How Cold War military analysis and New Deal resource analysis shaped cities
Monday, November 23, 2015 - 07:00
in Physics & Chemistry
One of the key insights of MIT historian Jennifer Light's career came when she was a summer intern at the RAND Corporation, the think tank famed for its analysis of Cold War military systems. That might seem like an unusual place for a historian's eureka moment—but then, it was an unusual insight. In the late 1960s, Light noticed, people at RAND had suddenly become very interested in urban planning. What was that all about?