Courses
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Housing Delivery Systems in the United States
This is a practical course that will examine how, why and where housing is produced in the United States. We will begin by looking at…
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Advanced Research Seminar: London Urban Development
Four students will participate in the London Studio (GSD 1505) taught by Simon Allford focusing on the intersections between design and real estate. The class…
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Advanced Research Seminar: Istanbul Field Study: Finance Center
The Turkish government is relocating numerous national financial institutions from Ankara to a site in the Umraniye district of Istanbul. This national policy action will…
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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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The Poetics of Materials (episodes in the cultural history of modern making)
The Spectacle Factory examines the modern history of immersive theater, entertainment, and media spaces from the standpoint of the history of architecture and design. It…
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Architecture or Poverty: The Challenges of Social and Economic Development from 1945 to the present
Is poverty an architectural question? When does it emerge as an ethical concern for the architect? How have modern architects historically addressed the problem of…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rethinking Suburban History
Rethinking Suburban HistoryRecent historical research about American suburbs demonstrates that they are much more varied and complicated than previously imagined. Descriptions of \”the suburbs,\” as…
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Villages in Development in the Pearl River Delta
Villages in DevelopmentThis workshop will focus on villages in China\’s Pearl River Delta. The rapid development of the region has increasingly led villages away from…
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Land Tenure and Property Rights as a Development Strategy: International Theory & Practice
In contemporary international development practice, a central principle holds that weak and insecure land and property rights are obstacles to economic growth and poverty reduction.
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Public Approvals for Private Development Projects
Because most urban development is undertaken by private proponents but has important societal implications, it is subject to increasingly rigorous and often contentious public review.
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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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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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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Design
Prerequisites: Four graduate-level courses in this area or enrollment in doctoral program.This research seminar addresses subjects of history, theory and human sciences related to architecture…
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Architecture Expanded: New Positioning in Scale, Context and Agency
The course aims to examine the changing role of design within new scales of context emerging in contemporary urbanism. Designers are increasingly being compelled to…
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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 consensus has emerged that the…
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Balkanization: From Metaphor of War to Shaping of Cities
Balkanization: from Metaphor of War to Shaping of CitiesOutside support: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Slovenia (in discussion), Austrian Cultural Centre, New York (in…
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Material Geographies 1: Large-Scale Infrastructure and Urbanization in the Sonoran Desert
AbstractThis advanced research workshop aims to explore the role of territorial infrastructural systems in relation to \”fast paced\” forms of urbanization within the North American…
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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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Social Spaces in the Academy II
Joan Busquets, Gareth Doherty, Jerold S. Kayden, Martin Zogran
Building on initial results from a provost-funded research study conducted several years ago by the first offering of this research seminar, this second offering will…
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New Geographies: Shaping Context by Design
The participants in the seminar will be presented with the following proposal: The Geographic is a dominant but latent paradigm in design today which we…
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Urban Design for Planners
This seminar course will introduce physical planners to the approaches, techniques, and tools of urban design necessary to structure the spatial and dimensional relationships of…
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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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Technology, Cities and Urban Form
This seminar will explore the impacts of a variety of technological innovations on the shape of cities and the character of urban life in America.
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Design and Real Estate Dynamics for the Dallas Arts District
Overview of the course This course is intended to provide students an understanding of spatial and economic dynamics that create contemporary urban environments through the…
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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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Spaces for the Arts at Harvard
The aim of this workshop/seminar is to study the existing spaces for the arts on the Harvard campus and to imagine alternative ways in which…
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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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Resurfacing (Revisiting) the Grid as an Organizational Device for the Design of the City
Framework:This upper level research seminar will focus on the investigation and evaluation of urbanistic projects which use the grid and its multiple variations as their…
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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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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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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…