Courses
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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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Planning for the 21st Century: Emerging Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
What role does design play in the planning process? How will demographic and other emerging trends influence how we design and plan for communities for…
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Planning for the 21st Century: Emerging Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
What role does design play in the planning process? How will demographic and other emerging trends influence how we design and plan for communities for…
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Community Action Planning: Principles and Practices
This course is an introduction to the theories, principles, processes and practices of Community Action Planning (CAP), as well as its underlying tools and…
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Creating Resilient Cities: Climate Adaptive and Anticipatory Practices
This lecture course examines the concept of community resiliency in the age of climate change. How do planners and designers measure, foster, organize, evaluate and…
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Cities and Environmental Change
How can the practice of urban planning and design creatively engage communities to address the immediate and long-termer challenges posed by environmental change? We…
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Creating Resilient Cities: Future Coasts and Spatial Analysis of Cities at Risk
Coastal cities are undergoing environmental changes at a scale and pace that challenges traditional cultures, disciplinary methods, experience, histories and techniques. The same could be…
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Design, Development, and Democracy in the Future City
This course will meet for the first time on Tuesday, September 1st from 9 am – 12 pm in room 510. This…
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Territorial Intelligence: Towards an Evidence Based Design
Disciplines linked to cities are experiencing a period defiant to conventional theory, methodologies, programs and projects. In understanding that design is not solely an aesthetic…
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Deciding Interventions in Urban Development: A Practical Guide to Strategic Design
This course offers guidelines for deciding interventions in Urban Development, given conflicting and often competing needs and aspirations amongst stakeholders. Its objectives are threefold:…
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Design for Urban Disaster
With unprecedented rates of urban growth, especially in Africa and Asia, people in towns and cities are more vulnerable to natural disasters than ever…
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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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Introduction to Local Economic Development
This course introduces students to local economic development from the perspective of urban planning. Students learn about the theories, analytic frameworks and indicators used…
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Humanitarian Studies: Theory & Practice
Stephanie Kayden, Michael VanRooyen, Peter Walker
Stephanie Kayden, Michael VanRooyen, Peter Walker\’s course 05432: Humanitarian Studies: Theory & Practice will meet in FAS, Emerson Hall, room 101 on Wednesdays from 5:30-7:30…
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Modern Housing and Urban Districts: Concepts, Cases and Comparisons
This seminar course will deal with ‘modern housing’ covering a period primarily from 1990 to the present. It will engage with ‘urban districts’ in so…
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Modern Housing and Urban Districts: Concepts, Cases and Comparisons
This seminar course will deal with ‘modern housing’ covering a period primarily from 1990 to the present. It will engage with ‘urban districts’ in…
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Modern Housing and Urban Districts: Concepts, Cases and Comparisons
This seminar course will deal with ‘modern housing’ covering a period primarily from 1990 to the present. It will engage with ‘urban districts’ in so…
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Modern Housing and Urban Districts: Concepts, Cases and Comparisons
This seminar course will deal with ‘modern housing’ covering a period primarily from 1990 to the present. It will engage with ‘urban districts’ in…
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The Spatial Politics of Land: A Comparative Perspective
This course focuses on the deeply contested and political processes of land-use planning, i.e. of allocating land amongst different, often competing uses, and the…
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Advanced Workshop in Participatory Urban Planning and Design
This workshop combines seminar and studio elements. In weekly seminar sessions, students discuss key readings on the theory and practice of participatory planning and…
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Environmental Justice and Climate Resilience in Planning and Design
How can the practice of urban planning and design creatively engage communities to address the immediate and long-term challenges posed by climate variability and environmental…
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Urban Projects and the Development Approval Process
Course Description and Objectives:Large-scale development projects in American cities typically require a series of approvals from municipal, state and occasionally federal boards and agencies. These…
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Urban Projects and the Development Approval Process
Course Description and Objectives:Large-scale development projects in American cities typically require a series of approvals from municipal, state and occasionally federal boards and agencies. These…
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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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Political Economy of Urbanization
Over the last two decades or so, cities have been undergoing a drastic process of restructuring. An ever-growing number of terms – urban villages, edge…
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Political Economy of Urbanization
Over the last two decades or so, cities have been undergoing a drastic process of restructuring. An ever-growing number of terms – urban villages, edge…
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Political Economy of Urbanization
Over the last two decades or so, cities have been undergoing a drastic process of restructuring. An ever-growing number of terms – urban villages, edge…
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Political Economy of Urbanization
Over the last two decades or so, cities have been undergoing a drastic process of restructuring. An ever-growing number of terms – urban villages, edge…
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Political Economy of Urbanization
Over the last two decades or so, cities have been undergoing a drastic process of restructuring. An ever-growing number of terms-urban villages, edge cities, exopolises,…
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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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Affordable Housing and Community Development: The Role of Design
Description: The current process for the production of affordable housing in the US will be generally reviewed, with an emphasis on how urban design and…
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The Design of Housing in the United States
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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,…
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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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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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The Politics of Urban Development
Provides an overview on how large US cities and metropolitan areas makedecisions about both public investments (in facilities such as roads,transit systems, airports, stadiums, and…
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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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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…