Courses
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Elements of Urban Planning
Judith Grant Long, Paul Cote, Kathryn Madden, Steven Cecil
This first term core studio explores ideas, conventions, and technical skills essential to a critical understanding of how urban planning operates within the various scales…
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Elements of Urban Design
Felipe Correa, Richard Sommer, Martin Zogran
Advanced core studio exploring ideas, conventions, and technical skills essential to a critical understanding of how design operates at the various scales of urbanity and…
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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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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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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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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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Before Motown – After Techno: Designing for the Detroit Musical Continuum
Detroit has attitude, energy and grit – all qualities that allowed it to create sounds that revolutionized the world of music. Its musical legacy and…
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The Search for a Modern Monumentality: Master Plan and Design for the New Paris Courthouse
The subject of this studio will be the master plan and design of the new Paris Courthouse at the center of the city. In this…
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BOMBAY STUDIO: Urban Adjustments Negotiating the Kinetic and Static City
Location: The city of Bombay (now Mumbai) with over 12 million residents. India\’s financial center, with perhaps the world\’s most prolific film industry. 5 million…
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Steer a million people per day. Beyoglu, Istanbul
The studio will explore global scenarios for Istanbul and offer a concrete intervention to the specificities of a site in a redefined context.The site of…
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New Geographies
The participants in the seminar will be presented with the following proposal: Geography is a dominant but latent paradigm in design today and we need…
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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 Design Proseminar
The design practices that deal with Urbanism and Urban Architecture have always lent themselves to a constant evaluation and re-evaluation process. Such a re-examination seems…
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Constructing Vision
The course examines how designers have used means of representation not only to represent their work but, importantly, to construct architecturally based visual worlds. In…
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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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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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Urban Politics and Land-Use Policy
The course views cities and urban regions as political constructs. Its purpose is to help you think strategically about major urban problems and controversies, particularly…
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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 employs a case method study of private sector real estate, with quantitative and financial emphasis. Analysis and class discussion of case studies introduce…
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Policy-Making in Urban Settings
An introduction to policymaking in American cities, focusing on economic, demographic, institutional, and political settings. It examines economic development and job growth in the context…
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Transportation Planning and Development
Access and mobility are essential elements of an urban plan. Through lectures, discussions, case studies, and exercises, this course examines the issues and analytical framework…
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Housing Delivery Systems in the United States
This course 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 seminar rests on the consideration that any intervention for the development of a depressed (or declining) area should be informed by an understanding of…
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Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in Urban Planning and Design
This course introduces students to the practice of negotiation and mediation in the context of urban planning and development. Learning from general theories of negotiation…
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Redevelopment Policy
Redevelopment PolicyUrban redevelopment is the process by which government, private investors, and households transform the uses and financial returns of the urban built environment. As…
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Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems: Theory and Applications
This course is a survey and technical introduction to the analytical uses of spatial data and geographic information systems from an urban and regional planning…
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Prep of Design Thesis Proposal for MAUD/MLAUD and MUP
In this seminar required for students intending to pursue an independent thesis through GSD 9302 in the following term, direction is given as to the…
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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…
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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Richard Peiser, Daniel Schodek, Carl Steinitz, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Joan Busquets, Margaret Crawford, Kostas Terzidis
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.