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Buildings and infrastructure that are planned and constructed to create a successful, healthy, and hospitable community environment

PROGRAMS & INITIATIVES

The Earth Institute

The Earth Institute brings together people and tools needed to address global problems from climate change and...

Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD)

The Center for Sustainable Urban Development seeks to understand the complexity of interactions between land use...

Center on Organizational Innovation

As a part of Columbia's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, the Institute aims to promote...

Columbia Global Centers | Amman

Columbia Global Centers | Amman serves as a hub for programs and educational initiatives throughout the Middle...

Center for Urban Research and Policy

CURP is a national resource for education, research, and discussion on issues confronting America’s cities. The...

Center on Global Energy Policy

The Center on Global Energy Policy provides independent, balanced, data-driven analysis to help policymakers...

RESEARCH

Mapping Human Networks of Transnational Architectural Projects

This proposal requests support to fund a pilot research project studying the local impact of...

Thika Highway Improvement Project

CSUD is working with an interdisciplinary research consortium with the University of Nairobi’s (UoN...

Air Quality Monitoring

Many Nairobi residents are exposed on a regular basis to elevated concentrations of fine particle...

Badami

This project for conservation and heritage-based development of the historic town of Badami in...

Transport and Equity: A Smart Approach

Launched in September 2012, this project builds on ongoing work of the core partners: the Center...

Regional Foodshed Resilience: An Interdisciplinary and International Practicum

This project is a three-year comparative Regional Foodshed Resilience practicum running in parallel...

INSTITUTES

Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS)

The Institute of Latin American Studies focuses on academic programs,...

Institute for Data Sciences & Engineering

Columbia University, in a partnership with New York City, launched the...

Institute for Sustainable Development Practice

The Institute for Sustainable Development Practice offers governmental and non-...

The Earth Institute

The Earth Institute brings together people and tools needed to address global...

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory explores the origin, evolution, and future of...

People

  • Nicola Twilley

    Co-director, Studio-X New York

  • Mark A. Wigley

    Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

  • Ah-Hyung Park

    Lenfest Earth Institute Associate Professor of Climate Change

  • Nora Akawi

    Curator, Studio-X Amman

  • Irwin Garfinkel

    Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems in the Faculty of Social Work

  • Ruth S. DeFries

    University Professor

  • Kartik Chandran

    Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering

  • Ibrahim S. Odeh

    Lecturer in Construction Engineering and Management in the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

  • Klaus S. Lackner

    Adjunct Senior Research Scientist in the Earth Institute; Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering

  • Mabel O. Wilson

    Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

  • Elliott Sclar

    Special Research Scholar in the Center for Sustainable Urban Development in the Earth Institute; Special Lecturer in Architecture, Planning and Preservation and in Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology

  • Laura J. Kurgan

    Associate Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

  • Jyoti Hosagrahar

    Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

  • Lynne Sagalyn

    Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor Emerita of Real Estate

  • Sam Szoke-Burke

    Legal Researcher
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