NOTE: The course materials (primarily PDFs to read) for this short course are not organized chronologically, They are organized thematically. So that is a little weird for a fully online course but seems to work well for this content, specifically because I am asking you to select readings from various themes, NOT to read every single paper on a week by week basis!

Chapter 1 from A New City O/S and this series of 4 white papers by the Kennedy School of Government, should be read in preparation for the 2nd discussion board on Canvas. (Due Dates Sun Oct 13 and Wed Oct 16)

Although these cases are a few years old now, you can find more recent blog posts on similar topics from the Ash Center's Data-Smart City Solutions project at: https://datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/

(for example, https://datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/news/article/case-anthropology-urban-planning-and-covid-19-resilience-lessons-buenos-aires )