Design and Urban Ecologies Methods 2
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Spring 2013

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Level: Undergraduate, Graduate
Division: Parsons The New School for Design
School: School of Design Strategies
Department: Urban Design
Course Number: PGUD 5170
Course Format: Seminar
Location: NYC campus
Permission Required: No
Topics:
  • Urban Design
  • Urban Studies
Description:
This course focuses on citizen empowerment, taking students out of the classroom to work in the field with residents of a New York City neighborhood. As they work, students reassess assumptions about urbanization and democracy and critically examine fieldwork methods, participatory democratic frameworks, and models of neighborhood development. Students learn to conduct remote fieldwork using geographical information system (GIS) mapping, online data mining, and geo-location databases.
Course Pre/Co-requisites:
Open to: MS in Design and Urban Ecologies majors only; others by permission of program. Pre-requisite(s): PGUD 5160 Urban Ecologies Methods 1.
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Level

Open to Graduate students.