Markets and Market Failures
GSD 5203B, Fall, Spring, Lecture

This course provides an introduction to how markets operate, the criteria for assessing their performance, and the circumstances under which they perform well or poorly. The first half of the course covers skills for predicting market behavior including supply and demand and the strategies of consumers and firms. The second half examines the rationale for government intervention in markets including problems of information, monopoly, externalities and collective or public goods. No prior exposure to economics is required and applications to urban planning are stressed. This course is also offered at the Kennedy School as API-105B.

Transportation Policy, Planning, and Management
GSD 5302, Lecture, Spring (Cross-listed as KSG/HUT-251)

This course provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation policy and planning, as well as an introduction to the skills necessary for solving the various analytic and managerial problems that are peculiar to this area. The course is organized around six problems: analyzing the market for a service; costing and pricing; controlling congestion and pollution; transport and land use; investment evaluation; and the regulation of private carriers. Examples are drawn from both urban and inter-city passenger and freight transportation. One-quarter of the classes are lectures and three-quarters are case discussions.

Prerequisite: Microeconomics
at the level of API-101 and of API-105 is assumed.

Techniques of Physical Planning
GSD 6120, Fall 2005

Prerequisites: Enrollment in urban planning program or by special permission of program director

Operating in conjunction with the core studio GSD 1221: Elements of Urban Design and Planning, this course trains urban planning students in the basic technical skills necessary to plan and represent visually plans for the built environment. Key two- and three-dimensional computer and manual methods for analysis and representation of data, land-use patterns, and built form are emphasized

Techniques of Physical Planning II
GSD 6121-M2, Lecture, Fall 2004, with Alex Krieger

Introduction to techniques of site planning; to a range of dimensional precedents for different types of buildings, neighborhoods, and districts; and to the rudiments of site programming. Required of MUP students; not normally open to others. Note: this course begins before the normal start of classes for module period 2; students should consult the Department of Urban Planning and Design as to the starting date.