Courses
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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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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts I
Erika Naginski, K. Michael Hays
This course is structured as a dialogue between the historical and theoretical frameworks that have shaped the formulation of architectural principles – what the architectural…
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Histories of Landscape Architecture I: Textuality and the Practice of Landscape Architecture
This course introduces students to a number of significant topoi or loci (see week one) in the histories of landscape architecture. In general terms, it…
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North American Seacoasts and Landscapes: Discovery Period to the Present
Selected topics in the history of the North American coastal zone, including the seashore as wilderness, as industrial site, as area of recreation, and as…
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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
The purpose of this lecture course is to provide an overall account of the urbanization in selected cities within the rapidly developing East Asian…
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Imagining the City: Literature, Film, and the Arts
How do visual representation and narrative figuration contribute to construct urban identity? Explores the urban imagination in different artforms: architecture, cinema, literature, photography, and painting.
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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 with proposals…
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Istanbul: From Imperial Capital to Global City
In the summer of 2013, popular discontent with the authoritarian neo-liberal urban policies of the Turkish government exploded in Istanbul, revealing the political nature…
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Modernity and Crisis
Is it even possible to offer a description of our contemporary moment that is not fundamentally defined by the experience of crisis? Financial crisis,…
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Imagine Michelangelo
The use of digital models as instruments of historical research. Almost all of Michelangelo’s architectural projects are unbuilt, unfinished, or have been significantly altered…
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Historical Ground
The seminar explores the role of historical information and knowledge in making places today, but also how contemporary designers may “invent” history that nonetheless…
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Architecture and its Texts (1650-1800)
This seminar focuses on a selection of important architectural writings from the late 17th and 18th centuries, with the aim of exploring the connections…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar: The Present Environmental Predicament: Design and the Limits to Growth
This Course is for students in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. The title of this seminar refers to two significant essays written in…
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Urban Politics and Planning (at KSG)
Course focuses on how public governance and planning shape cities and urban regions in the United States and Europe. Topics include U.S. and European urban…
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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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Land Use and Environmental Law
As a scarce and necessary resource for earthly activity, land triggers competition and conflict over its possession, use, development, and preservation. For privately owned land,…
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Cities by Design I
Rahul Mehrotra, A. Hashim Sarkis, Farès el-Dahdah, Alex Krieger, Peter Rowe, Sibel Bozdo??an, Joan Busquets, Erkin Ozay
\’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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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
This is an introductory course that examines the complex relationship between transportation, land use and urban form, and the varied instruments available to planners…
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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…
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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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Planning for the 21st Century: Emerging Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
What role does design play in the planning process? How will demographic and other emerging trends influence how we design and plan for communities for…
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Cities and Environmental Change
How can the practice of urban planning and design creatively engage communities to address the immediate and long-termer challenges posed by environmental change? We…
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Maps and Mapping (at FAS)
Charles Waldheim, Matthew Wilson
Maps are often the most effective way to stimulate spatial reasoning and provoke new understandings about our world\’s phenomena. This course introduces contemporary map…
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Design for Urban Disaster
With unprecedented rates of urban growth, especially in Africa and Asia, people in towns and cities are more vulnerable to natural disasters than ever…
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Introduction to Local Economic Development
This course introduces students to local economic development from the perspective of urban planning. Students learn about the theories, analytic frameworks and indicators used…
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Modern Housing and Urban Districts: Concepts, Cases and Comparisons
This seminar course will deal with ‘modern housing’ covering a period primarily from 1990 to the present. It will engage with ‘urban districts’ in…
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Housing Delivery Systems in the United States
This is a basic course to introduce students to the American system for producing housing. We look at seven “actors”—consumers, developers, lenders, infrastructure providers,…
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Real Estate Finance for Public and Private Participants (at KSG)
Classroom is at HKS, Rubenstein G-20 (Neustadt Classroom) Class meeting time is Mon, Wed from 4:40 to 6:00 PM. However the first…
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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…
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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…
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Construction Lab
Mark Mulligan, Danielle Etzler
This course will meet for the first time on Friday, August 30th, at 9 am in Room 111. This module introduces students to…
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Energy in Architecture
This lecture course introduces students to energy and environmental issues, particularly those that must be faced by the discipline of architecture. An overview of the…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I
Matthew Urbanski, Christopher Matthews
Recognizing that plants are one of the essential mediums of landscape architecture, this class seeks to introduce the student to two basic relationships; the relationship…
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Structural Design 1
The course introduces the discipline of structural engineering as a means of unlocking hidden architectural design potential. Students develop the skills necessary to make informed…
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Cases in Contemporary Construction
As the final component in the required sequence of technology courses, this professionally-oriented course develops an integral understanding of the design and construction of buildings…
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Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Introduction to Ecology
Fall term, four units, open to MLA students taking the third LA core-studio. Mondays: 10:00 AM to 11:30 PM. Lectures Wednesdays: 2:30-5:30…
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The Innovative Practice: Finding, Building and Leading Good Ideas with Others (at SEAS)
SEAS Engineering Sciences 21. Catalog Number: 70925 Enrollment: Limited to 25. Permission of instructor required. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13 Please check the…
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Innovation in Science and Engineering: Conference Course (at SEAS)
David Weitz, Paul Bottino, David Ricketts
Engineering Sciences 139. Catalog Number: 0994 EXAM GROUP: 7, 8, 9 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Explores…
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Water Engineering (at SEAS)
SEAS Engineering Sciences 165. Catalog Number: 4274 EXAM GROUP: 13, 14 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Introduces the fundamentals…
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Computer Vision (at SEAS)
SEAS Computer Science 283. Catalog Number: 4475 Please check the FAS schedule for room information. Vision as an ill-posed inverse problem: image formation, two-dimensional…
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Material Systems: Digital Design, Fabrication, and Research Methods
Computer-aided design, manufacturing, and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) technologies are increasingly integrated into many aspects of design and construction. ‘Digital Fabrication’ has been deeply embedded in…
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Phyto-Technologies Practicum: Resources for Site Remediation and Landscape Design
Niall Kirkwood, Kathryn Kennen
GSD 6335 is a research seminar, speculative in nature and broad in scope that requires students to take part in a joint exploration with…
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Changing Natural and Built Coastal Environments
Steven Apfelbaum, Katharine Parsons
This course will examine natural and anthropogenic processes affecting the coastal zone and nearshore environment. Ecological principles and their application to design and planning…
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Introduction to Computational Design
This is an introductory course to computational design and the prerequisite for a spring course that deals with more advanced topics in the field.
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Expanded Mechanisms / Empirical Materialisms
Machines and material are vitally connected and reciprocally constrained. Each responds dynamically to the other through a range of geometric, chemical, and physical events…
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High Performance Buildings and Systems Integration
The interrelationships of environmental control systems as they relate to high performance/well integrated buildings will be explored in details. The course will address the…
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Research Seminar on Urban Ecology
This 4-credit course is limited to 15 students who have completed the Ecologies, Techniques and Technologies sequence in the Landscape Architecture program (or its…
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Design By Committee. Digital Interfaces for Collaborative and Participatory Design
This Seminar/Workshop will look into the design and technical challenges involved in the development of web based interfaces for collaborative and participatory design scenarios.
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Energy Simulation in Design
The best intent does not always lead to the best performing design, as intuition and rules of thumb sometimes fail to adequately inform decision…
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