Courses
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Istanbul: Between Contour and Silhouette
Summary: The studio explores how an architectural project could relate to the city through the manipulation of the ground line and the skyline. The practical…
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Networked Urbanism
Belinda Tato, Jose Luis Vallejo
The boundary between public and private is shifting. The one between personal and professional is becoming increasingly blurred. This rapid evolution has led us to…
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Networked Urbanism: Urban Waste – Urban Design
Belinda Tato, Jose Luis Vallejo
Waste is the result of bad design Networked Urbanism: Urban Waste – Urban Design Waste is the result of bad design Cities cover…
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The Storm, the Strife, and Everyday Life: Sea Change in the Suburbs
For many Long Islanders, the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy was a wakeup call, adding urgency to a nascent discussion about Long Island\’s vulnerability to…
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The MLK Way: Building on Black America’s Main Street
The “MLK Atlas” maps all the streets named after Dr. King in the continental U.S. Martin Luther King, Jr. is one of America’s most revered…
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Urbanizations: the Blank Building, the U.S. Postal Service at South Station
TThis is the first studio in what is intended to be a series of urban design and architecture studios focusing on the production of urbanity…
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Reinterpreting 1960s Urbanism; Case 1: Tandy Center, Fort Worth, Texas
This studio, kindly sponsored by the PNL Companies of Dallas, Texas, will deal with a recurrent and endemic North American urban design problem: an important…
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Downtown Seoul: The recovery of the Chungae Chun Stream
Downtown Seoul: The recovery of the Chungae Chun StreamThe Metropolitan Government of Seoul, South Korea, sponsors this studio in association with Crefolio, Inc., a development…
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Revealing Houston’s Midtown Disposition
Like other sprawling cities, Houston is witnessing a reinvestment in its central areas. Companies and businesses looking for a key location, as well as young…
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Regional Planning for Southeastern Massachusetts
Southeastern Massachusetts is the roughly triangular area bounded by Route 495, Buzzards Bay, and Rhode Island\’s eastern border. In a high level aerial view of…
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Harlem 125 | Shifting Culture, Shifting Economy, Shifting Urbanity
\”The struggle for power, ownership and authenticity will continue with the players shifting and changing, as new interests find their way uptown and old interests…
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Recovering New Orleans
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, recovery in many parts of New Orleans remains a pressing issue. The Recovering New Orleans studio will develop planning and…
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The Jewelry District, Providence, RI: Imagining the Newly – Contested Edge
COURSE DESCRIPTIONBackgroundWithin the last decade Providence, Rhode Island has branded itself as a city with a lively downtown reshaped by its canals and a new…
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Newark: The Contested City, Part II – Healing Waters: Reclaiming the Urban Waterfront
The Contested City, Part II Healing Waters: Connecting the Passaic Riverfront to Newark NeighborhoodsToni L. Griffin Adjunct Associate Professor Director of Planning & Community Development,…
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Boston’s Innovation District
Matthew Kiefer, Dennis Pieprz, Janne Corneil
Can we imagine a new urban paradigm where innovative planning strategies and urban design ideas foster new ways of living, working, and interacting in the…
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Evolutionary Infrastructure – the new mega form
Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi
Biased toward expediting movement and inherently resistant to supporting other forms of inhabitation, transportation infrastructure is an archaic monument to mono-functional use. With ever increasing…
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Urban Development and Housing for Low Income Groups in the Rapidly Growing City of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
The first meeting for this studio will take place on Tuesday, September 4th. With over one million inhabitants, Ouagadougou is the largest…
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Planning and Development on the East Boston Waterfront
Alex Krieger, Matthew Kiefer, Larry Curtis
This studio will explore the use of both private investment and public action to solve an important planning/urban design problem: how to fulfill long-standing community…
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The Countryside as a City
The studio is premised upon two fundamental ambitions, the recuperation of an idea of the city as a project and the pursuit of alternative forms…
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Urban Blackholes: Development and Heritage in the Lima Metropolis
In cities with fast urban growth, heritage and development have often created friction zones where economic logics collide with preservation policies. This option studio will…
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Alternative Futures for the West Lake, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China
Last fall, we taught a studio which focused on the area of the West Lake in Hangzhou, China. The protection and use of this world-famous…
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Planning in Paradise: Urban Redevelopment – Honolulu, Hawaii
Prerequisites:A high degree of design interest and some degree of computer literacy is expected, as this studio will focus on urban planning and design issues…
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Nansha: Rethinking Urbanism and Landscape in the Pearl River Delta
The Pearl River Delta in southern China is a notorious demonstration of the urban effects of rapid economic development. On the east bank, the Special…
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Extending Modernism in the Monumental City: Washington’s Southwest Waterfront Development
The subject of this studio will be the design of a mixed- use urban waterfront development in an exceptional sector of the city of Washington…
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Transformative Urbanism in a Southern California Suburban Context
Traditionally a location for ranching and farming, for the past50 years Orange County, California has been home to innovations in recreation, sports, master-planned communities and,…
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The Architecture of Geography: Istanbul, Mixed-Use Development, and the Panoramic Condition
The Architecture of GeographyIstanbul, Mixed-Use Development, and the Panoramic ConditionThe aim of the studio is to explore the urban and architectural potentials of mixed use…
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Urban Renewal Reconsidered: Envisioning a Sustainable Future for Boston’s Core
While Boston is known around the world for preserving and celebrating large parts of its historic fabric, the downtown core underwent major acts of Urban…
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Urban Social Design
Jose Luis Vallejo, Belinda Tato
CitiesThe city is a complex organism composed of a multitude of interwoven layers, links and interactions between all the elements that it comprises. The increased…
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Rosario Territorial Front
Juan Rois, Leire Asensio Villoria
This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.T.S. Eliot, \”The Hollow Men\” (1925)Latin-American cities, especially those of Indian Laws foundation,…
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The Jaffa Road Studio, Jerusalem
The studio will focus on a key site—or two or three—along a historic street that terminates at one of the gates to the walled city…
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Territorialism: Inside a New Form of Dispersed Megalopolis
Starting from a reflection on the infrastructural system (water and iron) in the Boston region, the approach of the studio is to use design as…
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Alternative Futures for Tepotzotlan, Mexico
Alternative Futures for Tepotzotlan, MexicoPlease note that the lottery for this option studio has already occurred. The studio focus on the municipality of Tepotzotlan, which…
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Green and Gold: Studies in Landscape and Urban Regeneration in Derry, Northern Ireland
SPONSORS Derry City Council ILEX Regeneration Company North West Office, Department for Social Development McGinnis Group, Property DevelopersPEDAGOGICAL GOALSThe quality of a city\’s open spaces…
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Before Motown – After Techno: Designing for the Detroit Musical Continuum
Detroit has attitude, energy and grit – all qualities that allowed it to create sounds that revolutionized the world of music. Its musical legacy and…
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Tokyo’s Book City
The district of Jimbo-cho in downtown Tokyo has been the center of book culture from the Edo period when the first government school, later to…
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London: A Particular Proposition
The Studio will look at London, a city where design ingenuity has been nurtured by the unpromising parameters of layered historic regulation, international trade and…
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Mexico City and the Production of Housing
Introduction: Mexico City is one of the most dynamic and complex metropolitan areas in the world today. With over 20.1 million inhabitants, remarkable urban growth,…
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The Search for a Modern Monumentality: Master Plan and Design for the New Paris Courthouse
The subject of this studio will be the master plan and design of the new Paris Courthouse at the center of the city. In this…
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Looking to the Future: Design, Sustainability, and Growth in Northern Greece
Spiro Pollalis, Martha Schwartz
Following a recent administrative reorganization, Edessa, a small historic town with natural beauties in northern Greece, has become the capital of a larger area. The…
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Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City
This studio works typologically. It approaches the problem of the city through the investigation and redefinition of its persistent architectures—its dominant types. Any attempt to…
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BOMBAY STUDIO: Urban Adjustments Negotiating the Kinetic and Static City
Location: The city of Bombay (now Mumbai) with over 12 million residents. India\’s financial center, with perhaps the world\’s most prolific film industry. 5 million…
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Steer a million people per day. Beyoglu, Istanbul
The studio will explore global scenarios for Istanbul and offer a concrete intervention to the specificities of a site in a redefined context.The site of…
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Macau: Cross-border Cities
The studio is premised upon two fundamental ambitions, the recuperation of an idea of the city as a project and the pursuit of alternative forms…
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Territorialism 2
Paola Vigano, Chiara Cavalieri
Key issues: contemporary territories, ecological rationality, life-cycles, embodied energy, inclusion Design operations: conceptualization and scenarios construction Place: Boston Metropolitan Region/Greater Boston I the…
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Meydan: Designing the Surfaces of Public Space around Beyazit Square, Istanbul
Summary: The studio explores the architectural means by which a public space could be configured to support a variety of specific urban functions while encouraging…
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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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Spatial Analysis and Representation
David Gamble, Robert Pietrusko
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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Spatial Analysis and Representation
David Gamble, Robert Pietrusko
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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Spatial Analysis and Representation
David Gamble, Robert Pietrusko
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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Workflows for Digital Representation and Spatial Analysis Module 1
Spatial Planning and Design are activities that involve much organization and refinement of information. 2201M1 and M2 is a sequence of courses that introduce and…