Courses
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Redevelopment Policy
Redevelopment PolicyUrban redevelopment is the process by which government, private investors, and households transform the uses and financial returns of the urban built environment. As…
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Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems: Theory and Applications
This course is a survey and technical introduction to the analytical uses of spatial data and geographic information systems from an urban and regional planning…
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Prep of Design Thesis Proposal for MAUD/MLAUD and MUP
In this seminar required for students intending to pursue an independent thesis through GSD 9302 in the following term, direction is given as to the…
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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
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, Carl Steinitz, A. Hashim Sarkis, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, Joan Busquets, Kostas Terzidis
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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Centers for an Edge City: Transforming Tysons Corner, Virginia
One of the largest \”downtowns\” in America does not beare much resemblance to anyone\’s image of downtown, nor evoke any conventional notions of urbanity. Tysons…
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21/19…old places, new paradigms
Frequently planners and designers are called upon to re-think current uses and imagine future possibilities for places that are underutilized and facing obsolescence. The City…
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Dubai Studio
IntroductionTruly exceptional and spectacular urbanization has taken–is taken–place in the Emirate of Dubai, prompted by a confluence of three unique conditions. First, the oil-fueled economy…
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Beijing: The University Campus as an Operative Device to Reshape the Metropolis
ObjectivesIn the last thirty years, China and its long urban history, has been subject to a series of pressure systems that have aggressively altered the…
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American Cities: The Struggle for Position and Identity
Course DescriptionThis studio will explore how cities position themselves for the future, building on their unique assets to create identity and working within the context…
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Alternative Urban Pattern Prototypes: Looking at Pomona/Los Angeles
The complexity within the formation of urban patterns is always beyond any mere comprehension of the form itself. A case in point is metropolitan Los…
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Participatory Planning at Local Level, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
ParticipationThe Belo Horizonte studio is open primarily to urban planning students, but welcomes the participation of students from other disciplines: urban design, landscape architecture and…
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Configurations of Public Space – debate and design
\”All struggles against oppression in the modern world begin by redefining what had previously been considered \’private\’, non-public, and non-political issues as matters of public…
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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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Developing Worlds: Planning and Design in the Middle East and Latin America After WWII
The course examines the impact of different models of social and economic development on architectural and urban design. It focuses on Latin America and the…
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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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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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Thinking the Low
This urban theory course will examine a diverse body of social, literary and cultural theory in order to assemble a set of concepts that can…
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Field Studies in Real Estate
This course is intended to provide students an understanding of the dynamics and complexities of reality that create contemporary urban physical environments. The course emphasizes…
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Analytic Methods for Urban Planning
This course introduces quantitative and qualitative methods for thinking about urban planning problems. Key methods include data collection, surveys and sampling, statistics with regression analysis,…
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Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance
Instructor: Professor Richard PeiserGuest instructors: Frank Apeseche, Glenn Mueller and Jack RodmanClass Time: Tuesdays 1:00-4:00This course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate…
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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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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…
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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
This course will investigate architectural, urban design, and planning related components of the design of multi-family housing. Drawing largely from the completed work of the…
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Listening to the City
This course will address one of the central contradictions currently facing architects, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers who want to practice in the city.
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What Planners Do
Alan Altshuler, Catherine Donaher
What, precisely, do urban planners do? How do their activities add value for the institutions that employ them whether governmental, private for-profit, or private nonprofit,…
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Advanced Site Modeling
With the ascendance of Google Earth as a mechanism for delivering three dimensional models of cities, it is only a matter of time before web-delivered…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
Prerequisites: GSD 9204.Following preparation in GSD 9204, each student pursues a topic of relevance to urban design or urban planning, which may include design or…
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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 formulates a thesis proposal. The course is intended for doctoral students.
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Elements of Urban Design and Planning
Martin Zogran, Judith Grant Long
Instructors: Richard Sommer (UD coordinator), Martin Zogran (UD), Judith Grant Long (UP coordinator), James Kostaras (UP)MUP StudentsMonday, 2:00 – 6:00 (2:00 – 3:30, 318 Gund…
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Restructuring Relationships Between Parks and Stations in Tokyo
Most major older cities in the world are served by rail transit and commuter systems. Indeed, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the railroad…
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North Adams, MA: A City on Verge
Prerequisites:Students will be expected to possess a high degree of design interest and capability. It is anticipated that the studio will call upon the following…
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Regional Planning for Southeastern Massachusetts
Southeastern Massachusetts is the roughly triangular area bounded by Route 495, Buzzards Bay, and Rhode Island\’s eastern border. In a high level aerial view of…
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Extending Modernism in the Monumental City: Washington’s Southwest Waterfront Development
The subject of this studio will be the design of a mixed- use urban waterfront development in an exceptional sector of the city of Washington…
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Green and Gold: Studies in Landscape and Urban Regeneration in Derry, Northern Ireland
SPONSORS Derry City Council ILEX Regeneration Company North West Office, Department for Social Development McGinnis Group, Property DevelopersPEDAGOGICAL GOALSThe quality of a city\’s open spaces…
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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 Architecture and Nature in South America: Studies on Symbolic Imagery, Urban Projects, Landscape, and Territorial Transf
This lecture course looks at the construction of landscape – as social and symbolic artifact – in South America and at the ways in which…
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Urban Design Proseminar
A seminar required for (and limited to) first year students in the MAUD and MLAUD programs. The course establishes the foundations of contemporary urban design…
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The Muslim Mediterranean City
Cities have defined Mediterranean culture for thousands of years. Using sources from medieval times to the present, the interaction between urban form and social practice…
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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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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 is intended to give students the training they need to engage in real estate investment and development, both private and public. No prior…
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Planning and Environmental Law
This course examines the range of land use and environmental laws that affect the use, preservation, and development of land in the United States. The…
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Policy-Making in Urban Settings
An introduction to policymaking in American cities, focusing on economic, demographic, institutional, and political settings. Examines economic development and job growth in the context of…
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Transportation Planning and Development
Access and mobility are essential elements of an urban plan. Transportation strategies directly impact and interact with land use planning, zoning, economic development, and urban…
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Rebuilding New Orleans: The Role of Urban Planning and Design
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the City of New Orleans, breaching several levees and flooding 80 percent of the city. In the process,…
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The Housing Delivery System in the United States
This module 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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