Urban Design Lab

The Urban Design Lab is a research unit of The Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York City. It was established in 2005, by Richard Plunz, to solve long-range problems in sustainable development. The Urban Design Lab has worked with the New York City community in tackling environmental remediation, high performance and green building design, micro-infrastructure, public health, climate change, and sustainable economic development; it has worked in global locations such as Ghana, Kenya, China, and India.[1]

Team

The Urban Design Lab collaborates with many schools of Columbia University and external partners depending on the needs of the research theme. The founder is Richard Plunz, who co-directs the Urban Design Lab along with Patricia Culligan, the Robert A.W. and Christine S. Carleton Professor of Civil Engineering at Columbia University. Core researchers include Maria Paola Sutto, Harsha Devulapalli, Yijia Zhou. Collaborators and researchers are academics and professionals in the fields of architecture and urban design, environmental and social science, data science.[1]

Projects

The focus of most projects at the UDL is on green and sustainable infrastructure, coastal cities resiliency, food and the urban environment, and climate change and adaptation.[2] It offers academic research opportunities through comprehensive design studios, such as the Urban Ecology Studio,[3] and more focused research seminars.[4]

Partners

The Urban Design Lab has partnered with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the United Nations Environment Assembly, the Rockefeller Fund, the Township of Maplewood New Jersey, the American Farmland Trust, the West African Health Foundation, the City of New Rochelle, the Ford Foundation, Fundglode, the United Health Foundation, Karp Resources, the New World Foundation, and the Fondazione Adriano Olivetti.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "About – Urban Design Lab". urbandesignlab.columbia.edu.
  2. ↑ "Projects – Urban Design Lab". urbandesignlab.columbia.edu.
  3. ↑ "Urban Ecology Studio – Urban Design Lab". urbandesignlab.columbia.edu.
  4. ↑ "Academic Research – Urban Design Lab". urbandesignlab.columbia.edu.
  5. ↑ "Partners – Urban Design Lab". urbandesignlab.columbia.edu.
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