Courses
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Second Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Daniel D’Oca, Stephen Gray, Kathy Spiegelman
The second semester core planning studio expands the topics and methodologies studied in the first semester core studio, GSD 1121, aiming to prepare students for…
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Housing in Merida Yucatan: the urban and the territorial
This is the 3rd studio sponsored by INFONAVIT, the National Workers Housing Institute of Mexico. As in previous years, this studio seeks to generate new…
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“Regular City” in Chongqing: Searching for Domesticated Superstructures
The Studio sets out to interpret urban evolution in Chongqing in order to draw conclusions for the hypothesis of central city development at the heart…
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Oh, Jerusalem: Eternal Center / Generic Periphery
“Jerusalem …. focus of the struggle between the Abrahamic religions, the shrine for increasingly popular Christian, Jewish and Islamic fundamentalism, the strategic battlefield of clashing…
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Extreme Urbanism IV: Looking at Hyper Density – Dongri, Mumbai
In recent years, housing has become an extremely scarce commodity in Mumbai. In 2007, Mumbai was the sixth most expensive city globally to rent an…
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The Factory and the City: Rethinking the industrial spaces of the developmental city
The studio is premised upon two fundamental ambitions, the recuperation of an idea of the city as a project and the pursuit of alternative forms…
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Jakarta: Models of Collective Space for the Extended Metropolis
This advanced option studio will examine the role of new mass transit infrastructure as a driver for new models of collective space, in a context…
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Painting for Designers: Techniques, Methods and Concepts
The course objective is to advance through painting students visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination. Assigned and generated by students projects will…
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
Lecture meets T/Th 1-2 pm in Gund 111. The graduate section will meet the first week, Tuesday 1/27 at 11:30 in Gund…
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Type and the Idea of the City
Open to all students, the seminars in this course will compliment Option Studio 1508: The Factory and the City. It will provide the theoretical…
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Urban Grids: Open form for City Design
Framework: Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the…
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Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China
Modernizing influences, largely from the hands of foreign powers, first forcefully entered China in the aftermath of the Opium War and signing of the…
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Discourses and Methods: Conservation, Destruction, and Curating Impermanence
Natalia Escobar Castrillon, K. Michael Hays
This seminar on critical conservation aims to develop concepts and strategies able to describe and curate the transitory and dynamic nature of architecture, landscapes…
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Public and Private Development
This course explores the analytic frameworks, skills, and bodies of knowledge required to understand, evaluate, plan, and implement public and private development within cities and…
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Markets and Market Failures
This course provides an introduction to how markets operate, the criteria for assessing their performance, and the circumstances under which they perform well or…
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Cities by Design II: Projects, Processes, and Outcomes
Cities evolve through a complex layering and re-layering of projects, processes, and outcomes. Cities by Design II introduces students to a range of contexts that…
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Advanced Real Estate Finance
This course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate courses offered by other schools at Harvard. This year’s course covers five main…
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Building and Leading Real Estate Enterprises and Entrepreneurship
This course focuses on how you conceive, build and lead successful real estate companies. By virtue of the industry in which they compete, real…
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The Space of Conflict
Conflicts unfold at various interconnected scales: global, territorial, state, urban, human. Their geographical scopes stretch from the localized sites of citizen contestation and micro-struggles…
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Transportation Planning and Development
This is an introductory course that examines the complex relationship between transportation, land use and urban form, and the varied instruments available to planners…
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Housing and Urbanization in Global Cities
The subject of Housing and Urbanization in Global Cities examines housing policy and planning in urban societies around the world and especially in the…
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Economic Development in Urban Planning
Course Objectives and Outcomes This course introduces students to the theories, analytic frameworks and financial tools used to encourage local economic development in…
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Urbanization and International Development
This course interrogates the relationship between urbanization and development. One of the main objectives of the course is to move beyond seeing cities in…
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Design for the Just City
In “The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger”, Dr. Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett present a compelling set of data illustrating that material…
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Environment, Economics, and Enterprise
Holly Samuelson, Frank Apeseche
How can one optimize the benefits of environmental or social sustainability while generating a higher return on investment in buildings? Where are the opportunities…
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Urban Design for Planners
Course Objectives This seminar course introduces physical planners to the approaches, techniques and tools of urban design necessary to structure the spatial and…
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Creating Real Estate Ventures: a Legal Perspective
The course will examine how a commercial real estate deal is put together to move a project from conception to completion. The course will…
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Environmental Planning & Sustainable Development
The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to the ideas and information necessary to integrate environmental viability and sustainable development with…
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Affordable and Mixed-Income Housing Development, Finance, and Management
Explores issues relating to the development, financing, and management of housing affordable to low and moderate income households. Examines community-based development corporations, public housing authorities,…
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Urban Inequality after Civil Rights (at FAS)
Why is the United States more segregated today than ever before? By examining the impact of social, political, and economic transformations in the decades after…
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Mapping: Geographic Representation and Speculation
Maps do not represent reality, they create it. As a fundamental part of the design process, the act of mapping results in highly authored…
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Urban Theory Lab Research Practicum: ‘Operational Landscapes’ of Planetary Urbanization
This research practicum is part of an ongoing series of courses which develops the research agenda of the Urban Theory Lab-GSD (UTL-GSD)—namely, to investigate the…
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Living in the Kinetic City: Mapping Housing in a Landscape of Flux, Mumbai
Increasing concentrations of global flows have exacerbated the inequalities and spatial divisions of social classes in Mumbai. In this context, the creation of an…
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SURPLUS HOUSING: Models of Collective Living in South America.
Housing as typology is one of the richest representations of a city’s history and evolution of culture. The gradual collection of dwellings in multiple…
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Genome of the Built Environment: Measuring the Unseen
The built environment is one of the most fascinating yet enigmatic artifact of the human being. We perceive it as a complex entity resulting…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
Daniel D’Oca, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Peter Rowe, Ann Forsyth, David Gamble, Felipe Correa, Rahul Mehrotra, Michael Hooper, Laura Wolf-Powers, Fionn Byrne, Sai Balakrishnan
Following preparation in GSD 9204, each student pursues a topic of relevance to urban design or urban planning, which may include design or planning exploration,…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
Niall Kirkwood, Ray Torto, Sonja Dümpelmann, Rosetta S. Elkin, Leire Asensio Villoria, Holly Samuelson, Stephen Gray, Andres Sevtsuk, Dilip da Cunha, Kiel Moe, Silvia Benedito, Andrew Witt, Peter Del Tredici, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Ann Forsyth, Allen Sayegh, Salmaan Craig, Susan Snyder, Pierre Bélanger, Martin Bechthold, Panagiotis Michalatos, George Thomas, Edward Eigen
The final design project is an 8 unit final project. As the final graduating requirement for all MDes students, the project involves a substantive independent…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Under faculty guidance, the student conducts a reading program and formulates a thesis proposal. The course is intended for doctoral students.
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Discourse and Methods II
This is one of two seminars fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the PHD curriculum. The seminar is designed as an introduction to canonical…