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In the early 1970s, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization…
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Shared Parking in Union Square
by Tim Czerwienski (MUP ’14) With the long-awaited MBTA Green Line extension arriving in Somerville’s…
GSD announces winners of 2013 Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
The Harvard Graduate School of Design is pleased to announce the awarding of the 11th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design to two projects, The Metro do Porto in Porto, Portugal, and the Northeastern Urban Integration Project in Medellín, Colombia.
A service summer: UPD students look back on Community Service Fellowships
Seven of the 11 winners of this year’s Community Service Fellowships were UPD students. As the summer comes to a close, UPD’s summer fellows reflect on their experiences.
Plan By MVH Urban Planning & Design and Partner’s Design Chosen for City Extension
Design by MVH, Inc, President Michael Von Hausen (MLAUD '80), and the Guangzhou Planning and Design Survey Research Institute was chosen for the extension of the City of Huangshi metropolitan area.
Cross-disciplinary action: the spring option studios
Spring semester option studios took UPD students across the globe, from Milan to Mexico City, from Chicago to Istanbul. Planning and urban design students were teamed with colleagues from across the GSD’s disciplines to investigate some of the core issues of the built form.
Sustainable infrastructure: the Zofnass (En)vision
he largest indoor sport fish hatchery in North America is the first ever recipient of the EnvisionTM Gold award for sustainable infrastructure. The award ceremony that honored the William Jack Hernandez Fish Hatchery of Anchorage Alaska was the culmination of 6 years of collaboration by the Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure at the GSD with the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure to create a rating system for infrastructure sustainability. It also marked the start of a new phase in implementing the Envision standards on a wide scale.
A Line in the Andes
A Line in the Andes—a one year investigation developed at the Harvard Graduate School of…
Gund: a stormwater testing lab
Two MDesS students are using the GSD as a laboratory to show how Gund’s outdoor spaces can be more inviting and social while also working to improve water quality. Ecaterina Dobrescu and Rebecca Bartlett created “Stormwater Modules,” with help from an Office for Sustainability grant, to transform a concrete patio through a modular system of vegetation and planters that will absorb and purify stormwater
He said, she said: Women in Design take on Pritzker
Although the response by the Pritzker jury to Women in Design’s petition - to acknowledge the work of Robert Venturi’s wife and creative partner Denise Scott Brown - was disappointing, the Harvard GSD group is not going to give up. And it’s expanding its efforts to keep a spotlight on the issue of equity in the design fields with its new Design for Equality website.
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