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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.

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  • RCI director Don Carter spoke at the annual conference of the American Planning Association (APA) in Chicago on Sunday, 14 April 2013, on "The Future of the Post-Industrial City." Here is a link to an article in The Atlantic Cities about the talk: [read article here]
  • RCI Director Don Carter was featured on the ULI PIttsburgh website. here
  • RCI Director Don Carter was interviewed by John Hockenberry on "The Takeway" show on National Public Radio on 4 March 2013. The topic was "Lessons in Revitalizing Cities." Listen to the interview. here
  • RCI Director Don Carter was interviewed for an article on "Game-changing Architecture in Pittsburgh" for the 3 October 2012 edition of PopCity: [read article here]
  • RCI Director Don Carter quoted in an Architectural Record article on Pittsburgh in the October 2012 issue. New Life for the American City
  • RCI Director Don Carter was interviewed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in August 2012 about the anti-urbanist trend of fencing and gating privately owned public space in Downtown Pittsburgh. Public merits a cozy spot among private properties
  • RCI Director Don Carter was quoted in July 2012 in the Boston Globe on converting streetlights from sodium vapor to LED technology. Bright words, glaring worries over city's new streetlights
  • RCI Director Don Carter organized and spoke at an international panel on "Rethinking Cities in the 21st Century" as part of the Distinctively Dutch Festival in Pittsburgh in June 2012. The panel was moderated by Rob de Vos, Consul General of The Netherlands.
  • RCI Director Don Carter and Jim Garrett, Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, represented Carnegie Mellon University at the New Cities Summit in Paris in May 2012.
  • RCI Director Don Carter's TEDx talk was featured in February 2012 The Atlantic Cities online magazine. Where Pittsburgh Has the Sun Belt Beat
  • RCI Director Don Carter interviewed by The Piper.  Reinventing Pittsburgh.  
  • RCI Director Don Carter interviewed on 3 May 2012 on WQED-TV about Healthy Communities and Neighborhood Planning. Pittsburgh 360 Video.
  • Carnegie Mellon University Tapped to Join New Global Foundation for Improving Future of Urbanization.  Press Release.
  • 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.