Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment
INTERNATIONAL COURSES The GCPE is responding to the challenges of the “global village” with courses that run partly or entirely abroad. These courses are as much about students learning global innovations and practices as about providing opportunities for students to study in foreign places. As respective examples of a seminar and studio: Pratt students have traveled to Brazil to consider innovative approaches to affordable housing in the New York–São Paulo Exchange; and with Cuban planners, designers, architects, and sociologists created a preliminary framework for envisioning a sustainable future for Havana, Cuba. The current list of international courses includes: - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Environmental Sustainability - Havana, Cuba: Preservation and Adaptation - Rotterdam, Netherlands: Climate Adaptation Strategies, Multi-Modal Transportation - Tokyo, Japan: Urban Design and Placemaking - Paris, France: Preservation
Within the GCPE we believe in equipping our students with not only the tools and knowledge to practice locally, but also the perspective to approach these complex issues while evaluating the milieu of local environment, equity and economics concerns. We better understand our own milieu with insights gathers from international travel and study.
Eve L. Baron, Ph.D., Chair of the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment and Coordinator of City and Regional Planning a Havana Studio b Tokyo Studio c Rotterdam Studio
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