Courses
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International Humanitarian Response (at HSPH)
Stephanie Kayden, Daniel Maxwell
GSD SES 05432 is the equivalent of GHP 515 and GHP 518.This course is the equivalent of 3 GSD units, not 4. This course…
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Creating Real Estate Ventures: a Legal Perspective
The course will examine how a commercial real estate deal is put together to move a project from conception to completion. The…
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Environmental Planning & Sustainable Development
This class is centrally concerned with two questions: What makes a green metropolis and how can planners effectively intervene? Environmental and social…
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Affordable and Mixed-Income Housing Development, Finance, and Management
Explores issues relating to the development, financing, and management of housing affordable to low and moderate income households. Examines community-based development corporations, public housing authorities,…
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Market Analysis and Urban Economics
This course—Market Analysis and Urban Economic—focuses on the built environment and land-use policy. The course combines readings from the real estate economics academic literature with…
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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 views…
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Advanced Spatial Analysis
The course will investigate a number of qualitative and quantitative methods to measure and analyze urban spatial problems relevant to contemporary urban…
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SURPLUS HOUSING: From Project to Model
Housing as typology is one of the richest representations of a city’s history and evolution of culture. The gradual collection of dwellings…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
George Thomas, Silvia Benedito, Sonja Dümpelmann, John Peterson, Jorge Silvetti, Grace La, Megan Panzano, Daniel D’Oca, Jeffry Burchard, Diane Davis, Edward Eigen, Rosetta S. Elkin, Panagiotis Michalatos, Bradley Cantrell, Niall Kirkwood, Natalia Escobar Castrillon, Andrew Holder, Ewa Harabasz, Kiel Moe, Anita Berrizbeitia, Joan Busquets, John May, Ann Forsyth, Fionn Byrne, Gareth Doherty, Michael Hooper, K. Michael Hays, Andrew Witt, Florian Idenburg, Steven Handel, Beth Altringer, Susan Snyder
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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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
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 in Design Studies Final Project
George Thomas, Pierre Bélanger, Martin Bechthold, Bradley Cantrell, Salmaan Craig, Rosetta S. Elkin, K. Michael Hays, John May, Panagiotis Michalatos, Kiel Moe, Erika Naginski, Holly Samuelson, Allen Sayegh, Susan Snyder
The final design project is an 8 unit final project. As the final graduating requirement for all MDes students, the project involves a substantive independent…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Erika Naginski, K. Michael Hays
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, Anita Berrizbeitia, Neil Brenner, Joan Busquets, Ali Malkawi, Peter Rowe, Charles Waldheim
Thesis in Satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design.
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Discourse and Methods I
This course is open only to Ph.D. students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design (Ph.D. students from other departments may participate with…
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First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Ana Gelabert-Sanchez, Sai Balakrishnan, Toni L. Griffin, David Gamble
The first semester core studio of the Master in Urban Planning program introduces students to the fundamental knowledge and technical skills used by urban planners…
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Elements of Urban Design
Felipe Correa, Anita Berrizbeitia, Carlos Garciavelez, Carles Muro, Michael Manfredi, Robert Pietrusko
Elements of Urban Design is an advanced core studio for the post professional programs in urban design. This studio introduces critical concepts, strategies and technical…
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Affirmatively Further: Fair Housing After Ferguson
When asked to name the most surprising finding of the Ferguson Commission, which was tasked with examining the underlying social and economic conditions of the…
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Urban Strategies for the Retiro Area, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The studio will test the relevance of urbanism, landscape and urban design approaches to a particular area in Buenos Aires City. Specifically, the studio will…
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INTERFACE: Constructing the Edge for Malaysia Vision Valley
Malaysia Vision Valley (MVV) is a new economic growth area announced by the Malaysian Government in 2015. Comprising of 108,000 hectares of land on the…
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Spatial Analysis and the Built Environment
Urban planners engage in many complex processes that defy easy representation. This course provides first-semester urban planning students with the graphic and technical skills needed…
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Drawing for Designers: Technics of Expression, Articulation and Representation
The course objective is to advance students' visual skills in artistic representation and creative imagination through drawing. Drawing projects will focus on…
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Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices
The Interdisciplinary Art Practices seminar investigates the exploratory character of art and design work in the interdisciplinary modalities of the contemporary culture. In the present…
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The Idea of Environment
The environment is the milieu in which designers and planners operate. It is a messy world of facts, meanings, relations and actions that calls them…
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Advanced Seminar in City Form: Designing for Multimodal Mobility
Advanced Seminar in City Form — Designing for Multimodal Mobility — invites a group of students to research and discuss themes about…
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Architecture of Peace
We live in an increasingly unstable world, where internal conflicts have become increasingly internationalized, sectarian violence ravages cities and communities, and terrorist…
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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 planning…
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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
This course meets for the first time on Monday, September 12th. The purpose of this lecture course is to provide an…
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Structuring Urban Experience: From the Athenian Acropolis to the Boston Common
This lecture course examines selected cities between the fifth century B.C. and the seventeenth century A.D., beginning with ancient Athens and ending…
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Architecture, Urbanism and National Identity in Muslim Geographies
Commonly (and carelessly) used terms like “Islamic architecture” or “Islamic city” remain highly contentious because they designate monolithic, faith-based conceptualizations that fall…
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Real Estate Finance and Development
Richard Peiser, David Hamilton
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate finance and development. Lectures and case studies introduce students to the full range of…
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Land Use and Environmental Law
As a scarce and necessary resource, land triggers competition and conflict over possession, use, development, and preservation. For privately owned land, the market manages much…
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Cities by Design I
Cities by Design I is concerned with in-depth longitudinal examination of urban conditions in and among selected cities in the world. The…
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Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning, and Urban Design: Miami Beach and Boston
Saving Miami Beach from Climate-Change and Redeveloping Boston’s Columbia Point The Field Study course is designed to provide students an understanding of the dynamics and…
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Policy Making in Urban Settings (at HKS)
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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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
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)
Provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation policy and planning, as well as an introduction to the skills necessary for solving the various…
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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 connection between health, well-being, and place is a complex one with many dimensions. This class focuses on four topics that will…
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Prosperity, Civic Values and Diversity in a Gentrifying City: The Case of Central Square, Cambridge
In Cambridge, as in other rapidly gentrifying cities, change is constant. Brought on by the city’s burgeoning innovation economy, and its deeply…
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Form+Finance: the Design of Real Estate
This course exposes students to tools, instruments and strategies for design thinking and the mechanisms of finance and market forces that shape and impact built…
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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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There Goes the Neighborhood: Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Change
Gentrification and the real and perceived impacts this form of neighborhood change has on longtime local residents (typically black folks) as well as new dwellers,…
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Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals for Public and Private Participants (at HKS)
Classroom is at HKS, Littauer 28 Class meeting time is Mon, Wed from 4:45 to 6:00 PM. However the first class will be on…
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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 public sphere.
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Urban Governance and the Politics of Planning in the Developing World
This course starts from the premise that urban politics and governance arrangements shape the definition, form and practice of planning and therefore its outcomes. Using…
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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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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Frank Apeseche, Sai Balakrishnan, Anita Berrizbeitia, Sibel Bozdo??an, Jeffry Burchard, Joan Busquets, Fionn Byrne, Bradley Cantrell, Felipe Correa, Salmaan Craig, Diane Davis, Daniel D’Oca, Edward Eigen, Ann Forsyth, Stephen Gray, Ewa Harabasz, K. Michael Hays, Andrew Holder, Zaneta Hong, Niall Kirkwood, David Mah, Panagiotis Michalatos, Kiel Moe, Mark Mulligan, Carles Muro, Robert Pietrusko, Peter Rowe, Holly Samuelson, Allen Sayegh, Mack Scogin, Jorge Silvetti, Ray Torto, Charles Waldheim, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Christopher C.M. Lee, David Gamble, Bing Wang, Richard Peiser, Sonja Dümpelmann
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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Master in Design Studies Final Project
Frank Apeseche, Martin Bechthold, Salmaan Craig, George Thomas, Bradley Cantrell, Diane Davis, Jill Desimini, Daniel D’Oca, Gareth Doherty, K. Michael Hays, John May, Panagiotis Michalatos, Kiel Moe, Erika Naginski, Richard Peiser, Antoine Picon, Holly Samuelson, Allen Sayegh, Susan Snyder
The final design project is an 8 unit final project. As the final graduating requirement for all MDes students, the project involves a substantive independent…
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