Courses
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Between Geometry and Geography: Mexico City
Tenochtitlan/Mexico City Carlos Garciavelez will serve as Teaching Associate in Urban Design for this option studio. “I think, no injury to say the past…
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Utopioids / The Generic Sublime IV
Skyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, mixed-use developments, high-rise housing developments, marinas and luxury condominiums; airport hubs, office enclaves, industrial parks, hotel complexes, conference centers, financial centers;…
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The Flexible Leviathan: Reconsidering Scale and Fixity in the Contemporary Metropolis
Mexico City is one of the most dynamic and complex metropolitan areas in the world today. With over 20.1 million inhabitants, remarkable urban…
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Urban Grafting: New Dwelling Landscapes for the Extended City
The Option Studio welcomes students from Urban Planning, Urban Design, Architecture and Landscape backgrounds with at least two previous relevant design experiences. Its aim is…
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On the Order of Objects: Mediating between Monuments, Museums, and Megaliths in the Historic Center of Istanbul
SUMMARY The studio is set in the area around the old Byzantine hippodrome in the historic center of Istanbul. Here an accumulation of buildings…
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Chicago Grid: In Search For New Paradigms
Chicago can be seen as a paradigm city for its rapid growth and transformation, its economic importance and its innovative contributions to the techniques of…
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Green-Heart Urbanism in the Pearl River Delta: The Haizhu, Guangzhou Case
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Adrian Blackwell
The site of this studio will be the 1200 ha. Wanmu Orchard, a key resource of the planned Haizhu Ecological District, situated in the centre…
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Thermodynamic Madrid. A New Good Life
Iñaki Abalos, Matthias Schuler
This course explores new methods, tools, scales, and materials to address the renovation of historic centers outside both the radical preservationism of the protectionist theories…
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Digital Media for Design
The course will focus on the interrogation and acquisition of different emerging and established digital design approaches for designers. Students will gain knowledge of digital…
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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 as the…
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Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities
In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects, while design and planning have been moving toward the…
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Paths of Leisure and the South American Project
Within the first decades of the Twentieth century Oscar Niemeyer conceived innovative hostels in Minas Gerais Brazil. Riding the summits of the Avila above…
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Grids, Score for Designing the City
Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the investigation of recent urbanistic projects…
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Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China
Modernizing influences, largely from the hands of foreign powers, first forcefully entered China in the aftermath of the Opium War and signing of the Treaty…
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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 Cities
This course analyzes international case studies in the conservation of buildings and urban environments as a means for developing projective strategies for interpreting and…
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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, Peter Rowe, Jose Castillo, Farès el-Dahdah, Antoine Picon, Jana Cephas
The year-long Cities by Design course is mandatory for all incoming Masters of Urban Design Students. All other students are welcome to enroll in…
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Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning & Urban Design: Hudson Railroad Yards, New York City
Richard Peiser, Bing Wang, A. Eugene Kohn
The Field Study course is designed 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
This module introduces students to selected qualitative methods for thinking about urban planning research. Students learn about and practice field research techniques, including interview, observation,…
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North Hollywood Field Study: Suburban Transit-oriented Town Center Redevelopment
North Hollywood’s town center sits at the junction of the subway to downtown Los Angeles and the bus lines serving the San Fernando Valley. North…
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Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance
Richard Peiser, Frank Apeseche
This course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate courses offered by other schools at Harvard. This year’s course covers five main topics:…
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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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Housing and Urbanization in Global Cities
Alexander von Hoffman, Deidre Schmidt
This course analyzes housing policy and planning in developing urban societies around the world but especially in the Global South. Through slide presentations, lectures, presentations…
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Creating Resilient Cities: Disaster Field Lab
This course, taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) and selected field sites in New York City will be conducted using a…
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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 spatial and dimensional…
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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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Tourism Planning and Economic Development
Governments around the world seek to leverage economic development by increasing their share of the global tourism market. This course introduces students to tourism as…
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Public Approvals for Private Development Projects
This module will examine how the development approval process shapes large-scale private projects. Whether undertaken by market-oriented developers or mission-driven non-profit institutions, such projects are…
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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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Essentials of Humanitarian Action
Stephanie Kayden, Peter Walker
GSD SES 05432 is the equivalent of GHP 515 and GHP 518. This course will offer a practical and in-depth analysis of the complex…
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Housing Policy in the United States: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sectors
In the 20th century, housing policy in the United States crafted a complex finance and delivery system that is the envy of the world. This…
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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 201. Go here to…
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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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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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Urban Theory Lab Research Seminar
In the early 1970s, Henri Lefebvre anticipated a situation of "generalized urbanization" in which an "urban fabric" would be extended to encompass the entire planet. …
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Kinetic City: Research Seminar on Temporal Urbanism
The research seminar will explore the phenomenon of temporal urbanism. The intention of the course is to expose students to the existing literature of…
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Gateway Cities Field Study
Ann Forsyth, Nicolas Retsinas, David Barron
This learning experience is conducted jointly by Professor Nicolas Retsinas (HBS), Professor David Barron, Harvard Law School (HLS) and Professor Ann Forsyth, Harvard Graduate School…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Diane Davis, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, A. Hashim Sarkis, Alex Krieger, Jorge Silvetti, James Stockard, Joan Busquets, Eve Blau, Felipe Correa, Kiel Moe, John Nastasi, Eric Howeler, Pierre Bélanger, Michael Hooper
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 of Design Studies Final Project
Sanford Kwinter, Jesse Shapins, Michael Hooper, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Diane Davis
The Final Project will consist of a theoretical/position component, and of a practical/experimental component. The scope of each of the two components will be determined…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Martin Bechthold, Antoine Picon, Nina-Marie Lister
Under faculty guidance, the student conducts a reading program and formulates a thesis proposal. The course is intended for doctoral students.
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Discourse and Methods
This course is open only to Ph.D. students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design (other FAS Ph.D. students may participate with instructor\’s…
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Design Film Series
Instructor(s): Alix Reiskind Date/Time: Jan 10 (H), 2 pm and Jan 17 (H), 2 pm Location: Visual +…
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COURSE FULL – Figure Drawing: Improve and Expand on Skills
Instructor(s): Anne McGhee Date/Time: Jan 15 and 17 (T,R) / 2:00-5:00 Location: 7 Sumner Rd. Room 402…
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Yoga
Instructor(s): Elizabeth Brown Date/Time: Jan 8 and 10 (T,R) / 12:00-1:00 Location: 121 Description:…
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COURSE FULL – Custom Metalwork Studio
Instructor(s): Erica Moody Date/Time: Jan 7 and 8 (M,T) / 9:00-4:00 Location: 59 Park St, 1st fl…
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