Courses
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First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Hannah Teicher, Daniel Hernandez, Anne-Marie Lubenau, Magda Maaoui, Lourdes Germán, Jeana Dunlap, Dana McKinney White, Carole Voulgaris, Lindsay Woodson
First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio introduces students to the fundamental knowledge and technical skills used by urban planners to investigate, analyze, create, and implement…
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Elements of Urban Design
Peter Rowe, Stephen Gray, Yun Fu, Dana McKinney White, Alex Yuen, Michael Manfredi
Elements of Urban Design is the required first semester advanced core studio for the post-professional Urban Design Program. Regarding learning objectives, the studio introduces critical…
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Detroit Re-Connected: Reparative Mobilities in the Motor City
Ten years ago, Detroit Future City, a citywide strategic framework plan was released, addressing six urban elements including economic prosperity, neighborhoods, land use, city systems,…
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The Rohingya Camps; Permanence in Transition
The Rohingya refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh host the largest refugee population in the world. The Rohingyas are a Muslim, ethnic-minority people who live in…
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Sao Paulo Reaction: Vacant Infralandscape
Fernando Viegas, Cristiane Muniz
This Option Studio is about dissolving the rigid limits between architecture, landscape and urbanism and it’s about Sao Paulo and its vacant infrastructures. We propose…
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Representation for Planners [Module 1]
One task of an urban planner is to grapple with and understand a series of complicated processes that directly affect the organization and experience of…
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Spatial Analysis [Module 1]
Planning decisions are often idealized as being "evidence-based" or "data-driven." Spatial data often comprise the data and evidence that support such these decisions. In this…
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Drawing for Designers: Techniques of Expression, Articulation, and Representation
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers, an expressive, playful supplement to computer-based labor. This course will master techniques in hand…
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Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices
The Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices Seminar investigates art and design work in the interdisciplinary modalities of contemporary culture, the city, and the world. As…
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Community Engagement Workshop: Making Artifacts that Educate and Empower
The premise of participatory design and planning is that people should have a say in how their buildings, neighborhoods, and cities are shaped. But people…
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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 the rebuilding…
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Building and Urban Conservation and Renewal – Assessment, Analysis, Design
What are the values inherent in a property, site or district that must be understood to craft conservation policy and interventions that will reveal, complement,…
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Making the American City: Form and Society
This course examines major episodes in the history of American urban growth, design, and planning to understand the urgent social, environmental, and development issues of…
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Urban Design Contexts and Operations
The course focusses essentially on modern, including contemporary, contexts and operations that have emerged during the past 100 or so years. Here urban design is…
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Real Estate Finance, Development, and Management
David Hamilton, Richard Peiser, Charles Wu
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate for all major property types and land uses. The various stages of the development process, including site…
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Land Use and Environmental Law
As a scarce and necessary resource, land triggers competition and conflict over its possession and use. For privately owned land, the market manages much of…
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Field Studies in Real Estate, Urban Planning and Design
Field Studies in Real Estate, Urban Planning and Design: Redeveloping the historic AMTRAK Penn Central train station district in Baltimore, MD and the I-195 riverfront…
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Analytic Methods of Urban Planning: Quantitative [Module 2]
This course introduces students to quantitative analysis and research methods for urban planning. The course begins with an examination of how quantitative methods fit within…
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Analytic Methods of Urban Planning: Qualitative [Module 2]
How can planners understand places in a rich, meaningful, and yet systematic way? This module examines how qualitative approaches can be used in planning practice…
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Design for Real Estate
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of the role of design and design professionals in real estate, from project conception to project delivery to post-occupancy…
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Real Estate, Society, Environment
Lourdes Germán, Daniel Hernandez, Carlos Martín
This course examines the emerging context for real estate practice worldwide that measures success not solely by the financial bottom line but also by achievement…
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Housing and Urbanization in the United States
Jennifer Molinsky, James Stockard
This course examines housing as both an individual concern and an object of policy and planning. It is intended to provide those with an interest…
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Urbanization and Development
This course examines the relationship between urbanization and development through an historical and contemporary lens, paying close attention to the ways that the growth and…
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Urban Ethnographies
Planners’ understanding of social process and cultural values is often woefully inadequate, and their thinking is dominated by a “one-size-fits-all” approach and by excessive attention…
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Land Policy and Planning for Equitable and Fiscally Healthy Communities
The course highlights the role land policy and land-based financing play in the development of equitable and fiscally healthy communities in developed and developing countries.
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Transportation Economics and Finance
We can define transportation infrastructure to comprise all the physical objects that provide mobility: including everything from trains, highways, and ports to sneakers, trails, and…
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Policy Analysis: A Tool for Evidence-Based Decision Making
Policy analysis is problem solving. It involves making systematic comparisons across a set of alternatives to address a particular policy or planning problem, usually in…
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The (New) Image of the City
In this course we will attempt to visualize cities as the outcomes of urban design. Through a reflexive method of visual and narrative investigation, each…
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Race and Real Estate [Module 2]
This course examines historical and contemporary real estate practices that have negatively affected racial minorities in the United States and internationally. The course reviews the…
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It Takes A Village [Module 1]
“It takes a village” to develop a real estate project is more than just a clever catch-phrase. In any city around the world, assembling and…
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Building Resilient Communities
The extent or ability to bounce back to normalcy after a disruptive event is perhaps the simplest definition of Resilience. Human society and all it…
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Affordable Housing and Community Development
This course is intended for students interested in the affordable housing crisis. Can governments alone solve this problem or are public-private approaches an answer? The…
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Urban Economics and Market Analysis
Rachel Meltzer, Richard Barkham
This course introduces economic frameworks for understanding both the benefits and challenges of living in, working in, and managing cities and their built environments. Urban…
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Confronting Climate Change: A Foundation in Science, Technology and Policy (HKS)
This course will consider the challenge of climate change and what to do about it. Students will be introduced to the basic science of climate…
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Negotiation for Planners [Module 1]
Negotiation for Planners starts with the recognition that urban planning processes engage a mix of public, private, and community stakeholders, diverse and often divergent in…
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Real Estate and City Making in China
Real estate has increasingly become a compelling force in the process of city making, one uniquely capable of leading and guiding multiple steps in the…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Joan Busquets, Elizabeth Christoforetti, Peter Rowe, Andrew Witt, Alex Yuen, Thaïsa Way, Mohsen Mostafavi, Diane Davis, Daniel D’Oca, Karen Janosky, Allen Sayegh, Ewa Harabasz, Holly Samuelson
Students may take a maximum of 8 units with different GSD instructors in this course series. 9201 must be taken for either 2, or 4…
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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
What does it take to complete a graduate thesis in the Department of Urban Planning and Design? The seminar introduces different types of theses that…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
9502 must be taken for either 2 or 4 units. Under faculty guidance, the student conducts an independent reading program and formulates a thesis proposal.
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Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Thesis in Satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design.
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Proseminar in PUBLICS: Of the Public. In the Public. By the Public
Public, as a noun or adjective, is not confined to a single discipline, practice, narrative or theory. It is instead, a complicated construct that can…
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Proseminar in MEDIUMS: On Making Culture, Technology, and Art
In this proseminar, we will take a critical look at the current and emerging landscape of design technologies and technologically driven design. We will examine…
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Proseminar in NARRATIVES: Word and Image as Narrative Structure
In our Proseminar, we will grapple with a selection of critical discussions on word and image as these have been formulated in aesthetic philosophy, literary…
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Proseminar in ECOLOGIES: Interrelated, In-between, Dynamic
Our aim in the proseminar is to explore the inherent inventedness of ecology as a field of inquiry, its distinctly relational nature, and the potential…
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Master in Real Estate Practicum Prep
Frank Apeseche, Matthew Kiefer, Weijia Song
This 0-unit seminar is part of the 12-unit Master in Real Estate Practicum. Participation is limited to students in the Master in Real Estate program…