Courses
-
First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Judith Grant Long, Kathy Spiegelman, Peter Park
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…
-
Elements of Urban Design
Felipe Correa, Linda Pollak, Gines Garrido, Robert Lane, Robert Pietrusko, Renata Sentkiewicz
Elements of Urban Design is an advanced core studio for the post professional programs in urban design. The studio introduces a wide host of ideas,…
-
The Good Old Days: Design for the Age-Friendly Environment
Thanks to longer lifespans, lower fertility rates, and the aging of the baby boomer population, the United States is getting older. Already, there are more…
-
Networked Urbanism
Belinda Tato, Jose Luis Vallejo
The boundary between public and private is shifting. The one between personal and professional is becoming increasingly blurred. This rapid evolution has led us to…
-
Urban Development and Housing for Low Income Groups in the Rapidly Growing City of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
The first meeting for this studio will take place on Tuesday, September 4th. With over one million inhabitants, Ouagadougou is the largest…
-
The Jaffa Road Studio, Jerusalem
The studio will focus on a key site—or two or three—along a historic street that terminates at one of the gates to the walled city…
-
Territorialism: Inside a New Form of Dispersed Megalopolis
Starting from a reflection on the infrastructural system (water and iron) in the Boston region, the approach of the studio is to use design as…
-
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City
This studio works typologically. It approaches the problem of the city through the investigation and redefinition of its persistent architectures—its dominant types. Any attempt to…
-
Spatial Analysis and Representation
David Gamble, Robert Pietrusko
This course provides first-semester planning students with the graphic and technical skills needed to reason, design and communicate with geospatial data. This knowledge will be…
-
The Subject and the City
This seminar takes as its premise that a history and theory of the city cannot be known without an accompanying history and theory of…
-
Conservation History, Its Canons and Institutions
This course analyzes the canons and institutions that have traditionally guided the parameters of conservation and preservation practice. As such, the course situates conservation…
-
History and Theory of Urban Interventions
This class provides a high-intensity introduction the history and theory of urban planning practice under modern capitalism. Building upon an interdisciplinary literature drawn from…
-
Constructing Vision
The course examines how architects have historically used means of representation, not only as allographic tools, but as design tools that visually organize buildings…
-
Urbanization in the East Asian Region
The purpose of this lecture course is to provide an overall account of urbanization in selected cities within the rapidly developing East Asian region from…
-
Geo-Architecture
\”Geo-Architecture\”: Le Corbusier\’s Urbanism and the Territorial Challenge to Architecture (1911â\”1965) In a 1957 review of a lecture by Le Corbusier, a Swiss newspaper…
-
The Cultural Invention of the “Shanty Town”
“Shanty towns” are not a concrete physical human construction but a concept. What they do have as a physical reality are a multitude of physical…
-
Critical Memory and the Experience of History
This seminar presents selected texts from the history of conservation (Riegl, Viollet, Ruskin) together with theoretical treatments of the genealogy of collective memory (Halbwachs, Nora,…
-
Urban Politics and Planning
The central foci of this course are the roles of public governance and modes of resolving stakeholder conflicts in shaping cities and urban regions. Key…
-
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.
-
Real Estate Finance and Development
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate finance and development. Lectures and case studies introduce students to the full range of financial analysis…
-
Planning and Environmental Law
This course examines the law, embodied in local ordinances, state and federal statutes, constitutions, judicial opinions, administrative regulations, and private agreements, governing the use, development,…
-
Cities by Design I
Rahul Mehrotra, A. Hashim Sarkis, Alex Krieger, Sibel Bozdo??an, Joan Busquets, Eve Blau, Robert Lane
\’Cities by Design\’ is a year-long course that studies urban form. In the fall semester, \’Cities by Design\’ will explore six urban case studies…
-
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…
-
Markets and Market Failures with Cases (at KSG)
Markets and Market Failures with Cases at KSG – HKS API-105A . Professor Jose Gomez-Ibanez offers the other version of Markets and Market Failures, GSD…
-
Transportation Planning and Development
Transportation is a cornerstone of city building and directly influences the development of our built environment and social capital. Transportation strategies directly impact and interact…
-
Housing and Urbanization in the United States
This course examines housing as an object of policy and planning as it relates to urban form and issues of social concern. It is intended…
-
Healthy Places
Can the way places are planned and designed improve health? It seems obvious that there is such a link between environments and health but…
-
Modern Housing and Urban Districts: Concepts, Cases and Comparisons
This seminar course will deal with ‘modern housing’ covering a period primarily from 1990 to the present. It will engage with ‘urban districts’ in so…
-
Advanced Workshop in Participatory Urban Planning and Design
This workshop combines seminar and studio elements. In weekly seminar sessions, students discuss key readings on the theory and practice of participatory planning and…
-
Environmental Justice and Climate Resilience in Planning and Design
How can the practice of urban planning and design creatively engage communities to address the immediate and long-term challenges posed by climate variability and environmental…
-
Housing Delivery Systems in the United States
This is a basic course to introduce students to the American system for producing housing. We look at seven “actors”—consumers, developers, lenders, infrastructure providers, regulators,…
-
Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals
This course is designed for students interested in understanding the fundamentals of real estate finance and development. Although SUP-665/GSD 5492 is not a \”policy\” course,…
-
Market Analysis and Urban Economics
This course builds upon the academic literature and the practical experiences which constitutes the accumulated knowledge of urban and real estate economics and finance in…
-
Contemporary South Asia: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social & Economic Problems
This project-based, survey course focuses on several categories of social and economic problems faced by the countries of South Asia, specifically, in the realms of…
-
Urban Governance and the Politics of Planning in the Developing World
This course starts from the premise that politics and governance arrangements will both enable and constrain effective urban planning action. Using a focus on cities…
-
Neoliberal Urbanism, North and South
Urban development is shaped not only through planning and design strategies, but through broader processes of political-economic restructuring associated with the (il)logics of capitalism, modern…
-
Smart Cities: An Introduction to Urban Integrated Networked Solutions
In its current state, the vision of a smart city is very much fostered by a technologically enhanced worldview of the urban condition, whereas traditional…
-
Library Test Kitchen
Jeffrey Schnapp, Jeff Goldenson, Ann Whiteside
Bridging the analog and the digital worlds, the offline and the online, libraries represent one of the most exciting opportunities for design and redesign on…
-
Real Estate and City Making in China
Real estate has increasingly become a compelling force in the process of city making, one uniquely capable of leading and guiding multiple steps in the…
-
Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
A. Hashim Sarkis, Ray Torto, Michael Herzfeld, Panagiotis Michalatos, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Leire Asensio Villoria, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Jill Desimini, Jane Hutton, Pierre Bélanger, Iñaki Abalos, Florian Idenburg, Mariana Ibanez, Rahul Mehrotra, Eric Howeler, Ingeborg Rocker, Andreas Georgoulias, Andrea Hansen, Gareth Doherty, Sanford Kwinter, Chris Reed, John Nastasi, Kiel Moe, Andrew Witt, Eve Blau, Cameron Wu, Erkin Ozay, Christopher Hoxie, Niall Kirkwood, Mark Mulligan, Jorge Silvetti, Anita Berrizbeitia, K. Michael Hays, Jerold S. Kayden, Mack Scogin, Preston Scott Cohen, Ann Forsyth, Diane Davis, Martin Bechthold
Students may take a maximum of 8 credit units with different instructors in this course series.Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Candidates may arrange individual work focusing on…
-
Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
This seminar is intended to provide the theoretical and methodological foundation for completing a graduate thesis in the Department of Urban Planning and Design. By…
-
Master of Design Studies Final Project
Richard T.T. Forman, Allen Sayegh, Sanford Kwinter, Jesse Shapins, Michael Hooper, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Diane Davis
The Final Project will consist of a theoretical/position component, and of a practical/experimental component. The scope of each of the two components will be determined…
-
Urban Design Proseminar
The proseminar is a forum for conversation on contemporary urban design. It is structured around three overlapping discussions: the formation of the discipline, critiques of…
-
Doctoral Program Proseminar
This pro-seminar is one way of fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic…