Urban Design: Theories, Strategies, and Practices

Harvard GSD

The course is a forum for conversations on contemporary urban design practices, theories and strategies. It is concerned with the economic, social, and political factors that shape urban environments and the efforts of individual actors, interventions, conceptual models, and practices to comprehend, gain control over, regulate, and shape those processes and environments. The course is structured around three overlapping discussions re: the foundation of urban design as a cross-disciplinary…