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
This course meets for the first time on Monday, September 14th. The purpose of this lecture course is to provide an overall account of the…
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Structuring Urban Experience: From the Athenian Acropolis to the Boston Common
This lecture course examines selected cities between the fifth century B.C. and the seventeenth century A.D., beginning with ancient Athens and ending with proposals…
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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…
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Land Use and Environmental Law
As a scarce and necessary resource, land triggers competition and conflict over possession, use, development, and preservation. For privately owned land, the market manages…
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Cities by Design I
Rahul Mehrotra, Peter Rowe, Felipe Correa, Eve Blau, Joan Busquets, Alex Krieger, Neil Brenner
The year-long ‘Cities by Design’ course is mandatory for all incoming Masters of Urban Design students. All other students are welcome to enroll in…
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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.
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Policy Making in Urban Settings (at HKS)
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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Analytic Methods of Urban Planning: Quantitative
This course introduces students to quantitative analysis and research methods. The course begins with a discussion of how quantitative methods fit within the broader research…
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Analytic Methods: Qualitative
This module examines how qualitative approaches can be used in planning practice and research. Qualitative methods are particularly useful in answering why and how questions;…
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Markets and Market Failures with Cases (at HKS)
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 Policy and Planning (at HKS)
Provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation policy and planning, as well as an introduction to the skills necessary for solving…
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Housing and Urbanization in the United States
James Stockard, Jennifer Molinsky
This course examines housing as both an individual concern and an object of policy and planning. It is intended to provide those with an…
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Spatial Analytics of the Built Environment
The course will investigate a number of qualitative and quantitative methods to measure and analyze urban spatial problems relevant to contemporary urban planning practice.
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Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals for Public and Private Participants (at HKS)
Classroom is at HKS, Littauer 28 Class meeting time is Mon, Wed from 4:45 to 6:00 PM. However the first class will…
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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…
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Urban Governance and the Politics of Planning in the Developing World
This course will meet for the first time on Thursday, September 3rd from 6 – 9 pm in room 124. This…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regen. & Reuse of Brownfield Lands: Research, Remediation & Design Practices
‘A Brownfields Site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence, or potential presence of a…
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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…