Courses
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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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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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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…