In the Master of Planning (MPL) program at USC Price, students engage in leading-edge work that exhibits the ideas of visual methodology through the diverse media of video, models, and web pages.
Project Title:
Rebuilding Troy
Semester / Year:
Fall-Spring, 2013-2014
This web page was developed by a student group at USC Price, and is a site for critical student comment and reflection on urban issues. The site includes a discussion of the international lab in Brazil in Fall, 2013 and January, 2014, creative solutions to regional infrastructure deficits, telework, bicycle sharing, and food systems planning.
http://rebuildingtroy.com/
Project Title:
USC Price in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Semester / Year:
Fall-Spring, 2013-2014
USC Price offers three international labs each year which can be taken for studio credit after review of the syllabus by the MPL program director. In January, 2014, Professor Richard Green led a team of 24 USC Price students who developed a housing plan for the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. This web page is a student-authored description of that learning experience.
http://rebuildingtroy.com/2014/01/31/price-in-sao-paulo-housing-infrastructure-and-questionable-samba-dancing/
Project Title / Course:
Tokyo Time and Space (PPD 531)
Instructor:
Vinayak Bharne, Adjunct Associate Professor of Urbanism
Semester / Year:
Spring 2013
This five-minute video was created as part of the Spring 2013 international studio that focused on the redevelopment of the Shibuya district in Tokyo, Japan. The students each prepared a visual element – video, model, or posters – in addition to a paper that explored theoretical questions related to Japan’s urban development. The video was created by MPL student Steve Coulter.
Project Title / Course:
Japan in Time: Urban Bike Culture (PPD 531)
Instructor:
Vinayak Bharne, Adjunct Associate Professor of Urbanism
Semester / Year:
Spring 2013
This video, also from the Spring, 2013 studio in Tokyo, Japan, communicates bicycle culture in Japan’s largest city. The video was created by MPL student Winnie Fong.
Project Title / Course:
Japan Urbanism Lab (PPD531L)
Instructor:
Vinayak Bharne, Adjunct Associate Professor of Urbanism
Semester / Year:
Spring 2013
Students:
The model was created as a collaborative exercise by the entire class of 11 students.
Learning Objective:
This model was the final exercise of the Japan Urbanism Lab. Students had returned from the week-long trip to Japan, diagnosed the site and proposed strategic interventions for the improvement of the Shibuya District. They worked for the remainder of the semester to elaborate these strategies. In the last two weeks of the semester, the making of this model was initiated as tool to bring all these individual ideas together in a broad and semi-abstract physical form. The intent of this exercise was to make students understand that ultimately every strategic proposition, whether a policy or design suggestion, finds tangible form in a city, and is a also a crucial dimension we need to take responsibility for.
Project Title / Course:
Large Station = Complicated to Navigate (PPD 531)
Instructor:
Deike Peters, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Semester / Year:
Spring 2010
This video was created as part of the Spring 2010 international studio that focused on the large-scale urban redevelopment of sites adjacent to inner-city rail stations, and particularly high-speed rail nodes. This international studio was supported by a Group Study Grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The video was created by a group of MPL students Jen Longabaugh, Brandon Keeler, Rebecca Garcia, and Joe Walcek.