Courses
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…