The City as Method: Analytical Techniques in Urban Design

Harvard GSD

This course is an introductory methods seminar in which students will become familiar with the idea of method itself and learn how to translate and apply a range of introduced methods in support of a design argument. The emphasis of this course is less on mastering the technical execution of methods than on understanding how methods operate conceptually and how they can be mobilized analytically within students’ own work, drawing on their own intellectual and representational strengths.The…