Remaking Cities Institute

The Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) is an urban design research center in the School of Architecture that was created to promote an improved quality of life through place-making and carefully planned economic and community redevelopment. The ability to capture and evaluate the conditions of neighborhoods and regions as well as their ability to deliver the basic tenets of a shared quality of life, and to envision futures that regenerate neighborhoods and regions, is a primary goal of the RCI. Download our brochure.

NEWS

• RCI awarded two new research contracts. See Current Projects for more information.
• October 29, 6:00pm: Annual David Lewis Lecture Series presents Peter Bosselmann, renowned practioner and urban theorist at the Carnegie Museum of Art Theatre. Co-sponsored by Urban Design Associates (UDA). Free event.

• The RCI releases Remaking Hazelwood, Remaking Pittsburgh: Urban Design Recommendation for Pittsburgh's Next Big Urban Project, a guiding document whose aim is to promote a comprehensive and sustainable urban design-based approach to the revitalization of Hazelwood through the redevelopment of the ALMONO site.

• "We are entering a time when the tide is turning. We are entering a time, not of building but of rebuilding; not of invention but of retention; not of expansion but of consolidation, not of arrogantly replacing the old with the new, but of perceiving that the character of the old lies, not in its physical or economic decay, but in the language that heritage has to teach us, and that the roots of heritage are culturally as well as physically deep in all of us." Read David Lewis' full introductory remarks to the RCI International Advisory Board, October 16, 2009.

• Professor Folan's Urban Laboratory/Urban Design Build Studio in Wilkinsburg featured in the press!