Courses
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Elements of Urban Design and Planning
Martin Zogran, Judith Grant Long
Instructors: Richard Sommer (UD coordinator), Martin Zogran (UD), Judith Grant Long (UP coordinator), James Kostaras (UP)MUP StudentsMonday, 2:00 – 6:00 (2:00 – 3:30, 318 Gund…
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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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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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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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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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Green and Gold: Studies in Landscape and Urban Regeneration in Derry, Northern Ireland
SPONSORS Derry City Council ILEX Regeneration Company North West Office, Department for Social Development McGinnis Group, Property DevelopersPEDAGOGICAL GOALSThe quality of a city\’s open spaces…
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The City of Leisure and Tourism
Since the 1960s, tourism has had a profound impact on cities. Many great cities, such as Paris or Rome, are discovering that their historic centers…
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Urban Architecture and Nature in South America: Studies on Symbolic Imagery, Urban Projects, Landscape, and Territorial Transf
This lecture course looks at the construction of landscape – as social and symbolic artifact – in South America and at the ways in which…
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Urban Design Proseminar
A seminar required for (and limited to) first year students in the MAUD and MLAUD programs. The course establishes the foundations of contemporary urban design…
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The Muslim Mediterranean City
Cities have defined Mediterranean culture for thousands of years. Using sources from medieval times to the present, the interaction between urban form and social practice…
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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
The purpose of this seminar is to provide an overall account of the urbanization in selected cities within the East Asian region; to characterize relevant…
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Histories and Theories of Urban Planning and Design
Beginning with the mid 19th century city, this course surveys a broad range of urban interventions. These include transportation and infrastructural engineering, settlement houses, landscape…
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Markets and Market Failures
This course introduces economics to students who have had little previous exposure to the subject. Basic tools are covered, including supply, demand, and market equilibrium;…
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Real Estate Finance and Development
This course is intended to give students the training they need to engage in real estate investment and development, both private and public. No prior…
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Planning and Environmental Law
This course examines the range of land use and environmental laws that affect the use, preservation, and development of land in the United States. The…
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Policy-Making in Urban Settings
An introduction to policymaking in American cities, focusing on economic, demographic, institutional, and political settings. Examines economic development and job growth in the context of…
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Transportation Planning and Development
Access and mobility are essential elements of an urban plan. Transportation strategies directly impact and interact with land use planning, zoning, economic development, and urban…
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Rebuilding New Orleans: The Role of Urban Planning and Design
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the City of New Orleans, breaching several levees and flooding 80 percent of the city. In the process,…
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The Housing Delivery System in the United States
This module will examine the process by which housing is produced in the United States. The course considers the primary actors in the delivery system,…
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Local Development and Economic Restructuring
This course is organized in three parts. First, it focuses on the economic changes that, over the last twenty years, have taken place in most…
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Techniques of Planning
Paul Cote, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Martin Zogran, Judith Grant Long
Prerequisites: Enrollment in urban planning program or by special permission of program directorOperating in conjunction with the core studio GSD 1221: Elements of Urban Design…
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Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems: Theory and Applications
In the first half of the course, students learn to build detailed geographic representations using data from various sources, including terrain, demographics, land use, built…
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Prep of Design Thesis Proposal for MAUD/MLAUD and MUP
Prerequisites: Graduate standing The purpose of this seminar is to help students to develop a research framework for a disciplinary topic of their choice. The…
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Restructuring From Within: A Flatbed Site in Quito As an Agent for New Centrality
This Faculty Research Seminar, sponsored by the Corporacion de Salud Ambiental de Quito, aims to investigate a fundamental issue in the transformation of the contemporary…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
Prerequisites: GSD 9204Following preparation in GSD 9204, each student pursues a topic of relevance to urban design or urban planning, which may include design or…
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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
A student who selects this independent thesis for the degree Master in Design Studies pursues independent research of relevance to the selected course of study…