Courses
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Lissome Urbanism: Rail Infrastructure as a Backbone for the Rethinking of Continental Catalunya
Lissome Urbanism: Rail Infrastructure as a Backbone for the Rethinking of Continental CatalunyaInstructors:Joan Busquets, Martin Bucksbaum Professor of Urban Planning and DesignFelipe Correa, Design Critic…
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101 Urban Salvations
As an urban setting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, appears to have a lot going for it: two of the world\’s greatest universities, an extremely high density of…
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MAKINAMEDINA: Reconfiguring the Relationship Between Geography and Event in the City of Fez
Harvard University – Graduate School of Design – Spring 2007 – GSD 1511 Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00-6:00 pmInstructors:Hashim Sarkis: [email protected] office hours: wed. 2:00-4:00 PMAziza…
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Belfast, Recast
Belfast, RecastTuesday 2:00 – 6:00Thursday2:00 – 6:00ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM: A POLITICS OF RECIPROCATIONThe primary function of urbanism is to characterize a given territory in ways…
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Arequipa by the Sea: A New Town Project
Spring 07Prof. Rodolfo MachadoT.A. Sharif Kahatt Arequipa by the sea: a new town projectIntroduction:To situate the studio\’s pedagogic agenda (or to place in a wider…
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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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Urban Design for Planners
course objectivesThis seminar course will introduce physical planners to the approaches, techniques, and tools of urban design necessary to structure the spatial and dimensional relationships…
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Re-Thinking Citites
Jerold S. Kayden, Edward Glaeser
This seminar explores the topic of how individual academic disciplines and professional fields think about cities. Anthropologists, sociologists, planners, economists, lawyers, political scientists, and other…
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Of Rocks, Trails and Televisions: The Democratic Monument in America
The technological transformations of modernity, from electricity to digital communication, have valorized progress over tradition as a determining social force, challenging the classical monument as…
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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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Markets and Market Failure
This course introduces economics to students who have had little previous exposure to the subject. Basic tools are covered, including supply, demand, and market equilibrium;…
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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
Class Meetings: Wednesday, 2:00 pm – 5::00 pm Gund 109Professors:Richard Peiser and Bing Wang Class Limit24 students – urban designers, planners, architects, landscape architects, and…
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Transportation Policy, Planning, and Mangagement
Provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation policy and planning, as well as an introduction to the skills necessary for solving the various…
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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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Strategic Planning and Local Development
This course examines strategies for urban and regional development within the context of a globalized economy where cities are the engines of growth. Fierce competition,…
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Public Approvals for Private Development Projects
The improvement of real property has social as well as physical and economic implications, and is therefore subject to increasingly rigorous public review. This course…
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Political Economy of Urbanization
Over the last two decades or so, cities have been undergoing a drastic process of restructuring. An ever-growing number of terms-urban villages, edge cities, exopolises,…
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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 largely from the work of the instructor, weekly presentations and discussions will consider those aspects of the design of housing that are critical for…
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Planning and Theories of Justice
The aims of planning have been broadly defined in terms of justice, efficiency, and environmental protection. This course, which will meet for the first half…
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Change
James Stockard, Toni L. Griffin
There Goes the Neighborhood:Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhoods and Neighborhood ChangeNeighborhoods are the stuff of which cities are made. Downtowns are the iconic parts of…
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Three-Dimensional Modeling of Cities
This course explores the technologies and standards that are beginning to permit the development and distribution of three-dimensional representations of places that are vast in…
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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 Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Carl Steinitz, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis
Under faculty guidance, the student conducts a reading program and independent study. The course is intended for doctoral students.
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Elements of Urban Planning
Judith Grant Long, Paul Cote, Kathryn Madden
This first term core studio explores ideas, conventions, and technical skills essential to a critical understanding of how urban planning operates within the various scales…
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Elements of Urban Design
Advanced core studio exploring ideas, conventions, and technical skills essential to a critical understanding of how design operates at the various scales of urbanity and…
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Tokyo’s ‘New Order’ from a Local Perspective: Redevelopment of the Chuo-ku Waterfront
In the aftermath of the bursting of the \”bubble economy,\” which beset Tokyo and much of Japan during the past 15 years, the city is…
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Reconnecting City & River: Vienna, Austria & the Danube
One imagines the City of Vienna along its Danube as readily as London along its Thames or Paris along its Seine. But while the Thames…
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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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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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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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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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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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New Geographies
The participants in the seminar will be presented with the following proposal: Geography is a dominant but latent paradigm in design today and we need…
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The City of Leisure and Tourism
Since the 1960s, tourism has had a profound impact on cities. Many great cities, such as Paris or Rome, are discovering that their historic centers…
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Urban Design Proseminar
The design practices that deal with Urbanism and Urban Architecture have always lent themselves to a constant evaluation and re-evaluation process. Such a re-examination seems…
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Constructing Vision
The course examines how designers have used means of representation not only to represent their work but, importantly, to construct architecturally based visual worlds. In…
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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
The purpose of this seminar is to provide an overall account of the urbanization in selected cities within the East Asian region; to characterize relevant…
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Histories and Theories of Urban Planning and Design
Beginning with the mid 19th century city, this course surveys a broad range of urban interventions. These include transportation and infrastructural engineering, settlement houses, landscape…
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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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Urban Politics and Land-Use Policy
The course views cities and urban regions as political constructs. Its purpose is to help you think strategically about major urban problems and controversies, particularly…
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Markets and Market Failures
This course introduces economics to students who have had little previous exposure to the subject. Basic tools are covered, including supply, demand, and market equilibrium;…
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Real Estate Finance and Development
This course employs a case method study of private sector real estate, with quantitative and financial emphasis. Analysis and class discussion of case studies introduce…
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Policy-Making in Urban Settings
An introduction to policymaking in American cities, focusing on economic, demographic, institutional, and political settings. It examines economic development and job growth in the context…
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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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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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Local Development and Economic Restructuring
This seminar rests on the consideration that any intervention for the development of a depressed (or declining) area should be informed by an understanding of…
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Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in Urban Planning and Design
This course introduces students to the practice of negotiation and mediation in the context of urban planning and development. Learning from general theories of negotiation…
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