Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions

An aerial view of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Dramatic differences in land use patterns are highlighted in this image of the U.S.-Mexico border. Lush, regularly gridded agricultural fields on the U.S. side contrast with the more barren fields of Mexico. (NASA GSFC, MITI, ERSDAC, JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team.)

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MIT Course Number

11.483

As Taught In

Fall 2011

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

Course Description

A truly inter-disciplinary course, Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions reviews how law, economics, sociology, political science, and planning conceptualize urban land and property rights and uses cases to discuss what these different lenses illuminate and obscure. It also looks at how the social sciences might be informed by how design, cartography, and visual studies conceptualize space's physicality. This year's topics include land trusts for affordable housing, mixed-use in public space, and critical cartography.

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Annette Kim. 11.483 Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions. Fall 2011. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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