Showing posts with label CitiesX. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CitiesX. Show all posts

Monday, June 4, 2018

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX :
The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life
: 4.3.3 The French Origins of the Restaurant



4.3.4 The Napoleonic Era & the Expansion of the Restaurant

Friday, April 13, 2018

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX :
The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life
: 3.4 : Industry in the New World :
3.4.4 : Somerville: Past, Present, and Future

Thursday, April 12, 2018

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX :
The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life :
3.4 Industry in the New World :
3.4.2 : The Fall of New York



3.4.3 The Rebirth of New York


: @edXOnline : #CitiesX :
The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life :
3.4 Industry in the New World :
3.4.1 : Buenos Aires and Chicago

Thursday, March 15, 2018

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX :
The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life :
3 : City of Industry :
3.3.1 Industrial Soviet Cities

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX :
The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life :
3 : City of Industry : 3.1 Manchester :
Water & the Industrial Revolution

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX :
The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life :
2 : Trade and the City : 2.4 Shanghai

Thursday, March 8, 2018

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX :
The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life :
2 : Trade and the City : 2.3 : Dubai

Friday, March 2, 2018

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX :
The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life :
2 : Trade and the City : 2.2 : Venice

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX :
The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life :
2.1 : Trade and the City

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX : The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life : 10 : Catete Palace (Rio de Janeiro)

Thursday, March 1, 2018

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX : The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life : 9 : Paris

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX : The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life : 8 : Beijing.

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX : The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life 7. Washington D.C.

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX : The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life 6. Tokyo

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX : The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life 5. Kaifeng

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX : The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life 4. Xi'an

Saturday, February 24, 2018

: @edXOnline : #CitiesX : The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life 3. Baghdad

Friday, February 23, 2018

@edXOnline : CitiesX:
The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life
2. Rome

Part One : Power and the City

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

@edXOnline : CitiesX:
The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life
1. Introduction

CitiesX: an exploration of the past, present, and future of humanity’s greatest invention: the city. The material in this course is a combination of Harvard Professor Edward Glaeser’s direct-to-camera lectures and interviews with experts on a variety of topics, ranging from ancient Mesopotamian cities to the challenges of fighting crime sewer systems in modern day Brazil — and everything in-between.

Fundamental Readings
  • Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser
  • The Streets Were Paved With Gold by Ken Auletta
  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
  • Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
  • Cities in Civilization by Peter Hall
  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
  • The Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs
  • Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States  by Kenneth T. Jackson
  • The Urban Transportation Problem by John R. Meyer, John F. Kain, and Martin Wohl
  •  Regional Advantage by AnnaLee Saxenian
CitiesX: The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life Explore what makes cities energizing, amazing, challenging, and perhaps humanity’s greatest invention. @edxonline #mooc https://www.edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x