Courses
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Interdisciplinary Art Practices
The Interdisciplinary Art Practices seminar investigates the exploratory character of art and design work in the interdisciplinary modalities of the contemporary culture. In the present…
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The Idea of Environment
The environment is the milieu in which designers and planners operate. It is a messy world of facts, meanings, relations and actions that calls them…
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Reconceptualizing the Urban: Berlin as Laboratory
Berlin is the site of new regional and cultural interactions in a reconfigured post-industrial and post-socialist Europe. The research seminar is concerned with the…
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Staging the City: Urban Form and Public Life in Istanbul
This course will explore the relationship between urban form and public life in early modern and modern Istanbul. Staging the city’s emerging spatial practices…
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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…
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Community Action Planning: Principles and Practices
This course is an introduction to the theories, principles, processes and practices of Community Action Planning (CAP), as well as its underlying tools and…
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Design, Development, and Democracy in the Future City
This course will meet for the first time on Tuesday, September 1st from 9 am – 12 pm in room 510. This…
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Deciding Interventions in Urban Development: A Practical Guide to Strategic Design
This course offers guidelines for deciding interventions in Urban Development, given conflicting and often competing needs and aspirations amongst stakeholders. Its objectives are threefold:…
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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…
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The Spatial Politics of Land: A Comparative Perspective
This course focuses on the deeply contested and political processes of land-use planning, i.e. of allocating land amongst different, often competing uses, and the…
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Urban Design Trajectories: Perspectives on Practice
Urban Design, as a professional discipline, has not existed for nearly as long as architecture, landscape architecture, or urban planning, though it has been…
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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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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…