Courses
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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…
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Spatial Analysis and Representation
David Gamble, Robert Pietrusko
This course provides first-semester planning students with the graphic and technical skills needed to reason, design and communicate with geospatial data. This knowledge will be…
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History and Theory of Urban Interventions
This class provides a high-intensity introduction the history and theory of urban planning practice under modern capitalism. Building upon an interdisciplinary literature drawn from…
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Constructing Vision
The course examines how architects have historically used means of representation, not only as allographic tools, but as design tools that visually organize buildings…
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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
The purpose of this lecture course is to provide an overall account of urbanization in selected cities within the rapidly developing East Asian region from…
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Urban Politics and Planning
The central foci of this course are the roles of public governance and modes of resolving stakeholder conflicts in shaping cities and urban regions. Key…
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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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Real Estate Finance and Development
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate finance and development. Lectures and case studies introduce students to the full range of financial analysis…
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Planning and Environmental Law
This course examines the law, embodied in local ordinances, state and federal statutes, constitutions, judicial opinions, administrative regulations, and private agreements, governing the use, development,…
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Cities by Design I
Rahul Mehrotra, A. Hashim Sarkis, Alex Krieger, Sibel Bozdo??an, Joan Busquets, Eve Blau, Robert Lane
\’Cities by Design\’ is a year-long course that studies urban form. In the fall semester, \’Cities by Design\’ will explore six urban case studies…
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Policy Making in Urban Settings
An introduction to policymaking in American cities, focusing on economic, demographic, institutional, and political settings. It examines economic development and job growth in the context…
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Markets and Market Failures with Cases (at KSG)
Markets and Market Failures with Cases at KSG – HKS API-105A . Professor Jose Gomez-Ibanez offers the other version of Markets and Market Failures, GSD…
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Transportation Planning and Development
Transportation is a cornerstone of city building and directly influences the development of our built environment and social capital. Transportation strategies directly impact and interact…
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Housing and Urbanization in the United States
This course examines housing as an object of policy and planning as it relates to urban form and issues of social concern. It is intended…
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Healthy Places
Can the way places are planned and designed improve health? It seems obvious that there is such a link between environments and health but…
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Environmental Justice and Climate Resilience in Planning and Design
How can the practice of urban planning and design creatively engage communities to address the immediate and long-term challenges posed by climate variability and environmental…
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Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals
This course is designed for students interested in understanding the fundamentals of real estate finance and development. Although SUP-665/GSD 5492 is not a \”policy\” course,…
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Market Analysis and Urban Economics
This course builds upon the academic literature and the practical experiences which constitutes the accumulated knowledge of urban and real estate economics and finance in…
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Contemporary South Asia: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social & Economic Problems
This project-based, survey course focuses on several categories of social and economic problems faced by the countries of South Asia, specifically, in the realms of…
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Urban Governance and the Politics of Planning in the Developing World
This course starts from the premise that politics and governance arrangements will both enable and constrain effective urban planning action. Using a focus on cities…
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Neoliberal Urbanism, North and South
Urban development is shaped not only through planning and design strategies, but through broader processes of political-economic restructuring associated with the (il)logics of capitalism, modern…
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Library Test Kitchen
Jeffrey Schnapp, Jeff Goldenson, Ann Whiteside
Bridging the analog and the digital worlds, the offline and the online, libraries represent one of the most exciting opportunities for design and redesign on…
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Urban Design Proseminar
The proseminar is a forum for conversation on contemporary urban design. It is structured around three overlapping discussions: the formation of the discipline, critiques of…
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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…
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GIS and Representation for Planning
While urban planners use a variety of modes to communicate ideas, visual expression is one of the most compelling methods to describe the physical environment.
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Urban Design Proseminar
Rahul Mehrotra, Eve Blau, Gareth Doherty
The proseminar is a forum for conversation on contemporary urban design. It is structured around three overlapping discussions: the formation of the discipline, critiques of…
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Urban Politics and Planning
CLASS MEETINGS: T,TH 8:40-10:00am, Littauer 230. Also, four optional review sessions, on the following Fridays in the same time slot: September 10 and 24, October…
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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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Real Estate Finance and Development
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate finance and development. Lectures and case studies introduce students to the full range of financial analysis skills…