Courses
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Site Representation and Research
Developing and communicating practical ideas about places begins with identification of crucial entities and relationships that affect some aspect of the functioning or evaluation of…
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
Literature and Arts B Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form. This course takes an interpretive look at the American city in terms…
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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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Urban Design Proseminar
Mohsen Mostafavi, Gareth Doherty
The proseminar is a forum for conversation on contemporary urban design. It is structured around three overlapping discussions: urban design as form, operation, and urbanism.
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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
This course provides an account of urbanization in the East Asian Region by way of a detailed examination of the historical development of selected cities,…
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History and Theory of Urban Planning and Design
This course uses historical and analytical readings and case studies to address several major theoretical questions concerning the aims and outcomes of urban interventions. The…
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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 roles of…
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Markets and Market Failure
Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Joseph Kalt
The first half of the course covers skills for predicting market behavior, including supply and demand and the behavior of firms and consumers. The second…
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Real Estate Finance and Development
Richard Peiser, David Hamilton
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate finance and development. Lectures and case studies introduce students to the full range of financial analysis skills…
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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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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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Decent, Safe, and Sanitary: America’s Quest for Social Housing
Born of the dystopian concept of the nineteenth-century slum, housing reform came of age in the 1930s when reformers, many of them unconventional women, persuaded…
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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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Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals
Provides an analytical framework for understanding the real estate finance and development process from both quantitative and nonquantitative perspectives. Topics addressed include: establishing investment/development objectives;…
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Sustainability for Planning and Design
This survey course will give a critical overview over the most pressing issues and tendencies surrounding the term Sustainability focusing on the specific role of…