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Urban design is a continually evolving

field. The expansion and contraction of

cities, the increasingly intricate systems

of economic exchange, along with intense

environmental change suggest that

new forms of innovative environmental

analysis and information-sensitive design

are necessary. New synthetic strate-

gies for urban and industrial ecologies

related to the capacities of rural produc-

tion are studied in detail. The program

engages students across multiple forms

of expertise with the most thoughtful

and innovative work in new computer

mapping and visualization technologies,

theoretical debates, historical precedents,

transdisciplinary approaches, and specula-

tive methodologies that are brought to

questions of contemporary cities in design

studios and seminars.

master of science architecture

and urban design

Students enrolled in the Urban Design

program graduate with a master of science

degree in architecture and urban design.

The program is 33-credits and three

semesters (summer, fall, spring). It is open

to students holding a five-year (B. Arch.) or

equivalent (M. Arch.) degree in architec-

ture. The program begins in the summer

semester with an intensive curriculum

focused on concepts, theory, and repre-

sentational/generative practices of urban

design, and continues with design studio

and seminar courses toward a culminating

project in the third semester. 

The program is run as a series of

advanced design/research studios and sem-

inars that attempt to contend, in new ways,

with the complex issues of contemporary

urban environments. These issues include:

desires to promote notions of co-generative

environments that lead the potential for

non-linear and highly sensitive system

feedback; the need to address multiplicity

of scales and diverse populations; the for-

mulation of connections between diverse

institutions and agencies; the analysis and

invention of forms of representation and

repositories of information (mapping,

database) that act as genuine resources for

decision-making. Urban design is envi-

ronmental design where environmental

is considered at scales that range between

micro (street curb cuts) and macro (global

flows of production and resources).

chair

William MacDonald

assistant chair

Philip Parker

coordinator

Meta Brunzema

assistants to the chair

Erin Murphy

Erika Schroeder

office

Tel: 718-399-4314 | Fax: 718-399-4379

[email protected]

http://www.gaud.pratt.edu

Urban Design

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