Graduate Study

Course Listing

Urban Design Certificate

Dual Degree

Doctoral Level Study



Subjects and Curriculum
The following list is provided for general reference only.
For updated course offering check the department web site at: DUSP Classes

Overview Subjects

4.244/11.332J

Urban Design Seminar

Frenchman

required for students without professional Architecture or Landscape Architecture degrees

4.240/11.328

Urban Design Skills

Ben-Joseph

required for students without professional Architecture or Landscape Architecture degrees

4.175

Workshop in City Form

Dennis

required for all SMArchS architecture and urbanism students

4.252J/11.301J

Urban Design and Development

Frenchman

required for all DUSP CDD students

4.THG

Architecture and Urbanism Thesis / Prep

Dennis

required for all SMArchS and MCP students in 3rd and 4th semesters

11.THG

City Design and Development Thesis / Prep

Ryan

required for all SMArchS and MCP students in 3rd and 4th semesters

11.001J/4.250J

Introduction to Urban Design and Development

Silberberg

 


History and Theory of Urban Design

4.241J/11.330J

Theory of City Form

Beinart

recommended for UD certificate

11.329

Social Theory and the City

Sennett

optional (counts towards UD certificate)

4.253J/11.302J

Urban Design Politics

Vale

optional (counts towards UD certificate)

4.242J/11.331J

Advanced Seminar in City Form

Beinart

optional (counts towards UD certificate)

11.014J/21.232J

American Urban History

Fogelson

 

11.206J/21H234J

Downtown

Fogelson

optional (counts towards UD certificate)

11.948

Ideal Forms of Contemporary Urbanism

D’Hooghe

optional (counts towards UD certificate)

 

Urban Design Policy

4.247J/11.337J

Urban Design Policy and Action

Ryan

optional (counts towards UD certificate)

11.376

Law and Politics of Land Use

Szold

optional (counts towards UD certificate)

1.252J/11.540

Urban Transportation Planning

Salvucci

optional (counts towards UD certificate)

11.953

Land Use and Transportation Planning

Zegras

optional (counts towards UD certificate)

4.213J/11.308J

Urban Nature and City Design

Spirn

optional (counts towards UD certificate)


Urban Development Processes

11.431J/15.426J

Real Estate Finance and Investment

Geltner

recommended for UD certificate

11.437

Financing Economic Development

Seidman

optional (counts towards UD certificate)

11.433J/15.021J

Real Estate Economics

Wheaton

optional (counts towards UD certificate) 

11.942

Mixed Income Housing Development

Roth

optional (counts towards UD certificate)


Urban Design Techniques and Implementations/Workshops

4.254J/11.303J

Real Estate Development II

Frenchman/Roth

optional (counts towards UD certificate)

11.360

Community Growth and Land Use Planning

Szold/Ben-Joseph

optional (counts towards UD certificate)

4.255J/11.304J

Site and Urban Systems Planning

Ben-Joseph

optional (counts towards UD certificate)

4.181-4.185

Architecture Design Workshop

Staff

 

11.439

Revitalizing Urban Main Streets

Silberberg

optional (counts towards UD certificate)

4.213J/11.309J

Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry

Spirn

 

4.23J/11.265J

SIGUS Workshop

Goethert

 

11.941

Digital City Design Research

Frenchman/Mitchell

 


Studios

4.163J/11.332J

Urban Design Studio

Berger,Mehrotra, Dennis

4.166J/11.307J

Beijing Urban Design Studio

Frenchman, Wampler

optional (counts towards UD certificate)

4.xxxJ

Architecture Studio

 

 

11.306

Planning Studio

Lee

 


Key to Urban Design Certificate Requirements:

required for students without professional Architecture or Landscape Architecture degrees
required for all SMArchS and MCP students in 3rd and 4th semestersrequired for all SMArchS architecture and urbanism students
required for all DUSP CDD students
required for all SMArchS and MCP students in 3rd and 4th semesters

recommended for UD certificate
optional (counts towards UD certificate)

A joint program in architecture, planning and media