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.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Annette M. Kim
MIT Course Number
11.483
As Taught In
Fall 2011
Level
Graduate
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.