towards a global learning community addendum

954 Pages·2013·2.68 MB·English

TOWARDS A GLOBAL LEARNING COMMUNITY
REPORT TO THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
ON CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT FOR THE
INDIAN INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SETTLEMENTS

ADDENDUM
COURSES BY SPECIALIZATION
FOR THE MASTER OF URBAN PRACTICE

DEPARTMENT OF URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
CAMBRIDGE, USA
July 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. CLIMATE CHANGE: ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION
§ Climate Adaptation: Planning Resilience and Just Cities 11
§ Climate Change and Climate Justice 23
§ Climate Policy and Politics 35
§ Urban Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment 47

II. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCIAL
MANAGEMENT
§ Economic Institutions, Policies and Practices 65
§ Financing Local Government 87
§ Histories and Theories of Economic Development 107
§ Indian Enterprises in the Global Economy 131
§ India’s Urban Resources 137
§ Labor Markets, Organizations and Employment Relations:
Planning for Change in the Indian Labor Market in the 21st 149
Century
§ Poverty, Capability, and Social Mobility: Prospects and Practices 171
§ Small Firms, Local Industrialization, and the Informal Economy 181

III. ENERGY POLICY AND PLANNING
§ Enabling an Energy Efficient Society 201
§ Energy and Climate Change Mitigation 209
§ Energy Futures: Green Technology and Social Innovation 219
§ Facilities Siting 227
§ Financing Energy Development 241
§ Regulating Social and Environmental Impacts of Energy
257
Development
§ Sustainable Energy Technologies 269
§ Negotiation, Dispute Resolution and The Practice Of Public
277
Engagement

IV. ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND DESIGN
§ Adaptive Metropolitan Environmental Planning 287
§ Environmental Inquiry and Practice 297
§ Environmental Hazards, Site Planning and Design 307
§ Environmental Policy, Evaluation and Design 319
§ Environmental Site Planning and Design 331
§ Environmental Systems Analysis and Design 241
§ Water in Environmental Design 351
§ Water in Environmental Policy 363
§ Water in Environmental Systems Analysis and Design 375

V. LAW AND GOVERNANCE: MAKING INDIAN CITIES MORE
EQUITABLE
§ Alternative Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice 387
§ Housing Law and Human Rights 397
§ Law and Politics of Local Governance 405
§ Law, Social Movements and Public Policy 413
§ Legal Aspects of Urban Transformation 421
§ Water: Politics, Policy, Law
  429

VI. NEW URBAN PLANNING: INSTINCTS, INSTRUMENTS AND
INSTITUTIONS
§ A Reflective Approach to Spatial Plans (Master Plans) 441
§ Flexible Bureaucracies 453
§ Governance, Accountability and Citizen Participation 465
§ Housing Policy and Practice in Developing Countries 477
§ Peri-urban Growth of Metropolitan Areas 493
§ Planning for Second and Third Tier Cities 505
§ Planning Sensibilities for Effective Practice 515
§ Public Sector Reforms and Organizational Development 551
§ Supporting Urban Livelihoods, Reducing Urban Poverty: Learning
567
from Organizations of Informal Workers
§ Urban Renewal 583

VII. SOCIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF URBAN PRACTICE
§ Cities, Citizens, And States In The Social Development Of
601
Democratic Governance
§ City, Community, and Culture In The Making of the Modern
621
World
§ Conflict and the Social Construction of Cityscapes 641
§ Decentralization, Democracy, Citizen Participation and the
661
Planning Process
§ Leveraging Difference: Urban Subcultures and the Planning
679
Process
§ The Economic Sociology of Cities: Production, Consumption, and
693
Use vs. Exchange Value in Urban Life
§ Urban Informality: Planning, Power and Politics 707
§ Urban Projects and the Architectures of Globalization:
719
Reconfiguring Urban Spaces for a New Century

VIII. TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
§ Advanced Spatial Analysis for Urban and Regional Planning 739
§ E-Democracy, Public Participation, and Digital Citizenship 747
§ Responsive Cities and e-Planning 757
§ Urban Design for “Smart” Cities 767
§ Urban Modeling for Sustainable Development 775

IX. TRANSPORTATION AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
§ Introduction to Urban Transport Planning 793
§ Public Transportation Management 803
§ Public Transport Service and Operations Planning 811
§ Transportation, Land-use and the Environment 821
§ Urban Transport Technologies 833
§ Urban Mobility for very Low-income Communities 843
§ Urban Transport Finance 853
§ Urban Transport Systems 863

X. URBANISM
§ Introduction to the Specialization in Urbanism 873
Part 1: The Material City: Form and Space
Part 2: The Changing City: Urban Dynamics
§ Urbanism: Histories, Theories, and Skills 889
Part 1: Histories of Urbanism: Evolution of Urban Form
Part 2: Theories of Urbanism: Values and Action
Part 3: Practicum 1: Analytical, Design, and Presentation Skills
§ Fundamentals of Real Estate Development 909
§ Historic Conservation and Adaptive Reuse as Regeneration 917
§ Urbanism Practicum II: Praxis 927
§ Urbanism Practicum III: Research by Design 935
§ Urbanism Practicum IV: Challenges and Transformations 945

CLIMATE CHANGE:
ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION