Courses
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Drawing for Designers 2: Human Presence and Appearance in Natural and Built Environment
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers, an expressive and playful supplement to computer-based labor. The aim of the class is…
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URBAN GRIDS-3: GRID PLANS versus BIG PROJECTS
The historic evolution of the city can be tied to “regular systems” that have allowed for rational forms of development, which can be understand as…
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Contextual Capacities
Urban analysis, understanding of ‘context,’ and specificity of a place, have long been intrinsic to architectural and urban discourse and practice. Today, this discussion is…
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Transition as Condition: Ukraine Research- Urbanism, Environment, Infrastructure
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has resulted in the displacement of millions of Ukrainians and the destruction of housing, neighborhoods, urban spaces, rural landscapes, physical…
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Case Studies in Urban Conservation: Principles & Narratives of an Emerging Discipline
Traditional conservation practice is increasingly proving inadequate to address the socio-cultural, economic, and environmental challenges facing the diverse array of sites and districts currently in…
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The Development Project
Justin Chapman, Matthew Kiefer, Richard Peiser, Bing Wang
The course places students in the role of developer of an international or domestic site for which they will produce project proposals that meet financial,…
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Urban Design and the Color-Line
We cannot talk about physical infrastructures in the United States without also talking about race. In this seminar/workshop, students will examine the role that race…
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Making Participation Relevant to Design
By trying to understand how participation can make design more relevant to society, we can create more socially just cities. This course starts from the…
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Learning From Failure 1 [Module I]
It’s all too easy to learn from success. This course explores how real estate stakeholders can learn from concepts and examples of failure. The course…
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Learning From Failure 2 [Module 2]
It’s all too easy to learn from success. This course explores how real estate stakeholders can learn from concepts and examples of failure. The course…
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Community-Informed Urban Design
In Community-Informed Urban Design, we will explore the role of urban design, architecture, and placemaking in shaping social conditions within the built environment. We will…
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Urban Adaptation
In an era of accelerating climate disruption, the ways that people live in cities are changing in real time and urban planning must grapple with…
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Planning for Pedestrians and Cyclists
Meeting the ambitious greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets that will be required to reduce, prevent, or delay catastrophic changes to the global climate will require…
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Spatial Design Strategies for Climate Migration
Climate change has emerged as one of the most pressing global challenges of our time, with far-reaching implications for human societies and the environment. A…
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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 and playful supplement to computer-based labor. The aim of the class is…
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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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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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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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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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Drawing for Designers 2: Human Presence and Appearance in Natural and Built Environment
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers, an expressive and playful supplement to computer-based labor. The aim of…
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Urban Design & Planning for Climate Transformation, Intense Migration, & Rapid Urban Growth
We face a vulnerable future due to the accelerated intensity of natural and humanitarian disasters. The resultant scale of unprecedented migration has…
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Agropolitan Futures
This seminar examines the unsustainable relationship between urbanisation and agriculture. It will focus on Monsoon Asia where urbanisation rates are extreme and where most of…
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Urban Grids-3:Grid Plan versus Big Project
Within a larger research scope of exploring open forms for city design, this seminar will focus on a clear discussion of two…
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Urban Design and the Color-Line
We cannot talk about physical infrastructures in the United States without also talking about race. In this seminar/workshop, students will examine the…
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Making Participation Relevant to Design
By trying to understand how participation can make design more relevant to society, we can create more socially just cities. This course starts from the…
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New Towns and Affordable Housing Development in Africa
This course is a research seminar delving into new town development and affordable housing production in Africa. The course provides an overview…
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The (New) Image of the City
The rest of the 21st century is being drawn right now. More than ever before, organizations and individuals rely on projective images that indicate their…
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Experimental Housing: Density and Incrementality
Generations of architects and urban designers have been searching for alternatives for standard apartment typologies. Many experiments have been designed and built…
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Drawing for Designers: Techniques of Expression, Articulation, and Representation
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers and an expressive, playful supplement to computer-based labor. This course will…
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Field Studies in Real Estate, Urban Planning and Design
Field Studies in Real Estate, Urban Planning and Design: Redeveloping the town center of a historic New England Town and New Visions for redeveloping one…
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Drawing for Designers 2: Human Presence and Appearance in Natural and Built Environment
The aim of the class is to learn how to depict and express the presence and appearance of people in natural and…
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Urban Grids-3:Grid Plan versus Big Project
Within a larger research scope of exploring open forms for city design, this seminar will focus on a clear discussion of two…
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The Spectacle Factory
The Spectacle Factory examines the modern history of immersive theater, entertainment, and media spaces from the standpoint of the history of architecture and design. It…
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Urban Design and the Color-Line
We cannot talk about physical infrastructure in the United States without also talking about race. This seminar/workshop introduces students to the role…
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Making Participation Relevant to Design
By trying to understand how participation can make design more relevant to society, we can create more socially just cities. This course…
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Developing for Social Impact
This course explores a question with great currency but no methodology: how can real estate development both advance social purpose and account…
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Local Government Solutions to America’s Affordable Rental Housing Challenge
James Stockard, Bennett Hecht, Kimberly Driggins
There are 10.9 million renters who are severely housing cost burdened – spending more than 50% of their income on shelter. The…
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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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New Towns and Affordable Housing Development in Africa
This course is a research seminar delving into new town development and affordable housing production in Africa. The course provides an overview…
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The (New) Image of the City
The rest of the 21st century is being drawn right now. More than ever before, organizations and individuals rely on projective images that indicate their…
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Drawing for Designers: Techniques of Expression, Articulation, and Representation
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers and an expressive, playful supplement to computer-based labor. This course will…
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Migration in Latin-America: Imagining Flux, Rapid Response and Reversibility
Today’s fast-paced, global flow of people and goods is challenging the idea that the city should be an entity that aspires to…
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Field Studies in Real Estate, Urban Planning and Design
Social Impact Investing and ESG in downtown Bellevue, WA and a Park-centric redevelopment of demolished Dallas shopping mall and adjoining properties This…
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Reimagining social infrastructure and collective futures
Design tools and spatial approaches can play a vital role in reimagining a twenty-first century social infrastructure—the underlying structures that sustain social life, including spaces…
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The Theory and Practice of Sustainable Urban Development: SDG #11 and Beyond
This project-based course seeks a critical yet constructive approach to the emerging urban agenda formulated within the UN’s 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The inclusion…
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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…