Courses
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Analytic Methods: Qualitative
How can planners understand places in a rich, meaningful, and yet systematic way? This module examines how qualitative approaches can be used…
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Transportation Policy and Planning (at HKS)
The course is intended to develop in students an understanding of the management, policy and planning problems that are peculiar to transportation and other types…
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Housing and Urbanization in the United States
James Stockard, Jennifer Molinsky
This course examines housing as both an individual concern and an object of policy and planning. It is intended to provide those…
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Healthy Places
The connections between health, well-being, and place are a complex. This class focuses on four topics that will be important in coming…
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Urban Economic Concepts for Real Economic Development
The course begins with a thorough review of the principles of urban economics and the economic issues effecting cities and their regions. …
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Environment, Politics, and Action
What is the relationship between the natural environment and the design of successful places? How do we know? And how can we…
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Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems (at HBS)
Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social and Economic Problems COURSE OBJECTIVES• To provide a framework through which to think about the salient…
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Global Leadership in Real Estate and Design: Barcelona, Spain and Seaport District, Boston, MA
In today’s increasingly connected urban centers, shifts in cultural preferences, design thinking, and spatial significations often reflect and parallel transitions in capital forces and economic…
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The Spatial Politics of Land: A Comparative Perspective
This course focuses on the deeply contested and political processes of land-use planning, i.e. of allocating land amongst different, often competing uses,…
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The Gentrification Debates: Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhood Change
Gentrification and the real and perceived impacts that neighborhood change has on longtime local residents as well as new dwellers, is complicated…
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Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals for Public and Private Participants (at HKS)
Provides an analytical framework for understanding real estate finance and development fundamentals from both public and private perspectives. Topics addressed include: establishing investment/development objectives; structuring…
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Public Space
In a digital age, does physical public space matter? Tahrir Square, Zuccotti Park, Madrid Rio, and the High Line argue yes, with ambitions ranging from…
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Real Estate and City Making in China
Real estate has increasingly become a compelling force in the process of city making, one uniquely capable of leading and guiding multiple steps in the…
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Emergent Urbanism: Planning and Design Visions for the city of Hermosillo, Mexico
This project-based class focuses on the planning and design of sustainable strategies for cities in the developing world, using the city of…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Jennifer Bonner, Diane Davis, Jill Desimini, Edward Eigen, Ewa Harabasz, Peter Rowe, Bing Wang, Joan Busquets, Yusuke Obuchi, Hanif Kara, Remment Koolhaas, Jock Herron, Ray Torto, Martin Bechthold, Anita Berrizbeitia, Sonja Dümpelmann, Ann Forsyth, Andrew Holder, Jerold S. Kayden, Grace La, Ali Malkawi, Jorge Silvetti, Andrew Witt, Jon Lott, Mark Mulligan, Felipe Correa, Robert Pietrusko, Alistair McIntosh, Jesse M. Keenan, Chuck Hoberman, Richard Peiser, John May, Sai Balakrishnan, Niklas Maak, Francesca Benedetto, Holly Samuelson, Preston Scott Cohen, Allen Sayegh, Rahul Mehrotra, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Sebastien Marot, Rosetta S. Elkin, K. Michael Hays, Dilip da Cunha
Students may take a maximum of 8 units with different GSD instructors in this course series. 9201 must be taken for either 2, or 4…
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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
This seminar is intended to provide the theoretical and methodological foundation for completing a graduate thesis in the Department of Urban Planning and Design. By…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Neil Brenner, Edward Eigen, Diane Davis, K. Michael Hays, Antoine Picon
9502 must be taken for either 2, or 4 units. Under faculty guidance, the student conducts an independent reading program and formulates a thesis proposal.
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Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Martin Bechthold, Mohsen Mostafavi, Neil Brenner, Richard Peiser, Antoine Picon, Peter Rowe
Thesis in Satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design.
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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,…
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Doctoral Program Proseminar
This pro-seminar is one way of fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic…
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Second Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Daniel D’Oca, Stephen Gray, Kathy Spiegelman
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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The Park System as a Catalyst for Urban Regeneration
Two venerable American cities – Baltimore and Boston – are independently considering how their park systems, both products of the late 19th century urban park…
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Type, City, Ecology: Hydro-types and Knowledge Environments for a New Township in India
The Harvard GSD project on Palava City is a two-year sponsored research and design project focused on the challenges posed by the construction of a…
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Savannah: Rethinking the Multi-Scalar Capacity of the City Project
James Oglethorpe’s 1733 plan for the city of Savannah is well known for its strong capacity for creating a city in the countryside, but also…
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Sao Paulo: the Rescaling of Rail Infrastructure and New Models of Domestic Life
This advanced option studio will examine how the rescaling and decking of inner city rail infrastructure can serve as a driver for new sites of…
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The High Line as Urban Spine
The vast majority of urban development is created without an appropriate conceptual urban framework. In dense urban centers, we find an emerging mixed use typology…
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Painting for Designers: Techniques, Methods and Concepts
The course objective is to advance, through painting, students' visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination. Assigned and generated by students,…
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
The course is an interpretative look at the characteristic patterns of settlement and attitudes towards cities and urban life that are identified…
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Type and the Idea of the City
Open to all students, the seminars in this course will compliment Option Studio 1504: Type, City, Ecology. It will equip students with…
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Urban Grids: Open form for City Design-2
Framework:Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the investigation…
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Cities, Infrastructures, and Politics: From Renaissance to Smart Technologies
“A Peep at the Gas-lights in Pall Mall”, a humorous caricature of reactions to the installation of the new invention of gas-burning street lighting on…
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Representing the collective: constructing meaning, legitimizing the discipline
How are the representations and discoures of collectivity organized? From the City Beautiful to Broadacre City, from Camillo Sitte to the Metabolists,…
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Discourses and Methods: Conservation, Destruction, and Curating Impermanence
Natalia Escobar Castrillon, K. Michael Hays
This seminar on critical conservation aims to develop concepts, and strategies able to describe and curate the transitory and dynamic nature of…
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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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Urban Politics and Planning (at HKS)
In the face of failures and dysfunction at the national level, there is growing excitement about the welfare- and democracy-enhancing potential of cities. Yet, not…
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Cities by Design II: Projects, Processes, and Outcomes
Cities evolve through a complex layering and re-layering of projects, processes, and outcomes. Cities by Design II introduces students to a range of contexts that…
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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…
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Building and Leading Real Estate Enterprises and Entrepreneurship
This course focuses on how you conceive, build and lead successful real estate companies. By virtue of the industry in which they…
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The Space of Conflict
Conflicts unfold at various interconnected scales: global, territorial, state, urban, human. Their geographical scopes stretch from the localized sites of citizen contestation and micro-struggles to…
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Transportation Planning and Development
This course provides a multi-faceted introduction to urban transportation: the technologies, the institutions, the politics, and the formal methods of transportation planning.
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Housing and Urbanization in Global Cities
The subject of Housing and Urbanization in Global Cities examines housing policy and planning in urban societies around the world and especially…
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Economic Development in Urban Planning
Course Objectives and Outcomes This course introduces students to the theories, analytic frameworks and financial tools used to encourage local economic…
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Urbanization and International Development
This course interrogates the relationship between urbanization and development. One of the main objectives of the course is to move beyond seeing…
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Design for the Just City
To reside in an American city means to always be in pursuit of the values or inalienable rights that embody the Just…
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Towns and Settlements in Metropolitan Regions
As cities expand into metropolitan regions they inevitably push up against, produce, otherwise engage, and sometimes engulf already established settlements on their…
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Global Perspectives on Shelter Insecurity and Displacement
This course examines the drivers of, and responses to, global shelter insecurity and displacement. It addresses these issues in both the Global…
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U. S. Housing Markets, Problems, and Policies
This course will examine the operation of U.S. housing markets, the principal housing problems facing the nation, and the policy approaches available…
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Urban Infrastructure, Environment, and Sustainability
Urban infrastructures are socio-technical systems of facilities and services (i.e. energy, telecommunications, transportation, water, waste management, food distribution, housing) vital to the…
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Environment, Economics, and Enterprise
Holly Samuelson, Frank Apeseche
How can one optimize the benefits of environmental or social sustainability while generating a higher return on investment in buildings? Where are…
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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…
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