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Gateway: Planning Action
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This course introduces persistent themes and challenges facing planners. It emphasizes the historical roots of contemporary urban planning problems and comparative study of practice in the U.S. and other countries. It is a nine week module intended for first semester Master in City Planning students.

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Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Abbanat, Cherie Miot
Briggs, Xavier
Kim, Annette
Rajagopal, Balakrishnan
Vale, Lawrence
Date Added:
09/01/2005
Human Rights: At Home and Abroad
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This course provides a rigorous and critical introduction to the foundation, structure and operation of the international human rights movement, as it has evolved through the years and as it impacts the United States. The course introduces students to the key theoretical debates in the field including the historical origin and character of the modern idea of human rights, the debate between universality and cultural relativism, between civil and human rights, between individual and community, and the historically contentious relationship between the West and the Rest in matters of sovereignty and human rights, drawing on real life examples from current affairs.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Philosophy
Political Science
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Rajagopal, Balakrishnan
Date Added:
09/01/2015
Introduction to International Development Planning
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This introductory survey course is intended to develop an understanding of key issues and dilemmas of planning in non-Western countries. The issues covered by the course include state intervention, governance, law and institutions in development, privatization, participatory planning, decentralization, poverty, urban-rural linkages, corruption and civil service reform, trade and outsourcing and labor standards, post-conflict development and the role of aid in development.

Subject:
Economics
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Rajagopal, Balakrishnan
Date Added:
09/01/2011
Law, Social Movements, and Public Policy: Comparative and International Experience
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This course studies the interaction between law, courts, and social movements in shaping domestic and global public policy. Examines how groups mobilize to use law to affect change and why they succeed and fail. The class uses case studies to explore the interplay between law, social movements, and public policy in current areas such as gender, race, labor, trade, environment, and human rights. Finally, it introduces the theories of public policy, social movements, law and society, and transnational studies.

Subject:
Economics
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Political Science
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Rajagopal, Balakrishnan
Date Added:
02/01/2012
Legal Aspects of Property and Land Use
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This course is designed to offer an advanced introduction to key legal issues that arise in the area of property and land-use in American law, with a comparative focus on the laws of India and South Africa. The focus of the course is not on law itself, but on the policy implications of various rules, doctrines and practices which are covered in great detail. Legal rules regulating property are among the most fundamental to American, and most other, economies and societies. The main focus is on American property and land use law due to its prominence in international development policy and practice as a model, though substantial comparative legal materials are also introduced from selected non-western countries such as India and South Africa.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Philosophy
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Rajagopal, Balakrishnan
Date Added:
09/01/2005