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courses

ARCH4027-1 / Fall 2025

Rosalie Genevro

Architecture, Planning & Preservation

Canvas

Syllabus

New York City is magnificent, and overwhelming, in its variety, complexity, and intensity. Understanding the genesis and interactions of its physical and social forms is the work of a lifetime. The goal of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation: New York (APP), a core course for the New York semester of The Shape of Two Cities program, is to offer students a substantial foundation on which to build that understanding. The course is designed to develop students’ capacities as urbanists who can read the form of the city and the cultural, material, and economic imperatives that create and continuously act on it. The class offers an overview of the historical forces and events that have shaped the built environment of New York City, and a close look at selected issues and controversies that are influencing contemporary development. The roles of architects, planners, preservationists, as well as advocates and activists, government employees, and other actors who participate in city-building are all considered.

The course will draw on different forms of knowledge, study, and communication, to learn from the multiple affinities, types of expertise, talents, and characteristics that are necessary to understand something as fundamental as the human relationship to place and habitation, and human impulses to resist, accommodate, or welcome change. Class lectures, readings, and discussions will encompass history, theory, and public policy; field trips will visit representative sites to help students understand contemporary dynamics of design, planning, and policy decisions that shape the city.

Location & Time

409 Avery

TH 10 AM - 1 PM

Session & Points

Full Semester

3 Points

Requirements

NY/P Only

Sequence

New York/Paris Required

Call Number

10828

Programs

New York / Paris

Other Semesters & Sections

Course	Semester	Title	Instructor	Syllabus	Requirements & Sequence	Location & Time	Session & Points	Call No.
A4027‑1	Fall 2024	Architecture, Planning & Preservation	Rosalie Genevro		REQUIRED NYP SEMINAR New York/Paris Required	300 BUELL SOUTH M 10 AM - 1 PM	FULL SEMESTER 3 Points	10900
A4027‑1	Fall 2023	Architecture, Planning & Preservation	Carol Willis, Rosalie Genevro		New York/Paris Required	300 BUELL S M 10 AM - 1 PM	FULL SEMESTER 3 Points	10200
A4027‑1	Fall 2022	Architecture, Planning & Preservation	Carol Willis, Rosalie Genevro		New York/Paris Required	505 AVERY TH 9 AM - 12 PM	FULL SEMESTER 3 Points	12537
A4027‑1	Fall 2019	Architecture, Planning & Preservation	Carol Willis, Rosalie Genevro		New York/Paris Required	300 BUELL NORTH TH 9 AM - 12 PM	FULL SEMESTER 3 Points	41478
A4027‑1	Fall 2018	Architecture, Planning & Preservation	Carol Willis, Rosalie Genevro	Syllabus	New York/Paris Required	300 Buell North TH 9 AM - 12 PM	Full Semester 3 Points	13442
A4027‑1	Fall 2017	Architecture, Planning & Preservation	Carol Willis, Rosalie Genevro	Syllabus	Required (Seminar) New York/Paris Required	300 Avery Th 9 AM - 12 PM	Full Semester 3 Points	17447
A4027‑1	Fall 2015	ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING & PRESERVATION: NEW YORK	Carol Willis		New York/Paris Required	115 AVERY TH 9 AM - 12 PM	FULL SEMESTER 3 Points	69254
A4027‑1	Fall 2014	ARCH-PLANNING-PRESERVATION-NY			New York/Paris Required	AVERY HALL 600 R 09:00A-12:00PAVH AVERY HALL 600	001 3 Points	96796