Courses
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Intermediate Drawing
This is an intermediate course in drawing, open to landscape, urban design, and architecture students (also MDes). The initial intent of the class is to…
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Landscape Planning for the 21st Century: Paradigms, Practices & Projects
Responding to contemporary ecological pressures and decaying infrastructures, this course brings together a series of influential thinkers and researchers from the design commons across North…
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Studies of the Built North American Environment: 1580 to the Present
North America as an evolving visual environment is analyzed as a systems concatenation involving such constituent elements as farms, small towns, shopping malls, highways, suburbs,…
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History of Landscape Architecture I
This course presents a history of landscape architecture between 1850 and 1950, with a particular emphasis on the Western world. By studying the projects and…
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Site Ecology and Environment
This course is required for all incoming MLA1 AP students and MLA1 students returning for their second year. The course will present the principles of…
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Ecology, Plants and Technology I
Laura Solano, Matthew Urbanski
This is the first in the core sequence of Ecology, Plants and Technology courses. The first module emphasizes the identification of prominent plants in the…
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Sustainability for Planning and Design
This survey course will establish basic environmental literacy for all the departments at the school. A series of lecturers will address key issues for planners…
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Plants and Technology I
This course focuses on understanding basic biological principles and horticultural practices that influence the growth of plants and ultimately determine the success or failure of…
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Landscape Ecology
This course examines the ecological structure, functioning, and change of a mosaic of natural systems and land uses, such as woods, wetlands, fields, streams, roads,…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regeneration and Reuse of Brownfield Lands
\”A Brownfields Site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence, or potential presence of a hazardous…
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Sustainable Plants for a Changing World
Summary: This seminar course meets once per week for 3 hours and will focus on the nature of the interaction between plants and the environments…
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Leading the Design Firm
Andreas Georgoulias, Richard Jennings, Brian Kenet
This course introduces GSD students to the business side of the design industry and attempts to highlight both the ways in which a design firm…