American Urbanism Certificate

The Program of Advanced Studies in American Urbanism provides opportunities for the rediscovery and examination of the fundamental symbolic and pragmatic values that underlie American urban form. In an interdisciplinary setting, students explore the application and adaptation of these values to contemporary aspirations, beliefs, and conditions. Architects, landscape architects, planners and historians collaboratively investigate the interacting influences and spatial strategies by which urban landscapes are transformed. Students are encouraged to develop the broad and diverse set of skills and experiences including a knowledge of urban history, the processes of sustainable urban development, design skills derived from an understanding of the theories and practices of both architecture and landscape architecture, and most importantly a coherent set of principles with which to discern, steward, and enhance the social, cultural and political values of embodied in urban form. The program’s curriculum emphasizes the development of multi-disciplinary design and analytic skills to enable a student to creatively engage the problems of the contemporary urban environment and develop projects, proposals and policies which are sustainable.