Courses
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First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Sai Balakrishnan, David Gamble, Ana Gelabert-Sanchez, Lily Song
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, Stephen Gray, Clayton Strange, Robert Pietrusko, 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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The Unfinished City. Envisioning 21st Urban Ideals in Tallinn’s Largest Soviet-era Housing District
Eliel Saarinen’s 1913 Masterplan for Grand Tallinn proposed a bold expansion of the city to the east, occupying an underdeveloped area that has become known…
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Refugees in the Rust Belt
Today, there are over 65 million refugees worldwide—the highest number of displaced persons ever recorded. In the design community, most of the efforts to help…
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Robots In & Out of Buildings
New forms of mobility are currently being developed for the transport of people and goods. From autonomous container ships and trucks, to autonomous buses and…
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Phantom Coast: Transforming San Francisco’s Eastern Waterfront
"Every city is full of ghosts, and learning to see some of them is one of the arts of becoming a true local."– Rebecca…
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Spatial Analysis and the Built Environment
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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Drawing for Designers: Techniques of Expression, Articulation, and Representation
The course is intended as a creative drawing laboratory for designers and an expressive and a playful supplement to computer based labor.
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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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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 planning…
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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
The purpose of this lecture course is to provide an overall account of the urbanization in selected cities within the rapidly developing…
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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…
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Real Estate Finance and Development
Richard Peiser, David Hamilton
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate finance and development. Lectures and case studies introduce students to the full range of…
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Land Use and Environmental Law
As a scarce and necessary resource, land triggers competition and conflict over its possession and use. For privately owned land, the market manages much of…
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Cities by Design I
Rahul Mehrotra, Peter Rowe, Jerold S. Kayden, Alex Krieger, Eve Blau, Joan Busquets, Felipe Correa
Cities by Design I is concerned with in-depth longitudinal examination of urban conditions in and among selected cities in the world. The…
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Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning, and Urban Design: Seattle, WA and Boston
The Field Study course is designed to provide students an understanding of the dynamics and complexities of reality that create contemporary urban…
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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 for urban planning. The course begins with an examination of how quantitative methods fit within…
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Analytic Methods: Qualitative
How can planners understand places in a rich, meaningful, and yet systematic way? This module examines how qualitative approaches can be used…
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Transportation Policy and Planning (at HKS)
The course is intended to develop in students an understanding of the management, policy and planning problems that are peculiar to transportation and other types…
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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…
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Healthy Places
The connections between health, well-being, and place are a complex. This class focuses on four topics that will be important in coming…
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Urban Economic Concepts for Real Economic Development
The course begins with a thorough review of the principles of urban economics and the economic issues effecting cities and their regions. …
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Environment, Politics, and Action
What is the relationship between the natural environment and the design of successful places? How do we know? And how can we…
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Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems (at HBS)
Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social and Economic Problems COURSE OBJECTIVES• To provide a framework through which to think about the salient…
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Global Leadership in Real Estate and Design: Barcelona, Spain and Seaport District, Boston, MA
In today’s increasingly connected urban centers, shifts in cultural preferences, design thinking, and spatial significations often reflect and parallel transitions in capital forces and economic…
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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,…
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The Gentrification Debates: Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhood Change
Gentrification and the real and perceived impacts that neighborhood change has on longtime local residents as well as new dwellers, is complicated…
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Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals for Public and Private Participants (at HKS)
Provides an analytical framework for understanding real estate finance and development fundamentals from both public and private perspectives. Topics addressed include: establishing investment/development objectives; structuring…
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Public Space
In a digital age, does physical public space matter? Tahrir Square, Zuccotti Park, Madrid Rio, and the High Line argue yes, with ambitions ranging from…
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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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Emergent Urbanism: Planning and Design Visions for the city of Hermosillo, Mexico
This project-based class focuses on the planning and design of sustainable strategies for cities in the developing world, using the city of…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Jennifer Bonner, Diane Davis, Jill Desimini, Edward Eigen, Ewa Harabasz, Peter Rowe, Bing Wang, Joan Busquets, Yusuke Obuchi, Hanif Kara, Remment Koolhaas, Jock Herron, Ray Torto, Martin Bechthold, Anita Berrizbeitia, Sonja Dümpelmann, Ann Forsyth, Andrew Holder, Jerold S. Kayden, Grace La, Ali Malkawi, Jorge Silvetti, Andrew Witt, Jon Lott, Mark Mulligan, Felipe Correa, Robert Pietrusko, Alistair McIntosh, Jesse M. Keenan, Chuck Hoberman, Richard Peiser, John May, Sai Balakrishnan, Niklas Maak, Francesca Benedetto, Holly Samuelson, Preston Scott Cohen, Allen Sayegh, Rahul Mehrotra, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Sebastien Marot, Rosetta S. Elkin, K. Michael Hays, Dilip da Cunha
Students may take a maximum of 8 units with different GSD instructors in this course series. 9201 must be taken for either 2, or 4…
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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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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Neil Brenner, Edward Eigen, Diane Davis, K. Michael Hays, Antoine Picon
9502 must be taken for either 2, or 4 units. Under faculty guidance, the student conducts an independent reading program and formulates a thesis proposal.
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Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Martin Bechthold, Mohsen Mostafavi, Neil Brenner, Richard Peiser, Antoine Picon, Peter Rowe
Thesis in Satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design.
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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,…
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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…