Courses
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
This course takes an interpretive look at the American city in terms of changing attitudes toward urban life. City and suburb are experienced…
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Urban Form: History + Theory
The course is historical and theoretical. It is concerned with the economic, social, and political factors that shape urban processes and environments and the efforts…
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Case Studies in Critical Conservation: Architecture and Urban Design
K. Michael Hays, Rahul Mehrotra
Case studies in the conservation of selected buildings and city fabrics presented by experts in the field provide the focus for discussions of contemporary conservation…
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History and Theory of Urban Interventions
This class provides a high-intensity introduction to social scientific and historical-geographical approaches to the process of capitalist urbanization and associated strategies to shape…
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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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Cities by Design II
Rahul Mehrotra, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Eve Blau, Felipe Correa, Jana Cephas
No Prerequisites. The year-long Cities by Design course is mandatory for all incoming 2011-12 Master’s of Urban Design Students. All other students are welcome to…
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Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning & Urban Design: Redevelopment of the Port of Mumbai; Development of Village Center for Jacks Point in New Zealand
The Field Study course is intended to provide students an understanding of the dynamics and complexities of reality that create contemporary urban physical environments. The…
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Analytic Methods of Urban Planning: Quantitative
This course introduces students to quantitative analysis and research methods. The course begins with a discussion of how quantitative methods fit within the broader research…
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Analytic Methods: Qualitative
The second module of this course introduces students to selected qualitative methods for thinking about urban planning problems. In the module, students learn qualitative methods,…
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Transportation Policy and Planning
Provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation policy and planning, as well as an introduction to the skills necessary for solving…
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Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance
Guest instructors: Frank Apeseche, Glenn Mueller, Richard Georgi and Jack Rodman This course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate courses offered by…
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Urbanization and International Development
This course undertakes a detailed examination of global urbanization in the context of international development. The course is divided into four components. It begins by…
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Public Approvals for Private Development Projects
This module will examine how the development approval process shapes large-scale private projects. Projects undertaken by market-oriented developers and mission-driven non-profits are a major force…
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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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Topics in Environmental Planning and Sustainable Development
The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to the ideas and information necessary to integrate environmental viability and sustainable development with other…
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Real Estate in Frontier Markets
Jointly Listed at Harvard Business School as HBS 1462 Meets according to the X schedule, 11:40 a.m. – 1 p.m., Hawes 101. Go here…
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Affordable 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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Transforming Cities in Emerging Economies: Planning and Design Challenges
Course 05501: Transforming Cities in Emerging Economies: Planning and Design Challenges will meet at an irregular time during the first week. The first class will…
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Sustainable Cities: Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Finance
Jointly Listed at Harvard Business School as HBS 1485 General Notes: GSD students should register for this course as GSD 7309. The course GSD…