers to CDD to discuss their work as a methodology of urban analysis.

Conferences and SymposiaRecent events organized by CDD students and faculty have included:

China Planning Network Conference held in Beijing, 2006, highlighted the challenges of urban planning and development amidst China’s rapid urbanization. The conference, which drew almost one-thousand participants, was sponsored by MIT and the Ministry of Construction and advised by Professor Larry Vale.

Imaging the City examined the effects of media on urban form and function, extending the work of Kevin Lynch.

The Resilient City reviewed the experience of cities across the globe

that have endured trau-matic episodes like 9-11 or

the Katrina Disaster and have prevailed.

Event Places explored the growing phenom-enon of public events shaping city form and identity.

The Future City-Region in Europe explored the reinvention of older indus-trial cities including Berlin, Bilbao, Glasgow, Lille, and the Ruhr Valley.

New Century Cities, held in 2005, brought together technology companies, real estate developers, and cities from in Europe, Asia, and the US to focus on technology-driven development. Co-sponsored with the Center for Real Estate and the Media Lab and led by Professors Dennis Frenchman, Michael Joroff, and Tony Ciochetti.

Smart Growth: Form and Consequences explored the Smart Growth movement and interventions including design standards, land use regulation, prop-erty rights, and environmental ethics. Organized by Professor Terry Szold and co-sponsored with the Lincoln Land Institute,

Northeast Mayor’s Institute on City Design brings mayors and design-professionals to MIT for intensive discussions fostering a better understanding of city design. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with the American Architectural Foundation and the US Conference of Mayors; led by Professors J. Mark Schuster and Susan Silberberg.

Regulating Place examined the role

of codes and stan-dards in the design of American cities.

Housing the City exam-ined how metropolitan development patterns

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Event Places explored the growing phenom-enon of public events shaping city form and identity.

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Academic ProgramsCDD 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 student’s program is unique, typical areas of concentration include: Urban Design, Community and Land Use Planning, Architecture and Urbanism, or Urban Development.

Architecture and Urbanism is concerned with the theory and history of city form and design, including patterns of settlement, the imaging of urban environ-ments, morphological and typological studies, 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, but a number also follow professional practice careers in architecture and planning.

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 and workshops in the US, Canada and Europe have examined the role of history and memory in designing cities, the effects of communications tech-nologies on city form, new models of high school and campus design in cities, and potentials for new forms of high density, monumental architecture on the urban fringe.

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, public and private sector development organizations, 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 plan-ners who couple their first professional skills with an understanding of develop-ment, and as managers of urban planning and development agencies.

Subjects in this area include real estate development, finance, community develop-ment, real estate economics, legal issues, and affordable housing development. Real Estate Development II provides an opportunity for students to synthesize complex projects in real world settings. Projects have included suburban residential development; revitalization of a former shopping mall and brownfield site on the waterfront; development of Fan Pier in South Boston; and mixed-use development of the federal Volpe Transportation Center near MIT.

Urban Design focuses on the physical transformation of large-scale areas in cit-ies. 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. Increasingly, advanced digital modeling and simulation tools are being applied to assist students in design-ing complex projects. 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 trans-portation 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 revitaliza-tion of Southwest Washington, DC; redevelopment of former industrial sites in downtown Singapore; design of a transportation corridor in Miami, and creation of mixed income housing in Sao Paulo.

Community and Land Use Planning concentrates on the planning of com-munities 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 informa-tion systems and simulation tools to aid in their analyses and proposals for commu-nities 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 brown-field development. Workshops in concert with local communities address issues such as: revitalizing traditional New England village centers, planning for transit oriented development, achieving “smart” growth in the suburbs, and pumping new life into dying main streets.

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

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

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Professional Master’s Level Study

Urban Design CertificateThe 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 archi-tecture 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), or Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS), 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 sub-ject 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 com-mittee 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.

City design is practiced in diverse places, subject to political, eco-nomic 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.

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Overview Subjects4.244/11.333J Urban Design Seminar Frenchman, Silberberg 4.240/11.328 Urban Design Skills Ben-Joseph 4.252J/11.301J Urban Design and Development Frenchman 4.175 Workshop in City Form Dennis4.THG Architecture and Urbanism Thesis / Prep Dennis11.THG City Design and Development Thesis / Prep Schuster

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4.241J/11.330J Theory of City Form Beinart 4.242J/11.331J Advanced Seminar in Urban Form Beinart 4.633 History of Urban Form Friedman4.253J/11.302J Urban Design Politics Vale 11.206J/21H234J Downtown Fogelson 11.311J Ideal Forms of Contemporary Urbanism deHooghe o 11.329 Social Theory and the City Sennett

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Development Processes 11.431J/15.426J Real Estate Finance and Investment Geltner 11.433J/15.021J Real Estate Economics Wheaton 11.437 Financing Economic Development Seidman (TBA) Mixed Income Housing Development Roth

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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 and Development. The program also serves a wide array of other students from other programs and departments at MIT and in the Cambridge community.

CurriculumStudents who specialize in CDD must fulfill the core requirements of their profes-sional 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 below.

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Doctoral Students Anna Brand practiced architecture before joining Americorps, where she taught architecture and planning to children in public schools. Her research interests include disaster recovery, urban politics, and the use and regulation of public space, and she is now focusing on community development in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. She received a Master of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of New Orleans.

Yang Chen is a landscape architect interested in transportation planning for developing countries. Her research focuses on the role of transportation in shap-ing cities and solving critical development problems. She received a BS from Peking University, where she worked in the landscape design institute, and a Masters in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

Lianne Fisman is interested in community development and learning. She taught in Laos and coordinated education for the Urban Resources Initiative in New Haven, CT. Her dissertation project emerged from work at The Food Project, which teaches young people from both inner cities and suburbs about sustainable agriculture. Lianne holds a Master of Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Erin Graves studies how social trends affect the built environment. She is cur-rently writing a dissertation about the social dynamics of mixed income housing and worked on a project concerning public housing and home ownership. Erin was an economic development planner in New York City, and she received her Master’s in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois.

La Tonya Green focuses on inner city design and community development. She taught at the City University of New York and at Saint Peter’s College. She was also a senior research associate at Building Community Technology Partners and lead teacher at the Metro-Paterson Academy for Communications and Technology. La Tonya holds a Masters degree in City Planning and an Urban Design Certificate from MIT.

Steven T. Moga studies the history of city planning and the built environment. He is particularly interested in the role interpretation of the past plays in contem-porary land use conflicts. Steve has worked as a VISTA volunteer, the community services director of a large affordable housing complex, an historic preservation consultant, and served on the Board of the American Swedish Institute. He received a Master of Arts in Urban Planning from UCLA.

Thomas Oles holds master’s degrees in Russian and Landscape Architecture from the University of Washington, and studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. He has worked at Martha Schwartz Partners and Ken Smith Landscape Architect, New York. Thomas is researching new uses for housing in the former Soviet Union, as well as planning for transition areas at the borders of cities.

Noah Raford has worked on strategic design issues from transit-oriented design in San Francisco to sustainable pedestrian planning in Senegal. He is interested in technology for improving the human qualities of the built environment, and his research at MIT examines new ways of improving the design process through enhanced community participation, visualization, and impact assessment of devel-opment proposals. He received his MSc in Advanced Architectural Analysis from the Bartlett School in the UK.

Francisca Rojas studies the role of information technology in urban design. She worked as a planner for the Anacostia Waterfront in the District of Columbia, advised the Chilean Minister of Housing and Urbanism, and managed the American Institute of Architects’ Center for Communities by Design. She helped to found and edit Projections, the MIT student journal of planning. Her MCP degree and Urban Design Certificate are from MIT.

Andres Sevtsuk has practiced architecture in Estonia and France, and has been invited to participate in several international design competitions. His research focuses on the effects of mobile communications on city form and function, and the use of real time information systems to allocate urban resources. Before completing his SMArchS degree in Architecture and Urbanism at MIT, he studied in Tallinn and Paris.

Annis Whitlow is interested in the design and use of public spaces. Her master’s thesis focused on parades as political expression, and she is now examining their role in community development. As a consultant, she has worked on a series of water-front projects in Boston and on cultural planning initiatives across the country. Annis received her BA in Architecture from Yale and an MCP from MIT.

Collaborative research projects and teaching are also key parts of the doctoral experience. In City Design and Development students are given substantial teach-ing 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.

Doctoral students have also played key roles in research projects in collabora-tion 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 first (disciplinary) field 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 present-ed 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.

Doctoral Level StudyThe Department of Urban Studies and Planning offers a Doctoral Program to prepare advanced scholars for careers in research and teaching. The program is founded on a close working relation-ship between students and their faculty advisors. In CDD, doctoral students take on teaching responsibilities and help to lead the group’s research initiatives.

Each year the department admits between eight and twelve new Ph.D.students, and typically one to three of these are selected to study in the City Design and Development area. Almost all Ph.D. students enter the doctoral program with a Master’s degree in a related field. Most are enrolled for at least six semesters, how-ever, 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 prepa-ration 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 faculty-student research seminars on topics of common interest, and there is considerable flexibility in cre-ating such opportunities. Doctoral students have access to most courses in other departments at MIT, Harvard, and Tufts.

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FacultyDennis Frenchman, M.Arch.A.S., M.C.P.Professor of the Practice of Urban Design and PlanningDirector, City Design and Development GroupDennis Frenchman teaches urban design in CDD and is also on the faculty of the Center for Real Estate. He is a founder of ICON Architecture, in Boston, an award winning international design firm. He has led research and design projects in many countries and served as External Advisor on Urban Livability to the president of the World Bank. He is an expert on the application of advanced communications and media to cities, and has designed technology driven developments including Seoul Digital Media City, Beijing Media Avenue, the Korean Institute of Science and Technology, and the Digital Mile in Zaragoza, Spain. Focusing on urban transformation, he has played a major role in the renewal of depressed neighborhoods, housing, and downtown centers including many significant world heritage sites. These projects have been widely published and received many awards, including three citations from the American Planning Association as the most outstanding in the US.

Julian Beinart, M.Arch., M.C.P.Professor of ArchitectureJulian Beinart’s work focuses on 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 art and jazz were the subject of a BBC film. Recent publications focus on the Olympic Games, 19th century grid form, image construction in pre-modern cities, and urban resilience. He co-chaired the Jerusalem Architecture Seminars and worked in Jerusalem and Palestine, as well as Russia, Southern Africa, the UAE, Jordan, Taiwan and Chandigarh, India. In the US, he has worked in Washington, Miami and the Alliance Airport region in Texas, and helped to design MIT’s new Brain and Cognitive Sciences building.

Eran Ben-Joseph, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning Eran Ben-Joseph is interested in urban design standards and regulations, landscape planning, and urban simulation. His recent books are The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making (MIT Press, 2005) and Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America (edited with Terry Szold, Routledge 2005). He is the founding principal of BNBJ, a planning firm in Tel-Aviv, Israel. He previously taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and has led projects in Singapore, Barcelona, and Washington D.C.. He received the Wade Award for his work on representation of places, collaborating with MIT Media Lab, and MITs Graduate Teaching Award. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and from Chiba National University of Japan.

Charles Correa, M.Arch.A. Farwell Bemis Professor of ArchitectureCharles Correa studied at the University of Michigan and at MIT. His work ranges, from the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial at the Sabarmati Ashram, to the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur, and the State Assembly for Madhya Pradesh. Correa has pioneered work on urban issues and low-cost shelter in the Third World. From 1970 - 75, he was Chief Architect for ‘New Bombay’ center of 2 million people. In 1985, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi appointed him Chair of the National Commission on Urbanization. He has been the Sir Banister Fletcher Professor at the University of London and the Jawaharlal Nehru Professor at Cambridge. He received the Gold Medal of the International Union of Architects, 1990; the Praemium Imperiale from Japan, 1994; and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1998.

Alexander D’Hooghe, Ph.D.Assistant Professor in Architecture and UrbanismAlexander D’Hooghe is concerned with urban form and theory as it relates to myths of the ideal city. Creating templates for urban projects is central to his work at MIT and at his firm ORG in the Netherlands. His book Public Form (2005) explores a less-studied template for urban interventions, namely the group form as a symbolic form of funda-mentalist pluralism. Other recent projects have included a study of Siberian science cities (published in AA files), urban design investigations for the European Union, and various projects under construction, which apply his theories. D’Hooghe has worked with Marcel Smets, Rem Koolhaas, and Wiel Arets. He holds degrees from the Berlage Institute, the University of Leuven, and the Harvard Design School.

Adele Naudé Santos, M.Arch.U.D., M.Arch., M.C.P.Professor of Architecture and Urban PlanningDean, MIT School of Architecture and PlanningAdele Santos 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 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 recog-nized 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. Santos earned the AA Diploma from the Architectural Association (London), MAUD from Harvard University, and MCP and MArch from the University of Pennsylvania.

J. Mark Schuster, Ph.D.Professor of Urban Cultural PolicyJ. Mark Schuster specializes in government policies and programs involving the arts, culture, and urban design. His projects include: “Mapping State Cultural Policy,” documenting the cultural policy of Washington State. “The Cultural Landscape and Regional Development,” a planning strategy for the Llobregat River Valley in Spain; the “Information Infrastructure for Cultural Policy,”; and “Ephemera, Temporary Urbanism, and Imaging the City,” investi-gating the effect of events on the city. Schuster is the author of many books, including: Informing Cultural Policy: The Information and Research Infrastructure; Preserving the Built Heritage-Tools for Implementation (with John deMonchaux); Patrons Despite Themselves: Taxpayers and Arts Policy (with Alan Feld and Michael O’Hare); Who’s to Pay for the Arts? (with Milton Cummings); The Geography of Participation in the Arts and Culture; and The Audience for American Art Museums.

Richard Sennett, Ph.D. Bemis Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Urban StudiesRichard Sennett holds academic appointments at MIT, NYU, and the London School of Economics. At MIT, he teaches a research seminar on Social Theory and the City. His three most recent books are studies of modern capitalism: The Culture of the New Capitalism (Yale, 2006), Respect in an Age of Inequality, (Penguin, 2003) and The Corrosion of Character, (Norton, 1998). He is currently completing a book on craftsman-ship. Sennett has been awarded the Amalfi and the Ebert prizes for sociology, as well as the Lynd Award for lifetime achievement. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Society of the Arts, and the Academia Europea. He is past president of the American Council on Work and the former Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

John de Monchaux, M.Arch.U.D.Professor of Architecture and PlanningJohn de Monchaux is interested in city performance, implementation, and settlement issues in the developing world. His work has included planning assistance to community organizations in Watts, East Los Angeles, Detroit and Chicago; slum upgrading in the Philippines; and urban plans throughout Australia and Britain. From 1981 to 1992 he served as Dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. He was also General Manager of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. From 1996 to 2004 he directed MIT’s SPURS/Humphrey Program. He was the founding Chairman of the Boston Civic Design Commission and has been a Senior Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He studied architecture at Sydney University and urban design at Harvard’s GSD.

Michael Dennis, B.Arch.Professor of Architecture Michael Dennis teaches Urban Design, Theory, and Urban Housing. He has been the Thomas Jefferson Professor at the University of Virginia, the Eero Saarinen Professor at Yale and has also taught at Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Rice and Columbia. He authored Court and Garden: From the French Hôtel to the City of Modern Architecture (MIT Press, 1986), as well as numerous articles. He also has an award-winning architecture and urban design practice in Boston, focusing on campus plans and buildings. His projects include: the Art Museum for UC Santa Barbara; the Science/Technology building at Syracuse University; the Carnegie Mellon campus design; performing arts centers for Emory, Ball State, and UNC Chapel Hill; and master plans for USC, Ohio State, and Texas A&M.

Tunney Lee, B.Arch.Professor of Architecture and City Planning, EmeritusTunney Lee is former Head of the 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 have focused on community-based design and he has led many studios involving Boston area neighborhoods including East Boston, Fenway, and Alewife. He has a special interest in high-density urban settings. Most recently, his research has focused on urban development of the Pearl River Delta in China, and on housing development quality in Shanghai, China, for the Vanke Corporation.

Carlo Ratti, Ph.D.Principal Research Scientist and Associate Professor of PracticeDirector, SENSEable City LaboratoryAn architect and engineer, Carlo Ratti founded the SENSEable City Laboratory, a research initiative between DUSP and the Media Lab. He is also founder of carlorattiassociati, an architectural practice in Turin, Italy, whose work was cited as one of the top emerging Italian practices. Carlo’s research on the Real Time City and the work of the SENSEable City Laboratory have been the subject of a major exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Carlo pre-viously held academic appointments at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge and the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées. A junior fellow of the Aspen Institute, he has co-authored four patents and over forty scientific publications. He contributes articles on architecture to the magazines Domus, Casabella, Abitare and the Italian newspapers La Stampa and Il Sole 24 Ore (Domenica).

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Susan Silberberg, M.C.P.Lecturer in Urban Design and PlanningSusan Silberberg is an architect, urban designer, and planner who works with community organizations, public agencies, foundations, and cultural groups. She has consulted to UNESCO World Heritage Sites, museums, and municipalities. She authored the Arts District master plan for Worcester, MA, cited by the American Planning Association and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She also developed the ”20/20 Vision for Concord, NH” that won a Congress for New Urbanism Charter Award. Recently she has focused on waterfront planning including a citywide Boston study of public uses of the waterfront and a waterfront activation plan for the Charlestown Navy Yard. Silberberg teaches urban design and practice based courses in downtown revitalization and was on the faculty of Auburn University before coming to MIT.

Anne Whiston Spirn, M.L.A.Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional PlanningAnne Spirn is a landscape architect and scholar and author of 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 directs 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. Spirn has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Center, Bunting Institute, California Humanities Research Institute, the Warren Center, and NEA. She has been honored by the Philadelphia School Distirct for the Mill Creek Project, a collaboration with inner city teachers and stu-dents, and in 2001, she received the Cosmos Prize for a lifetime of research contributing to the harmonious co-existence of nature and mankind. She received a B.A. from Radcliffe College and MLA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Terry S. Szold, M.R.P.Adjunct Associate Professor of Land Use PlanningTerry Szold’s work focuses on smart growth and mixed use zoning. As 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 across New England. She has co-edited two books: Smart Growth: Form and Consequences, (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2002), and Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America, (with Eran Ben-Joseph, Routledge, 2005). Her article, “Mansionization and Its Discontents: Planners and the Challenge of Regulating Monster Homes,” was published by the Journal of the American Planning Association, 2005.

Lawrence Vale, S.M.Arch.S., D.Phil.Professor of Urban Design and PlanningMacVicar Faculty FellowHead, MIT Department of Urban Studies and PlanningLawrence Vale is the author or editor of six books examining urban design and hous-ing. These include four award-winning volumes: Architecture, Power, and National Identity (1992); From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors (2000); Reclaiming Public Housing (2002); and The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover From Disaster (ed., with Thomas Campanella, 2005). His awards and honors include a Rhodes Scholarship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Spiro Kostof Book Award for Architecture and Urbanism from the Society of Architectural Historians, the “Best Book in Urban Affairs” Award from the Urban Affairs Association, the Chester Rapkin Award and the Paul Davidoff 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. Vale holds degrees from Amherst College (B.A.), M.I.T. (S.M.Arch.S.), and the University of Oxford (D.Phil.).

Chris Zegras, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and TransportationChris Zegras focuses on urban transportation, land development, and environmental impacts in developing countries. He has worked as a Research Associate at MIT’s Laboratory for Energy and the Environment and for the International Institute for Energy Conservation and consulted to the World Bank, governments, and NGOs. His publica-tions include the co-edited book, From Understanding to Action: Sustainable Urban Development in Medium-Sized Cities in Africa and Latin America (Springer, 2004) and numerous journal articles, including the “Influence of Land Use on Travel Behavior in Santiago, Chile” (2004) and “Scenario Planning: A Proposed Approach for Strategic Regional Transportation Planning” (2004, with Sussman and Conklin). He is a member of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Transportation in Developing Countries. Zegras received his PhD from MIT.

Associated Faculty Yung Ho Chang, M.Arch.Professor of ArchitectureHead, MIT Department of Architecture Yung Ho Chang was previously Head and Professor of the Graduate Center of Architecture at Peking University. 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.

Tony Ciochetti, Ph.D.Professor of the Practice of Real EstateChairman, MIT Center for Real Estate Tony Ciochetti is a land economist and former developer who teaches real estate devel-opment. As Chair of the CRE, his primary responsibilities are to improve the global built environment through industry relevant research and teaching, and to promote more informed professional practice of real estate development.

David Geltner, Ph.D.Professor of Real Estate FinanceDirector of the MIT Center for Real EstateAs Director of the MIT/CRE, Dr. Geltner heads MIT’s Master of Science in Real Estate Development program, and teaches real estate finance. Geltner received his PhD in 1989 from MIT, in the Civil Engineering Department. He is co-author of Commercial Real Estate Analysis & Investments, a graduate-level real estate investments textbook.

Michael L. Joroff, M.C.P.Senior Lecturer in DUSPMichael Joroff conducts research with corporations and cities to create next generation projects that promote the knowledge workforce and enable new ways of working, liv-ing, 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.

Shun Kanda, M.Arch.Senior Lecturer in ArchitectureShun 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 TheForm of Neighborly Cluster (Sagami Shob, 1990) and Boston byDesign (Process Architecture, 1991.)

Annette M. Kim, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional PlanningAnnette Kim is interested in the relationship between spatial and institutional change and is currently researching urban development in European and Asian transition cities. 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 nongovernmen-tal organizations in the United States and overseas.

William J. Mitchell, M.A., M.E.D. Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and SciencesDirector, Design LabWilliam Mitchell holds the William W Dreyfoos Professorship and head the Smart Cities Research Group He was formerly Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning and Head of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences at the Media Lab. He is author of the recent books Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City; City of Bits; E-topia; and Me++ (MIT Press.) These books explore the new forms and functions of cities in digital electronic era and suggest design and planning directions for the future.

Peter Roth, M.Arch., M.S.R.E.D.Lecturer in Real EstatePeter 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.

Jan Wampler, M.Arch.U.D.Professor of ArchitectureJan 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.

Sam Bass Warner, Jr. Ph.D.Visiting Professor of Urban HistoryProfessor Warner is an urban historian whose works includes, The Urban Wilderness (Harper &Row, 1972), a history of the American city; The Private City (University of Pennsylvania, 1969), and several books on Boston beginning with Streetcar Suburbs (Harvard, 1962). His latest book, Greater Boston (University of Pennsylvania, 2001) charts the growth and challenges facing the eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire metropolitan region.

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