Courses
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Between the Bridges: Beyond Infrastructure
Stephen Cassell, Susannah Drake
The effects of climate change necessitate a radical rethinking of the role of ecology and infrastructure within the city. While the full magnitude of the…
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Peri-urban Development in China: Alternatives for the Landscape of Southeast Beijing
Kongjian Yu, Mark Mulligan, Stephen Ervin, Peter Rowe
This planning and design studio will focus on alternative landscape/urban futures for the town of Taihu (Taihuzhen), located at the low-lying southeastern periphery of Beijing,…
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Landscape Morphology
The studio will focus on the transformation of a former airfield into a metropolitan park over a 10-year period with landscape as a medium between…
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Detroit, Interrupted: Defining the New American Urban Geography
Toni L. Griffin, Andrea Hansen
In no other community in America has the current economic recession wreaked more dislocation than in Detroit. Over the last decade, Southeast Michigan has lost…
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EXTREME URBANISM: Reimagining Mumbai’s Back Bay
The Studio will explore the condition of extreme urbanism in the form of social, cultural and economic disparities and how these manifest themselves in the…
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Roman Water_Gate: A New Entrance for the Metropolitan Area of Rome
The city of Rome has planned the development of a new commercial port in the vicinity of Fiumicino, close to the International airport Leonardo da…
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Boston Botony Bay
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
The Boston Botany Bay studio will re-define the concept of the botanical garden for the 21st century. The archipelago of islands in the Boston Harbor…
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Context Informs Form
Context Informs Form is a site based design studio exploring the relationship between modern landscape design and significant works of architecture. Students will be redesigning…
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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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Recalibrating Infrastructure: Network Urbanism in the Los Angeles Basin
Current modes of production and frameworks for exchange have a global reach, yet they have physical, social, and environmental impact when they meet the ground.
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Water City Hamburg-The Missing Link
Hamburg is a booming European metropolis and the Wilhelmsburg Island, which lies between two major branches of the River Elbe, represents the city\’s key development…
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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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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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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…
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The Greek City of Edessa: Search for a Sustainable Future
Martha Schwartz, Spiro Pollalis
Tuesdays and WednesdaysEdessa, a small historic town in northern Greece, faces an uncertain future. Its potential to regenerate diminishes as they lose their young population…
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Designing the Ecology of Democracy: Speculations on National Identity, Free Speech, the American Elm, and the Nation’s Front Yard
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Gareth Doherty
GSD 1402, Hilderbrand, Fall 2009DESIGNING THE ECOLOGY OF DEMOCRACY: SPECULATIONS ON NATIONAL IDENTITY, FREE SPEECH, THE AMERICAN ELM, AND THE NATION???S FRONT YARD\”The Mall, far…
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Boston Botany Bay: The Naked Garden as Spectacle of Plant Psycho-Geography
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
\”Gardeners are not only botanists, but also painters and philosophers\”William Chambers: A dissertation on oriental gardening (London, 1772)\”What seems to me the highest and the…
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Toward an Industrial Ecology for New Caofeidian
AN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY FOR NEW CAOFEIDIAN Professor: Nanako Umemoto [email protected] Teaching Associate: Neil Cook [email protected]: A Chinese model of development? \”China can no…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…
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A Place in Heaven/A Place in Hell. Tactical Operations in Sao Paulo’s Informal Sector
Informal urbanism is the dominant mode of development in the fastest growing cities of the world. Today, we live in an age where over 30%…
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Caught Between Enclaves
The city today is a composite of structure and infrastructure which often produces areas of ambiguity that are caught between enclaves. By the passage of…
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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 Works and Water Management is sponsoring this studio,…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…
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MUMBAI METROPOLITAN: Adapting the Airport Lands, Mumbai, India
AbstractThe sponsored studio MUMBAI METROPOLITAN will reconsider the Greater Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and India\’s densest and most grossly inhospitable urban fabric as part of a…
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Mat Ecologies
studio site: Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod, Massachusetts\”…mats are…everywhere. We call them fields, grounds, carpets, matrices.\” The mat answers to the recurring calls for efficiency…
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Redesigning Infrastructure – Baldwin Hills Park/Oil FieldA new life for a 1400-acre urban oil field in the Los Angeles basin
The precipitous upward curve of oil prices signals the end of an era– the petroleum epoch. Ironically, this price fluctuation causes long dormant oil wells…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…
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Landscaping Urbanisms / Urbanizing Landscapes
Manhattan is experiencing an unbridled period of urban redevelopment. Across the island, neighborhoods are being subjected to radical reinvention. The city\’s post-war collective housing projects…
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Asphalt: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
The goal of the Asphalt Studio is to inspire change in the way we think about asphalt spaces. The asphalt landscape is the most public…
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CAMOUFLAGE METROPOLE: Mourne and Cooley Ranges, Ireland
OVERVIEWSet within the dramatic environs of the Mourne and Cooley Mountains that inspired the mystical landscapes and folkloric creatures of the Chronicles of Narnia by…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…
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Contested Waters: The Tajo River in Spain
Christian Werthmann, Carl Steinitz
SituationIt is now commonly heard, that \”water is the oil of the 21st century.\” Spain seems to exemplify this issue. For decades fierce debates have…
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Mumbai Margins: Rethinking the Island City
Pavements, slums, chawls, colonies, estates as landscapes of renewal\”…many of Bombay\’s (Mumbai) problems are the result not of poverty as such but of the reverse-…
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Half a Million Trees: Prototyping Sites and Systems for Sustainable Cities
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Kristin Frederickson
IntroductionThis studio addresses design and planning practices of sustainable urban forestry. The decline of our urban forest cover can be addressed as a series of…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…
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Hunters Point Parklands: A Marriage of Environmental Justice and Design
Standing proud along the San Francisco Bay, the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of southeastern San Francisco is home to a diverse and deserving community, and…
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The Promise of Paradise Studio
Aim: How can a park emphasize theultime illusion of the Eden Garden of peace and heaven?Subject: This studio researches the promise of paradise. The focus…
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Design Stategies for He Sapa Leadership Academy
The Project:In a historic move, the allied Sioux tribes, the Oceti Sakowin, has chartered the He Sapa Leadership Academy, a college preparatory school to be…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…
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Protecting and Developing the Landscapes of Don Quixote, Province of Castilla – La Mancha, Spain
Carl Steinitz, Christian Werthmann
Students for this studio have already been selected in an early lottery; this studio will not be part of the studio lottery on September 13th.Studio…
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Maximum Mumbai, Minimum Mumbai: Repositioning the Cotton Textile Mill Lands, Girangaon, Central Mumbai, India
\”There will soon be more people living in the city of Bombay (Mumbai) than on the continent of Australia. URBS PRIMA IN INDUS reads the…
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Questioning The Answers: Civic Space and Urban Regeneration
New civic landscapes are vital components of the social, cultural and economic regeneration of cities. These urban spaces are intended to be memorable outdoor social…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…
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Saja-Besaya River Basin, Spain
RIVER BASIN AND INDUSTRIAL LANDSNorthern Spain The Saja-Besaya River Basin and the San Martin Estuary into which it feeds suffers from anoxia (due to wastewater…
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From Strip to Web – The Hilltop Steakhouse Studio
Route 1 in Saugus, Massachusetts, boasts the number-one-ranked steakhouse in the US, a landmark in the suburban landscape that, along with a handful of other…
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The French Gulch Mine Superfund Studio
The French Gulch mine site studio seeks to integrate abandoned mine land reclamation actions with the design of future open space and recreational uses. The…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…
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Zip, Padova, and the Parco del Roncaiette
ZIP (la Zona Industriale di Padova) is the largest \”industrial park\” in Italy, employing around 25,000 persons. The ZIP consortium owns a large adjacent area,…
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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…