Courses
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Centers for an Edge City: Transforming Tysons Corner, Virginia
One of the largest \”downtowns\” in America does not beare much resemblance to anyone\’s image of downtown, nor evoke any conventional notions of urbanity. Tysons…
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21/19…old places, new paradigms
Frequently planners and designers are called upon to re-think current uses and imagine future possibilities for places that are underutilized and facing obsolescence. The City…
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Dubai Studio
IntroductionTruly exceptional and spectacular urbanization has taken–is taken–place in the Emirate of Dubai, prompted by a confluence of three unique conditions. First, the oil-fueled economy…
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Beijing: The University Campus as an Operative Device to Reshape the Metropolis
ObjectivesIn the last thirty years, China and its long urban history, has been subject to a series of pressure systems that have aggressively altered the…
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American Cities: The Struggle for Position and Identity
Course DescriptionThis studio will explore how cities position themselves for the future, building on their unique assets to create identity and working within the context…
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Alternative Urban Pattern Prototypes: Looking at Pomona/Los Angeles
The complexity within the formation of urban patterns is always beyond any mere comprehension of the form itself. A case in point is metropolitan Los…
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Participatory Planning at Local Level, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
ParticipationThe Belo Horizonte studio is open primarily to urban planning students, but welcomes the participation of students from other disciplines: urban design, landscape architecture and…