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We will explore images that pertain to the emergence of Japan as a modern state. We will focus on images that depict Japan as it comes into contact with the rest of the world after its long and deep isolation during the feudal period. We will also cover city planning of Tokyo that took place after WWII, and such topics as the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. A unique feature of this offering is that we will run it concurrently with the edX MOOC and two University of Tokyo MOOCs, Visualizing Postwar Tokyo and Four Faces of Contemporary Japanese Architecture, for much of the remainder of the class.
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- Area Studies, Visual Arts, and Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- Arts Japan
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This seminar focuses on understanding the role of high-quality design as a tool to address urban social problems. This course will also examine marginalized spaces and how urban design can intervene as a tool to creatively challenge traditional urban design practices.
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- Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- City planning
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This course examines both the structure of cities and the ways they can be changed. It introduces graduate students to theories about how cities are formed, and the practice of urban design and development, using U.S. and international examples. The course is organized into two parts: Part 1 analyzes the forces which act to shape and to change cities; Part 2 surveys key models of physical form and social intervention that have been deployed to resolve competing forces acting on the city. This course includes models of urban analysis, contemporary theories of urban design, and implementation strategies. Lectures in this course are supplemented by discussion periods, student work, and field trips.
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- Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- Cities towns City planning
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Project Evaluation covers methodologies for evaluating civil engineering projects, which typically are large-scale and long-lived and involve many economic, financial, social and environmental factors. The course places an emphasis on dealing with uncertainty. Students learn basic techniques of engineering economics, including net present value analysis, life-cycle costing, benefit-cost analysis, and other approaches to project evaluation. Examples are drawn from both contemporary and historical projects in various fields, including transportation systems, urban development, energy and environmental projects, water resource management, telecommunications systems, and other elements of the public and private projects and programs.
- Subjects:
- Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- Sustainable engineering Infrastructure (Economics) Project management
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This course gives an overview of engineering management and covers topics such as financial principles, management of innovation, technology strategy, and best management practices. The focus of the course is the development of individual skills and team work. This is carried out through an exposure to management tools.
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- Building Services Engineering and Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- Engineering -- Management
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Do you have a passion for buildings and want to contribute to a sustainable environment? Then this is your chance to make a difference! The biggest sustainability challenge for cities worldwide is adapting existing obsolescent buildings and making them future-proof. In this course, you will learn about adapting buildings for sustainability. This course first introduces you to the challenging management task of redeveloping buildings for future use. Then you will learn how different management tools can be used to convert old buildings for sustainable reuse. Prior experience with studies or jobs related to the built environment is not essential for this course, but will be a great advantage. This MOOC is especially relevant for students who are interested in Real Estate, Project Management, Urban Planning, Architecture, Construction, Engineering, and Sustainability. The course is taught by a multi-disciplinary team of instructors and professors with relevant practical and theoretical experience. You can use the practical knowledge you obtain during this course to tackle many challenges related to the built environment.
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- Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- Buildings -- Remodeling for other use Sustainable buildings
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Earthquakes have always been a terrifying phenomenon, and they’ve become more deadly as our cities have grown — with collapsing buildings posing one of the largest risks. But why do buildings collapse in an earthquake? And how can it be prevented? Vicki V. May explains the physics of why it is not the sturdiest buildings, but the smartest, that will remain standing.
- Subjects:
- Building and Real Estate and Disaster Control and Management
- Keywords:
- Building failures -- Prevention Earthquake resistant design Earthquake engineering Buildings -- Earthquake effects
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About 10,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers, aided by rudimentary agriculture, moved to semi-permanent villages and never looked back. With further developments came food surpluses, leading to commerce, specialization and, many years later with the Industrial Revolution, the modern city. Vance Kite plots our urban past and how we can expect future cities to adapt to our growing populations.
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- Building Services Engineering and Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- Cities towns -- Growth City planning
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Earthquakes are almost impossible to predict. Luckily, engineers have come up with some amazing ways to protect people the next time one might strike.
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- Building and Real Estate and Disaster Control and Management
- Keywords:
- Building failures -- Prevention Earthquake resistant design Buildings -- Earthquake effects
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- Video
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This video discusses the topic of urban sprawl and the environmental and social impact if a city is expanding too fast
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- Building and Real Estate
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- Cities towns -- Growth Housing policy Buildings -- Height restrictions City planning
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This video discusses pros and cons of building higher, from the both technical and cost perspectives.
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- Building Services Engineering and Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- Building -- Estimates Skyscrapers Housing City planning Tall buildings
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- Video
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Architects, engineers and developers are creating increasingly greener structures - and doing it in a more literal way than ever before. This is what happens when trees meet buildings.
- Subjects:
- Environmental Engineering, Building Services Engineering, and Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- Buildings -- Energy conservation Roof gardening Sustainable buildings Sustainable construction Trees in cities
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- Video
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This free online project management course teaches the methods of project planning, scheduling, and controlling. The course consists of 45 tutorials which cover the material of a typical introductory project management course at the university level.
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- Building Services Engineering and Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- Production scheduling Construction projects Construction industry -- Management Project management
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- Video
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This video shows a demonstration and brief explanation of air lock in fluid pipelines. If you assume that gasses don’t get into pipes or that they can’t constrict the flow, you might design a pipeline that doesn’t work. Luckily for engineers, this is a well-known phenomenon in pipe systems. It’s just one of the complexities that come with the job and we’ve come up a with a lot of creative ways to overcome it.
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- Building Services Engineering and Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- Fluid dynamics Pipelines
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- Video
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Dirt is probably the cheapest and simplest construction material out there, but it's not very strong compared to other choices. Luckily geotechnical engineers have developed a way to strengthen earthen materials with almost no additional effort - Mechanically Stabilized Earth (aka MSE or Reinforced Soil).
- Subjects:
- Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- Reinforced soils
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- Video
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This video discusses a few modern techniques that help improve design life of concrete, including roller compacted concrete (RCC) and water reducing admixtures (superplasticizers). There are a whole host of differences between modern concrete and that of the western Roman empire that I didn’t have time to go into, including freeze/thaw damage.
- Subjects:
- Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- Concrete construction Roller compacted concrete Concrete -- Additives Concrete
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While steel reinforcement solves one of concrete’s greatest limitations, it creates an entirely new problem: Corrosion of embedded steel rebar is the most common form of concrete deterioration. There are lots of ways to combat this problem, a few of which we discuss/demonstrate in this video, including fiber reinforced concrete, adequate protective cover, and fiber reinforced polymer bars.
- Subjects:
- Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- Protective coatings Reinforced concrete -- Corrosion -- Prevention Reinforcing bars -- Corrosion Fiber-reinforced concrete
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- Video
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This video shows more destructive testing to answer your questions about concrete. Concrete's greatest weakness is its tensile strength, which can be less than 10% of its compressive strength. So, we often reinforce it to create a composite material strong against all types of stress. This video briefly touches on conventional rebar and prestressed/post-tensioned reinforcement.
- Subjects:
- Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- Reinforced concrete Concrete
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- Video
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What's the difference between concrete and cement? Concrete is the most important construction material on earth and foundation of our modern society. At first glance it seems rudimentary, but there is a tremendous amount of complexity involved in every part of designing and placing concrete. This video is meant to be a bare-bones introduction to the topic, with a cool demonstration of concrete strength using a hydraulic press.
- Subjects:
- Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- Concrete Cement
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- Video
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Expansive soils cause more property damage per year than earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes combined. Expansive soils are a slow-moving geologic phenomenon, which makes them not very news-worthy. However, they still cause a tremendous amount of damage to buildings and the public infrastructure we rely on every day.
- Subjects:
- Building Services Engineering, Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, and Building and Real Estate
- Keywords:
- Foundations Soil mechanics Swelling soils
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- Video
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