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Travel / Seminar on New York City

Integral to the M.U.D. Program is the in-depth exploration of New York City as part of the seminar, UD 723, Methodologies of Urban Design.

Leading the seminar is Roy Strickland, director of the Master of Urban Design Program. Strickland is a native New Yorker who has practiced and taught design in the city for decades. Because New York is the United States' most important laboratory of urban design, its study is critical to urban designers and an important complement to the M.U.D. Program's design investigations of cities such as Chicago, Detroit, and Los Angeles. For three days during the winter term, the seminar relocates to New York with walks through downtown and midtown Manhattan, exploration of outer-borough neighborhoods, and meetings with urban design practitioners. Students are able to see real major urban design movements—from 19th-century building covenants to 21st-century special zoning districts. And for American and international students alike, this seminar and tour serve as memorable introductions to American urban culture.