Courses
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Second Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Alex Krieger, Daniel D’Oca, Janne Corneil, Anne Tate, David Spillane
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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Rethinking the Manhattan Grid: Score for Designing the Future
FRAMEWORK Manhattan’s development has been based on Commissioners’ Plan which has just celebrated its second centenary. The precision of layout, the judicious definition of…
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Neokoolhisms
Skyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, mixed-use developments, high-rise housing developments, marinas and luxury condominiums; airport hubs, office enclaves, industrial parks, hotel complexes, conference centers, financial centers;…
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Extreme Urbanisms II: Speculations and Alternative Futures for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Rahul Mehrotra, Gareth Doherty
The studio will engage with the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) as its site for enquiry, research, and design propositions. The pedagogical thrust of…
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The School of the Year 2030 in Rio de Janeiro
In the context of the current efforts of Rio de Janeiro to reformulate and develop public policies for strategic urban development and renewal this studio…
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Thermodynamic somatisms/ Verticalscapes II
The Studio will seek to consolidate an advanced understanding of high‐rise construction in association with thermodynamics and to experiment with various somatic aspects of human…
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Peri-urban Development Alternatives for Southwest Beijing:Qinglonghu zhen
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Adrian Blackwell
Overview. Beijing, China is one of the fastest developing urban regions in the world and among the most challenging places for the study and practice…
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A Line in the Andes: Rethinking Quito through its sub-surface
This option studio examines how the introduction of a new metro transit system can serve as the backbone for the development of more comprehensive urban…
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REDISCOVERING GLORiES
Our studio in Barcelona is an ‘atelier` which for us contains a program balancing between those existing in a professional office and those of a…
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Intermediate Landscape as Digital Media
The course will focus on digital modeling and representational tools for designers. Through the course, students will gain knowledge of digital design media and tools…
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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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Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities
This course will examine the intersections between design and anthropology. In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects,…
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Planetary Urbanization: Theoretical Foundations and Frontiers
This seminar is the first in a series of courses that will develop the research agenda of the newly founded Urban Theory Lab-GSD…
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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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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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Disaster Field Lab
GSD 5343 will challenge its participants to develop design strategies in the face of great human suffering, political instability, high development pressure and coordination…
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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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Housing Policy in the United States: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sectors
In the 20th century, housing policy in the United States crafted a complex finance and delivery system that is the envy of the world. This…
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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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The Archeology of Civic Sustenance: Sea-Side Developments in the Gulf
This sponsored-research seminar will address sustainable urban development at the onset of industrial revolution. Going beyond just documenting passive environmental design strategies, the very notion…
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Disaster Recovery Management and Urban Development: Rebuilding Cities After a Disaster
Note, this course will be presented on Friday the 20th of January at 2:40pm in Taubman 275 at HKS. GSD students are welcome to attend.
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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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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…
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Urban Responses to Sea Level Rise
Jerold S. Kayden, David Barron, Daniel Schrag, Gerald Frug, Charles Waldheim
This seminar taught by faculty from Design, Law and Engineering, will explore various strategies of urban adaptation to climate change with a focus on the…
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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…
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Advanced Research Seminar: School for Year 2030
What might American education look like in the year 2030? By that time, today’s newborns will become college freshmen. The task of looking ahead at…
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Advanced Research Seminar: Cultural Tourism and Creating a living community at Al-Turaif, Saudi Arabia World Heritage Site
Al-Turaif is part of the historic oasis of Al Dir’iya located on the banks of Wadi Hanifa next to Riyahd. It is the…
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Urban Formation and Spatial Analysis in East Asian Cities
Urban formation among cities and towns in East Asia varies in rate and scale both within and between national settings. China, for example, currently exhibits…
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Advanced Research Seminar on Urban Climate
The course examines the spatial and urban design influences on urban climate, and the effects of climate variability and extremes on population health in urban…
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New Geographies Lab Research Seminar
The course invites the students to examine emerging agglomerations of settlement that that transcend the limitations of the global city, or cosmopolis. Much of the…
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Independent Study on Multi-Cultural Design Environments (Summer course)
Independent Study…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, James Stockard, Peter Rowe, Eve Blau, Felipe Correa, Rahul Mehrotra, Michael Hooper, Neil Brenner, Diane Davis
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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Master of Design Studies Final Project
K. Michael Hays, Neil Brenner, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Jeffrey Schnapp, Erika Naginski, Sanford Kwinter
The Final Project will consist of a theoretical/position component, and of a practical/experimental component. The scope of each of the two components will be determined…
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Discourse and Methods
The seminar is designed as an introduction to the methodologies and disciplines that have shaped the field of architectural history and theory. We will probe…