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Graduate School of Design
48 Quincy Street
Gund Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138

Urban Planning and Design

Requirements for Degrees in
Master of Architecture in Urban Design and
Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design 2008-2009

Academic Year 2008-2009

COURSES SATISFYING “REQUIRED SUBJECT AREAS” INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

1. LAW AND IMPLEMENTATION

Fall Term:
GSD 5201A Urban Politics, Planning and Development, 4 untis, Lecture, Altshuler
GSD 5206 Planning and Environmental Law, 4 units, Lecture, Blaesser

Spring Term:
GSD 5201B Urban Politics, Planning, and Development, 4 units, Lecture, Fainstein

Note: Alternate course may be approved by faculty advisor and program director

 

2. HISTORY AND THEORY OF URBAN DESIGN

Fall Term:
GSD 4329 East Asian Urbanism, 4 units, Lecture, Rowe
GSD 4345 Race, Inequality, and Cities, 4 units, Lecture, Sugrue
GSD 4105 Studies of the Built North American Environment: 1580 to the Present, 4 units, Lecture, Stilgoe
GSD 5320 Scalur Urbanism: New Positioning in Design, Contects and Agency, 4 units, Seminar, Ramos,Turan,Doherty
GSD 5325 Ecology as Urbanism; Urbanism as Ecology, 4 units, Lecture, Waldheim
GSD 5327 On Urban Distinction, 4 units, Seminar, Weiss

Spring Term:
GSD 4320 Of Rocks, Trails and Televisions: The Democratic Monument in America, 4 units, Seminar, Sommer
GSD 4344 Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China, 4 units, Lecture, Rowe
GSD 5324 Villages in Development in the Pearl River Delta, 4 untis Cenzatti/Crawford

Note: Alternate course may be approved by faculty advisor and program director

 

3. DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AND ECONOMICS

Fall Term:
GSD 5204 Real Estate Finance and Development, 4 units, Lecture, Peiser
GSD 5203A Markets and Market Failure, 4 units, Lecture, Kalt
GSD 5203B Markets and Market Failure, 4 units, Lecture, Gomez-Ibanez

Note: Alternate course may be approved by faculty advisor and program director


MAUD/MLAUD Forms

Petition to Exempt From a Required Subject Area
Petition to Substitute Alternate Course(s) for a Required Subject Area
Petition to Substitute Elective Courses in Lieu of a Studio Option
Independent Thesis