Courses
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Methods of Urban Planning
This companion course to the first-term Core Urban Planning Studio introduces students to selected methods used by urban planners in understanding, analyzing, and influencing the…
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Proseminar – Defining Urban Design
ABSTRACTUrban Design as a new discipline emerged from an International Conference held at Harvard in 1956 under the support and initiative of Dean Jose Luis…
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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
The purpose of this course is to provide an overall account of the urbanization in selected cities within the rapidly developing Pacific Asian region; to…
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Race, Inequality, and Cities
This course explores the ways that understandings of race have shaped the modern American built environment, with attention to the impact of race on the…
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Histories and Theories of Urban Interventions
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 design,…
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Urban Politics and Planning
Examines the politics of urban planning, land use, environmental regulation, and economic development. Principal aim is to help students think strategically about the role of…
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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 poorly.
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Real Estate Finance and Development
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate finance anddevelopment. Lectures and case studies introduce students to the fullrange of financial analysis skills and analytical…
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Planning and Environmental Law
This course examines the key substantive legal issues that affect the use, preservation, and development of land in the United States, and the principles and…
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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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Comparative International Planning and Cities
This course examines the planning and growth of cities in \’developing\’ nations across the \’global South\’ since the end of colonialism in the 1960s. We…
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Ecology as Urbanism; Urbanism as Ecology
In light of recent interest in the concept of ecological urbanism, this course will read projects and texts on the relation of landscape ecology to…
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Political Economy of Urbanization
Over the last two decades or so, cities have been undergoing a drastic process of restructuring. An ever-growing number of terms-urban villages, edge cities, exopolises,…
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Redevelopment Policy
Urban redevelopment is the process by which government, private investors, and households transform the uses and financial returns of the urban built environment. As an…
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Historic Preservation: Strategies for Urban Revitalization
This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of historic preservation in urban settings in the United States. The objective of the course…