The ongoing conversation about housing speculates on design’s capacity to address a range of disparate agendas and priorities. Investigations imagine housing as a central agent of change, responding to international, generational, cultural, demographic, psychological, and environmental issues in order to develop a more inclusive and sustainable engagement moving forward.
A new book, Homeownership Built to Last: Affordability, Access, and Risk after the Housing Crisis, features essays by Eric Belsky, Chris Herbert and Jen Molinsky of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and the Department of Urban Planning and Design. They offer solutions and strategies to create an affordable, fair, and sustainable future for all Americans.
Thirty-four members of the Second Semester Core Urban Planning Studio developed three planning alternatives for…
First Prize Winner of the 3rd LIXIL International University Architectural Competition Designed by…
The policy brief was written as a component of the Urbanization and International Development…
GA Collaborative, the non-profit design organization of Zaneta Hong (lecturer in landscape architecture and MLA I '07), Michael Leighton Beaman (MArch '03), James Setzler (MArch '05), and Yutaka Sho (MArch '05) is EDRA's 2014 Place Design Award recipient for the “Masoro Village Project."
All three winning teams in the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston’s annual Affordable Housing Development Competition featured members of the Urban Planning and Design Department.
Selected as the 1st place proposal from an annual affordable housing competition that draws submissions…
Since the implementation of housing reform in the 1990s, China’s urban commodity housing market has…
by Elizabeth MacWillie (MDes/MAUD ’14) Elizabeth MacWillie spent her summer at the Newark Department of Economic and…
Tessa Perry (MUP ’13) worked at Somerville Community Corporation (SCC), where her primary focus was to research other states with…