The Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) is a resource for the Pittsburgh region, created to promote an improved quality of life through place-making and carefully planned economic and community redevelopment.

REMAKING CITIES INSTITUTE

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 Remaking Cities Institute at Carnegie Mellon's School of Architecture.

The mission of the Remaking Cities Institute is to catalyze sustainable urban futures and excellence in community design. Our vision is to be recognized internationally as the key resource for rebuilding urban communities, demonstrated through the revitalization of communities in the Pittsburgh region.

Ensuring sustainability and quality of life through urban and regional design requires both multidisciplinary expertise and exposure to participatory processes. Physical decisions about land-use, zoning, transportation and other infrastructures, mixed-use development, and neighborhood design are brought together with urban geography, economics, and policy at the core of the Institute. The centerpiece is a group of students and faculty from different disciplines working with neighborhoods, and political and economic decision-makers, to address the complex and multidimensional nature of sustainable cities and regions.

The RCI benefits from the strengths of the Center for Economic Development (CED), part of Carnegie Mellon's H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. The seamless integration of their expertise in the work of RCI allows us to leverage academic resources to better understand key regional economic development issues.

The RCI intends to expand efforts to develop visions leveraging the leadership position of the Pittsburgh region in research and development, and linking them to physical planning and ultimately to economic vibrancy and equity, environmental quality, health, safety and overall quality of life.

For more information, please contact:
Luis Rico-Gutierrez
Director, Remaking Cities Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
School of Architecture
201 College of Fine Arts
Pittsburgh, PA
15213 USA
[e] lrico@andrew.cmu.edu
[p] 412.268.9553
[f] 412.268.7819