Syllabi

This is a survey course aimed at providing a holistic global understanding of cities.

This course looks at campus master planning for what it is: good urban design. The most ubiquitous, agreeable, and empowering form of professional urban design practice in existence,

After many years of association and inter-disciplinary collaboration, at Jose Sert's 1953 Urban Design conference, the disciplines of architecture and urban planning divorced.

In Rem Koolhaas' 2004 follow-up to S,M,L,XL, Context, Rem declares (as Rem often does), "maybe architecture doesn't have to be stupid after all. Liberated from the obligation to

Read the entire brief. The answer will surprise you!

Smart cities are a global interest and phenomenon. With both private and public sectors active in developing and implementing urban technologies, smart cities have the potential to

Do you have a complex urban problem? This course will provide you with a toolkit of easy answers.

With the widespread availability of urban geolocated data, open and closed, so to say, the role of spatial analysis finds itself in a moment of critical importance. This course is about

Have you ever wondered exactly how many trees are in a forest? How about the exact number of grains of sand it takes to make a mound? In this course, we will determine exactly how

New media and mediums allow us to simultaneously imagine new paradigms of society and obliterate stagnant convention, affording a multitude of possibilities in design and discourse. In

Prepare to be very sad. We have emitted greenhouse gases beyond the point of no return. The climate is doomed to change. Species are fated for extinction. The post-anthropocene is upon

In 1991, Ray Oldenburg theorized three critical social places. The home being the first place, work as the second place, and other important community building anchor spaces as the