Courses
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Core Urban Planning Studio I
Judith Grant Long, Kathryn Madden, Kathy Spiegelman
The first semester core studio of the Master of Urban Planning program introduces students to the fundamental knowledge and technical skills used by urban planners…
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Elements of Urban Design
Richard Sommer, Martin Zogran, Felipe Correa
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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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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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 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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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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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Design
Margaret Crawford, K. Michael Hays
Prerequisites: Four graduate-level courses in this area or enrollment in doctoral program.This research seminar addresses subjects of history, theory and human sciences related to architecture…
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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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Architecture Expanded: New Positioning in Scale, Context and Agency
Stephen Ramos, Neyran Turan, Gareth Doherty
The course aims to examine the changing role of design within new scales of context emerging in contemporary urbanism. Designers are increasingly being compelled to…
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Climate Change, Planning, and Cities
Following on the last UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and the earlier Stern Review on economic consequences, a consensus has emerged that the…
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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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Balkanization: From Metaphor of War to Shaping of Cities
Balkanization: from Metaphor of War to Shaping of CitiesOutside support: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Slovenia (in discussion), Austrian Cultural Centre, New York (in…
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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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Material Geographies 1: Large-Scale Infrastructure and Urbanization in the Sonoran Desert
AbstractThis advanced research workshop aims to explore the role of territorial infrastructural systems in relation to \”fast paced\” forms of urbanization within the North American…
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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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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…
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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
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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Social Spaces in the Academy II
Joan Busquets, Gareth Doherty, Jerold S. Kayden, Martin Zogran
Building on initial results from a provost-funded research study conducted several years ago by the first offering of this research seminar, this second offering will…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
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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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
Richard Peiser, Christoph Reinhart, K. Michael Hays, Martin Bechthold, Sanford Kwinter, Margaret Crawford
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, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, A. Hashim Sarkis, Richard T.T. Forman, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.