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Add free, open The City courses 	Web Site 	Organization (if any) 	Degree / Non-degree	Instructor's Name 	Location	Other Info 	Language	Tags
Advanced Seminar: Urban Nature and City Design 	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-308j-advanced-seminar-urban-nature-and-city-design-fall-2012/ 	MIT 	non-degree 	Prof. Anne Whiston Spirn 	Browser 	Start anytime	English 	Graduate
City to City: Comparing, Researching and Writing about Cities: New Orleans 	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-027-city-to-city-comparing-researching-and-writing-about-cities-new-orleans-spring-2011/ 	MIT 	non-degree 	Cherie Miot Abbanat 	Browser 	Start anytime	English 	Undergraduate
City Visions: Past and Future 	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-949-city-visions-past-and-future-spring-2004/ 	MIT 	non-degree 	Prof. Diane Davis, Prof. Lawrence Vale 	Browser 	Start anytime	English 	Graduate
Feeding Cities in the Global South: Challenges and Opportunities for Action in Cartagena	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-975-feeding-cities-in-the-global-south-challenges-and-opportunities-for-action-in-cartagena-fall-2009/	MIT 	non-degree 	Prof. Alejandro Guarín, Dr. Edgar Blanco Prof. Ralph Gakenheimer, Prof. Martha Bonilla, Ms. Alexa Mills	Browser 	Start anytime	English 	Graduate
Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions 	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-483-housing-and-land-use-in-rapidly-urbanizing-regions-fall-2011/ 	MIT 	non-degree 	Prof. Annette M. Kim 	Browser 	Start anytime	English 	Graduate
Imaging the City: The Place of Media in City Design and Development 	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-947-imaging-the-city-the-place-of-media-in-city-design-and-development-fall-1998/ 	MIT 	non-degree 	Prof. Lawrence Vale, Prof. Sam Warner 	Browser 	Start anytime	English 	Graduate
INNOVATION MANAGEMENT: DIGITAL SERVICE INNOVATIONS FOR SMARTER CITIES 	https://www.linkedin.com/groups/INNOVATION-MANAGEMENT-DIGITAL-SERVICE-INNOVATIONS-4720974.S.5964561937269280768 	IBM’s smarter planet solutions	non-degree 	Haluk Demirkan 	Browser 	Start anytime	English 	
Theory of City Form 	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-241j-theory-of-city-form-spring-2013/index.htm 	MIT 	non-degree 	Prof. Julian Beinart 	Browser 	Start anytime	English 	Graduate
Urban Studies and Planning 	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/ 	MIT 	non-degree 	 	Browser 	Start anytime	English 	undergraduate, graduate
Urbanizing China: A Reflective Dialogue 	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-s945-urbanizing-china-a-reflective-dialogue-fall-2013/ 	MIT 	non-degree 	Prof. Jinhua Zhao 	Browser 	Start anytime	English 	Graduate
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Open Journal Systems. 2012. Open Journal Systems. Public Knowledge Project.
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Calzado, Igor. 2012. Download here Basque City/Euskal Hiria Book & Executive Summary. Basque: Innobasque, Basque Innovation Agency.
Castells, Manuel. 2002. The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory by Manuel Castells.
Castells, Manuel. 1985. The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements.
Castells, Manuel. 1992. The Informational City: Economic Restructuring and Urban Development.
Castells, Manuel and Jordi Borja. 1997. Local and Global: The Management of Cities in the Information Age.
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Creating healthier ecosystems in future cities by rethinking urban areas from scratch. 2013. Creating healthier ecosystems in future cities by rethinking urban areas from scratch. September 17. japantimes.co.jp.
Huntington, Lucia. 2013. Reshaping Manhattan’s Midtown: Design School alumni describe plan for new, taller buildings in long-developed area. April 26. Cambridge, MA: news.harvard.edu.
It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest. 2013. It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest. Jul 20. realfarmacy.com.
Landry, Lauren. 2013. MIT's ‘Hot or Not’ Site for Neighborhoods Aims to Redesign Tomorrow’s Cities. July 29. Boston, MA: bostinno.streetwise.co.
Lehrer, John. 2010. A Physicist Solves the City. December 17. New York, NY: The New York Times.
Making our cities attractive and sustainable. 2010. Making our cities attractive and sustainable: How the EU contributes to improving the urban environment. (Oxford Internet Institute is involved in a similar effort [to "The City Beat"] as part of an EU Urban Data to Decide (UD2D) project). Luxembourg, EU: European Commission. 
Revkin, Andrew. 2013. Charting a Post-Pollution Path for Cities – From London, 1952, through Beijing, 2013. January 14. New York, NY: The New York Times.
samzenpus. 2013. Google Fiber Draws Startups To Kansas City. January 14. news.slashdot.org.
Saporito, Bill. 2013. Pittsburgh’s Lessons for Detroit: There is a roadmap for the bankrupt Motor City—if it can find a way to fund the trip. July 19. Time Magazine.
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Hansen, Thomas Blom. 2013. Thomas Blom Hansen: The Sacred and the City - how religious identity shapes urban life. Oxford, UK: Oxford University.
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Boston Area Research Initiative. 2012. Boston Area Research Initiative. Boston MA: bostonarearesearchinitiative.net/
The City Beat. 2014. The City Beat. (CityBeat is a an academic research project set to develop an application that sources, monitors and analyzes hyper-local information from multiple social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter in real time). (Oxford Internet Institute is involved in a similar effort [to "The City Beat"] as part of an EU Urban Data to Decide (UD2D) project). New York, NY: thecitybeat.org/. 
Urban Modelling Interface. 2014. Urban Modelling Interface. Cambridge, MA: urbanmodellinginterface.ning.com/.
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