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

PROGRAMS & INITIATIVES

Columbia Water Center

The Columbia Water Center, in collaboration with other Earth Institute units and external partners, is leading...

Columbia Experience Overseas Program

Offering Columbia students high quality internship experiences in a diverse array of industries in Amman, Beijing...

Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development

Utilizes science and policy expertise of Earth Institute research teams to advise on sustainable development...

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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

Columbia Population Research Center

The Columbia Population Research Center is a multidisciplinary community of scholars unified by a commitment to...

Studio-X Rio de Janeiro

Since March 2011, Studio-X Rio has brought together professionals, academics, decision makers, students, and the...

RESEARCH

Arts, Culture, and Quality of Life in Global Cities

Urban spaces have become a crucible for the transformations of the global era. The Committee on...

Sustainable Investment: Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Investment

The Committee on Global Thought’s research into sustainable investment fosters collaboration...

Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments: Part Two

Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments: Part Two Started June 9, 2014 Part Two- Project Grant A Survey and...

Thika Highway Improvement Project

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

Mapping Human Networks of Transnational Architectural Projects

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

The Istanbul Research and Documentation Project

The Istanbul Research and Documentation Project (IRDP) was conceptualized and founded by Professor...

INSTITUTES

Institute for Sustainable Development Practice

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

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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

Institute for Data Sciences & Engineering

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

Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS)

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

The Earth Institute

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

People

  • Reinhold I. Martin

    Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

  • Klaus S. Lackner

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

  • Mary C. Boyce

    Dean, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science; Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor, Professor of Mechanical Engineering

  • Kadambari Baxi

    Professor of Professional Practice

  • Ah-Hyung Park

    Lenfest Earth Institute Associate Professor of Climate Change

  • Laura J. Kurgan

    Associate Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

  • Jason Bordoff

    Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs

  • Nora Akawi

    Curator, Studio-X Amman

  • Richard Garfield

    Henrik H. Bendixen Professor Emeritus of Clinical International Nursing; Professor Emeritus of Clinical Population and Family Health; Special Lecturer in the School of Nursing

  • Lynne Sagalyn

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

  • Nicola Twilley

    Co-director, Studio-X New York

  • Selva Gurdogan

    Director, Studio-X Istanbul

  • Vijay Modi

    Professor of Mechanical Engineering

  • 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

  • Ibrahim S. Odeh

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