Courses
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SUPERNATURAL URBANISM: Locating the Next American City in the Los Angeles River Basin
Richard Sommer and Mary Margaret Jones with George Hargreaves as Senior AdvisorSUPERNATURAL URBANISMIn the 1960\’s Rayner Banham suggested a new mode of urbanism in the…
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Drawn to the Center . . . Living on the Edge
Like many American cities faced with declining populations and economic disinvestment in the post World War II years as the American suburbs began to grow,…
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The Hague, Binckhorst: “Revising the dump”
Course Description:The sizeable Binckhorst area in The Hague stretches out between the exit of the motorway and the city center. It is only connected to…
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Re-inventing Apkujung, Seoul, South Korea
Introduction:The neighborhood of Apkujung displays a complex urban fabric interwoven with large residential buildings and commercial spaces. Situated in the affluent Kangnam District of Seoul,…
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The Delhi Metro Rail
The city of Delhi has grown from a population of less than one million in 1947 to over 12 million today. Despite a master plan…
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New metropolitan entrance
Course descriptionIn the metropolitan city of Barcelona, the Gran Via is the great horizontal avenue running parallel to the coast, around which growth has been…
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Unanticipated Urbanity: Revisiting Las Vegas
Las Vegas isn\’t phony anything: it has its own resounding, relentless identity. And Vegas is arguably the most interesting American city of the moment, the…
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
Literature and Arts BDesigning the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form.This course takes an interpretive look at the American city in terms of changing…
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Configurations of Public Space – debate and design
To promote a politics of inclusion, then, participatory democrats must promote the ideal of a heterogeneous public, in which persons stand forth with their differences…
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Rebuilding the European City
After the Second World War, many cities, roads, and bridges were left destroyed in Europe and needed to be rebuilt. Some countries, like Poland, chose…
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Constructing Vision
The course considers the application of means of representation, primarily perspective, in architectural design. It examines how architects have used these means of representation not…
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The Shaping and Preservation of Urban Spaces
Prerequisite:2 graduate level courses in architectural history or related topics or equivalent preparation, and permission of the instructor. Prior to the lottery fill out the…
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Public and Private Development
Cities are developed by an elaborate blend of public and private actions. This has not always been the case; in the past, there was a…
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Culture of Cities
During the nineteenth century, as dramatic urban transformations rendered many European and American cities nearly unrecognizable, a new urban discourse emerged. Urban critics struggled to…
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Transportation Policy, Planning, and Mangagement
This course provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation planning, as well as an introduction to the skills necessary for solving the various…
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Advanced Topics in Design, Law, Policy
This workshop provides students with an opportunity to examine in depth a legal technique or issue having a significant effect on the design and planning…
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Strategic Planning and Local Development
This course examines strategies for urban and regional development within the context of a globalized economy where cities are the engines of growth. Fierce competition,…
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Housing Policy in the United States: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sectors
In the twentieth century, housing policy in the United States has crafted a complex finance and delivery system. This course will examine the origins of…
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The Design of Housing in the United States
This course will investigate architectural, urban design, and planning related components of the design of multi-family housing. Drawing largely from the completed work of the…
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Housing Delivery Mechanisms in the United States
This module will examine the process by which housing is produced in the United States. The course considers the primary actors in the delivery system,…
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Listening to the City
This workshop course will address one of the central contradictions currently facing architects, planners, landscape architects and urban designers who want to practice in the…
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Industrial Restructuring and Economic Development
This course is organized in three parts. First, it focuses on the economic changes that, over the last twenty years, have taken place in most…
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Strategies for Social Inclusion in Development
This seminar offers students an opportunity to pursue advanced work in urban planning that addresses the challenge of social inclusion in local development at the…
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Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in Urban Planning and Development
This course introduces students to the practice of negotiation and mediation in the context of urban planning and development. Learning from general theories of negotiation…
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Commercial Real Estate Capital Markets
This module provides students with an opportunity to understand the important role the capital markets play in commercial real estate investment and development. Often, the…
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Field Studies in Real Estate: The Rebuilding of Ground Zero
Many architects and urban designers see the rebuilding of Ground Zero as an exciting opportunity to redefine modern urbanism in the twenty-first century. But the…
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Accessing Capital for Community Development
Course Description: This module will examine how for-profit and not-for-profit entities access debt and equity funding for affordable housing development and job creation activities in…
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Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems: Theory and Applications
This course presents a framework for understanding and using the spatial analysis and modeling capacities of the major types of geographic information systems to better…