Courses
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Second Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Alex Krieger, Rafael Segal, Steven Cecil
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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Landscape Disurbanism: Depolderization & Decentralization in the Dutch Delta Region
Pierre Bélanger, Nina-Marie Lister
Over seventy percent of the GDP in the Netherlands is produced below sea level. To uphold this submergent economy, the Netherlands must spend 2 billion…
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Designing Non-Stop Transformation: Shenzhen Studio
FRAMEWORKThe Shenzhen Studio is addressing the question of how designers may cope with fast transforming urbanistic conditions happening in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), and…
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Neonatures
NeonaturesSkyscraper collectives, agglomerations, alignments, bundles, clusters, and twins; mixed-use developments, high-rise housing developments, waterfront and marina developments, luxury condominiums; airport hubs, corporate office enclaves, industrial…
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VERTICAL SCAPES. (Verticalism and the integration of disciplines)
Please note, this option studio will meet on an irregular schedule. (see below)The course will focus on solving the problems generated by the absence of…
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Landscape and Ecological Urbanism: Alternatives for Beijing City Northwest
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Jane Hutton
The Beijing Alternatives Studio Series OverviewBeijing, China is one of the fastest developing regions in the world and among the most challenging places for the…
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Beyond Paris [suite]: a New Campus for the University of Paris South XI at Saclay
The future development of the Paris metropolitan region beyond the present political and physical boundary of the city continues to be a national priority, with…
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Retooling: Thinkbelt Chicago
Once based on manufacturing and transportation, Chicago has shifted to become a contemporary city of services. In this transformation, much of the older manufacturing city\’s…
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New Geographies: Imagining a City-World Beyond Cosmopolis
The course invites the students to imagine better urban and architectural forms that overcome the limitations of the global city, or cosmopolis. Much of the…
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Ecology as Urbanism; Urbanism as Ecology
In light of recent interest in the concept of ecological urbanism, this course will read projects and texts on the relation of landscape ecology to…
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Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China
Modernizing influences, largely from the hands of foreign powers, first forcefully entered China in the aftermath of the Opium War and signing of the Treaty…
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The Poetics of Materials (episodes in the cultural history of modern making)
The Spectacle Factory examines the modern history of immersive theater, entertainment, and media spaces from the standpoint of the history of architecture and design. It…
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Architecture or Poverty: The Challenges of Social and Economic Development from 1945 to the present
Is poverty an architectural question? When does it emerge as an ethical concern for the architect? How have modern architects historically addressed the problem of…
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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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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 and Planning
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
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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Land Tenure and Property Rights as a Development Strategy: International Theory & Practice
In international development practice, a central principle holds that weak and insecure land and property rights are obstacles to economic growth, poverty reduction and the…
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Olympic Urbanism II: Winter Games
This module investigates the civic aspirations and spatial expressions of sports facilities, athletes\’ villages, transportation and other infrastructure built to accommodate the Winter Olympic Games.
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Public Approvals for Private Development Projects
The course\’s principal objective is to provide a conceptual framework for understanding the interplay of private property protections and regulatory programs on privately sponsored development…
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Building Design Typologies and Operational Principles of Real Estate
Building typologies are fundamental instruments for constructing urban patterns and spatial forms. In the discourse of modern architecture and urbanism, the study of building typologies…
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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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Redevelopment Policy
Urban redevelopment is the process by which government, private investors, and households transform the uses and financial returns of the urban built environment. As an…
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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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Affordable Housing and Mixed-Income Housing Development, Finance, and Management
This \”nuts and bolts\” course focuses on the development, financing, and management of both rental and ownership affordable and mixed-income housing developments. The primary public…
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Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems: Theory and Applications
Geographic Information Systems serve as a framework for organizing knowledge about places and for developing logical models of the ways places operate under existing and…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Erika Naginski, Toni L. Griffin, Felipe Correa, Nazneen Cooper, Anita Berrizbeitia, Judith Grant Long, Susan Fainstein, A. Hashim Sarkis
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
A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Antoine Picon, Erika Naginski
Under faculty guidance, the student conducts a reading program and formulates a thesis proposal. The course is intended for doctoral students.