Courses
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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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Urbanization and International Development
This course undertakes a detailed examination of global urbanization in the context of international development. The course is divided into four components. It…
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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,…
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Global Leadership in Real Estate and Design
In today’s connected urban centers, shifts in cultural preferences, design thinking, and spatial significations often reflect and parallel transitions in capital forces and economic realities,…
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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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The Design of Real Estate
Building typologies are fundamental instruments for constructing urban patterns and spatial forms. In the discourse of modern architecture and urbanism, the study of building typologies…
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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
The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to the ideas and information necessary to integrate environmental viability and sustainable development with other…
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Real Estate in Frontier Markets (at HBS)
This course is offered as a 2 unit course in spring 2014. Jointly Listed at Harvard Business School as HBS 1462 Meets according to the…
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Affordable and Mixed-Income Housing Development, Finance, and Management
This “nuts and bolts” course focuses on the development, financing, and management of both rental and ownership affordable and mixed-income housing developments. The primary public…
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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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Real-Time Cities: an Introduction to Urban Cybernetics
In real-time cities, urbanity merges with digital information so that the built environment is dynamically sensed and synchronously actuated to perform more efficiently, intelligently,…
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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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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 the urbanization in selected cities within the rapidly developing East Asian…
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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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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 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, A. Hashim Sarkis, Farès el-Dahdah, Alex Krieger, Peter Rowe, Sibel Bozdo??an, Joan Busquets, Erkin Ozay
\’Cities by Design\’ is a year-long course that studies urban form. In the fall semester, \’Cities by Design\’ will explore six urban case studies…
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Markets and Market Failures with Cases (at KSG)
Markets and Market Failures with Cases at KSG – HKS API-105A . Professor Jose Gomez-Ibanez offers 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…
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Housing and Urbanization in the United States
This course examines housing as an object of policy and planning as it relates to urban form and issues of social concern. It is…
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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…
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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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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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Real Estate Finance 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 practical 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 starts from the premise that politics and governance arrangements will both enable and constrain effective urban planning action. Using a focus on…
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Library Test Kitchen III: Library Machines
Jeffrey Schnapp, Jeff Goldenson, Ann Whiteside
The Library, up there with the US Postal Service, represents one of the most exciting institutional design opportunities out there. Library Test Kitchen is…
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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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Urban Form: History + Theory
The course is historical and theoretical. It is concerned with the economic, social, and political factors that shape urban processes and environments and the efforts…
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Case Studies in Critical Conservation: Architecture and Cities
This course analyzes international case studies in the conservation of buildings and urban environments as a means for developing projective strategies for interpreting and…
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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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Cities by Design II
Rahul Mehrotra, Peter Rowe, Jose Castillo, Farès el-Dahdah, Antoine Picon, Jana Cephas
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 introduces students to selected qualitative methods for thinking about urban planning research. Students learn about and practice field research techniques, including interview, observation,…
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Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance
Richard Peiser, Frank Apeseche
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 topics:…
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Urbanization and International Development
This course undertakes a detailed examination of global urbanization in the context of international development. The course is divided into four components. It begins by…
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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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Creating Resilient Cities: Disaster Field Lab
This course, taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) and selected field sites in New York City will be conducted using a…
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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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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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Tourism Planning and Economic Development
Governments around the world seek to leverage economic development by increasing their share of the global tourism market. This course introduces students to tourism as…
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Public Approvals for Private Development Projects
This module will examine how the development approval process shapes large-scale private projects. Whether undertaken by market-oriented developers or mission-driven non-profit institutions, such projects are…
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Building Design Typologies and Operational Principles of Real Estate
Building typologies are fundamental instruments for constructing urban patterns and spatial forms. In the discourse of modern architecture and urbanism, the study of building typologies…
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Essentials of Humanitarian Action
Stephanie Kayden, Peter Walker
GSD SES 05432 is the equivalent of GHP 515 and GHP 518. This course will offer a practical and in-depth analysis of the complex…
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Real Estate in Frontier Markets
Jointly Listed at Harvard Business School as HBS 1462 Meets according to the X schedule, 11:40 a.m. – 1 p.m., Hawes 201. Go here to…
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Affordable and Mixed-Income Housing Development, Finance, and Management
This “nuts and bolts” course focuses on the development, financing, and management of both rental and ownership affordable and mixed-income housing developments. The primary public…