Courses
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Lissome Urbanism: Rail Infrastructure as a Backbone for the Rethinking of Continental Catalunya
Lissome Urbanism: Rail Infrastructure as a Backbone for the Rethinking of Continental CatalunyaInstructors:Joan Busquets, Martin Bucksbaum Professor of Urban Planning and DesignFelipe Correa, Design Critic…
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101 Urban Salvations
As an urban setting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, appears to have a lot going for it: two of the world\’s greatest universities, an extremely high density of…
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MAKINAMEDINA: Reconfiguring the Relationship Between Geography and Event in the City of Fez
Harvard University – Graduate School of Design – Spring 2007 – GSD 1511 Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00-6:00 pmInstructors:Hashim Sarkis: [email protected] office hours: wed. 2:00-4:00 PMAziza…
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Belfast, Recast
Belfast, RecastTuesday 2:00 – 6:00Thursday2:00 – 6:00ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM: A POLITICS OF RECIPROCATIONThe primary function of urbanism is to characterize a given territory in ways…
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Arequipa by the Sea: A New Town Project
Spring 07Prof. Rodolfo MachadoT.A. Sharif Kahatt Arequipa by the sea: a new town projectIntroduction:To situate the studio\’s pedagogic agenda (or to place in a wider…
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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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Urban Design for Planners
course objectivesThis seminar course will introduce physical planners to the approaches, techniques, and tools of urban design necessary to structure the spatial and dimensional relationships…
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Re-Thinking Citites
Jerold S. Kayden, Edward Glaeser
This seminar explores the topic of how individual academic disciplines and professional fields think about cities. Anthropologists, sociologists, planners, economists, lawyers, political scientists, and other…
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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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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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Field Studies in Real Estate
Class Meetings: Wednesday, 2:00 pm – 5::00 pm Gund 109Professors:Richard Peiser and Bing Wang Class Limit24 students – urban designers, planners, architects, landscape architects, 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,…
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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
Drawing largely from the work of the instructor, weekly presentations and discussions will consider those aspects of the design of housing that are critical for…
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Planning and Theories of Justice
The aims of planning have been broadly defined in terms of justice, efficiency, and environmental protection. This course, which will meet for the first half…
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Change
James Stockard, Toni L. Griffin
There Goes the Neighborhood:Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhoods and Neighborhood ChangeNeighborhoods are the stuff of which cities are made. Downtowns are the iconic parts of…
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Three-Dimensional Modeling of Cities
This course explores the technologies and standards that are beginning to permit the development and distribution of three-dimensional representations of places that are vast in…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
Following preparation in GSD 9204, each student pursues a topic of relevance to urban design or urban planning, which may include design or planning exploration,…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Carl Steinitz, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis
Under faculty guidance, the student conducts a reading program and independent study. The course is intended for doctoral students.