The Urban Design Lab’s cognitive mapping project is part of a sequence exploring how the social media revolution is producing a new generation of urban design and planning tools that augment the reading of urban public space and management of next generation distributed urban infrastructure. Deployment of social data analytics has the potential for real-time… read more

The 2017 Summer High School Program engaged students in a study of 125th Street, an integral broad crosstown street in Manhattan’s historic Harlem neighborhood that has seen extensive demographic and economic change in recent years. As part of the course, titled ‘Sustainable Urbanization: New Designs for the Future City,’ students worked with the 125th Street… read more

Please note that from Tuesday, October 17, 2017 to Friday, October 27, 2017, the Urban Design Lab website is undergoing maintenance. Please excuse any unusual appearance during this period. Thank you.

On October 2, 2017, UDL Director Richard Plunz was ‘on the air’ with Brian Lehrer and David Favaloro of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum to kick off the Brian Lehrer Show’s new series, ‘A People’s Guide to Power: Real Estate Edition’. In the segment, Plunz, Favaloro, and Lehrer discuss the time in the early… read more

Urban Design Lab Director Richard Plunz will introduce his new book City Riffs: Urbanism, Ecology, Place in New York on September 21, 2017 at the Italian Academy of Columbia University, located at 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, at 6:00 PM City Riffs traces the changing perspectives on urban design within an ever-changing global context, and considers trans-disciplinary… read more

For Immediate Release NEW YORK, New York (July 11, 2017) — The Urban Design Lab (UDL), a research unit in the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is pleased to be represented at this year’s Esri User Conference, which kicked off yesterday in San Diego, California. Senior Research Assistant Harsha Devulapalli is presenting UDL’s work on… read more

Scott is an associate of Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners (BBB) in the Washington, DC office. He was also selected for the inaugural 2016 BBB RED (Research Exchange Develop) Award, in which his team explored a new type of architectural contextualism in the project Data Driven (Urban) Design. In addition to his professional work, Scott… read more

After working at the Urban Design Lab Scott was a project manager at Terrapin Bright Green in New York City, and was then the head of the Energy Track with the Clinton Global Initiative until February 2016. Scott is currently a director at Aclima, Inc. in San Francisco, CA.   B.A. in Political Science and Anthropology, Columbia… read more