Courses
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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 510.
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Case Studies in Critical Conservation: Strategies for Curating the Built Environment
This course analyzes case studies in conservation as a means for developing projective strategies for interpreting and curating buildings, landscapes, and cities. More specifically, the…
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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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Urban Politics and Planning (at KSG)
Course focuses on how public governance and planning shape cities and urban regions in the United States and Europe. Topics include U.S. and European urban…
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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 poorly.
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Cities by Design II
Eve Blau, Alex Krieger, Sibel Bozdo??an, Rahul Mehrotra, Julie Buckler
Cities by Design studies urban form. Each semester the course focuses on five cities in order to expose students to a range of factors that…
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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 reviews the epistemologies of urban knowledge. How do planners and designers know what they know? We will discuss methods of field research in…
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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 focusses on how you conceive, start, manage and lead successful real estate companies. By virtue of the industry in which they compete, real…
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Transportation Policy and Planning (at KSG)
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 Global Cities
Alexander von Hoffman, Deidre Schmidt
This course analyzes housing policy and planning in developing urban societies around the world but especially in the Global South. Through slide presentations, lectures, presentations…
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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 the…
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Global Leadership in Real Estate and Design
In today’s increasingly connected urban centers, shifts in cultural preferences, design thinking, and spatial significations often reflect and parallel transitions in capital forces and economic…
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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 dimensional…
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The Design of Real Estate
This lecture course highlights the intersection between design and real estate through the focus on building typologies that are fundamental instruments for constructing urban patterns…
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International Humanitarian Response I and II (at HSPH)
Stephanie Kayden, Peter Walker
GSD SES 05432 is the equivalent of GHP 515 and GHP 518. This course is the equivalent of 3 GSD units, not 4.
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Environmental Planning & Sustainable Development
Note on course location: This class will meet at the Harvard Art Museums, room 0600. The goal of this course is to provide an…
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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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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 views…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regeneration of Brownfield Lands
This course concerns the reclamation of sites altered by prior industrial or commercial uses and in particular those that are derelict, environmentally hazardous and located…
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Design Competitions
Design competitions are increasingly used to procure design of, well, just about anything you can think of. In the world of built and landscape environments,…
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Media as Method
Today, the models of thought and levels of cognition that underlie the tools and technologies we use still on a daily basis, and over long…
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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
The purpose of this lecture course is to provide an overall account of urbanization in selected cities within the rapidly developing East Asian region from…
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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 skills…
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Land Use and Environmental Law
As a scarce and necessary resource for earthly activity, land triggers competition and conflict over its possession, use, development, and preservation. For privately owned land,…
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Cities by Design I
Rahul Mehrotra, Jana Cephas, Peter Rowe, Jose Castillo, Joan Busquets, Christine Smith, Alex Krieger, Jerold S. Kayden, Neil Brenner
Cities by Design studies urban form. This semester, five cities -Mexico City, Barcelona, Shanghai, Rome, and Detroit- will serve as case studies in order to…
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Policy Making in Urban Settings (at KSG)
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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Markets and Market Failures with Cases (at KSG)
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 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 seeking…
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Housing and Urbanization in the United States
James Stockard, Jennifer Molinsky
This course examines housing as an object of policy and planning as it relates to urban form and issues of social concern. It is intended…
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Healthy Places
Can the way places are planned and designed improve health? It seems obvious that there is such a link between environments and health but how…
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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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Real Estate Finance and Development Fundamentals for Public and Private Participants (at KSG)
Classroom is at HKS, Rubenstein G-20 (Neustadt Classroom) Class meeting time is Mon, Wed from 4:40 to 6:00 PM. However the first…
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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 to…
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Urban Governance and the Politics of Planning in the Developing World
Course starts from the premise that urban politics and governance arrangements can both enable and constrain effective planning action. Using a focus on cities in…
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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…
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Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form
This course takes an interpretive look at the American city in terms of changing attitudes toward urban life. City and suburb are experienced as the…
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Geo Architecture: A History and Theory for an Emerging Aesthetic
The course approaches architectural form through geographically inspired constructs. Drawing from physical and human geography, the proposed theory expands the setting of architecture from the…
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Urban Theory after 1968: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanism
This class elaborates some of the theoretical foundations for the ongoing research of the Urban Theory Lab on the contemporary “urban revolution”. Such an investigation…
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Case Studies in Critical Conservation: Strategies for Curating the Built Environment
This course analyzes case studies in conservation as a means for developing projective strategies for interpreting and curating buildings, landscapes, and cities. More specifically,…
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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 poorly.
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Cities by Design II
Rahul Mehrotra, Christine Smith, Ricky Burdett, Jana Cephas, Eve Blau, Peter Rowe, Jose Castillo, Erkin Ozay
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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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 reviews the epistemologies of urban knowledge. How do planners and designers know what they know? We will discuss methods of field research in…
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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 focusses on how you conceive, start, manage and lead successful real estate companies. By virtue of the industry in which they compete,…