Saturday, February 24, 2018
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
Saturday, August 5, 2017
#JaneJacobs, 1979, Canadian Cities and Sovereignty Association. From The Lost Massey Lectures, published 2007. pic.twitter.com/rUc4JbWy5d
— TheSidewalkBallet (@1sidewalkballet) August 4, 2017
Friday, July 21, 2017
How does a city economy grow + prosper? Why does a rainforest thrive, why is a desert barren of life? The Nature of Economies #JaneJacobs
How does a city economy grow + prosper? Why does a rainforest thrive, why is a desert barren of life? The Nature of Economies, #JaneJacobs pic.twitter.com/zbYohiJmeH— TheSidewalkBallet (@1sidewalkballet) July 21, 2017
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
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