Introduces students to the non-profit sector through the lens of disasters – natural, economic, and international.  Cases focus on nonprofit responses to hurricane, earthquake, fire, and floods. Students learn about the limits of government and businesses at many levels and the importance of the third-sector – nonprofits.  We use real client nonprofit dilemmas and  interview nonprofit CEOs, acc

This class explores various types of large-scale planning initiatives that have been devised and implemented to improve the human condition through the lenses of urban planning and international development.

Explores how we learn from computer games and simulations, and delve into the process of building and testing their own simulations. First, students investigate the design and use of games and simulations in the classroom, and the research and development issues associated with desktop computer-based, handheld computer based and non-computer based media.

Over the past 150 years, the world has moved from one characterized by rural settlement patterns and provincial lifestyles to one dominated by urbanization, industrialization, immigration, and globalization.

Examines the built, psychosocial, economic, and natural environment factors that affect health behaviors and outcomes. Introduces tools designed to integrate public health considerations into policymaking and planning. Provides extensive practical training in the application of health impact assessment (HIA) methodology, which brings a health lens to policy, budgeting, and planning debates.

Combines online weekly face-to-face negotiation exercises and in-person lectures designed to empower budding entrepreneurs with negotiation techniques to protect and increase the value of their ideas, deal with ego and build trust in relationships, and navigate entrepreneurial bargaining under constraints of economic uncertainty and complex technical considerations.

Introduces applications of microeconomic theory to planning problems including urban form and structure, government's role in urban settings and problems of housing finance.

Practical introduction to spatial analysis and geographic information systems (GIS). Examines how geography is represented digitally and how nonrandom distributions of phenomena as diverse as poverty and scenic resources can be better understood by examining their spatial characteristics. Limited enrollment; preference to first-year MCP students.

Focuses on co-designing and co-conducting research with community partners at various stages of the research process; examination of actual cases in which PAR-like methods have been used with greater or lesser success; and interaction with community members, organizations, and individuals who have been involved in PAR collaborations.

Students work in entrepreneurial teams to advance innovative ideas, products, services, and firms oriented to design and the built environment. Lectures, demonstrations, and presentations are supplemented by workshop time, when teams interact individually with instructors and industry mentors, and by additional networking events and field trips.

Understand how we learn from computer games and simulations, and delve into the process of building and testing their own simulations. First, students explore the design and use of games and simulations in the classroom, and the research and development issues associated with desktop computer-based, handheld computer based and non-computer based media.

Combines online weekly face-to-face negotiation exercises and in-person lectures designed to empower budding entrepreneurs with negotiation techniques to protect and increase the value of their ideas, deal with ego and build trust in relationships, and navigate entrepreneurial bargaining under constraints of economic uncertainty and complex technical considerations.

Examines ways urban design contributes to distribution of political power and resources in cities. Investigates the nature of relations between built form and political purposes through close study of a wide variety of situations where public sector design commissions and planning processes have been clearly motivated by political pressures.

Introduces a range of practical approaches involved in evaluating and planning sites within the context of natural and cultural systems. Develops the knowledge and skills to analyze and plan a site for development through exercises and an urban design project.

Investigates the relationship between states and markets in the evolution of modern capitalism.

Provides an overview of affordable and mixed-income housing development for students who wish to understand the fundamental issues and requirements of urban scale housing development, and the process of planning, financing and developing such housing. Students gain practical experience assembling a mixed-income housing development proposal.

Discussions of future directions in the 'smart cities' debate. Begins by framing the current smart city with past trends such as the efficient city movement of the 1930s and the Modernist city of the 1950s and 60s. Examines current trends in big data, civic apps, Code for America, the open data movement, DIY data collections devices, and their policy impacts.

Guides students in examining implicit and explicit values of diversity offered in "Southern" knowledge bases, theories, and practices of urban production.

Seminar focused on helping to doctoral students to do learn how to craft an argument, a fundamental building block of independent scholarship, including using theory to frame an argument; moving from data to an argument; and writing a literature review with a critical point of view. Builds on first year paper proposal developed in 11-233, as well as data gathered over the IAP period.

Introduction to novel interactive engagement tools for the study and design of cities, blending software with playful mediums such as Lego bricks or modeling clay. Students learn how to formulate and develop interactive simulations of complex urban systems representing a diversity of stakeholders.

Does urban growth hurt or help the environment? The answer, in a nutshell, is “both”. Rapid urban development in Asia has caused ambient particulate levels in more than twenty cities to rise above three times the WHO’s standard, and the congestion and pollution in Mexico City, Delhi and Beijing have become famous worldwide.

This course will provide students with an in-depth understanding of how big city planning and large-scale urban transformation works on the ground from a practitioner perspective.  

Does urban growth hurt or help the environment? The answer, in a nutshell, is “both”. Rapid urban development in Asia has caused ambient particulate levels in more than twenty cities to rise above three times the WHO’s standard, and the congestion and pollution in Mexico City, Delhi and Beijing have become famous worldwide.

This course in international development theory is aimed primarily at doctoral and advanced masters students. It is the second part of a two-semester sequence. The Fall 2018 course covered historical and theoretical perspectives at the core of International Development, from modernization and neo-classical theories to post-colonial and heterodox approaches.

Every landscape represents an incomplete or interrupted plan that tells time. Physical landscapes provide evidence of successful, failed and emergent development plans, but only the learned eye sees beyond the material culture of the street.

Mapping, measuring, planning and monitoring complex systems in the real world is the foundation for effective action. The proposed course is framed as a DUSP practicum.

A protest-event, an act of publicly displaying particular grievances, aims at negotiating and challenging an existing social order or political power. Indeed, protest events have been embedded in urban life throughout the history of cities.

This course seeks to equip students with innovative leadership tools based on a systems-change approach to dealing with cities' most pressing challenges.