Boston has a long history of bold planning, and a recent practice of parcel-by-parcel development. Meanwhile, the city – and the region – are experiencing an extraordinary moment of growth in private investment and industry, along with renewed efforts in city-wide planning. Whether considering housing and mobility...
Design for Equity is a day-long curriculum exploring how racial and social inequity are manifested in urban planning and the built environment, and the tools designers and practitioners can develop to promote more just and inclusive communities.
This topic has never been more salient for the City of...
How does housing shape landscape, and, in turn, how is it shaped by it?
Housing programs lie at the very center of socio-spatial relations and the politics of space. Landscape – broadly defined to include landscape design, ecology,...
The irreducible complexity of the contemporary urban makes communication and collaboration across disciplinary borders essential, and calls for new intermedial research methods that make it possible to examine multiple factors in unstable conditions from a range of disciplinary perspectives. This daylong...
“Re-thinking Local” will examine how architects are developing new models of locally-based design practice given the changing realities of urbanization around the world, with a particular focus on South and Southeast Asia. These two public events feature Vo Trong Nghia, the most prolific contemporary architect in...