Explores a series of diverse urban landscapes as public history, with a focus on cases of African-American landscapes and landscapes of other racial or ethnic minorities and the stories they hold. To deepen an understanding and discussion of these cases, an author/leader of each case joins the class session. Topics include: the relationship between history and memory; as well as how overlooked or silenced histories can be unearthed, honored, and told through urban design and planning.

Investigates the interaction between pedestrian activity, urban form, and land-use patterns in built environments.. Informed by recent literature on pedestrian behavior, subject takes a practical approach, using software tools and analysis methods to operationalize and model pedestrian activity over spatial networks. Uses simplified yet powerful and scalable network analysis methods that focus uniquely on pedestrians, rather than engaging in comprehensive travel demand modeling across all modes. Emphasizes not only modeling or predicting pedestrian activity in given built settings, but also analyzing and understanding how changes in the built environment — land use changes, density changes, and street design changes — can affect pedestrian activity.