Harvard College Urban Studies Society

Urban-Related Course Information

Spring 2009

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Table of Content: Harvard College

Freshman Seminars -- 3

History of Art and Architecture -- 3

Economics, Anthropology -- 5 Government, Visual and Environmental Studies -- 6

Other Departmental Courses -- 7

Core Curriculum -- 8

M.I.T. -- 10 Harvard Kennedy School of Government -- 13 Harvard Graduate School of Design

Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture -- 15 Department of Urban Planning and Design -- 18

Contact Information and Resources -- 26

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Harvard College

*Freshman Seminar 44v. Urban Environmental Health

Freshman Seminars:

(New Course) Catalog Number: 3210 Enrollment: Limited to 12. Jonathan Ian Levy (Public Health) Half course (spring term). W., 2-4. In a world where half of the population now lives in urban areas, this course examines the complex environmental and health implications of urbanization, considering both beneficial and detrimental effects in developing and developed countries. Case studies include health and safety risks from traffic around the world, environmental implications of energy usage and generation patterns in the United States and China, and health risks related to substandard drinking water in mega-cities in developing countries. Note: Open to Freshmen only. *Freshman Seminar 48i. State, Tribes, and Cities: Varieties of Political Organization Catalog Number: 8869 Enrollment: Limited to 12. Noah I. Dauber Half course (spring term). W., 4-6. Political organization in the West has varied a great deal over the ages, including kinship groups, city-states, lordships, church communities, and nation states. This seminar will explore both the theory and practice of these forms from Antiquity to the present. Questions to be considered include: What is a political community? How is it different from a private community? How do urban and rural forms differ? How is membership defined in the different forms? Note: Open to Freshmen only.

History of Art and Architecture 1. Landmarks of World Art & Architecture

History of Art and Architecture

Catalog Number: 3951 Neil Levine and members of the Department Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 14 Examines major works of world art and architecture and the unique aesthetic, cultural, and historical issues that frame them. Members of the faculty will each lecture on an outstanding example in their area of expertise, covering various media and drawing from such diverse cultures as Renaissance Italy, twentieth-century Europe and America, Safavid Persia, Revolutionary France, Han dynasty China, and the ancient Near East. Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Literature and Arts B.

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History of Art and Architecture 12m. Monuments and Cities of the Islamic World: An Introduction (New Course) Catalog Number: 0678 David J. Roxburgh Half course (spring term). M., W., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5 An introduction to key monuments and cities-Baghdad, Cairo, Cordoba, Isfahan, Istanbul, Samarqand-from the historical Islamic lands, ca. 650-1650 C.E., from Spain to India. Various building types are treated-e.g., mosques, palaces, schools, tombs, and shrines-as well as the factors that shaped them, whether artistic, cultural, socio-religious, political, or economic. Different methods of studying architecture are introduced in the course of the lectures. History of Art and Architecture 131g. Pergamon: A Hellenistic Royal Residence and its Roman Afterlife (New Course) Catalog Number: 8305 Ruth Bielfeldt Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12 The marvelously preserved city of Pergamon is still the best example to study monarchic town planning in the Hellenistic world. The exertion of monarchic power on the urban texture of the newborn capital of the Pergamene kingdom: this explicitly political perspective will help us understand the extant archaeological remains, the urban layout, the hierarchically organized public space, the sanctuaries with their famous war memorials as well as the spaces of private life. *History of Art and Architecture 170g. The Grid Catalog Number: 9803 Enrollment: Limited to 10. Neil Levine Half course (spring term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18 Examines one of the most fascinating and contested devices underlying the design of buildings, cities, and works of art in general. Important since antiquity, the grid has become, in the modern era, a characteristic and prevalent way to organize space and form. Examples to be studied will range from the Spanish Law of the Indies and the Jeffersonian Land Survey to the use of the grid by Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies, LeWitt, Eisenman, and others. History of Art and Architecture 181v. Art and Architecture of Ancient South Asia: Embellishing Empires and Adorning Divine Abodes (New Course) Catalog Number: 4956 Catherine Becker Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4 From the great urban centers of the Indus Valley, to the earliest depictions of deities from the Hindu pantheon and from the aggrandizing pillars of the Emperor Acoka, to the more humble contributions of many individual donor’s to the world’s first Buddhist monuments, this course not only examines more than 4000 years of artistic production in South Asia but also considers how these material remains are imbued with new meanings by later interpreters.

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History of Art and Architecture 235g. The Roman House as Enlivened Space (New Course) Catalog Number: 4809 Enrollment: Limited to 12. Ruth Bielfeldt Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16 Seminar addresses the culture of enlivenment in the late Republican/Early Imperial Campanian House, manifest in the figural and floral decoration of furniture and household objects, in statuary, and illusionistic wall paintings of garden landscapes and animate architecture.

Economics 2811. Social Economics

Economics

Catalog Number: 5188 Roland G. Fryer Half course (spring term). M., W., 8:30-10. EXAM GROUP: 1, 2 Applies the tools of economics to explore social issues including crime, discrimination, racial and gender differences, poverty, family structure, urban problems, social interactions and peer effects, and intergenerational mobility. Anthropology Anthropology 1155. Before Baghdad: Cities of Ancient Mesopotamia - (New Course) Catalog Number: 8450 Jason A. Ur Half course (spring term). M., W., at 10. The world’s first cities emerged in Mesopotamia and were the defining characteristic of ancient civilizations in what is today Iraq, Syria and Turkey. They were inhabited by large populations, powerful kings, and the gods themselves. The course will consider the origins, ecology, spacial arrangement, socioeconomic religious organization, religious institutions, and collapse of cities from Gilgamesh to Saddam. Through archaeology and ancient texts, students will become familiar with cities such as Uruk, Babylon, Nineveh, and Baghdah. Anthropology 1885. Desire, Duty, and Discontent: Ethnographic Examinations of Contemporary Urban "China" - (New Course) Catalog Number: 2457 Nicole D. Newendorp Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16 Contemporary life in Chinese urban areas is shaped by political and economic processes in the PRC, resulting in complex and ever-changing urban landscapes. This class will examine contemporary Chinese urban life in the PRC but also in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and North America. Questions considered include: Where is "China" located? What similarities and differences underlie changing patterns of social life in various urban Chinese locations? What challenges face ethnographers doing research in Chinese urban areas? Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis.

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*Government 98hl. The Political Economy of China's Market Reforms

Government

(New Course) Catalog Number: 8091 Enrollment: Limited to 16. Nara Dillon Half course (spring term). W., 2-4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8 After an introduction to different theoretical approaches to the political economy of development, this course will examine China's post-Mao economic reforms in comparative perspective. Some of the topics covered include the one-child policy, foreign trade and investment, the role of labor, rural-urban migration, and the rise of inequality. *Government 98vj. Collective Action, Sustainability and Development in Latin America (New Course) Catalog Number: 1595 Enrollment: Limited to 16. Juan Camilo Cardenas Half course (fall term). Tu., 2-4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17 We combine theory and evidence from ethnographic studies and behavioral lab and field experiments in Latin America to explore the possibilities and limitations of collective action in rural and urban settings for enhancing environmental sustainability, the provision of adequate public goods and assuring greater economic security and equality of opportunity. Students participate in classroom experiments, and work on a new experimental or behavioral research project to address an interesting question about Latin America.

*Visual and Environmental Studies 33. Objects and Environments: Studio Course

Visual and Environmental Studies

(New Course) Catalog Number: 1610 Enrollment: Limited to 12. Sanford Biggers (Virginia Commonwealth University) Half course (spring term). T. 9-12 and additional hours to be arranged. Minimalism, Pop, Identity, Collage, Post-Black, Post-White? What does it all mean? This workshop will familiarize beginning sculptors with important movements past and present, while introducing basic woodworking, mold making and metal welding techniques. Special emphasis will be placed on developing technical proficiency, critical thinking and communication, and individual expression. Note: No previous studio experience necessary. *Visual and Environmental Studies 37. Lay of the Land: Studio Course Catalog Number: 3090 Enrollment: Limited to 12. Stephen Prina Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 1-4. The pursuit of and response to the horizontal in art will be the focus of this studio class. To cite a few examples, abstract expressionist painting, cartography, earthworks, landscape photography, 19th century German Romantic landscape painting, and Rayograms will provide models of the horizontal that will be points of departure for studio projects, the forms of which will be determined by what the investigation provides. Students will shift medium from project to project. Note: No previous studio experience necessary.

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*Visual and Environmental Studies 160. Modernization in the Visual United States Environment, 1890-2035 Catalog Number: 6668 Enrollment: Limited to 20. John R. Stilgoe Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 10–11:30. Modernization of the US visual environment as directed by a nobility creating new images and perceptions of such themes as wilderness, flight, privacy, clothing, photography, feminism, status symbolism, and futurist manipulation as illustrated in print-media and other advertising enterprise. Note: Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as 4303. Prerequisite: VES 107 or permission of the instructor. *Visual and Environmental Studies 167. Adventure and Fantasy Simulation, 1871-2036: Seminar Catalog Number: 4902 John R. Stilgoe Half course (spring term). Tu., 1-3. Visual constituents of high adventure since the late Victorian era, emphasizing wandering woods, rogues, tomboys, women adventurers, faerie antecedents, halflings, crypto-cartography, Third-Path turning, martial arts, and post-1937 fantasy writing as integrated into contemporary photography, advertising, video, computer-generated simulation, and designed life forms. Note: Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as 4305. Prerequisite: VES 107, VES 160, and VES 166, or permission of the instructor.

*Social Studies 98gf. Modernity and Social Change in East Asia

Other Departmental Courses

Catalog Number: 5553 Enrollment: Limited to 10. Nicole D. Newendorp Half course (spring term). Th., 1-3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16 Examines the interconnections between modernity and social change in contemporary China, Japan, and Korea. Explores how modernity is conceptualized by both state and society actors and how these visions fuel change at local and national levels. Particular attention will be paid to issues of social protest, migration, consumption, gender, ethnicity, and family life in both rural and urban locations. Readings focus on ethnographic case studies and the effects of modernity on everyday life experience. Hebrew 164. Hebrew City (New Course) Catalog Number: 0146 Avi Matalon Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged. Examines the representation of cities and urban life in Jewish literature, with special emphasis on the Hebrew literature of Tel-Aviv. Readings and discussion in Hebrew.

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French 48b. Contemporary French Society Catalog Number: 8290 Marie-France Bunting and staff Half course (spring term). Sections M., W., F., at 10 or 12.. EXAM GROUP: 3 Designed to develop greater linguistic fluency while introducing students to major debates in French society today. Themes to be explored include: family, gender, the education system, urban problems and social stratification, immigration, and French politics. Students will participate in discussions based on readings from the French press as well as from sociological and literary sources. Films and video documents closely related to the course material will emphasize the social, cultural and human aspects. Note: Conducted entirely in French. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Students may take no more than two courses numbered in the 40s. Prerequisite: French 35, 36, 37, 42, 45, or 47b; 750 on the SAT II or the Harvard placement test; or permission of course head. Note: This course will be lotteried. Latin American Studies 70. Modernity, Culture and Politics in Latin America Catalog Number: 3379 Mariano Siskind Half course (spring term). W., 3-5, and an additional hour to be arranged.. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9 Introduces students to central debates and problems that have shaped Latin American culture. We address questions of cultural identity, gender, race, politics and aesthetics by looking at historical and literary texts, films, visual arts and urban development from an interdisciplinary perspective. We analyze colonial encounters and gendered subjectivities; the Haitian, Mexican and Cuban revolutions; US-Latin American relations; popular cultures; Latin American cities from Brasilia to Ciudad Juarez; and memory, trauma and traces of dictatorships. Note: Conducted in Spanish. Readings in Spanish and in English.

Foreign Cultures 74. Cultures of Southern Europe

CORE CURRICULUM Foreign Cultures 90. Tel Aviv: Urban Culture in Another Zion Catalog Number: 0199 Avi Matalon Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 12, and a weekly section to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 14 How to read a city? Tel Aviv was founded under the concept of the “first Hebrew city” and rapidly became the cultural, economic, and political center of Jewish settlement in Palestine. Over the past century it has become a metropolis and the cultural and economic hub of the State of Israel. This course will trace Tel Aviv’s historical development and its cultural representation using history, literature, film, urban planning, photography, art, and music. Note: Expected to be omitted in 2009–10.

Catalog Number: 0603 Michael Herzfeld Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 12, and a weekly section to be arranged.. EXAM GROUP: 5 This is a survey of the modern cultures of Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, and Spain. Southern Europe has been viewed as both the fount of "Western civilization" and as a poor and crime-ridden backwater; it has been home to imperial powers and humiliated client-states alike. Through the

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reading of anthropological field studies (urban and rural), literary and historical portrayals, and artistic representations (including film and opera), this course focuses on what such contradictions mean for people in those countries at the level of everyday life, and provides an account of differences as well as similarities among the countries discussed. Literature and Arts B-20. Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form Catalog Number: 3243 Alex Krieger (Design School) Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 1, and a weekly section to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 15 An interpretive look at the American city in terms of changing attitudes toward urban life. City and suburb are experienced as the product of design and planning decisions informed by cultural and economic forces, and in relationship to utopian and pragmatic efforts to reinterpret urban traditions in search of contemporary alternatives. Topics include: persistent ideals such as the single-family home, attitudes toward public and private space, the rise of suburbs and suburban sprawl, cycles of disinvestment and renewed interest in urban centers, and impacts of mobility and technology on settlement patterns. Note: Expected to be omitted in 2009–10. Literature and Arts C-61. The Rome of Augustus Catalog Number: 1101 R. J. Tarrant Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 12, and a weekly section to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 14 Roman culture and society in a period of radical transformation, the lifetime of the first emperor, Augustus (63 BCE–14 CE). Focuses on the interplay between a new set of political realities and developments in literature, the visual arts, and the organization of private and social life. Readings (all in translation) from Catullus, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Propertius, Ovid, and Tacitus, with special attention to the two great masterworks of the period, Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Most lectures illustrated with slides. Note: For students under the Core requirement, counts as either Literature and Arts C or Historical Study B, but not both. This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the General Education requirement for Societies of the World. Social Analysis 50. Urban Revolutions: Archaeology and the Investigation of Early States Catalog Number: 4409 C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 10, and a 90-minute weekly section to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 12 Examines the development and structure of the earliest state-level societies in the ancient world. Archaeological approaches are used to analyze the major factors behind the processes of urbanization and state formation in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Central Asia, the Indus Valley, and Mesoamerica. The environmental background as well as the social, political, and economic characteristics of each civilization are compared to understand the varied forces that were involved in the transitions from village to urbanized life. Discussion sections utilize archaeological materials from the Peabody Museum and Semitic Museum collections to study the archaeological methods used in the class. Note: No previous knowledge of archaeology is necessary.

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M.I.T. 11.003J Methods of Policy Analysis ______ Undergrad (Spring) HASS Elective (Same subject as 17.303J) Prereq: 11.002J, 17.30J, Coreq: 14.01 Units: 3-0-9 Add to schedule Lecture: MW11-12.30 (5-231) ______ Provides students with an introduction to public policy analysis. Examines various approaches to policy analysis by considering the concepts, tools, and methods used in economics, political science, and other disciplines. Students apply and critique these approaches through case studies of current public policy problems. Staff 11.004J CityScope ______ Undergrad (Spring) HASS Elective (Same subject as 4.001J) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Add to schedule Lecture: TR11-12.30 (9-251) ______ Project-based introduction to the contemporary city as a complex system within a context of limited resources and competing interests. Learn to assess scenarios for the purpose of formulating social, economic and design strategies that provide optimized solutions that are humane and sustainable. Group projects develop and advocate visions for housing, urban planning, regeneration of natural ecologies and other sectors of the city. Travel may be involved that will be funded, but not required. Includes exercises in written and oral communication and team building. Limited to 15 participants. Preference to freshmen. J. Fernandez, P. Thompson 11.005 Introduction to International Development (New) ______ Undergrad (Spring) HASS Elective Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Add to schedule Lecture: TR3-4.30 (3-442) ______ Introduction to ideas, theories, and institutions in international development. Designed for students interested in specializing in international development, particularly those pursuing a Course XI HASS concentration in that area. Topics include global poverty alleviation, sustainable development, good governance, and the role of technology in development. Amsden

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11.007 Public Policy Disputes ______ Undergrad (Spring) HASS Elective Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 ______ Introduction to real-world dynamics of public policy controversies. Considers national, state, and local policy disputes, such as smoking, hazardous waste, abortion, gun control, and education. Using a case study approach, students study whether and how those disputes get resolved. Students conduct debates and simulations in addition to writing a series of short essays. J. Layzer 11.022J Regulation of Chemicals, Radiation, and Biotechnology ______ Undergrad (Spring) (Same subject as 1.802J) (Subject meets with 1.812J, 11.631J, ESD.134J) Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Add to schedule Lecture: W EVE (7-10 PM) (E51-372) +final ______ Focuses on policy design and evaluation in the regulation of hazardous substances and processes. Includes risk assessment, industrial chemicals, pesticides, food contaminants, pharmaceuticals, radiation and radioactive wastes, product safety, workplace hazards, indoor air pollution, biotechnology, victims' compensation, and administrative law. Health and economic consequences of regulation, as well as its potential to spur technological change, are discussed for each regulatory regime. N. Ashford, C. Caldart 11.024 Great Cities ______ Undergrad (Spring) HASS Elective Prereq: None Units: 3-0-6 ______ Seminar that explores the attributes of cities that are described by a variety of sources, including members of the class, as "great cities." Class concerns a variety of criteria that have been, or might be, used to ascribe greatness to cities, such as attractiveness, quality of life, and richness of opportunity, and examines the consistency and/or contradictory evidence in judgments about cities. J. P. de Monchaux 11.027 City to City: Comparing, Researching and Writing about Cities ______ Undergrad (Spring) HASS Elective Prereq: None Units: 3-0-9 Add to schedule Lecture: R2.30-5 (9-554) ______ Introduction to research in urban planning. Study a domestic and a foreign city, focussing on a planning issue common to both. Develop a research question; create a research strategy; interview

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faculty and other field experts; write and present findings to US and international audiences. Students encouraged to visit one of the study cities for research. Enrollment limited to 10. Abbanat 11.123 Big Plans ______ Undergrad (Spring) HASS Elective Prereq: None Units: 3-0-6 Add to schedule Lecture: TR10-12 (1-273) ______ Explores social, technological, political, economic, and cultural implications of "Big Plans" in the urban context. Local and international case studies (such as Boston's Central Artery and Curitiba, Brazil's bus transit system) are used to understand the process of making major changes to the city fabric. The efficacy of top-down and bottom-up planning and the applicability of planning strategies across cultural boundaries are considered. A. Berger

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Harvard Kennedy School of Government HOUSING-URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION HUT-201 B: Urban Politics, Planning, and Development Susan Fainstein T/Th 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM GSD Gund 109 Examines the politics of urban planning, land use, environmental regulation, and economic development. Principal aim is to help students think strategically about the role of governance – and the group conflicts that swirl around it – in shaping the physical, social, and economic character of urban places. Focuses mainly on U.S. experience, but with some attention to international comparisons. Policy topics include land use planning; zoning; infrastructure investment; downtown revitalization; public-private partnerships for economic development; and efforts to move from urban sprawl to “smart growth.” Cross-cutting topics include: comparisons of U.S. patterns of urban planning and development with those in selected other countries; the causes and consequences of sprawl and racial-class segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas; business-government relations; and contending theories about the balance of forces in U.S. urban politics. Emphasis placed throughout on the special roles of business and of grass-roots democracy in U.S. urban governance, and on tensions between the values of economic development, citizen participation, and equity. HUT-209: History and Theory of Urban Planning Interventions Susan Fainstein T 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Gropius Rm Gund GSD Historical and analytical readings and case studies address the following questions: What is the relationship between conscious public policy and the economic, social, and political framework in which it operates and the urban space which it affects? Is planning and policymaking simply the resultant of social forces or does it shape those forces? Where do planners derive their goals; what is the relationship between the goal-setting process, the quality of policy, and the character of cities and regions? What ethical constraints govern planning practice? How can the planner enhance his or her control over social outputs; by what mechanisms should the public control him or her? Who benefits from urban and regional planning? What is the relationship between race and gender and planning outcomes? How does the capitalist political economy influence the nature of planning, and to what extent is there variation under capitalism? HUT-251: Transportation Policy and Planning Jose Gomez-Ibanez M/W 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM L140 F 11:40 AM - 1:00 PM L280 (Review) Provides an overview of the issues involved in transportation policy and planning, as well as an introduction to the skills necessary for solving the various analytic and managerial problems that are peculiar to this area. The course is organized around seven problems: (1) analyzing the market for a service; (2) costing and pricing; (3) operations management; (4) controlling congestion and pollution; (5) transport and land use; (6) investment evaluation; and (7) the regulation of private carriers. Examples are drawn from both urban and inter-city passenger and freight transportation. One-quarter of the classes are lectures, and three-quarters are case discussions. Prerequisite: Microeconomics at the level of API-101 or API-105 is assumed.

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HUT-264: Housing Policy in the U.S.: Intersection of Public/Private Sectors in Housing Finance Eric Belsky F 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM GSD-Gund 505 In the 20th century, housing policy in the United States crafted a complex finance and delivery system that is the envy of the world. This course will examine the origins of that system, the evolving role of government at the federal, state, and local levels, and emerging issues that will determine the future of housing policy. The class will explore the inherent tensions in policy and practice and the ways in which the two inform each other. Based on the instructor’s experiences, the course will provide students with insights into the formulation and implementation of housing programs. The course is predicated on the premise that the nexus between state and market is the defining element of housing policy in the United States and to understand that policy is to understand the coincidental and conflicting interests of the public and private sectors. HUT-266: Affordable Housing & Mixed-Income Development, Finance, & Management Edward Marchant M/W 4:40 PM - 6:00 PM L280 Explores the development, financing, and management of both rental and ownership, affordable and mixed-income housing developments. Analyzes both public and private development cost, tax credit, operating, debt service, and rental assistance subsidy vehicles. Addresses the common practice of aggregating subsidies into comprehensive gap funding packages. Reviews establishing development objectives, assembling and managing a development team, preparing feasibility studies, controlling sites, gaining community support, securing subsidies, syndicating tax credits, coordinating the design and construction process and managing the completed asset. Includes discussion of inclusionary, workforce, and special needs housing. Many students elect to participate in the Affordable Housing Development Competition (AHDC), an exercise where interdisciplinary student teams from Harvard and MIT work with clients to develop affordable housing proposals for selected sites in the Greater Boston area. For these students the AHDC proposal becomes the final course assignment. The course includes lectures, cases, exercises, site visits, guest lectures, and student presentations. HUT-268: Public and Private Development Jerold Kayden M/W 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM GSD-Gund 111 Develops the analytical frameworks, skills, and body of knowledge required to understand, evaluate, and implement public and private development within cities and surrounding regions. Through lectures, discussions, case studies, and exercises, the course measures the complex blend of public and private actions promoting growth and change against financial/economic, institutional/administrative, legal, political, physical planning, and other metrics. Topics include: government subsidies; approaches to land acquisition and disposition; private provision of public benefits through exactions; linkage; and inclusionary/incentive zoning; strategic capital investments; and urban redevelopment strategies.

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Harvard Graduate School of Design Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture 3102: Theories and Practices of Contemporary Landscape Architecture 1950-2008 John Beardsley Practice, according to Garrett Eckbo, is 'knowing how to do something; theory is knowing why.' This course will explore the 'know why' of landscape architecture since the Second World War, juxtaposing both the built works and the writings of landscape architects with texts that address methodology or the discipline's larger theoretical and cultural contexts. Within this broad framework, the course will examine a series of topics: the quest for a modern language for landscape architecture in the 1950s and 1960s; the challenge to the profession in the later 1960s from ecology on the one hand and from art on the other; the complexity and heterodoxy of the contemporary situation, in which the social, ecological, phenomenological, and artistic dimensions of the practice struggle for reconciliation; the growing hybridization of landscape design with urbanism and architecture; and the more speculative effort on the part of some practitioners to address globalization, commercialization and simulation. The goal of the course is to learn to read in greater depth and to see in greater detail-to recognize the visual and verbal languages that people use, how they use them, and to what end The course will meet in both lecture and discussion sessions; the class will be divided into two groups for discussions, led by the instructor and teaching fellow Laura Gornowski. Evaluation will be based on class attendance and participation; brief weekly written responses to the readings; and a final paper. 3211: Behind Today's Architectural Trends Rafael Moneo This lecture course will follow the latest episodes in contemporary architecture. The development of a critical perspective is, in my view, one of the ways of understanding the architect's initial goals, their immediate references, the particular cultural challenges, and the specific issues to be resolved. Our consideration of these conditions will allow us to establish a criticism from within the discipline of architecture. We will focus on specific buildings with a clear objective: to analyze how these buildings have been designed. In addition to the consideration of theoretical and cultural questions, I would like to revisit the architect's intentions and the architectural design process. While it is very difficult to make general considerations about methodology, I do believe it is feasible with specific buildings and so we will focus on buildings that I have visited and that allow me to talk of both the results and the intentions. We will judge how the architects' resolved their stated objectives and the tools they employed. Once more we will base our research on individuals, and even moreso on specific buildings, instead of analyzing a style or a school.

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3428: Digital Culture: Architecture and Cities Antoine Picon The rise of digital culture has coincided with a profound change in architecture that goes beyond the spectacular forms produced with the help of the computer. Some fundamental dimensions of architecture are changing under our eyes. Scale is no longer evident. Tectonic is challenged by the new structural logic made possible by advanced computing. This seminar intends to examine more closely these shifts with the ambition to relate them to more general issues like the new importance taken by the individual in our postmodern world, or the transformation that is affecting materiality, that is the way we relate to the physical world through sensory experience. A proper understanding of this series of evolutions requires a critical assessment of the situation that goes beyond the prejudices of na??ve techno-enthusiasm or its contrary. For that purpose the seminar will mobilize both theoretical and historical references. Gille Deleuze's Bruno Latour's or Peter Sloterdijk's writings will provide useful keys, along with 1950s and 1960s cybernetic architecture, from Eero Saarinen's corporate realizations to Cedric Price Fun Palace project. Last but not least, the questions raised by digital architecture are inseparable from issues regarding public spaces and the urban experience. The seminar intends to address the urban dimension by interrogating notions such as telepresence, augmented reality, digital mapping. 3431: A Science of the Environment Sanford Kwinter The science of ecology purports to study life as the sum of interactions between organisms and their natural environment. The term 'natural' has in recent decades undergone significant revision, in both biological and philosophical circles, increasingly to include a great many aspects of human cultural process and history. This course will be an approach toward the ideal of a "total ecology", at once an incorporation of "deep ecology", behavioral ecology and evolutionary theory as a discipline intended to transform and cultivate an entirely new way of understanding the human physical and cultural relationship to the natural world. As 'sustainability' theories and ethics rise to prominence in the contemporary economic and historical world, conceived largely in terms of remedial and technological intervention, the more foundational questions and forms of knowledge associated with true ecological thinking have paradoxically fallen by the wayside. This course seeks to recover, and in many ways reinvent, the habits of mind in which naturalism once played a central role in human life and culture. This course will focus in considerable detail on early human evolution and the early (Pleistocene) stone age (economics, art, social organization, knowledge systems, etc.), on the 'knowledge systems' employed within plant and animal milieus to at once create, exploit and stabilize the relationship to their milieus as well as on the forms that they both create and take on to maximize this stability. Geological, climactic, biotic, technological, aesthetic and even psychic factors will be studied as contributors to a 'total' ecological posture toward the environment. Human 'being' will be shown to be a direct and inseparable product of the landscape in which the human type arose and to which it will need once again to return with effective understanding, if it wishes to evade the catastrophes that current science predicts.

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4321: Rome and St. Peter's Christine Smith The art and architecture of Rome from Antiquity to Modernity with particular attention to the Vatican, where the layering of material artifacts from successive historical periods provides an uninterrupted record of more than two thousand years; establishes a continuous narrative framework around which building in Rome can be organized; and contextualizes the cultural, artistic, and political aspirations and values of the Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern city The course is organized around four historic spectacles - the Emperor Augustus' funeral (14 A.D.), Constantine the Great's triumphal procession (312), a liturgical procession for the Feast the Assumption (1300), and the Canonization of Carlo Borromeo (1610) - imagined as four walks through Rome highlighting the city's evolving cultural and urban character. The first half of the course covers Antiquity to the Renaissance while the second looks in greater detail at specific projects from the Renaissance and after. Topics in the first part include the growth and decline of the ancient Roman city, the creation of new architectural forms and urban meanings in response to the Christianization of Empire, and the practice of pilgrimage as urban experience. The second part focuses on the style and meaning of those works of art, architecture, and urbanism which distinguish Rome and the Vatican today such as Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling, Bramante's design for New St. Peter's, Bernini's sculpture for the rebuilt basilica, and Piranesi's views of ancient Rome. In general, the approach of the first half emphasizes the historical and cultural foundations which constitute the idea of Rome and utilizes primary sources while the second takes up more theoretical issues of representation and interpretation. 4409: Paris: The Growth of a Modern Metropolis Antoine Picon, Neil Levine This seminar examines the role Paris has played in the birth and development of the idea of the modern city as seen through the multiple perspectives of architecture, art, culture, urban design, and technology. Among the issues and problems to be critically reconsidered are the spatial organization of daily life, the relationship between architects, engineers, and administrators, the creation of new infrastructural networks and systems, the demands for representational expression, the tensions between center and periphery, and the impact of new social, economic, and political forces. 6205: Environmental Technologies in Buildings Christoph Reinhart The primary focus of this course will be the study of the thermal, luminous and acoustic behavior of buildings in an architectural context. The course will examine the basic scientific principles underlying these phenomena and introduce students to a range of technologies and analysis skills for designing comfortable indoor environments. Students will be challenged to apply these skills and explore the role light, energy and sound can play in shaping architecture. The first part of the class will be dedicated to measuring and interpreting local weather conditions and how buildings can respond to prevailing solar gain, wind and daylighting patterns. We will then discuss the principles of heat storage and heat flow and discuss a number of manual and computer-based methods to predict the energy use of buildings. The second part of the course introduces the art and science lighting buildings and provides students with a design sequence based on rules of thumb and simulations for analyzing the daylighting within

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individual buildings and neighborhoods. Following a brief introduction to building acoustics the last part of the course will touch upon a number of technologies and climatization concepts including natural ventilation, life cycle assessment, geothermal heat pumps and pellet stoves. The course will end with a discussion of various conventional and emerging HAVC systems as well as two local field trips to existing buildings. The course format will consist of a series of lectures that are accompanied by software tutorials. A number of individual and group assignments and quizzes will help students to absorb the topics covered in class. The assignments in this class will be closed interlinked with the fourth semester core studio and students will be challenged to integrate what they have learnt in this class within their ongoing studio works. 6322: Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems: Theory and Applications Department of Urban Planning and Design Paul Cote This course explores Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their applications. GIS serves as a framework for organizing knowledge about places and for developing logical models of the ways places operate under existing and proposed conditions. The course surveys the various forms and sources of spatially referenced information, how these originate, are obtained, and how they are organized as an infrastructure for administration and scholarship. Students will gain experience building logical models that transform source data and simulate place-based relationships and processes. Lectures will review the evolution and theory of the primary types of GIS and applications in urban planning, urban design, and environmental modeling. Hands-on workshops will provide experience in the creation of maps, three dimensional urban scenes, and logical process models. Emphasis is placed on developing best practices for organizing resources for collaborative research, and on establishing appropriate levels of confidence in the information obtained from maps and GIS models.

Now we are left in a world without urbanism, only architecture. The neatness of architecture is its seduction; it defines, excludes, limits, separates from the "rest". (Rem Koolhaas, Whatever happened to Urbanism? 1994) What is the "rest"? Architecture can neither be separated from the city nor from the economic cycles shaping urban development under capitalism. Capitalism has inflicted a series of "shocks" upon the urban condition. These forces influence both the architectural object and the architectural profession. Metropolitan architecture can thus be read in terms of subjectivities and narratives stimulated by capitalism. The shock moment of the urban condition can be discussed both in contemporary and in historical terms: In an attempt to systematize urban space by embracing the

Department of Urban Planning and Design 3335: Sites of Consumption: Cases on the Commodification of Architecture, Urban Space, and Culture Seminar - limited enrollment Andre Bideau W 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM 104 Sumner Road

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logics of classic Taylorization, modernist avantgardes situated design in a political, economic and technological infrastructure. In advanced capitalism however, urban development cycles, modes of production and patterns of consumption have eschewed the logic of planning. This shift has led recent architectural practises to conceptionally register the fluid dynamics of postfordist accumulation that now condition the urban condition as well as the contemporary experience economy. 3422: Introduction to Urban Design Techniques Seminar - limited enrollment Martin Zogran F 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM 318 Gund Hall This seminar course will introduce students from outside the discipline of urban design to the approaches, techniques, and tools of urban design necessary to structure the spatial and dimensional relationships of the built environment with an emphasis on sustainable urbanism. The morphology of the city - relationships of built form, circulatory systems, and open space - will be the primary subject of the course, as students will be required to give form to an urban district through the elaboration of street structures, block and building morphologies, open space networks and typologies, and urban design guidelines. This course complements the existing Physical Planning core sequence by concentrating on the design and character of urban spaces beyond zoning and land use descriptions, along with an emphasis on nascent codifications of sustainable urban development practices. 4344: Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China Seminar – limited enrollment Peter G. Rowe M 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM 318 Gund Hall Modernizing influences, largely from the hands of foreign powers, first forcefully entered into China and began to take root in the aftermath of the Opium War and the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842. At first, these influences were primarily confined to Treaty Ports, concessions from the spoils of the Opium Wars, and some other foreign endeavors. Over time, Qing Dynasty China's earlier stand-offish attitude towards these incursions became replaced by concern with the foreign threat and increasingly serious questioning of their own institutional structures and place in the world. By 1911 Revolution was well underway, resulting in the toppling of the Qing and the unsteady formation of a modern republic. Years past, under deteriorated conditions of factionalism and with Japan, by then a power in East Asia, making territorial demands. Two opposing ideological camps, the Communists and the Nationalists, also began to emerge, although with the Nationalists in the ascendancy throughout large parts of China. With the full-scale outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japan in 1937, a United Front was joined, only to be irreversibly broken at the end of World War II with the advent of civil war. The victorious Communists came to power in 1949 and immediately began to re-fashion China as a modern Marxist-socialist state. After a short though propitious start, the country was then plunged into the tragic follies of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, also becoming isolated once again. Then in 1978, with the historic opening up to the outside world, economic if not social circumstances began to change drastically, as China shifted from being a welfare state into a socialist market economy. The contemporary period now finds the nation with burgeoning modern industrialization and urbanization and a certain ambivalence about the precise shape of its future identity. Against this backdrop, modern architecture and urbanism has developed in fits and starts, before coming on strongly during the past decade or so, at least in some regions of China. Therefore, rather than attempting to provide a continuous cohesive narrative, this course will concentrate on specific episodes of modern architecture and urban development. The aim will be to introduce students to

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these modern developments and also to explore the boundaries of present knowledge about the subject in the form of researchable areas of interest. At present the literature about Chinese modern architecture and urbanism is relatively sparse, particularly in an analytical and critical mode of inquiry. Students will be expected to be prepared for seminar discussion, by undertaking prescribed readings, and to produce a research paper on a pertinent subject. 4348: Rethinking Suburban History Seminar - limited enrollment Margaret Crawford W 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM 505 Gund Hall Recent historical research about American suburbs demonstrates that they are much more varied and complicated than previously imagined. Descriptions of "the suburbs," as a generic environment are no longer convincing. We are now aware of African-American, working class, industrial and agricultural suburbs. Continuing exurban development is currently producing phenomena as different as gated communities, ethnoburbs, lifestyle centers, and restructured rural towns. With more than half of the U.S. population now residing outside of central cities, even the name "suburb," implying dependence on a central city, must be questioned. This seminar will examine, using both scholarly and popular explanations, the economic, social, and cultural debates that have shaped our interpretation of this form of urban development. Topics will include the following: defining the suburb (metropolitan region vs. "shrinking city;" the historiography of the suburb; cultural representations of suburbia (films, novels, comics, popular music and video); comparative exurban development (zwischenstadt, citta diffusa, etc.); race and the suburbs; gender and the suburbs; suburban building and planning typologies; designed vs. vernacular suburbs; exporting suburbs. Students will be expected to conduct original research on a suburban topic of their choice. 5101B: History and Theory of Urban Planning and Design Susan Fainstein See listing under Kennedy School of Government 5103: Public and Private Development Jerold S. Kayden See listing under Kennedy School of Government 5201B: Urban Politics, Planning, and Development Susan Fainstein See listing under Kennedy School of Government 5214M3: Analytic Methods of Urban Planning: Quantitative Brent Ryan M/W 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Gropius Gund Hall The first module of this course introduces students to selected quantitative methods for thinking about urban planning problems. The module is divided into two sections. In the first section, students are

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introduced to the general principles of research design, including problem definition, hypothesis testing, data collection, and sampling. In the second section, students learn quantitative methods for urban planning, including descriptive and inferential statistics, measures of association, and multivariate regression techniques. 5214M4: Analytic Methods: Qualitative Brent Ryan M/W 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Gropius Gund Hall The second module of this course introduces students to selected qualitative methods for thinking about urban planning problems. The module is divided into two sections. In the first section, students learn qualitative methods, including survey, interview, observation, case study, and narrative techniques. In the second section, students are exposed to innovations in research using image-based data, including static (drawings, maps, photographs) and dynamic visual data (film). 5302: Transportation Policy, Planning, and Management Jose Gomez-Ibanez See listing under Kennedy School of Government 5303: Advanced Real Estate Development and Finance Frank Apeseche, Glenn Mueller F 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM 109 Gund Hall This course builds on GSD 5204 and comparable introductory real estate courses offered by other schools at Harvard. This year's course covers four main topics: (1) Market Cycle fundamentals (2) Advance financial analysis and deal structuring for land, building development and acquisitions, (2) Capital formation; how to analyze, structure and source private and public capital, (3) REITS, public real estate markets and market cycles, and (4) Building and managing real estate enterprises. The objective of the course is to give students in-depth financial analytical skills for the dominant forms of real estate financing, fund management, organizational management, and development. Using case studies and lectures, the course focuses on advanced real estate finance topics for all major real estate product-types including office, industrial, retail, apartment, hotel, and land development. The course also emphasizes financial structuring and key decision-making for all phases of development. 5328: Land Tenure and Property Rights as a Development Strategy: International Theory & Practice Seminar – limited enrollment William Valletta T 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM 318 Gund Hall In contemporary international development practice, a central principle holds that weak and insecure land and property rights are obstacles to economic growth and poverty reduction. The principle has been stated in several of the main documents of the human rights treaty system and the Millennium Development goals and the international donor and lender institutions have funded assistance projects, intended to strengthen ownership and lease rights; privatize land, housing, industrial and service

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enterprises; streamline property registration and encourage property and asset markets. The theoretical basis for this promotion of property rights as a development strategy is found in a variety of sources - utilitarian and libertarian economic theories; social science and anthropology; Islamic, Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant legal and social teachings; and national and regional political movements. Students will consider and discuss the contrasting theories and their application in practice, drawing from the legal, economic and social science literature, from the policy, methodological and project documents of the international and bi-lateral aid institutions and from specific national reform programs. The students will also conduct a case study by reviewing the record of activity in a specific developing country. Playing the roles of members of international consulting teams, they will design and present a new project proposal for the country, following the required project documentation format of one of the lender/donor institutions. Students will be evaluated on their seminar participation and their written and oral performance in the case study. 5403M3: Public Approvals for Private Development Projects Seminar – limited enrollment Matthew Kiefer T/Th 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM 318 Gund Hall Because most urban development is undertaken by private proponents but has important societal implications, it is subject to increasingly rigorous and often contentious public review. Administered at several levels of government, these reviews and approvals address both environmental impacts such as air and water pollution and habitat alteration, and social impacts such as mobility, density and affordable housing. They often shape private projects as much the building program and the real estate market, and can even eclipse planning as a shaper of the built world. This module will explore the legal and policy framework for the discretionary approval by public bodies of large-scale private projects. We will use Boston case study projects-- market-oriented development projects and facilities for museums, hospitals and universities--to examine how the public approval process attempts to balance private rights and public interests in making development decisions. A project proponent, a public official, and a community activist will each visit the class to offer their varying perspectives. Class discussion will be emphasized. Course readings will include primary materials such as project submissions and agency decisions. Written assignments will include short class discussion assignments and a final paper which analyzes the effect of the public approval process on a built Boston project chosen by the student or student team. 5403M4: Building Design Typologies and Operational Principles of Real Estate Seminar – limited enrollment Bing Wang T/Th 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM 318 Gund Hall 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 often functions as a useful methodology to interpret the condensed interrelationship between the physical attributes of building forms and spatial representation of social and cultural forces of a society. The purpose of this course is, once again, taking this methodology, to offer a necessary perspective for the linkage between the physicality of design practice and the operational perspective of the market economy, specifically, the capital markets (Wall Street). It aims to enable students to understand how building

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typologies can serve as intersections of design prototypes, real estate products, and commodities of capital investment in the context of physical planning/design of urban form. Through lectures, slide presentations, readings, and case studies, this course will survey five prototypes of real estate development/investments: residential (single- and multi-family housing), retail, office, industrial, and mixed use. Students will learn the critical principles of different building typologies' design trajectories, dimensional requirements, compositional patterns, and ordering considerations, as well as the practicality of these physical attributes in the eyes of other active participants in the building environment, particularly developers and capital investors. The focus also will be on the physical patterns that the building types embody at the level of the urban context: the neighborhood, the street, and the site. The course is intended for both designers and non-designers, to acquaint them with a perspective that incorporates and goes beyond the formality of design associated with each of the product types. The relationship between design aesthetics and economic viability of buildings will be central to the course-how design creates value for investors, owners, and tenants of real estate, as well as the society at large, and how the architectural/urban morphological power contributes to the success of economic performance and operations as units of the market economy. 5473: Housing Policy in the United States: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sectors Eric Belsky See listing under Kennedy School of Government 5475: The Design of Housing in the United States Seminar – limited enrollment Leland Cott F 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM 508 Gund Hall Drawing partially from the work of the instructor, weekly lectures and discussions will consider those aspects of the design of housing that are critical for successful residential and community development. Program formulation, development economics, client/community participation, and design intent are among the topics to be discussed for the design of housing that comprises the vast majority of residential urban and suburban construction in America today: the adaptive reuse and conversion of existing buildings to residential use; the rehabilitation and renovation of existing public housing stock; new low, mid and high rise construction; and new suburban construction. Through a series of lectures this course will investigate architectural, urban design and planning related components of the design of multi-family housing, from the early part of the 20th Century to the present day. Historically, we will study seminally important multi-family housing projects including Forest Hills Gardens, Sunnyside Gardens, Radburn, Levittown, Sea Ranch and Seaside. Analytically, we will evaluate different housing prototypes, their applicability and resultant densities. 5486: There Goes the Neighborhood: Perceptions and Realities of Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Change Seminar – limited enrollment Toni Griffin, James Stockard

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Th 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM 505 Gund Hall Neighborhoods are the stuff of which cities are made. Downtowns are the iconic parts of cities and commercial and industrial districts are important. But neighborhoods are where the people who call the city home spend their non-working hours. This is where the citizens of a place meet each other, form friendships, and act jointly, along with planners, designers and elected officials, to shape the city to their interests. This course will explore neighborhoods from three perspectives. We will begin with discussions of how to learn about a neighborhood. What are the important physical, economic, social, demographic and historical elements that help define a neighborhood? What are the best sources of information about a neighborhood? Which pieces of data are most important? How do the critical issues of race and class impact a particular neighborhood? How do you tell if there is a "community" in a neighborhood? How to you combine all of this information to begin to analyze neighborhood condition and future trends? During this portion of the course, students will be introduced to four Boston neighborhoods which they will explore over the course of the semester. Planners from the Boston Redevelopment Authority will present a preliminary picture of these parts of the city. By the end of the segment, student teams will present preliminary analyses of their neighborhoods. The second portion of the course will address the issue of who impacts neighborhoods and how they do it. Which organizations shape local areas? What role does the public sector play? How important are the non-profits that are active in neighborhoods, particularly the place-based ones? Are profit-motivated developers more significant? How important are individual leaders? Where does their power come from? We will discuss the history of federal, state and local interventions in neighborhoods and we will hear from public and private actors who have made a difference in their communities. We will also undertake an exercise in class focusing on effective communications in the Boston neighborhoods we are studying. How do you organize an effective community meeting about a planning or design issue. With whom do you consult? What is the ideal balance between good community process and quick delivery of a good product? What is the outside planner's or designer's role? Finally, in the third portion of the course, we will consider the range of tools for intervention in neighborhoods and examine the best ways of deciding which tool fits a particular situation. We will discuss appropriate strategies for four neighborhood types - underinvested, transitional, emerging and stable. When is affordable housing an important initiative, and when will it blunt a neighborhood's progress toward healthy diversity. When is it critical to provide for first time homebuyers? Should you limit their equity build-up or not? What conditions suggest that retail retention and development will make a difference? Is gentrification a bad thing? Always? Is eminent domain a good thing? Always? In the final class of the semester, each team will present a Strategy Report for their neighborhood. As the title of the course indicates, a constant theme of our discussions will be "perceptions and realities" We will work hard together to probe beneath the images that neighborhoods and neighborhood strategies carry in order to discover what is truly important about a particular place and its people and how positive change occurs. 6322: Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems: Theory and Applications Workshop – limited enrollment Paul Cote T/Th 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM 516 Gund Hall This course explores Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their applications. GIS serves as a framework for organizing knowledge about places and for developing logical models of the ways places operate under existing and proposed conditions. The course surveys the various forms and

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sources of spatially referenced information, how these originate, are obtained, and how they are organized as an infrastructure for administration and scholarship. Students will gain experience building logical models that transform source data and simulate place-based relationships and processes. Lectures will review the evolution and theory of the primary types of GIS and applications in urban planning, urban design, and environmental modeling. Hands-on workshops will provide experience in the creation of maps, three dimensional urban scenes, and logical process models. Emphasis is placed on developing best practices for organizing resources for collaborative research, and on establishing appropriate levels of confidence in the information obtained from maps and GIS models. 9206UPD: Olympic Infrastructure Seminar – limited enrollment Judith Grant Long F 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM 104 Sumner Road This research seminar investigates the urban aspirations and spatial expressions of sports facilities, athletes' villages, and other infrastructure built to accommodate the modern Olympic Games. Beginning with Pierre de Coubertin's manifesto for the modern games, the seminar pairs readings in infrastructure and urban development theory with discussions exploring the following themes: history of the Olympic Games and the rise of its urban agenda; how cultural influences shape the nature of infrastructure; the importance of infrastructure in the host city selection process; approaches to spatial planning for both the summer and winter games; games finance and techniques for funding infrastructure; the role of the games in fostering innovations in architecture and engineering; the influence of the sustainability discourse on "greening the the games" and adapting facilities for post-games use. Enrollment is limited

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Contact Information and Resources Faculty involved in Architecture, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, and Planning Eve Marion Blau, Adjunct Professor of Architectural History (Design School) Svetlana Boym, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature (on leave 2007-08) Giuliana Bruno, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies (on leave 2007-08 ) Margaret Lee Crawford, Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory (Design School) (on leave 2007-08) Susan S. Fainstein, Professor of Urban Planning (Design School) Peter L. Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor K. Michael Hays, Professor of Architectural Theory (Design School) Jerold Kayden, Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design (Design School) Neil Levine, Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave 2007-08 ) Alina A. Payne, Professor of History of Art and Architecture A. Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies (Design School) Christine Smith, Robert C. and Marian K. Weinberg Professor of Architectural History (Design School) (on leave fall term) Alan Altshuler, Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor in Urban Policy and Planning (Kennedy School, Design School) Mario Biagioli, Professor of the History of Science (on leave 2007-08) Richard T. T. Forman, Professor of Advanced Environmental Studies in the Field of Landscape Ecology (Design School) José A. Gomez-Ibãnez, Derek Bok Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy (Kennedy School, Design School) Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art Katharine Park, Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science (on leave 2007-08) Carl F. Steinitz, Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning (Design School) John R. Stilgoe, Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape Development

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