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Remaking Cities Institute

The Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) is an urban design research center in the School of Architecture.  It conducts international research in place-making, citizen participation planning processes, and sustainable development.  Download our brochure.

NEWS

  • The Atlantic Cities profiles David Lewis, co-founder and board member of the RCI and Emeritus Professor at Carnegie Mellon. David Lewis, Urban Design Pioneer. 
  • Post Gazette marks the birthday of David Lewis, co-founder and board member of the RCI and Emeritus Professor at Carnegie Mellon. David Lewis: An Urban Legend.
  • Video: RCI Director Don Carter speaks at the Pittsburgh TEDx Conference in November 2011 on power. 
  • RCI Director Don Carter writes about energy efficient streetlights in The Atlantic Cities. Making Energy Efficient Streetlights a Reality.
  • Pittsburgh International Airport Area Development Vision Plan (Aerotropolis) published.
  • LED Street Lighting report published.
  • Tenth Annual David Lewis Lecture: Urban Designer Dhiru Thadani to speak in Oakland on October 3, 2011
  • RCI completes Design Charrette on Aerotropolis concept for Pittsburgh International Airport.
  • Video: Panel on Sustainability and Smart Growth, featuring Don Carter and moderated by President Cohon.
  • Pittsburgh LED Street Lighting Research Project covered in the Post-Gazette.
  • Don Carter interviewed by the BBC, alongside Dennis Yablonsky, President of the Allegheny Conference and Brian Hyslop, Post-Gazette Business Editor.
  • 2008 David Lewis Lecturer Joan Busquets has been awarded the 2011 Erasmus Prize "in appreciation of his impressive and multifaceted oeuvre in the field of city planning".
  • RCI Director Don Carter and School of Architecture Head Steven Lee interviewed in the Changing Gears program Reinventing Our Cities.
  • RCI Director Don Carter featured in latest issue of Span.
  • Innovation Oakland report published.
  • Innovation Oakland on KDKA and WDUQ.
  • Downtown's noise hardly sounds like music to the ears: RCI in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  • Innovation Oakland in PopCity.
  • Innovation Oakland featured in the Pittsburgh Tribute-Review.
  • RCI Director Don Carter writes about the top 10 take-home messages from the Mayors' Institute on City Design in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Next Page: Midsize cities, big ideas.