Courses
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
Literature and Arts B Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form. This course takes an interpretive look at the American city in terms…
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Markets and Market Failure
This course introduces economics to students who have had little previous exposure to the subject. Basic tools are covered, including supply, demand, and market equilibrium;…
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Planning and Environmental Law
This course examines the key substantive legal issues that affect the use, preservation, and development of land in the United States, and the principles and…
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Transportation Policy, Planning, and Mangagement
Provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation policy and planning, as well as an introduction to the skills necessary for solving the various…
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Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance
This course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate courses offered by other schools at Harvard. This year\’s course covers four main topics:…
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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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Public Approvals for Private Development Projects
The improvement of real property has social as well as physical and economic implications, and is therefore subject to increasingly rigorous public review. This course…
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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 cities, exopolises,…