From shekhar at MIT.EDU Wed Sep 6 11:58:44 2006 From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan) Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:58:44 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] Fall Semester Reading Group Message-ID: <1157558325.5439.28.camel@localhost> All: After discussions with Eric, Nikhil and Mike, it seems that there is enthusiasm for resuming our meetings this semester, with a more narrow focus on selected readings from the history of planning. I want to propose that we meet on Tuesday evenings once or twice a month from September to December. If we meet for the first sitting on Tuesday 26 September in the evening, will this suit everyone? I know that NR and EB are both out of town for the week before that, in Chicago and London respectively. My idea is to begin with selections from Patrick Geddes' Cities in Evolution and his town plans for Indore and Lahore. Best, S.K. -- Shekhar Krishnan 353, Massachusetts Avenue, Apt.5H Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A. http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar http://www.goosebumpgraphics.org From beverley at fas.harvard.edu Wed Sep 6 12:02:00 2006 From: beverley at fas.harvard.edu (eric lewis beverley) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 12:02:00 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] Fall Semester Reading Group In-Reply-To: <1157558325.5439.28.camel@localhost> References: <1157558325.5439.28.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <07825E52-DF5E-4C68-9D63-8593BE8CDD46@fas.harvard.edu> Geddes on the 26th and 4-5 more meetings in the semester on Tuesday evenings sounds good to me. elb On 6 Sep 2006, at 11:58, Shekhar Krishnan wrote: > All: > > After discussions with Eric, Nikhil and Mike, it seems that there is > enthusiasm for resuming our meetings this semester, with a more narrow > focus on selected readings from the history of planning. > > I want to propose that we meet on Tuesday evenings once or twice a > month > from September to December. If we meet for the first sitting on > Tuesday > 26 September in the evening, will this suit everyone? I know that > NR and > EB are both out of town for the week before that, in Chicago and > London > respectively. > > My idea is to begin with selections from Patrick Geddes' Cities in > Evolution and his town plans for Indore and Lahore. > > Best, > > > S.K. > -- > > Shekhar Krishnan > 353, Massachusetts Avenue, Apt.5H > Cambridge, MA 02139 > U.S.A. > > http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar > http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar > http://www.goosebumpgraphics.org > > --- > > MIT Urban Media Mailing List > > http://urban.media.mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media From mfischer at MIT.EDU Sun Sep 10 21:01:24 2006 From: mfischer at MIT.EDU (Michael Fischer) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:01:24 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] reading group Message-ID: Nikhil, Eric, Shekhar First of all Nikhil, congratulations on finishing the dissertation! I'd like to read it when I get back. I'm away until Oct. 5. So I can either join in the 2nd meeting, or if you really want to put off the 1st meeting, it would have to be after that. Mike from Shekhar >As for the reading group, Nikhil and Eric and I plan to meet >in the evening on Tuesday 26 September to read Geddes and talk about >further sessions this semester. Will you be around on 26 September? >Please send a mail to urban-media at mit.edu letting us know. All of us are >also happy to postpone this first session until you are back, and >Tuesday evenings seems to be the time slot that works best for us all. >Even if we begin in October that's fine, but we all would like to have >you there for as many sessions as possible, particularly the first one. >I had wanted to start with Geddes because Ram Guha is coming to the >History Dept at MIT to give a talk on Geddesian urbanism in India on 22 September.