Courses
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Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance
This course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate courses offered by other schools at Harvard. This year\’s course covers four main topics:…
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Land Tenure and Property Rights as a Development Strategy: International Theory & Practice
In international development practice, a central principle holds that weak and insecure land and property rights are obstacles to economic growth, poverty reduction and the…
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Olympic Urbanism II: Winter Games
This module investigates the civic aspirations and spatial expressions of sports facilities, athletes\’ villages, transportation and other infrastructure built to accommodate the Winter Olympic Games.
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Public Approvals for Private Development Projects
The course\’s principal objective is to provide a conceptual framework for understanding the interplay of private property protections and regulatory programs on privately sponsored development…
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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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Housing Policy in the United States: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sectors
In the twentieth century, housing policy in the United States has crafted a complex finance and delivery system. This course will examine the origins of…
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The Design of Housing in the United States
Drawing partially from the work of the instructor, weekly lectures and discussions will consider those aspects of the design of housing that are critical for…
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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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There Goes the Neighborhood: Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Change
James Stockard, Toni L. Griffin
Neighborhoods are the stuff of which cities are made. Downtowns are the iconic parts of cities and commercial and industrial districts are important. But neighborhoods…
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Affordable Housing 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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Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems: Theory and Applications
Geographic Information Systems serve as a framework for organizing knowledge about places and for developing logical models of the ways places operate under existing and…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, Erika Naginski, Toni L. Griffin, Felipe Correa, Anita Berrizbeitia, Judith Grant Long, Susan Fainstein, A. Hashim Sarkis
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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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Antoine Picon, Erika Naginski
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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First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Judith Grant Long, Kathryn Madden, Kathy Spiegelman
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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Havana In Our Time: Developing Urban Design and Planning Strategies for Change
Havana, Cuba, once known as the Pearl of the Antilles, is facing unprecedented pressure for change from increasing tourism, foreign economic interests and the likelihood…
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The New Gate: Public Space, Infrastructure, and the Re-Orientation of Historic Istanbul
Istanbul Re-Oriented: Over the past four decades, the city of Istanbul has grown away from the congestion of its historic center towards its vast metropolitan…
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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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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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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…
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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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Proseminar – Defining Urban Design
CLASS SCHEDULE:Monday 3:00 – 6:00 318 Gund Hall Wendsday 3:00 – 6:00 318 Gund HallFirst session meets on Monday September 2nd at 3.00pm ABSTRACTUrban Design…
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Scale: City, Object, Field
*PLEASE NOTE*The first class meeting will take place this Thursday (September 3rd) from 1-2:00 pm in room 510. The seminar is concerned with how scale…
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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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Fifteen Things (a secret history of Italian design)
Fifteen Things (a secret history of Italian design) Department of Architecture Seminar – 4 credits limited enrollment Tuesday 2:00 – 5:00 510 Gund HallFifteen Things…
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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Design
Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Design K. Michael Hays, Timothy Hyde Department of Urban Planning and Design Seminar – 4 credits Monday 12:00 –…
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Histories and Theories 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
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate finance anddevelopment. Lectures and case studies introduce students to the fullrange of financial analysis skills and analytical…
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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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Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning, and Urban Design
Newark, New Jersey has been on the brink of revitalization for 50 years. The city, situated across the Hudson River from Manhattan, is the world…
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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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Climate Change, Planning, and Cities
Climate Change, Planning, and Cities Following on the last UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and the earlier Stern Review on economic consequences, a…
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Housing Delivery Systems in the United States
This course will examine the process by which housing is produced in the United States. The course considers the primary actors in the delivery system,…
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Sustainability for Planning and Design
This survey course will establish basic environmental literacy for all the departments at the school. A series of lecturers will address key issues for planners…
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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
This seminar is required for master\’s students intending to pursue an independent thesis through GSD 9302 in the following term and is optional for Doctor…
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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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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
Spiro Pollalis, Martin Bechthold, Andreas Georgoulias, Christoph Reinhart
A student who selects this independent thesis for the degree Master in Design Studies pursues independent research of relevance to the selected course of study…
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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Richard Peiser, Daniel Schodek, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, A. Hashim Sarkis, Niall Kirkwood, John R. Stilgoe, Spiro Pollalis, Martin Bechthold, Thomas Schroepfer, Antoine Picon
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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Core Urban Planning Studio II
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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Climate Change, Water, Land Development, and Adaptation (The Netherlands)
Climate Change, Water, Land Development, and Adaptation (the Netherlands)Embracing the motto, \”Water is Our Enemy, Water is Our Friend,\” the Netherlands Ministry of Transport, Public…
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NEW WAYS:Diridon Station, San Jose, Silicon Valley Capital, CA
NEW WAYSDiridon Station, San Jose, Silicon Valley Capital, CA, USAIntoduction\”New ways\”, as an expression, refers in this case to various issues: First, it refers to…
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Beyond Paris: A New University Campus at Aubervilliers
The physical, political, and social boundary of Paris, unchanged for nearly 150 years and delineated today by the ring road- the \”Peripherique\” – has insured…
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Rethinking Montreal: Sensorial Urbanism
Sensorial Urbanism In recent years, the human and social sciences, from anthropology to geography, have undergone a \’sensorial revolution\’ in which the \’senses\’ constitute…
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The Al Qattara Oasis in Al Ain
Instructors: Jorge Silvetti; Professor of ArchitectureFelipe Correa; Assistant Professor of Urban DesignFRAMEWORK:The oasis, as the primordial origin for water, has for centuries acted as a…
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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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Sites of Consumption: Case Studies on the Commodification of Architecture, Urban Space, and Culture
Now we are left in a world without urbanism, only architecture. The neatness of architecture is its seduction; it defines, excludes, limits, separates from the…
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Introduction to Urban Design Techniques
This seminar course will introduce students from outside the discipline of urban design to the approaches, techniques, and tools of urban design necessary to structure…
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Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China
Modernizing influences, largely from the hands of foreign powers, first forcefully entered into China and began to take root in the aftermath of the Opium…
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