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6 courses
Ranked courses have at least 100 recorded letter grades.
WELCOME TO YOUR URBAN FUTURE explores equitable and sustainable urban futures. Students develop plans for positive change in areas like community food systems, water conservation, transportation, housing, and urban nature.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Spring 2023–Spring 2026An introductory overview of the real estate process covering development, permitting, transactions, economics, financing, valuation, leasing, and management.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · David Gevers
Grades are based on a few short papers and two exams; the exams were extremely easy, and the papers required little effort to complete.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Public Management examines the role of administration in American government, focusing on organizational problems, bureaucracy, control mechanisms, and how public policy emerges from the administrative process.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2026Urban Economics analyzes spatial relationships in the urban economy, covering land, labor, and housing markets, transport, governance, and regional models with an interdisciplinary focus.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Introduction to the City investigates urbanization processes and contemporary city forms, emphasizing spatial and social segregation by race, class, ethnicity, and gender.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Maha Ziadeh
The class required a final group project, tedious walking tours, and prompts requiring citations, with no exams.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Focuses on the study of the allocation of scarce resources across space. Uses economic methods to analyze urban real estate. Topics covered include the determinants of real estate values, the location decisions of households and firms, land use, urban growth and agglomeration, real estate pricing, cycles, development, housing market and policies, and sustainable development.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Stephen Malpezzi, Yongheng Deng
One student found the class very easy, while another reported some assignments were difficult. Instructors went over homework in class, which helped make those challenging tasks much easier to complete.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026