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Department of Urban Studies and Planning
The Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) is a department within the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT. It is comprised of four specialization areas (also referred to as Program Groups): City Design and Development; Environmental Policy and Planning; Housing, Community and Economic Development; and the International Development Group. There are also three cross-cutting areas of study: Transportation Planning and Policy, Urban Information Systems (UIS), and Regional Planning.Featured Videos
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If the World is Flat, What are We Still Doing in Cambridge?
Allan Goodman
April 4, 2008
- Public Policy
- International Affairs
- Education
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Building Responsive Cities: Technology, Design, and Development
Dennis Frenchman, Antonio di Mambro, Martha Welborne and Thomas Campanella
April 4, 2008
- Public Policy
- Environment/Energy
- Architecture/Planning
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The History of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Gary Hack
April 4, 2008
- MIT
- History
- Architecture/Planning
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Rebuilding New Orleans
Kristina Ford
October 17, 2005
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- Architecture/Planning
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Discourses on Iraq and the Middle East
Noam Chomsky
May 4, 2005
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- Defense/Military
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(eco)Logical: Greening the 21st Century City
Richard Daley, Ken Greenberg, Hillary Brown, Robert Campbell and Douglas Foy
April 7, 2005
- Public Policy
- Environment/Energy
- Architecture/Planning
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Constructing a New Liberal Iraq
Robert Looney and John Tirman
April 4, 2005
- International Affairs
- History
- Economics
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Politics and Society in Iraq in the 20th Century
Sami Zubaida
March 1, 2005
- International Affairs
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Cities and Resurrection: Jerusalem and Us
Julian Beinart
September 11, 2002
- International Affairs
- History
- Architecture/Planning
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Fires, Earthquakes, Modernization and Air Strikes: Japan's Cities
Carola Hein
May 6, 2002
- International Affairs
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- Architecture/Planning
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Ten Years of Rebuilding Los Angeles Following the Trauma of 1992
William Fulton
April 22, 2002
- Public Policy
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- Architecture/Planning
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Beirut, Beirut
Hashim Sarkis
April 1, 2002
- International Affairs
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- Architecture/Planning
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Spectacular Reconstructions: The Politics of Recovery in American Urban Disasters
Kevin Rozario
March 4, 2002
- History
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Mexico City's 1985 Earthquake and the Transformation of the Capital
Diane Davis
March 18, 2002
- History
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September 11th and the City
Thomas Campanella and Lawrence Vale
February 11, 2002
- Architecture/Planning
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Religion and American Politics
Alan Wolfe
March 29, 2005
- Public Policy
- History
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Jay Gatsby and the Myth of American Origins
Leo Marx
April 25, 2005
- History
- Arts
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Diversifying Cities: Migration, Habitation, and Community Development
Anna Hardman, Abel Valenzuela and Jessica Andors
April 4, 2008
- Architecture/Planning
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Sustaining Cities: Environment, Economic Development, and Empowerment
Judith Layzer, Jason Corburn, J. Thompson, Chris Zegras and Adil Najam
April 4, 2008
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- Environment/Energy
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Planning After Katrina: What Have We Learned so Far?
Stephen Villavaso, J. Thompson and Jon Witten
September 21, 2006
- Public Policy
- Business/Leadership
- Environment/Energy
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Voices from New Orleans: Design and Planning Diaspora
Gary Van Zante, John Klingman, William Barry, Richard Tuttle, Lawrence Jenkens and Ellen Weiss
October 3, 2005
- Public Policy
- Economics
- Architecture/Planning
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The Arab Discourse and the International Role
Hafez Mirazi
April 25, 2005
- Media
- International Affairs
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Consolidating Iraqi Democracy: The Institutional Context
Noah Feldman and Kanan Makiya
April 11, 2005
- International Affairs
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Comparative Insights: Marshall Plan, Japan, and Iraq
John Dower and Charles Maier
March 7, 2005
- International Affairs
- History
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U.S. Planning and Realities of Post-War Iraq
Yosef Jabareen, Charles Patterson, David Nash and Harvey Sapolsky
February 14, 2005
- Public Policy
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Trauma and Rebuilding in the Digital Electronic Era
William Mitchell and Anthony Townsend
May 13, 2002
- Technology
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- Architecture/Planning
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The Predicament of Aftermath: Reflections on 9-11 and Oklahoma City
Edward Linenthal
April 29, 2002
- Media
- History
- Architecture/Planning
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Washington, DC after Conquest and Arson during the War of 1812
Anthony Pitch
April 8, 2002
- History
- Architecture/Planning
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Double Restoration: Berlin after 1945
Brian Ladd
March 11, 2002
- International Affairs
- History
- Architecture/Planning
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Creatively Destroying New York
Max Page
February 25, 2002
- History
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Why is there No Class Warfare in the US?
Chuck Collins
April 23, 2003
- Public Policy
- Economics
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The Myth of American Exceptionalism
Howard Zinn
March 14, 2005
- Public Policy
- International Affairs
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The Story of American Freedom: 1776-2005
Eric Foner
April 5, 2005
- History