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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Geo Architecture: A History and Theory for an Emerging Aesthetic
The course approaches architectural form through geographically inspired constructs. Drawing from physical and human geography, the proposed theory expands the setting of architecture from the…
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Urban Theory after 1968: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanism
This class elaborates some of the theoretical foundations for the ongoing research of the Urban Theory Lab on the contemporary “urban revolution”. Such an investigation…
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Case Studies in Critical Conservation: Strategies for Curating the Built Environment
This course analyzes case studies in conservation as a means for developing projective strategies for interpreting and curating buildings, landscapes, and cities. More specifically,…
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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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Markets and Market Failures
This course provides an introduction to how markets operate, the criteria for assessing their performance, and the circumstances under which they perform well or poorly.
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Cities by Design II
Rahul Mehrotra, Christine Smith, Ricky Burdett, Jana Cephas, Eve Blau, Peter Rowe, Jose Castillo, Erkin Ozay
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 reviews the epistemologies of urban knowledge. How do planners and designers know what they know? We will discuss methods of field research in…
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Advanced Real Estate Finance
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…
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Building and Leading Real Estate Enterprises and Entrepreneurship
This course focusses on how you conceive, start, manage and lead successful real estate companies. By virtue of the industry in which they compete,…
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Transportation Policy and Planning (at KSG)
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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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…
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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,…
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Global Leadership in Real Estate and Design
In today’s connected urban centers, shifts in cultural preferences, design thinking, and spatial significations often reflect and parallel transitions in capital forces and economic realities,…
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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…
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The Design 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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International Humanitarian Response I and II (at HSPH)
Stephanie Kayden, Peter Walker
GSD SES 05432 is the equivalent of GHP 515 and GHP 518. This course is the equivalent of 3 GSD units, not 4.
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Environmental Planning & 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 (at HBS)
This course is offered as a 2 unit course in spring 2014. Jointly Listed at Harvard Business School as HBS 1462 Meets according to the…
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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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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,…
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Design Competitions
Design competitions are increasingly used to procure design of, well, just about anything you can think of. In the world of built and landscape environments,…