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 as the…
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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 Cities
This course analyzes international case studies in the conservation of buildings and urban environments as a means for developing projective strategies for interpreting and…
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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, Peter Rowe, Jose Castillo, Farès el-Dahdah, Antoine Picon, Jana Cephas
The year-long Cities by Design course is mandatory for all incoming Masters of Urban Design Students. All other students are welcome to enroll in…
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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
This module introduces students to selected qualitative methods for thinking about urban planning research. Students learn about and practice field research techniques, including interview, observation,…
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Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance
Richard Peiser, Frank Apeseche
This course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate courses offered by other schools at Harvard. This year’s course covers five main topics:…
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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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Housing and Urbanization in Global Cities
Alexander von Hoffman, Deidre Schmidt
This course analyzes housing policy and planning in developing urban societies around the world but especially in the Global South. Through slide presentations, lectures, presentations…
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Creating Resilient Cities: Disaster Field Lab
This course, taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) and selected field sites in New York City will be conducted using a…
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Urban Design for Planners
Course Objectives This seminar course introduces physical planners to the approaches, techniques and tools of urban design necessary to structure the spatial and dimensional…
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Introduction to Local Economic Development
This course introduces students to local economic development from the perspective of urban planning. Students learn about the theories, analytic frameworks and indicators used…
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Tourism Planning and Economic Development
Governments around the world seek to leverage economic development by increasing their share of the global tourism market. This course introduces students to tourism as…
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Public Approvals for Private Development Projects
This module will examine how the development approval process shapes large-scale private projects. Whether undertaken by market-oriented developers or mission-driven non-profit institutions, such projects are…
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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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Essentials of Humanitarian Action
Stephanie Kayden, Peter Walker
GSD SES 05432 is the equivalent of GHP 515 and GHP 518. This course will offer a practical and in-depth analysis of the complex…
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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 201. Go here to…
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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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Public Space
In an age of digital empire, people will reflect on 2011 as the year in which physical public space reclaimed its lofty status in the…
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Mapping: Geographic Representation and Speculation
Maps do not represent reality, they create it. As a fundamental part of the design process, the act of mapping results in highly authored…
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Real-Time Cities: an Introduction to Urban Cybernetics
In real-time cities, urbanity merges with digital information so that the built environment is dynamically sensed and synchronously actuated to perform more efficiently, intelligently, and…
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Sustainable Cities: Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Finance
Jointly Listed at Harvard Business School as HBS 1485 This course is about creating value in sustainable cities. Around the globe, the migration of…