Courses
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Configurations of Public Space – debate and design
\”All struggles against oppression in the modern world begin by redefining what had previously been considered \’private\’, non-public, and non-political issues as matters of public…
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Of Rocks, Trails and Televisions: The Democratic Monument in America
The technological transformations of modernity, from electricity to digital communication, have valorized progress over tradition as a determining social force, challenging the classical monument as…
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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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Thinking the Low
This urban theory course will examine a diverse body of social, literary and cultural theory in order to assemble a set of concepts that can…
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Field Studies in Real Estate
This course is intended to provide students an understanding of the dynamics and complexities of reality that create contemporary urban physical environments. The course emphasizes…
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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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Listening to the City
This course will address one of the central contradictions currently facing architects, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers who want to practice in the city.
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What Planners Do
Alan Altshuler, Catherine Donaher
What, precisely, do urban planners do? How do their activities add value for the institutions that employ them whether governmental, private for-profit, or private nonprofit,…
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Advanced Site Modeling
With the ascendance of Google Earth as a mechanism for delivering three dimensional models of cities, it is only a matter of time before web-delivered…