Courses
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Cybernetic Urbanism in the Future London
CYBERNETIC URBANISM IN THE FUTURE LONDON Images and MapsCOURSE DESCRIPTION: The studio is intended for Urban Design, Planning, and Architecture students working at appropriate…
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Havana, Cuba IV: La Rampa – A 20th Century Modern Preservation District
Prerequisites:Students will be expected to possess a high degree of design capability and interest in the following areas: Urban design and planning at the master…
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A Revitalization Strategy for New Bedford, Massachusetts
1. Context of the problemThe inner part of the Boston region started to assume it contemporary pattern after the Civil War when economically independent and…
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Expanding Boston’s Core: Somerville and Its Competitive Context
1. Context of the problemThe inner part of the Boston region started to assume it contemporary pattern after the Civil War when economically independent and…
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Restructuring Relationships Between Parks and Stations in Tokyo
Most major older cities in the world are served by rail transit and commuter systems. Indeed, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the railroad…
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Tokyo’s ‘New Order’ from a Local Perspective: Redevelopment of the Chuo-ku Waterfront
In the aftermath of the bursting of the \”bubble economy,\” which beset Tokyo and much of Japan during the past 15 years, the city is…
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A Lo Que Vinimos: Revitalization of Central San Jose, Costa Rica
Paradoxically, perhaps, as the economic fortunes of Costa Rica have rebounded from the downturn and regional political crises of the late 1970s and 80s, the…
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The Contested City: Newark and the Struggle for Sustainable Urban Regeneration-Ports and the City
The Contested City: Newark and the Struggle for Sustainable Urban RegenerationNewark City Lab OverviewMiddle-class attraction strategies are frequently explored when trying to revive an urban…
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Havana In Our Time: Developing Urban Design and Planning Strategies for Change
Havana, Cuba, once known as the Pearl of the Antilles, is facing unprecedented pressure for change from increasing tourism, foreign economic interests and the likelihood…
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Rethinking Real and Virtual Infrastructures in the 21st Century: Innovative Boulevards in Lisbon
FRAMEWORK.The modernization of Lisbon traditional city to a large extent involved the creation of linear spaces-avenues-associated with new economic and social activities, introducing different uses:…
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Water Line…Chicagos Urban River Corridor
Chicago has transformed from an industrial giant that depended on the Chicago River for moving materials in and out, to an influential 21st century global…
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The Good Old Days: Design for the Age-Friendly Environment
Thanks to longer lifespans, lower fertility rates, and the aging of the baby boomer population, the United States is getting older. Already, there are more…
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Haters Make Me Famous: The Newark Riverfront and the Post-Great Migration City
Following forty years of official urban decline narratives, the Festival Marketplace entered US cities in the 1970s as a redemptive force of planning and design.
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RURBAN: Resilient Practices and Networks in the Contemporary City (Canceled)
Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcu
The studio addresses the recent calls for collective urban action to confront challenges such as global warming, depletion of fossil fuels and natural resources, economic…
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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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Tokyo- Inner-City Revitalization
Among the prominent cities in the world, international status is no longer a matter of economic power per se, especially when it is purchased at…
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Backward and Forward in Time: Urban Rehabilitation in the Xicheng District of Beijing
Today, unlike earlier periods when the proverbial \”urban bulldozer\” was encouraged to move through dilapidated innercity areas with a certain alacrity, making way for new…
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A Cross Section through the City: Redevelopment of the Han Jiang Riverfront in Wuhan, China
Large tracts of valuable urban property have often been opened up for redevelopment adjacent to the centers of contemporary cities, as waterfront industries and port…
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Planning in Paradise II: Urban Redevelopment Honolulu, Hawaii
The city of Honolulu, which encompasses the island of Oahu, is both the county seat and the capital city of Hawaii. Seventy-two percent of the…
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North Adams, MA: A City on Verge
Prerequisites:Students will be expected to possess a high degree of design interest and capability. It is anticipated that the studio will call upon the following…
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Reconnecting City & River: Vienna, Austria & the Danube
One imagines the City of Vienna along its Danube as readily as London along its Thames or Paris along its Seine. But while the Thames…
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The New Boston Waterfront: Channels & Edges
Prerequisites:Students will be expected to possess a high degree of design interest and capability. It is anticipated that the studio will call upon the following…
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An Urbanism for Las Vegas, Nevada
\”Let me confess at the outset to my preference for the real fakery of Las Vegas over the fake reality of Santa Fe – for…
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The New Gate: Public Space, Infrastructure, and the Re-Orientation of Historic Istanbul
Istanbul Re-Oriented: Over the past four decades, the city of Istanbul has grown away from the congestion of its historic center towards its vast metropolitan…
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Geography of a Bridge: Reconfiguring Istanbul¿s Ataturk Kopru across the Golden Horn
The studio aims to unlock the architectural potential of an infrastructural element by reconfiguring its status between system and object. The site is the foot…
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Istanbul: Between Contour and Silhouette
Summary: The studio explores how an architectural project could relate to the city through the manipulation of the ground line and the skyline. The practical…
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Networked Urbanism
Belinda Tato, Jose Luis Vallejo
The boundary between public and private is shifting. The one between personal and professional is becoming increasingly blurred. This rapid evolution has led us to…
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Networked Urbanism: Urban Waste – Urban Design
Belinda Tato, Jose Luis Vallejo
Waste is the result of bad design Networked Urbanism: Urban Waste – Urban Design Waste is the result of bad design Cities cover…
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The Storm, the Strife, and Everyday Life: Sea Change in the Suburbs
For many Long Islanders, the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy was a wakeup call, adding urgency to a nascent discussion about Long Island\’s vulnerability to…
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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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Urbanizations: the Blank Building, the U.S. Postal Service at South Station
TThis is the first studio in what is intended to be a series of urban design and architecture studios focusing on the production of urbanity…
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Reinterpreting 1960s Urbanism; Case 1: Tandy Center, Fort Worth, Texas
This studio, kindly sponsored by the PNL Companies of Dallas, Texas, will deal with a recurrent and endemic North American urban design problem: an important…
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Downtown Seoul: The recovery of the Chungae Chun Stream
Downtown Seoul: The recovery of the Chungae Chun StreamThe Metropolitan Government of Seoul, South Korea, sponsors this studio in association with Crefolio, Inc., a development…
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Revealing Houston’s Midtown Disposition
Like other sprawling cities, Houston is witnessing a reinvestment in its central areas. Companies and businesses looking for a key location, as well as young…
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Regional Planning for Southeastern Massachusetts
Southeastern Massachusetts is the roughly triangular area bounded by Route 495, Buzzards Bay, and Rhode Island\’s eastern border. In a high level aerial view of…
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Harlem 125 | Shifting Culture, Shifting Economy, Shifting Urbanity
\”The struggle for power, ownership and authenticity will continue with the players shifting and changing, as new interests find their way uptown and old interests…
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Recovering New Orleans
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, recovery in many parts of New Orleans remains a pressing issue. The Recovering New Orleans studio will develop planning and…
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The Jewelry District, Providence, RI: Imagining the Newly – Contested Edge
COURSE DESCRIPTIONBackgroundWithin the last decade Providence, Rhode Island has branded itself as a city with a lively downtown reshaped by its canals and a new…
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Newark: The Contested City, Part II – Healing Waters: Reclaiming the Urban Waterfront
The Contested City, Part II Healing Waters: Connecting the Passaic Riverfront to Newark NeighborhoodsToni L. Griffin Adjunct Associate Professor Director of Planning & Community Development,…
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Boston’s Innovation District
Matthew Kiefer, Dennis Pieprz, Janne Corneil
Can we imagine a new urban paradigm where innovative planning strategies and urban design ideas foster new ways of living, working, and interacting in the…
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Evolutionary Infrastructure – the new mega form
Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi
Biased toward expediting movement and inherently resistant to supporting other forms of inhabitation, transportation infrastructure is an archaic monument to mono-functional use. With ever increasing…
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Urban Development and Housing for Low Income Groups in the Rapidly Growing City of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
The first meeting for this studio will take place on Tuesday, September 4th. With over one million inhabitants, Ouagadougou is the largest…
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Planning and Development on the East Boston Waterfront
Alex Krieger, Matthew Kiefer, Larry Curtis
This studio will explore the use of both private investment and public action to solve an important planning/urban design problem: how to fulfill long-standing community…
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The Countryside as a 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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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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Alternative Futures for the West Lake, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China
Last fall, we taught a studio which focused on the area of the West Lake in Hangzhou, China. The protection and use of this world-famous…
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Planning in Paradise: Urban Redevelopment – Honolulu, Hawaii
Prerequisites:A high degree of design interest and some degree of computer literacy is expected, as this studio will focus on urban planning and design issues…
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Nansha: Rethinking Urbanism and Landscape in the Pearl River Delta
The Pearl River Delta in southern China is a notorious demonstration of the urban effects of rapid economic development. On the east bank, the Special…
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Extending Modernism in the Monumental City: Washington’s Southwest Waterfront Development
The subject of this studio will be the design of a mixed- use urban waterfront development in an exceptional sector of the city of Washington…
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Transformative Urbanism in a Southern California Suburban Context
Traditionally a location for ranching and farming, for the past50 years Orange County, California has been home to innovations in recreation, sports, master-planned communities and,…
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