Courses
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First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Ann Forsyth, Kathy Spiegelman, Manisha Bewtra, Peter Park, Ana Gelabert-Sanchez, Robert Pietrusko
The first semester core studio of the Master in Urban Planning program introduces students to the fundamental knowledge and technical skills used by urban planners…
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Elements of Urban Design
Felipe Correa, Anita Berrizbeitia, Carles Muro, Robert Pietrusko, Rahul Mehrotra, Carlos Garciavelez, Michael Manfredi, Richard Sennett
Elements of Urban Design is an advanced core studio for the post professional programs in urban design. This studio introduces critical concepts, strategies and technical…
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RURBAN: Resilient Practices and Networks in the Contemporary City (Canceled)
Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcu
The studio addresses the recent calls for collective urban action to confront challenges such as global warming, depletion of fossil fuels and natural resources, economic…
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The Storm, the Strife, and Everyday Life: Sea Change in the Suburbs
For many Long Islanders, the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy was a wakeup call, adding urgency to a nascent discussion about Long Island\’s vulnerability to…
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The Countryside as a City
The studio is premised upon two fundamental ambitions, the recuperation of an idea of the city as a project and the pursuit of alternative forms…
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Spatial Analysis and Representation
David Gamble, Robert Pietrusko
Urban planners engage in many complex processes that defy easy representation. This course provides first-semester urban planning students with the graphic and technical skills needed…
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Planning for Conservation: Urban South Asia Research Seminar
This seminar looks to urban conservation strategies to explore issues concerning contemporary urbanism in South Asia. The course aims to bring together the contingent nature…
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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…
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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…
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Slums in Architectural and Planning History
When and why did informality become an urban and architectural matter? Contemporary projects developed within precarious settlements and overcrowded areas are often interpreted as epitomes…
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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 skills…
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Land Use and Environmental Law
As a scarce and necessary resource for earthly activity, land triggers competition and conflict over its possession, use, development, and preservation. For privately owned land,…
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Cities by Design I
Rahul Mehrotra, Jana Cephas, Peter Rowe, Jose Castillo, Joan Busquets, Christine Smith, Alex Krieger, Jerold S. Kayden, Neil Brenner
Cities by Design studies urban form. This semester, five cities -Mexico City, Barcelona, Shanghai, Rome, and Detroit- will serve as case studies in order to…
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Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning, and Urban Design
The Field Study course is designed to provide students an understanding of the dynamics and complexities of reality that create contemporary urban physical environments. The…
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Policy Making in Urban Settings (at KSG)
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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Markets and Market Failures with Cases (at KSG)
Markets and Market Failures with Cases at KSG – HKS API-105A . Chris Hebert will offer the other version of Markets and Market Failures, GSD…
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Transportation Planning and Development
This is an introductory course that examines the complex relationship between transportation, land use and urban form, and the varied instruments available to planners seeking…
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Housing and Urbanization in the United States
James Stockard, Jennifer Molinsky
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…
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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 how…
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Planning for the 21st Century: Emerging Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
What role does design play in the planning process? How will demographic and other emerging trends influence how we design and plan for communities for…
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Creating Resilient Cities: Future Coasts and Spatial Analysis of Cities at Risk
Coastal cities are undergoing environmental changes at a scale and pace that challenges traditional cultures, disciplinary methods, experience, histories and techniques. The same could be…
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Territorial Intelligence: Towards an Evidence Based Design
Disciplines linked to cities are experiencing a period defiant to conventional theory, methodologies, programs and projects. In understanding that design is not solely an aesthetic…
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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…
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Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals for Public and Private Participants (at KSG)
Classroom is at HKS, Rubenstein G-20 (Neustadt Classroom) Class meeting time is Mon, Wed from 4:40 to 6:00 PM. However the first…
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Market Analysis and Urban Economics
This course builds upon the academic literature and the applied experiences which constitutes the accumulated knowledge of urban and real estate economics and finance to…
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Urban Governance and the Politics of Planning in the Developing World
Course starts from the premise that urban politics and governance arrangements can both enable and constrain effective planning action. Using a focus on cities in…
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The Fourth Typology: Dominant Type and the Idea of the City
Open to all students, the seminars in this course will compliment Option Studio 1503: The Countryside as a City. It will provide the theoretical and…
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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…
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Mapping Cultural Space: Sites, Systems, and Practices Across Eurasia
Eve Blau, Julie Buckler, Kelly Ann O’Neill-Uzgiris
The seminar will explore the significance of cultural space as both an object and a tool of analysis, taking as its focus Eurasia, an area…
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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…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
Silvia Benedito, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Jana Cephas, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Niall Kirkwood
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…
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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…
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Risk and Resilience Proseminar
The Risk and Resilience Proseminar provides MDes students in this concentration with an introduction to discourses on risk and resilience that intersect with key issues…
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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…