Courses
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Landscape as Urbanism: Milwaukee, Tower Automotive Site
For many designers across a range of disciplines, landscape has recently emerged as a model for contemporary urbanism. This is particularly true in North American…
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Next Stop Wonderland: T.O.D. and transformation
Growing concerns about housing shortages, a desire to achieve equitable economic development throughout the region and a commitment to the protection of natural resources, led…
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Detroit
Over time, cities inhale and exhale. Detroit grew from a frontier trading post to an industrial metropolis, reaching its population peak of about 2 million…
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Urban Form: Moscow – Luzhniki Studio
The Moscow Luzhniki Studio will attempt to address the need for new urban form (and a new urban logic) in the post-Soviet capital and to…
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Square One: Martyrs’ Square, Downtown Beirut, Lebanon
The studio will focus on the design of Martyrs\’ Square in downtown Beirut and on the surrounding urban and waterfront areas. It will tackle several…
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Bringing Harvard Yards to the River
This studio deals with an immediate reality, that of simulating a process of improvement and transformation of the main university quads; at a point in…
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Architecture(s) of Geopolitical Transgression
Korea\’s Demilitarized Zone is the last major scar left from the Cold War conflicts between communism and capitalism that characterized much of the second half…
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Kyiv, Ukraine: The New Dnipro Edge: (Re)defining the City
This design studio is the first at the GSD to focus on Ukraine and its capital city, Kyiv. Like many of the former states of…
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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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The City of Leisure and Tourism
Since the 1960s, tourism has had a profound impact on cities. Many great cities, such as Paris or Rome, are discovering that their historic centers…
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Green Modern: A History of Environmental Consciousness in Architecture from Patrick Geddes to the Present
The main themes of the contemporary ecological movement in architecture are often presented as responses to the environmental damage that modern architecture and urban planning…
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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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Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China
Modernizing influences, largely from the hands of foreign powers, first forcefully entered into China and began to take root in the aftermath of the Opium…
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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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Planning and Environmental Law
This course examines the range of land use and environmental laws that affect the use, preservation, and development of land in the United States. The…
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Field Studies in Real Estate
Field studies sponsored by property owners, non-profit organizations and public agencies in the United States and China will be undertaken by students working in teams…
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Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance
Faculty: Richard Peiser, William Apgar, Camille Douglas, James Hoffman, and Glenn Mueller. This course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate courses offered…
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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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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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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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Utopias and Heterotopias
The purpose of this seminar is to examine two modes of thinking about space, its creation and its influence.The first mode – utopian thought –…
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The Regional City: Values and Ethics in Contemporary Urbanism
Fairness. Efficiency. Equality. Access. Choice. Entrepreneurship. Diversity. Vitality. Competitiveness. Self-sufficiency. Kindness. Democracy. Stewardship. Citizens hold these and many other values in contemporary American communities. Values…
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Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems: Theory and Applications
Universities have always been places where scholars and professionals learn to deal with information. To compile information as a basis for inquiry and credible arguments,…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Independent Study: Shanghai UrbanismProfessor Bing WangProfessor Richard B. PeiserSpring, 2004Units: 4Note: Students must also enroll in and meet with GSD 5212Wednesdays: 2:00-5:00First Session: Wednesday, February…