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 heavily with the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the Fu Foundation of Engineering and Applied Science. The founder is Richard Plunz, who co-directs the Urban Design Lab along with Patricia Culligan, a professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University. Researchers include Michael Conard, Maria Paola Sutto, Nilda Mesa, Kirk Finkel, Vanessa Espaillat, Houman Saberi, Daniel Laimer, and Filiberto Viteri Chávez. All collaborators and researchers are academics and professionals in urban design, planning, architecture, historic preservation, real estate, public health, environmental science, climatology, engineering, ecology, education, business, economics, social science, humanities, and law.[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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