Why 8850 Form Urban 2016-2023

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The following content is provided under a Creative Commons license your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to offer high quality educational resources for free to make a donation or view additional materials from hundreds of MIT courses visit MIT opencourseware at ocw.mit.edu this class has been taught continuously since 1930s record I ever to his 1956 when Kevin Lynch probably taught it for the first time I've now this is the 34th year in which I'm teaching the class I overlapped with Lynch for two years and this is the last time I'm teaching this class so I'm going to go through a lot of small things details plus some general idea about in 1956 Kevin Lynch called this class the visual form of the city between 56 and 76 he changed the title to theory of city form I have kept the title as the same as it was originally well the 1976 title I think the theory he gives the impression that we have significant theories as in first or when Ian science we don't our bases are paper in first row logical basis is somewhat vague we're somewhere between an science and an art in the Media Lab they now have a group called City science I want to know what City science he is we said you know what city art is if numerous new miracle consequence is the basis of city science we will prove we will deal with that in the appropriate manner we will also deal with very difficult things such as the human experience of good form which is not a scientific phenomenon at all in fact for those of you interested to have a background in philosophy is a new book called cosmos and mind by Thomas Nagel to Professor...