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Tag: urban design
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Nation & World
Their assignment? Design a more equitable future
As Biden pledges funds to undo harms caused by interstate highway system, GSD students imagine what that might look like in a dozen U.S. cities.
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Real scenes from an online graduation day
Capturing the moments of celebration as Harvard recognizes the Class of 2021.
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A key urban intersection
Harvard researchers are pushing for a closer look at links between green spaces and health in cities.
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Critical preoccupations
Rem Koolhaas, a professor in practice of architecture and urban design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), shared his thoughts on those and other subjects before an overflow crowd at Piper Auditorium with a presentation titled “Current Preoccupations.”
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Fun that helps change the world
Brazilian urban specialist Edgard Gouveia Jr., who has won international attention for his approach to grassroots development through game play, demonstrates his techniques to Harvard students.
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Designer dreams
Callum Gilbert was an unemployed bricklayer and high school dropout when in 2006 he was attacked outside a hip-hop concert in his native Liverpool, England. This summer, Gilbert – now 22 – is studying at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD).
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GSD lecture and panel address ‘Designing for Sustainability’
Interest in green building is high at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), judging by the attendance at a lecture Tuesday (Oct. 21) in the Stubbins Room at Gund Hall. “Designing for Sustainability” was part of the popular and event-packed sustainability celebration instituted this year by Harvard President Drew Faust.
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GSD students develop innovative plan for local school for deaf
Stricken with scarlet fever as a young boy, David Wright grew up in a silent world. In his moving autobiography, “Deafness: A Personal Account,” the South African-born author tells that story.
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New Trajectories: contemporary architecture in Croatia and Slovenia
For young architects, the moment their country is dissolving may not be a bad time to launch their careers. That has to be one of the takeaway messages from “New Trajectories: Contemporary Architecture in Croatia and Slovenia,” an exhibition at the Gund Hall Gallery of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) through Oct. 5.
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GSD names Loeb Fellows for 2008-09
The following mid-career practitioners, leaders in the effort to improve the quality of the built and natural environment, will be in residence at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) for the 2008-09 academic year.
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Revitalizing Shanghai’s waterfront is challenging task
Alex Krieger, who teaches the GSD Urban Design Proseminar as well as design studios such as last spring’s “Reconnecting City & River: Vienna, Austria & the Danube,” also leads a class in the College’s Core curriculum on the design of the American city.
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Symposium held on ‘Olympic’ architecture
The Olympics are never just about sport. This summer’s Beijing Olympics have been emphatically about architecture, too. In preparation for the games this August, the Chinese capital is undergoing an urban transformation unprecedented in recent history.
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Thriving cities ‘connect smart people’
In a fast-paced lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Thursday evening (March 6), Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, explained what he called the “central paradox” of cities in the postindustrial age.
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HCL maps set in stone
Three years ago, Big Dig officials approached David Cobb and his staff in the Harvard Map Collection with a request: Help them design a map for the North End parks that would illustrate how Boston had changed in the centuries since its founding. When the parks officially opened in November 2007, not one but seven…
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Building stories: GSD helps some come true
This summer, Ming Thompson learned a few things about telling a story.
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GSD students troubleshoot local problems
Back in March, at Cambridge’s King Open School, Matthew Gillen and José Terrasa-Soler asked fifth-graders how to make the city a nicer place to live in.