Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes
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.
TEAM
| Name | Title | |
| Sarmiento, Hugo | Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | hs3327@columbia.edu |
| Orff, Kate | Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and of Climate; Director of the Masters of Science Architecture and Urban Design Program | ko2111@columbia.edu |
| Pawlowski, Thaddeus | Research Scholar | t.pawlowski@columbia.edu |