Courses
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Core Urban Planning Studio II
The second semester core planning studio expands the topics and methodologies studied in the first semester core studio, GSD 1121, aiming to prepare students for…
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Climate Change, Water, Land Development, and Adaptation (The Netherlands)
Climate Change, Water, Land Development, and Adaptation (the Netherlands)Embracing the motto, \”Water is Our Enemy, Water is Our Friend,\” the Netherlands Ministry of Transport, Public…
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NEW WAYS:Diridon Station, San Jose, Silicon Valley Capital, CA
NEW WAYSDiridon Station, San Jose, Silicon Valley Capital, CA, USAIntoduction\”New ways\”, as an expression, refers in this case to various issues: First, it refers to…
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Beyond Paris: A New University Campus at Aubervilliers
The physical, political, and social boundary of Paris, unchanged for nearly 150 years and delineated today by the ring road- the \”Peripherique\” – has insured…
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Rethinking Montreal: Sensorial Urbanism
Sensorial Urbanism In recent years, the human and social sciences, from anthropology to geography, have undergone a \’sensorial revolution\’ in which the \’senses\’ constitute…
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The Al Qattara Oasis in Al Ain
Instructors: Jorge Silvetti; Professor of ArchitectureFelipe Correa; Assistant Professor of Urban DesignFRAMEWORK:The oasis, as the primordial origin for water, has for centuries acted as a…
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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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Sites of Consumption: Case Studies on the Commodification of Architecture, Urban Space, and Culture
Now we are left in a world without urbanism, only architecture. The neatness of architecture is its seduction; it defines, excludes, limits, separates from the…
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Introduction to Urban Design Techniques
This seminar course will introduce students from outside the discipline of urban design to the approaches, techniques, and tools of urban design necessary to structure…
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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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Rethinking Suburban History
Rethinking Suburban HistoryRecent historical research about American suburbs demonstrates that they are much more varied and complicated than previously imagined. Descriptions of \”the suburbs,\” as…
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HistoHistory and Theory of Urban Planning and Designries and Theories of Urban Interventions
Beginning with the mid 19th century city, this course surveys a broad range of urban interventions. These include transportation and infrastructural engineering, settlement houses, landscape…
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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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Urban Politics, Planning, and Development
The course views cities and urban regions as political constructs. Its purpose is to help students think strategically about major urban problems and controversies, particularly…
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Analytic Methods: Quantitative
The first module of this course introduces students to selected quantitative methods for thinking about urban planning problems. The module is divided into two sections.
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Transportation Policy, Planning, and Mangagement
Prerequisites: GSD 5203, or equivalent introduction to microeconomics. This course provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation planning as well as an introduction…
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Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance
Instructors: – Glenn R. Mueller, Ph.D. 303-550-1781, & Frank Apeseche 617- 556-8120Guest instructors:, Wynne MunClass Time: Friday 8:30 – 11:30, January 30 – May 1,…
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Villages in Development in the Pearl River Delta
Villages in DevelopmentThis workshop will focus on villages in China\’s Pearl River Delta. The rapid development of the region has increasingly led villages away from…
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Land Tenure and Property Rights as a Development Strategy: International Theory & Practice
In contemporary international development practice, a central principle holds that weak and insecure land and property rights are obstacles to economic growth and poverty reduction.
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Public Approvals for Private Development Projects
Because most urban development is undertaken by private proponents but has important societal implications, it is subject to increasingly rigorous and often contentious public review.
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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 partially from the work of the instructor, weekly lectures and discussions will consider those aspects of the design of housing that are critical for…
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Change
James Stockard, Toni L. Griffin
Neighborhoods are the stuff of which cities are made. Downtowns are the iconic parts of cities and commercial and industrial districts are important. But neighborhoods…
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Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems: Theory and Applications
This course explores Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their applications. GIS serves as a framework for organizing knowledge about places and for developing logical models…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Brent Ryan
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
Stephen Ervin, Peter Rowe, Antoine Picon
Under faculty guidance, the student conducts a reading program and formulates a thesis proposal. The course is intended for doctoral students.