Urban Design
Urban designers study the design of the built environment, from details on a street sign to a bird’s-eye structure of metropolitan regions. The urban design specialization bridges architecture and planning, focusing on each discipline as a form of critical inquiry into the other. Studios, seminars, and community-based learning formats cover theories, methods, and case studies in urban design, physical and spatial planning, sustainable design, landscape design, and tools for financing urban design proposals.
Curriculum
Intro Courses
- PD 565 Urban Planning and Design I
- PD 566 Urban Planning and Design II
Methods Course (choose one)
- PD 581 Planning Studio (with design content) or PD 580 Planning Studio (for dual M.Arch./M.U.P. students co-enrolled in ARC 609 studio)
Elective Courses (minimum two)
- PD 523 New Media in Planning
- PD 525 Financing Urban Development
- PD 562 Transportation, Land Use, and Urban Form
- PD 568 Environmental Planning and Policy
- PD 574 Projects in Physical Planning
- ARC 576 Landscape Architecture
- ARC 579 Sustainable Design
Recommended Foundational Electives
- PD 573 Land Use and Physical Planning
- PD 567 Planning Law
Culminating Exercise (choose one)
- Thesis on topic in Urban Design
- Professional Project on Urban Design
