Courses
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First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Ana Gelabert-Sanchez, Andres Sevtsuk, Sai Balakrishnan, Robert Pietrusko
The first semester core studio of the Master in Urban Planning program introduces students to the fundamental knowledge and technical skills used by urban planners…
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Elements of Urban Design
Felipe Correa, Anita Berrizbeitia, Carles Muro, Carlos Garciavelez, Robert Pietrusko, Michael Manfredi
Elements of Urban Design is an advanced core studio for the post professional programs in urban design. This studio introduces critical concepts, strategies and technical…
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Canceled: When the Future Looked Bright We Didn’t Wear Shades
In their golden years, the young Arab nations gave birth to aspiring modern urban projects. In a part of the world where the notion of…
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The MLK Way: Building on Black America’s Main Street
The “MLK Atlas” maps all the streets named after Dr. King in the continental U.S. Martin Luther King, Jr. is one of America’s most revered…
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Urban Blackholes: Development and Heritage in the Lima Metropolis
In cities with fast urban growth, heritage and development have often created friction zones where economic logics collide with preservation policies. This option studio will…
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Spatial Analysis and Representation
David Gamble, Robert Pietrusko
Urban planners engage in many complex processes that defy easy representation. This course provides first-semester urban planning students with the graphic and technical skills needed…
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Drawing for Designers: Technics of Expression, Articulation and Representation
The course objective is to advance students\’ visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination through drawing. Drawing projects will focus on forms, processes,…
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Interdisciplinary Art Practices
The Interdisciplinary Art Practices seminar investigates the exploratory character of art and design work in the interdisciplinary modalities of the contemporary culture. In the present…
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The Idea of Environment
The environment is the milieu in which designers and planners operate. It is a messy world of facts, meanings, relations and actions that calls them…
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History and Theory of Urban Interventions
This class provides a high-intensity introduction the history and theory of urban planning practice under modern capitalism. Building upon an interdisciplinary literature drawn from…
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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
This course meets for the first time on Monday, September 14th. The purpose of this lecture course is to provide an overall account of the…
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Reconceptualizing the Urban: Berlin as Laboratory
Berlin is the site of new regional and cultural interactions in a reconfigured post-industrial and post-socialist Europe. The research seminar is concerned with the…
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Structuring Urban Experience: From the Athenian Acropolis to the Boston Common
This lecture course examines selected cities between the fifth century B.C. and the seventeenth century A.D., beginning with ancient Athens and ending with proposals…
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Staging the City: Urban Form and Public Life in Istanbul
This course will explore the relationship between urban form and public life in early modern and modern Istanbul. Staging the city’s emerging spatial practices…
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Real Estate Finance and Development
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate finance and development. Lectures and case studies introduce students to the full range of financial analysis…
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Land Use and Environmental Law
As a scarce and necessary resource, land triggers competition and conflict over possession, use, development, and preservation. For privately owned land, the market manages…
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Cities by Design I
Rahul Mehrotra, Peter Rowe, Felipe Correa, Eve Blau, Joan Busquets, Alex Krieger, Neil Brenner
The year-long ‘Cities by Design’ course is mandatory for all incoming Masters of Urban Design students. All other students are welcome to enroll in…
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Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning, and Urban Design
The Field Study course is designed to provide students an understanding of the dynamics and complexities of reality that create contemporary urban physical environments.
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Policy Making in Urban Settings (at HKS)
An introduction to policymaking in American cities, focusing on economic, demographic, institutional, and political settings. It examines economic development and job growth in the context…
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Analytic Methods of Urban Planning: Quantitative
This course introduces students to quantitative analysis and research methods. The course begins with a discussion of how quantitative methods fit within the broader research…
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Analytic Methods: Qualitative
This module examines how qualitative approaches can be used in planning practice and research. Qualitative methods are particularly useful in answering why and how questions;…
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Markets and Market Failures with Cases (at HKS)
Markets and Market Failures with Cases at KSG – HKS API-105A . Chris Hebert will offer the other version of Markets and Market Failures, GSD…
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Transportation Policy and Planning (at HKS)
Provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation policy and planning, as well as an introduction to the skills necessary for solving…
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Housing and Urbanization in the United States
James Stockard, Jennifer Molinsky
This course examines housing as both an individual concern and an object of policy and planning. It is intended to provide those with an…
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Healthy Places
Can the way places are planned and designed improve health? It seems obvious that there is such a link between environments and health but…
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Community Action Planning: Principles and Practices
This course is an introduction to the theories, principles, processes and practices of Community Action Planning (CAP), as well as its underlying tools and…
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Design, Development, and Democracy in the Future City
This course will meet for the first time on Tuesday, September 1st from 9 am – 12 pm in room 510. This…
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Deciding Interventions in Urban Development: A Practical Guide to Strategic Design
This course offers guidelines for deciding interventions in Urban Development, given conflicting and often competing needs and aspirations amongst stakeholders. Its objectives are threefold:…
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Spatial Analytics of the Built Environment
The course will investigate a number of qualitative and quantitative methods to measure and analyze urban spatial problems relevant to contemporary urban planning practice.
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Modern Housing and Urban Districts: Concepts, Cases and Comparisons
This seminar course will deal with ‘modern housing’ covering a period primarily from 1990 to the present. It will engage with ‘urban districts’ in…
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The Spatial Politics of Land: A Comparative Perspective
This course focuses on the deeply contested and political processes of land-use planning, i.e. of allocating land amongst different, often competing uses, and the…
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Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals for Public and Private Participants (at HKS)
Classroom is at HKS, Littauer 28 Class meeting time is Mon, Wed from 4:45 to 6:00 PM. However the first class will…
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Market Analysis and Urban Economics
This course builds upon the academic literature and the applied experiences which constitutes the accumulated knowledge of urban and real estate economics and finance…
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Urban Governance and the Politics of Planning in the Developing World
This course will meet for the first time on Thursday, September 3rd from 6 – 9 pm in room 124. This…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regen. & Reuse of Brownfield Lands: Research, Remediation & Design Practices
‘A Brownfields Site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence, or potential presence of a…
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Urban Design Trajectories: Perspectives on Practice
Urban Design, as a professional discipline, has not existed for nearly as long as architecture, landscape architecture, or urban planning, though it has been…
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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
This seminar is intended to provide the theoretical and methodological foundation for completing a graduate thesis in the Department of Urban Planning and Design. By…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
Richard Peiser, Ray Torto, Sonja Dümpelmann, Rosetta S. Elkin, Panagiotis Michalatos, Leire Asensio Villoria, Holly Samuelson, Stephen Gray, Andres Sevtsuk, Dilip da Cunha, Kiel Moe, Silvia Benedito, Andrew Witt, Allen Sayegh, Niall Kirkwood, Peter Del Tredici, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Ann Forsyth, Pierre Bélanger, Salmaan Craig, Susan Snyder, Martin Bechthold, George Thomas, Edward Eigen
The Final Project will consist of a theoretical/position component, and of a practical/experimental component. The scope of each of the two components will be determined…
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Urban Design Proseminar
The proseminar is a forum for conversation on contemporary urban design. It is structured around three overlapping discussions: the formation of the discipline, critiques of…
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Doctoral Program Proseminar
This pro-seminar is one way of fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic…