Courses
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Housing Delivery Systems in the United States
This is a basic course to introduce students to the American system for producing housing. We look at seven “actors”—consumers, developers, lenders, infrastructure providers, regulators,…
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Smart Cities: An Introduction to Urban Integrated Networked Solutions
In its current state, the vision of a smart city is very much fostered by a technologically enhanced worldview of the urban condition, whereas traditional…
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Real Estate and City Making in China
Real estate has increasingly become a compelling force in the process of city making, one uniquely capable of leading and guiding multiple steps in the…
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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
This seminar is intended to provide the theoretical and methodological foundation for completing a graduate thesis in the Department of Urban Planning and Design. By…
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Doctoral Program Proseminar
This pro-seminar is one way of fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic…
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Intermediate Landscape as Digital Media
The course will focus on digital modeling and representational tools for designers. Through the course, students will gain knowledge of digital design media and tools…
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Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities
This course will examine the intersections between design and anthropology. In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects,…
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Planetary Urbanization: Theoretical Foundations and Frontiers
This seminar is the first in a series of courses that will develop the research agenda of the newly founded Urban Theory Lab-GSD…
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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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Disaster Field Lab
GSD 5343 will challenge its participants to develop design strategies in the face of great human suffering, political instability, high development pressure and coordination…
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Housing Policy in the United States: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sectors
In the 20th century, housing policy in the United States crafted a complex finance and delivery system that is the envy of the world. This…
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The Archeology of Civic Sustenance: Sea-Side Developments in the Gulf
This sponsored-research seminar will address sustainable urban development at the onset of industrial revolution. Going beyond just documenting passive environmental design strategies, the very notion…
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Disaster Recovery Management and Urban Development: Rebuilding Cities After a Disaster
Note, this course will be presented on Friday the 20th of January at 2:40pm in Taubman 275 at HKS. GSD students are welcome to attend.
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Urban Responses to Sea Level Rise
Jerold S. Kayden, David Barron, Daniel Schrag, Gerald Frug, Charles Waldheim
This seminar taught by faculty from Design, Law and Engineering, will explore various strategies of urban adaptation to climate change with a focus on the…
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Advanced Research Seminar: School for Year 2030
What might American education look like in the year 2030? By that time, today’s newborns will become college freshmen. The task of looking ahead at…
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Advanced Research Seminar: Cultural Tourism and Creating a living community at Al-Turaif, Saudi Arabia World Heritage Site
Al-Turaif is part of the historic oasis of Al Dir’iya located on the banks of Wadi Hanifa next to Riyahd. It is the…
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Urban Formation and Spatial Analysis in East Asian Cities
Urban formation among cities and towns in East Asia varies in rate and scale both within and between national settings. China, for example, currently exhibits…
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Advanced Research Seminar on Urban Climate
The course examines the spatial and urban design influences on urban climate, and the effects of climate variability and extremes on population health in urban…
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Discourse and Methods
The seminar is designed as an introduction to the methodologies and disciplines that have shaped the field of architectural history and theory. We will probe…
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Intermediate Landscape as Digital Media
The course will focus on digital modeling and representational tools for designers. Through the course, students will gain knowledge of digital design media and tools…
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Culture, Conservation and Design – Creating the Conversation
This seminar will situate the conversation about Strategic & Critical Conservation in the cultural realm with the goal of expanding and developing an understanding of…
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Urban Grids: Exploring its Design Potentials
The first meeting will take place on Wednessday, August 31st, 6 PM in room 510. Framework:Within a larger research scope on \”Revisiting the urban grids…
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Concepts of Nature
Architects design buildings, and the majority of buildings are in cities. It is not surprising, therefore, that most architects see in the city, in its…
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Conservation Canons and Institutions
Rahul Mehrotra, K. Michael Hays
This module will study and analyze the canons and institutions that have traditional guided the parameters of conservation and preservation practice. The seminar will critically…
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BIBLIOTHECA: The Library Past/Present/Future
\”Wisdom builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down\” reads the lead verse of Proverbs 14. The verse may serve…
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Critical Memory and the Experience of History
This course will meet for the first time in ROOM 111 on Thursday, September 1st. This seminar presents selected texts from the history…
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Participation in Planning and Development: Theory and Practice
This course will meet for the first time in Portico 123 on Friday, September 2nd. This seminar examines the theory and practice of participatory…
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Canceled – New Spaces of Housing
The Rise of an Anti – Policy in Housing and its effects on Design and Cost of HousingThis seminar will explore the decreased role direct…
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Housing Delivery Systems in the United States
This is a basic course to introduce students to the American system for producing housing. We look at seven \”actors\” — consumers, developers, lenders, infrastructure…
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Real-Time Cities: an Introduction to Urban Cybernetics
In real-time cities, urbanity merges with digital information so that the built environment is dynamically sensed and synchronously actuated to perform more efficiently, intelligently, and…
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Al-Turaif, Saudi Arabia: Cultural Tourism & A Living Community
Al-Turaif is part of the historic oasis of Al Diriya located on the banks of Wadi Hanifa next to Riyahd. It is the original home…
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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
This seminar is intended to provide the theoretical and methodological foundation for completing a graduate thesis in the department of Urban Planning and Design. By…
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Intermediate Landscape as Digital Media
The course will focus on digital modeling and representational tools for designers. Through the course, students will gain knowledge of digital design media and tools…
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Grids, Score for Designing the City
Within the research on \”Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century\”, this seminar will focus on the investigation of recent urbanistic projects which use…
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Critical History: Curating Images, Objects, Media
Jeffrey Schnapp, Peter Galison
This class will take place in the Science Center room 469.Critical History is an experimental seminar dedicated to bridging the worlds of media and things,…
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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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Urbanism in Europe
This seminar analyzes the socio-spatial characteristics of the European city. Given the wide variety of urbanisms that exist on the European continent, we must of…
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Reinventing Formal and Informal Latin American Urbanism
This course pursues two objectives: (1) It provides a general overview of Latin American Urbanism in order to understand how cities in this part of…
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Housing Policy in the United States: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sectors
In the 20th century, housing policy in the United States crafted a complex finance and delivery system that is the envy of the world. This…
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Sentient Cities as Cybernetic, Real-time, Control Systems : Theory and Practice of Urban Sensing_
A sensationalist approach can be applied to cities as cybernetic mechanisms which is the focus of this course on Sentient Cities as Cybernetic, Real-time, Control…
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GeoWeb: Virtual Worlds as Public Infrastructure
This seminar/workshop examines the growing utility of the World Wide Web as a framework for organizing the world\’s spatial knowledge. Three-dimensional virtual worlds such as…
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Lisbon: Research on Innovative Boulevards
PREREQUISITE: completion of fall 2010 studio, Rethinking Real and Virtual Infrastructures in the 21st Century: Innovative Boulevards in Lisbon, and permission of instructor.As Fall…
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Resource Extraction Urbanism: Recasting the South American Productive Landscape
ABSTRACTAs current development pressures continue to transform the hinterlands at an unprecedented rate, it has become more crucial than ever for the design disciplines…
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Baku: Oil City
Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, formerly part of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, is now one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing urban…
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Advanced Research Seminar: School for Year 2030
What might American education look like in the year 2030? By that time, today newborns will become college freshmen. The task of looking ahead at…
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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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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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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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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…