HUT-208: Redevelopment Policy

Semester: Fall

Credit: 1.0

Faculty: Susan Fainstein

Schedule

Day Time Location
First Day 9/15 2/4
Meet Day M/W 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Gund Gropius
Review

Description

Urban redevelopment is the process by which government, private investors, and households transform the uses and financial returns of the urban built environment. As an area of public policy it is a response to the perceived deterioration of cities caused by initial poor construction, decay, economic restructuring, regional shifts, suburbanization, and social segregation. Different social groups receive different costs and benefits as a consequence of redevelopment efforts. The objective of this course is to examine the process of urban decline, the kinds of responses that it has evoked, the principal redevelopment actors, the possible range of redevelopment strategies, and the social and spatial impacts of redevelopment efforts. Primary emphasis will be on U.S. policies, but the course will also include some international comparative material. Class discussion is an essential part of the course. Written assignments will consist of two papers, the first to be based on library research and the second to involve original research. The first paper will account 30% of the grade and the second 70%. Class participation will determine borderline grades.

Also offered by the Graduate School of Design as GSD-5484.