This site explores how disruptions of all kinds change policy, financial modeling, on-going management, housing and financial markets and the built environment. Specific topics are drawn from varying backgrounds, career goals, and interests of the students. Goals of the projects represented include: understanding of new approaches for appropriate development, the ability to test assumptions and investigate alternative development models, and understanding methods for surfacing, mitigating and/or exploiting disruptions in real estate development. From policy to pandemics to technology, our world changes sometimes methodically, sometimes quixotically. In urban planning, how best can we analyze, predict and shape outcomes to create better outcomes for people?

Using real world case studies and speculations on development interventions for a range of uses, asset classes and populations the course attempts to investigate these issues.