Courses
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The Design of Housing in the United States
Drawing largely from the work of the instructor, weekly presentations and discussions will consider those aspects of the design of housing that are critical for…
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Planning and Theories of Justice
The aims of planning have been broadly defined in terms of justice, efficiency, and environmental protection. This course, which will meet for the first half…
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Change
James Stockard, Toni L. Griffin
There Goes the Neighborhood:Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhoods and Neighborhood ChangeNeighborhoods are the stuff of which cities are made. Downtowns are the iconic parts of…
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Three-Dimensional Modeling of Cities
This course explores the technologies and standards that are beginning to permit the development and distribution of three-dimensional representations of places that are vast in…
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New Geographies
The participants in the seminar will be presented with the following proposal: Geography is a dominant but latent paradigm in design today and we need…
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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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Local Development and Economic Restructuring
This seminar rests on the consideration that any intervention for the development of a depressed (or declining) area should be informed by an understanding of…
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Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in Urban Planning and Design
This course introduces students to the practice of negotiation and mediation in the context of urban planning and development. Learning from general theories of negotiation…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Local Development and Economic Restructuring
This course is organized in three parts. First, it focuses on the economic changes that, over the last twenty years, have taken place in most…
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Restructuring From Within: A Flatbed Site in Quito As an Agent for New Centrality
This Faculty Research Seminar, sponsored by the Corporacion de Salud Ambiental de Quito, aims to investigate a fundamental issue in the transformation of the contemporary…
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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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The Culture and Politics of the Built Environment in the US: Seminar
Yearlong research seminar in conjunction with the Charles Warren Center workshop of scholars working in the field. Scholars will be working on research projects that…
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Field Studies in Real Estate
Field studies sponsored by property owners, non-profit organizations and public agencies in the United States and Ireland will be undertaken by students working in teams…
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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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Strategies for Social Inclusion in Development
Strategies for Social Inclusion in Urban and Regional DevelopmentThis seminar offers students an opportunity to pursue advanced work in urban planning that addresses the challenge…
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Utopias and Heterotopias
The purpose of this seminar is to examine two modes of thinking about space, its creation and its influence. The first mode – utopian thought…
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Participatory Design and Planning for Developing Cities, with Special Reference to Latin America
Participatory Design and Planning for Developing Cities, with Special Reference to Latin America.ObjectivesThe objective of the module is to acquire the basic concepts, tools and…
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Advanced Site Modeling
Prerequisite: GSD 2109, GSD 6319, GSD 6322, GSD 2107, or permission of instructorThis course explores the problems of building and maintaining representations of broad-scale urban…
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The Culture and Politics of the Built Environment in the US: Seminar
Yearlong research seminar in conjunction with the Charles Warren Center workshop of scholars working in the field. Scholars will be working on research projects that…
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Cultural Continuity and the Built Environment: Historic Preservation in Theory and Practice
Historic preservation proceeds from the premise that the built environment – buildings, landscapes, and other places shaped by human hands – form a record 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 multifamily housing. Drawing largely from the completed work of the…
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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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Configurations of Public Space – debate and design
\’To promote a politics of inclusion, then, participatory democrats must promote the ideal of a heterogeneous public, in which persons stand forth with their differences…
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Green Modern: A History of Environmental Consciousness in Architecture from Patrick Geddes to the Present
The main themes of the contemporary ecological movement in architecture are often presented as responses to the environmental damage that modern architecture and urban planning…
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The Shaping and Preservation of Urban Spaces
Prerequisite:2 graduate level courses in architectural history or related topics or equivalent preparation, and permission of the instructor. Prior to the lottery fill out the…
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Culture of Cities
During the nineteenth century, as dramatic urban transformations rendered many European and American cities nearly unrecognizable, a new urban discourse emerged. Urban critics struggled to…
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Field Studies in Real Estate
Field studies sponsored by property owners, non-profit organizations and public agencies in the United States and China will be undertaken by students working in teams…
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Advanced Topics in Design, Law, Policy
This workshop provides students with an opportunity to examine in depth a legal technique or issue having a significant effect on the design and planning…
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Listening to the City
This workshop course will address one of the central contradictions currently facing architects, planners, landscape architects and urban designers who want to practice in the…
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Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in Urban Planning and Development
This course introduces students to the practice of negotiation and mediation in the context of urban planning and development. Learning from general theories of negotiation…
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Utopias and Heterotopias
The purpose of this seminar is to examine two modes of thinking about space, its creation and its influence.The first mode – utopian thought –…
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The Regional City: Values and Ethics in Contemporary Urbanism
Fairness. Efficiency. Equality. Access. Choice. Entrepreneurship. Diversity. Vitality. Competitiveness. Self-sufficiency. Kindness. Democracy. Stewardship. Citizens hold these and many other values in contemporary American communities. Values…
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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…