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…
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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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Developing Worlds: Planning and Design in the Middle East and Latin America After WWII
The course examines the impact of different models of social and economic development on architectural and urban design. It focuses on Latin America and 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
This course explores the analytic frameworks, skills, and bodies of knowledge required to understand, evaluate, plan, and implement public and private development within cities and…
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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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Analytic Methods for Urban Planning
This course introduces quantitative and qualitative methods for thinking about urban planning problems. Key methods include data collection, surveys and sampling, statistics with regression analysis,…
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Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance
Instructor: Professor Richard PeiserGuest instructors: Frank Apeseche, Glenn Mueller and Jack RodmanClass Time: Tuesdays 1:00-4:00This course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate…
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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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Political Economy of Urbanization
Over the last two decades or so, cities have been undergoing a drastic process of restructuring. An ever-growing number of terms — urban villages, edge…
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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…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
Prerequisites: GSD 9204.Following preparation in GSD 9204, each student pursues a topic of relevance to urban design or urban planning, which may include design or…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Carl Steinitz, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Marco Cenzatti
Under faculty guidance, the student conducts a reading program and formulates a thesis proposal. The course is intended for doctoral students.