Courses
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Field Studies in Real Estate, Urban Planning and Design
This field study course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the dynamics and complexities of real-world development challenges that…
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Analytic Methods of Urban Planning: Quantitative
This course introduces students to quantitative analysis and research methods for urban planning. The course begins with an examination of how quantitative methods fit within…
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Analytic Methods of Urban Planning: 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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Housing and Urbanization in the United States
Jennifer Molinsky, James Stockard
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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Healthy Places: COVID-19 and Cities
The connections between health, well-being, and place are complex. This class uses COVID-19 as a starting point for examining how to make…
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Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems (at FAS)
Tarun Khanna, Satchit Balsari, Krzysztof Gajos, Doris Sommer, Rahul Mehrotra
What problems do developing countries face, and how can individuals contribute to solutions rather than awaiting the largesse of the state or other actors? Intractable…
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Urban Ethnographies
Planners’ understanding of social process and cultural values is often woefully inadequate, and their thinking is dominated by a “one-size-fits-all” approach and…
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Planning for Climate Change
This seminar explores how public and private institutions and individuals, under labels of “adaptation” or “resilience,” are positioning built and natural environments to respond to…
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Mapping the Political Economy of Space
“The ability to think critically involves three things: (1) an attitude of being disposed to consider in a thoughtful way the problems…
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Race, Power, and Resistance in the City
The police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black Americans, as well as the racial health disparities highlighted by the…
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Urban Design for Planners
Course ObjectivesThis seminar course introduces physical planners to the approaches, techniques and tools of urban design necessary to structure the spatial…
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Justice: Ethics in an Age of Pandemic and Racial Reckoning (at FAS)
What is a just society? What do we owe one another as citizens? What is a good life? These questions, long debated by philosophers, arise…
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Market Analysis and Urban Economics
This is a master’s level course intended to introduce students to urban economics and real estate market analysis. It covers urban market…
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Urban Governance and the Politics of Planning in the Developing World
This course starts from the premise that politics and governance arrangements can both enable and constrain effective urban planning action. Using a…
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Confronting Climate Change: A Foundation in Science, Technology and Policy (at FAS)
This course will consider the challenge of climate change and what to do about it. Students will be introduced to the basic science of…
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Real Estate Private Equity [M1]
Real Estate Private Equity explores, in depth, the analysis, decision-making and challenges private equity investors face when: 1. making and structuring highly…
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Real Estate Private Equity [M2]
Real Estate Private Equity explores, in depth, the analysis, decision-making and challenges private equity investors face when: 1. making and structuring highly…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Seth Denizen, Alistair McIntosh, George Thomas, Elizabeth Whittaker, Charles Waldheim, Iman Fayyad, Stephen Gray, Jonathan Grinham, Mark Lee, George L. Legendre, Ann Forsyth, Alex Wall, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, Lily Song, Oana Stanescu, Gareth Doherty, Preston Scott Cohen, Nathan King, Alfredo Thiermann, Megan Panzano, Joan Busquets, Malkit Shoshan, Stephen Ervin, Toshiko Mori, Jorge Silvetti, John May, Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Andrew Witt, Abby Spinak, Daniel D’Oca, Susan Snyder
Students may take a maximum of 8 units with different GSD instructors in this course series. 9201 must be taken for either 2, or 4…
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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
Carole Voulgaris, David Gamble
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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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
9502 must be taken for either 2 or 4 units. Under faculty guidance, the student conducts an independent reading program and formulates a thesis proposal.
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Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
Martin Bechthold, Ann Forsyth, Rahul Mehrotra, Peter Rowe, Charles Waldheim
Thesis in Satisfaction of the degree Doctor of Design.
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Second Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
Daniel D’Oca, Brie Hensold, Kathy Spiegelman, Carole Voulgaris, Richard Peiser
The second semester core planning studio expands the topics and methodologies studied in the first semester core studio, GSD 1121, aiming to prepare students for…
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Osaka – World Expos as Transformative Engine: Potentials for the Regular City
This studio focuses on the capacity of big urbanistic projects to direct the growth and transformation of large metropolises. It takes the example of Osaka…
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The Dam Studio: Climate Change Along the Mystic
Climate change presents one of the greatest challenges for cities. Extreme weather stresses infrastructures, nature, and the built environment. It impacts people, their health, safety,…
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ROCKET CITY: Envisioning a Future for the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL
The US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is NASA’s official Visitor Information Center for the Marshall Space Flight Center and receives over 1…
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After Amazon – What’s Next for LIC?
On February 14, 2019, New York City received an unexpected valentine from Amazon, announcing their withdrawal from a major new campus expansion project dubbed “HQ2.”…
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PUBLIC FIGURE/PRIVATE GROUND: Redevelopment of the FBI Site in Washington, DC
In 1790, Washington, DC, was established as the seat of political power in the newly formed United States. The plan and building form within the…
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TAISHAN: Designing the Rural Cosmopolis in China
Elaine Kwong, David Rubin, Kathryn Firth
Cosmopolitanism and its vibrancy are commonly associated with urban life; rural life by contrast is often seen as static, disconnected and monocultural. China’s rapid urbanization…
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Neuralisms Shenzhen: Fictions of Type and Territory
Shenzhen is China’s city of the future, a manufacturing and product development hub unlike any in the world. It is a place where innovation in…
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Drawing for Designers 2: Human Presence and Appearance in Natural and Built Environment
The aim of the class is to learn how to depict and express the presence and appearance of people in natural and…
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
The course is an interpretative look at the characteristic patterns of settlement and attitudes towards cities and urban life that are identified…
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Urban Form: Transition as Condition
The fixed categories by which we have traditionally understood the urban no longer hold. They have been undermined by the multiplicity of…
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Urban Grids: Open form for City Design-2
Framework: Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the investigation…
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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…
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Cities, Infrastructures, and Politics: From Renaissance to Smart Technologies
Infrastructures play a decisive role in urban development and the life of cities. This course will envisage this role from a historical…
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Conservation, Destruction, and Curating Impermanence
“History is what hurts.” -Fredric Jameson. This course deals with the political dimension of architectural, urban, and landscape conservation and aims to…
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Public and Private Development
This course provides a high-intensity introduction to the theory and practice of urban development in the contemporary United States. Through lectures, technical…
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Urban Politics, Planning, and Development (at HKS)
In the face of failures and dysfunction at the national level, there is growing excitement about the welfare- and democracy-enhancing potential of…
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Markets and Market Failures
This course provides a critical introduction to the creation and operation of markets, and assesses the criteria and circumstances under which they…
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Cities by Design II: Projects, Processes, and Outcomes
Cities are palimpsests. They are the spatial manifestations of a layering and re-layering of social and environmental systems over time. Cities by Design II is…
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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…
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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…
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Theories for Practice in Conflict, Crisis, and Recovery
Course topics and objectives: How do we understand the relationship between crisis, recovery and the built environment at the beginning of the…
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Housing and Urbanization in Global Cities
Housing and Urbanization in Global Cities examines housing policy and planning in urban societies around the world and especially in the Global…
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Global Perspectives on Shelter Insecurity and Displacement
This course examines the drivers of, and responses to, global shelter insecurity and displacement. It addresses these issues in both the Global…
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Environment, Economics, and Enterprise
Holly Samuelson, Frank Apeseche
How can one optimize the benefits of environmental or social sustainability while generating a higher return on investment in buildings? Where are…
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Community Development: History, Theory, and Imaginative Practice
Community development is a heterogeneous and contested field of planning thought and practice. The profession has generally prioritized people and places that…
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Urban Design and the Color-Line
“History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend…
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Developing for Social Impact
How can real estate development advance social purpose while accounting for development feasibility? With increasing urgency, those involved in shaping the…
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CoDesign Field Lab: Program Evaluation for Change Leadership
CoDesign Field Lab is a project-based research seminar (4 units) in which GSD students will work directly with Boston-based community, civic, and…
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