Power of Place: Media Technology, Youth, and City Design and Development
This class includes final projects based on MIT students working in association with a West Philadelphia middle school, on the urban redesign of neighborhoods near the middle school.This workshop provides an introduction to urban environmental design and explores the potential of information technology and the Internet to transform public education, city design, and community development in inner-city neighborhoods. Integration of comprehensive ("top-down") and grassroots ("bottom-up") approa...