Courses
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Architecture, Urbanism and National Identity in Muslim Geographies
Commonly (and carelessly) used terms like “Islamic architecture” or “Islamic city” remain highly contentious because they designate monolithic, faith-based conceptualizations that fall…
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Real Estate Finance and Development
Richard Peiser, David Hamilton
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate finance and development. Lectures and case studies introduce students to the full range of…
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Land Use and Environmental Law
As a scarce and necessary resource, land triggers competition and conflict over possession, use, development, and preservation. For privately owned land, the market manages much…
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Cities by Design I
Cities by Design I is concerned with in-depth longitudinal examination of urban conditions in and among selected cities in the world. The…
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Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning, and Urban Design: Miami Beach and Boston
Saving Miami Beach from Climate-Change and Redeveloping Boston’s Columbia Point The Field Study course is designed to provide students an understanding of the dynamics and…
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Policy Making in Urban Settings (at HKS)
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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Analytic Methods of Urban Planning: Quantitative
This course introduces students to quantitative analysis and research methods. The course begins with a discussion of how quantitative methods fit within the broader research…
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Analytic Methods: Qualitative
How can planners understand places in a rich, meaningful, and yet systematic way? This module examines how qualitative approaches can be used…
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Transportation Policy and Planning (at HKS)
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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Housing and Urbanization in the United States
James Stockard, Jennifer Molinsky
This course examines housing as both an individual concern and an object of policy and planning. It is intended to provide those…
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Prosperity, Civic Values and Diversity in a Gentrifying City: The Case of Central Square, Cambridge
In Cambridge, as in other rapidly gentrifying cities, change is constant. Brought on by the city’s burgeoning innovation economy, and its deeply…
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Form+Finance: the Design of Real Estate
This course exposes students to tools, instruments and strategies for design thinking and the mechanisms of finance and market forces that shape and impact built…
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Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals for Public and Private Participants (at HKS)
Classroom is at HKS, Littauer 28 Class meeting time is Mon, Wed from 4:45 to 6:00 PM. However the first class will be on…
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Urban Governance and the Politics of Planning in the Developing World
This course starts from the premise that urban politics and governance arrangements shape the definition, form and practice of planning and therefore its outcomes. Using…
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Urban Design Proseminar
The proseminar is a forum for conversation on contemporary urban design. It is structured around three overlapping discussions: the formation of the discipline,…
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
Lecture meets T/Th 1-2 pm in Gund 111. The graduate section will meet the first week, Tuesday 1/27 at 11:30 in Gund…
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Discourses and Methods: Conservation, Destruction, and Curating Impermanence
Natalia Escobar Castrillon, K. Michael Hays
This seminar on critical conservation aims to develop concepts and strategies able to describe and curate the transitory and dynamic nature of architecture, landscapes…
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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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Markets and Market Failures
This course provides an introduction to how markets operate, the criteria for assessing their performance, and the circumstances under which they perform well or…
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Advanced Real Estate Finance
This course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate courses offered by other schools at Harvard. This year’s course covers five main…
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Building and Leading Real Estate Enterprises and Entrepreneurship
This course focuses on how you conceive, build and lead successful real estate companies. By virtue of the industry in which they compete, real…
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The Space of Conflict
Conflicts unfold at various interconnected scales: global, territorial, state, urban, human. Their geographical scopes stretch from the localized sites of citizen contestation and micro-struggles…
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Transportation Planning and Development
This is an introductory course that examines the complex relationship between transportation, land use and urban form, and the varied instruments available to planners…
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Housing and Urbanization in Global Cities
The subject of Housing and Urbanization in Global Cities examines housing policy and planning in urban societies around the world and especially in the…
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Economic Development in Urban Planning
Course Objectives and Outcomes This course introduces students to the theories, analytic frameworks and financial tools used to encourage local economic development in…
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Urban Design for Planners
Course Objectives This seminar course introduces physical planners to the approaches, techniques and tools of urban design necessary to structure the spatial and…
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Environmental Planning & Sustainable Development
The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to the ideas and information necessary to integrate environmental viability and sustainable development with…
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Affordable and Mixed-Income Housing Development, Finance, and Management
Explores issues relating to the development, financing, and management of housing affordable to low and moderate income households. Examines community-based development corporations, public housing authorities,…
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Urban Inequality after Civil Rights (at FAS)
Why is the United States more segregated today than ever before? By examining the impact of social, political, and economic transformations in the decades after…
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Mapping: Geographic Representation and Speculation
Maps do not represent reality, they create it. As a fundamental part of the design process, the act of mapping results in highly authored…
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Spatial Analysis and Representation
David Gamble, Robert Pietrusko
Urban planners engage in many complex processes that defy easy representation. This course provides first-semester urban planning students with the graphic and technical skills needed…
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History and Theory of Urban Interventions
This class provides a high-intensity introduction the history and theory of urban planning practice under modern capitalism. Building upon an interdisciplinary literature drawn from…
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Urbanization in the East Asian Region
This course meets for the first time on Monday, September 14th. The purpose of this lecture course is to provide an overall account of the…
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Structuring Urban Experience: From the Athenian Acropolis to the Boston Common
This lecture course examines selected cities between the fifth century B.C. and the seventeenth century A.D., beginning with ancient Athens and ending with proposals…
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Real Estate Finance and Development
This course teaches the fundamentals of real estate finance and development. Lectures and case studies introduce students to the full range of financial analysis…
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Land Use and Environmental Law
As a scarce and necessary resource, land triggers competition and conflict over possession, use, development, and preservation. For privately owned land, the market manages…
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Cities by Design I
Rahul Mehrotra, Peter Rowe, Felipe Correa, Eve Blau, Joan Busquets, Alex Krieger, Neil Brenner
The year-long ‘Cities by Design’ course is mandatory for all incoming Masters of Urban Design students. All other students are welcome to enroll in…
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Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning, and Urban Design
The Field Study course is designed to provide students an understanding of the dynamics and complexities of reality that create contemporary urban physical environments.
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Policy Making in Urban Settings (at HKS)
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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Analytic Methods of Urban Planning: Quantitative
This course introduces students to quantitative analysis and research methods. The course begins with a discussion of how quantitative methods fit within the broader research…
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Analytic Methods: Qualitative
This module examines how qualitative approaches can be used in planning practice and research. Qualitative methods are particularly useful in answering why and how questions;…
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Markets and Market Failures with Cases (at HKS)
Markets and Market Failures with Cases at KSG – HKS API-105A . Chris Hebert will offer the other version of Markets and Market Failures, GSD…
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Transportation Policy and Planning (at HKS)
Provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation policy and planning, as well as an introduction to the skills necessary for solving…
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Housing and Urbanization in the United States
James Stockard, Jennifer Molinsky
This course examines housing as both an individual concern and an object of policy and planning. It is intended to provide those with an…
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Spatial Analytics of the Built Environment
The course will investigate a number of qualitative and quantitative methods to measure and analyze urban spatial problems relevant to contemporary urban planning practice.
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Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals for Public and Private Participants (at HKS)
Classroom is at HKS, Littauer 28 Class meeting time is Mon, Wed from 4:45 to 6:00 PM. However the first class will…
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Market Analysis and Urban Economics
This course builds upon the academic literature and the applied experiences which constitutes the accumulated knowledge of urban and real estate economics and finance…
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Urban Governance and the Politics of Planning in the Developing World
This course will meet for the first time on Thursday, September 3rd from 6 – 9 pm in room 124. This…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regen. & Reuse of Brownfield Lands: Research, Remediation & Design Practices
‘A Brownfields Site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence, or potential presence of a…
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Urban Design Proseminar
The proseminar is a forum for conversation on contemporary urban design. It is structured around three overlapping discussions: the formation of the discipline, critiques of…