Events
Cool Streets : a conversation towards action
GRCN-World Bank: Cities on the Frontlines: Urban Heat and COVID-19
A Visual Tour of Resilient Urban Futures Along Africa's Great Rift Valley
Future Streets: Lessons & Paths Forward from Open Streets
2021 Resilience, Relocation and Climate Justice
Sandy+10: Resilience, Equity and Climate Justice
News
Op-Ed in Planning Magazine on Post Disaster Housing
Hurricane Recovery Fails the Financially Vulnerable
Based on a decade of data from Hurricane Sandy, two New York City planners explore the inequities of disaster mitigation and recovery — and what needs to change to prevent climate gentrification. By Donovan Finn and Thad Pawlowski
https://www.planning.org/planning/2022/summer/hurricane-recovery-fails-the-financially-vulnerable/
Thad talks with Brian Lehrer about the Army Corps Plan for New York Harbor
The Army Corps of Engineers released a $52 billion dollar proposal to protect New York's coastlines through sea walls and storm surge gates. Samantha Maldonado, reporter at The City covering climate and resiliency, and Thaddeus Pawlowski, co-director of the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, explain how it would work, and why environmental groups are not all on board with the p
Kate Orff on Brian Lehrer
Kate talks to Brian about why "trees are a form of civic infrastructure" helping us to keep cool during heat waves and absorb water during heavy rainstorms; and how we need to work together to depave the city and create more contiguous ecologies.
https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-brian-lehrer-show-2022-07-20/
Mission
The Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes (CRCL) uses planning and design to help communities and ecosystems adapt to the pressures of urbanization, inequality, and climate change. CRCL works with public, nonprofit, and academic partners to deliver practical and forward-thinking technical assistance through interdisciplinary research, visualization of risk, project design scenarios, and facilitated convenings. CRCL integrates resilience thinking into design education and academic programming, bringing real-world challenges into the classroom to train future design leaders.
Established in 2018 at Columbia University’s Graduate School for Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), CRCL extends Columbia’s leadership in climate-related work and supports the interdisciplinary collaborations and external partnerships needed to engage the most serious and challenging issues of our time.
Our Work
