Courses
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Sustainable Urbanism in the Gulf in the Pre-Oil Period
This seminar will focus on the sustainability of settlements until oil had a major economic impact in the countries of the Gulf, the body of…
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First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Judith Grant Long, David Gamble, Kathy Spiegelman, David Mah, Michael Hooper, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal
The first semester core studio of the Master of 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, Rafael Segal
Elements of Urban Design is an advanced core studio for the post professional programs in urban design. The studio introduces a wide host of ideas,…
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Rethinking Real and Virtual Infrastructures in the 21st Century: Innovative Boulevards in Lisbon
FRAMEWORK.The modernization of Lisbon traditional city to a large extent involved the creation of linear spaces-avenues-associated with new economic and social activities, introducing different uses:…
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Geography of a Bridge: Reconfiguring Istanbul¿s Ataturk Kopru across the Golden Horn
The studio aims to unlock the architectural potential of an infrastructural element by reconfiguring its status between system and object. The site is the foot…
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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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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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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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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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Site Representation and Research
Developing and communicating practical ideas about places begins with identification of crucial entities and relationships that affect some aspect of the functioning or evaluation of…
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
Literature and Arts B Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form. This course takes an interpretive look at the American city in terms…
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Methods of Urban Planning
This companion course to the first-term Core Urban Planning Studio introduces students to selected methods used by urban planners in understanding, analyzing, and influencing the…
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The Moment of the Monument
Built around two practica–involving the \”excavation\” of an existing monument and the design of a future monument–the course examines the rise and fall of the…
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Urban Design Proseminar
Mohsen Mostafavi, Gareth Doherty
The proseminar is a forum for conversation on contemporary urban design. It is structured around three overlapping discussions: urban design as form, operation, and urbanism.
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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
This course provides an account of urbanization in the East Asian Region by way of a detailed examination of the historical development of selected cities,…
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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Design
This research seminar addresses subjects of history, theory and human sciences related to architecture and the city for students preparing for or enrolled in doctoral…
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History and Theory of Urban Planning and Design
This course uses historical and analytical readings and case studies to address several major theoretical questions concerning the aims and outcomes of urban interventions. The…
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Urban Politics and Planning
Examines the politics of urban planning, land use, environmental regulation, and economic development. Principal aim is to help students think strategically about the roles of…
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Markets and Market Failure
Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Joseph Kalt
The first half of the course covers skills for predicting market behavior, including supply and demand and the behavior of firms and consumers. The second…
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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 financial analysis skills…
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Planning and Environmental Law
This course examines the key substantive legal issues that affect the use, preservation, and development of land in the United States, and the principles and…
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Transportation Planning and Development
Access and mobility are essential elements of an urban plan. Through lectures, discussions, case studies, and exercises, this course examines the issues and analytical framework…
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Decent, Safe, and Sanitary: America’s Quest for Social Housing
Born of the dystopian concept of the nineteenth-century slum, housing reform came of age in the 1930s when reformers, many of them unconventional women, persuaded…
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Urban Climate Adaptation
This course focuses on the municipal planning process for climate change, especially adaptive strategies aimed at reducing the public health burden of extreme events. In…
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Participation in Planning and Development: Theory and Practice
Examines the theory and practice of participatory planning and governance, drawing on developing and developed country experience. The seminar begins by briefly looking at the…
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Housing Delivery Systems in the United States
This is a practical course that will examine how, why and where housing is produced in the United States. We will begin by looking at…
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Redevelopment Policy
Urban redevelopment is the process by which government, private investors, and households transform the uses and financial returns of the urban built environment. As an…
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Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals
Provides an analytical framework for understanding the real estate finance and development process from both quantitative and nonquantitative perspectives. Topics addressed include: establishing investment/development objectives;…
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Sustainability for Planning and Design
This survey course will give a critical overview over the most pressing issues and tendencies surrounding the term Sustainability focusing on the specific role of…
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Advanced Research Seminar: London Urban Development
Four students will participate in the London Studio (GSD 1505) taught by Simon Allford focusing on the intersections between design and real estate. The class…
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Advanced Research Seminar: Istanbul Field Study: Finance Center
The Turkish government is relocating numerous national financial institutions from Ankara to a site in the Umraniye district of Istanbul. This national policy action will…
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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and approval by the urban planning and design faculty.In this preparatory seminar for students intending to enroll in GSD 9303 the following…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
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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Second Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
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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Landscape Disurbanism: Depolderization & Decentralization in the Dutch Delta Region
Pierre Bélanger, Nina-Marie Lister
Over seventy percent of the GDP in the Netherlands is produced below sea level. To uphold this submergent economy, the Netherlands must spend 2 billion…
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Designing Non-Stop Transformation: Shenzhen Studio
FRAMEWORKThe Shenzhen Studio is addressing the question of how designers may cope with fast transforming urbanistic conditions happening in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), and…
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Neonatures
NeonaturesSkyscraper collectives, agglomerations, alignments, bundles, clusters, and twins; mixed-use developments, high-rise housing developments, waterfront and marina developments, luxury condominiums; airport hubs, corporate office enclaves, industrial…
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VERTICAL SCAPES. (Verticalism and the integration of disciplines)
Please note, this option studio will meet on an irregular schedule. (see below)The course will focus on solving the problems generated by the absence of…
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Landscape and Ecological Urbanism: Alternatives for Beijing City Northwest
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Jane Hutton
The Beijing Alternatives Studio Series OverviewBeijing, China is one of the fastest developing regions in the world and among the most challenging places for the…
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Beyond Paris [suite]: a New Campus for the University of Paris South XI at Saclay
The future development of the Paris metropolitan region beyond the present political and physical boundary of the city continues to be a national priority, with…
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Retooling: Thinkbelt Chicago
Once based on manufacturing and transportation, Chicago has shifted to become a contemporary city of services. In this transformation, much of the older manufacturing city\’s…
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New Geographies: Imagining a City-World Beyond Cosmopolis
The course invites the students to imagine better urban and architectural forms that overcome the limitations of the global city, or cosmopolis. Much of the…
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Ecology as Urbanism; Urbanism as Ecology
In light of recent interest in the concept of ecological urbanism, this course will read projects and texts on the relation of landscape ecology to…
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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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The Poetics of Materials (episodes in the cultural history of modern making)
The Spectacle Factory examines the modern history of immersive theater, entertainment, and media spaces from the standpoint of the history of architecture and design. It…
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Architecture or Poverty: The Challenges of Social and Economic Development from 1945 to the present
Is poverty an architectural question? When does it emerge as an ethical concern for the architect? How have modern architects historically addressed the problem 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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Analytic Methods: Quantitative
The first module of this course introduces students to selected quantitative methods for thinking about urban planning problems. The module is divided into two sections.
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Transportation Policy and Planning
Prerequisites: GSD 5203, or equivalent introduction to microeconomics. This course provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation planning as well as an introduction…
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