Urbanization & Housing
Area Coordinator: Lee Cott, Adjunct Professor of Urban Design
The basic elements of urban place – buildings, land and people – are both philosophically and actually interdependent for their wellbeing and development. Accordingly, in this area of study each topic is investigated in relation to the others. The making of urban place, the factors that make it successful or not, and the future of urbanism, are examined from a broad range of perspectives including sociopolitical, legal, financial, educational, healthcare, infrastructural and cultural dimensions. Land planning, master planning, landscape ecology, housing and other design elements that form ‘urban consciousness’ – a phrase coined by former GSD Dean Jose Luis Sert – are studied in a variety of courses and research projects.
Many students in this area are also pursuing study in other Harvard University schools such as the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School, as well as at other Boston area institutions, which contributes rich diversity in experience, viewpoint and research outcomes. A unique resource available to students in this area includes the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Courses
Kennedy School of Government
HUT-265 Real Estate Finance/Development Fundamentals
HUT-266 Affordable Housing Development, Finance and Management
School of Public Health
ID-236 Social Epidemiology
SSH-293 Place, Migration, Health
Law School
43500-31 Local Government Law
Related Faculty
Joan Busquets, Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning
and Design
Lee Cott, Adjunct Professor of Urban Design
José Gómez-Ibáñez, Derek Bok Professor
of Urban Planning and Public Policy (on leave Spring 2006)
A. Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism
in Muslim Society
James G. Stockard Jr, Lecturer in Housing Studies
Martin Zogran, Assistant Professor of Urban Design
Student Profiles
Alumna: Suzanne Charles