Sagi is a Senior Urban Designer of Brooklyn at the NYC Department of City Planning. Golan taught at Columbia GSAPP’s Urban Design program and is a frequent guest critic at various universities in New York. At City Planning, he ensures a high level of design excellence in projects across Brooklyn. Most recently his project “9×18” was awarded the… read more

Kubi Ackerman is currently the Director of the Future City Lab at the Museum of the City of New York, an interactive, participatory exhibition on the future of New York City. As Project Manager at UDL he worked primarily on urban food-system related research as well as the cultural impact of the rezoning of 125th Street in… read more

Senior Research Assistant, Urban Design Lab Harsha Devulapalli has a Bachelors in Technology from Koneru Lakshmaiah University in Vijayawada, India and graduated from the Columbia University Lede Program in the Columbia Journalism School. Harsha has conducted numerous projects in both India and New York City. Previously, Harsha served as a Research Associate for the Hyderabad Urban Lab in… read more

Research Scientist, Urban Design Lab Amy Motzny holds a Master of Landscape Architecture and is currently a full-time Research Scientist working jointly with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Earth Institute’s Urban Design Lab. She is part of a multidisciplinary group of researchers, scientists, and practitioners investigating urban green infrastructure (GI) planning and design strategies…. read more

For the 2015 Summer Program, students worked with the Hudson River Park Trust, which operates a four mile stretch of waterfront along the Western side of Manhattan. Students used site visits, discussions with local stakeholders and digital tools to choose a site within the park and design their intervention. Six teams of students created designs… read more

The 2016 Summer High School Program focused on the Gansevoort Peninsula, which is now the sole remnant of the 19th Century-constructed Manhattan shoreline. The popular parkway includes a busy bicycle path, a number of developed piers, traditional play areas, boat launches and walking paths. The course aimed to introduce the question of the functioning of public space… read more

2013 was the first year of the Sustainable Urbanization: New Designs for the Future City class at the Summer Program for High School Students at Columbia University. The focus region of the class that year was the Two Bridges area of New York. Students were placed into one of nine groups and tackled different design challenges, all of… read more

The Urban Design Lab began involvement in the Summer Program for High School Students at Columbia University in 2013. Each year, the class has focused on different themes of urban design, giving students tools and resources to face urban challenges in New York City. Students are exposed to emerging trends in urban sustainability in an interdisciplinary workshop… read more