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Urban Land Institute collaboration with Graduate Urban Design Students

May 08, 2019

Graduate MSAURD Urban Design Students collaboration with Urban Land Institute on a Sustainable and Resilient Urban Design project.

Our graduate urban design students are currently working in collaboration with leading urban designers, scientists and policymakers to configure a sustainable and resilient district in Brooklyn, NYC. On 26 April, the students worked with the Urban Land Institute Task Force comprising designers and a key community stakeholder group during an Urban Land Institute Session held at SoAD NYIT. Session Participants included:

ULI Task Force

Donna Walcavage, FASLA, LEED AP - Principal, Stantec

Gary Sorge, FASLA, CSLA, AICP - Vice President, Stantec

Janice Barnes - Director of Resilience, Waggonner & Ball Architecture / Environment

Nancy Choi - Associate, Arup

Michelle de la Uz - Executive Director, Fifth Avenue Committee

Sabine Aronowsky - Fifth Avenue Committee

Urban Land Institute

Felix Ciampa - Executive Director, ULI New York

Sofia Guerrero - Senior Manager, ULI New York

Katharine Burgess - Vice President, Urban Resilience, ULI

Elizabeth Foster - Senior Associate, Urban Resilience, ULI

Urban Design Climate
Workshop Team

Christian Braneon–NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia University

Michael Esposito – Elementa Engineering

Jeffrey Raven, FAIA, LEED BD+C – NYIT MSAURD / RAVEN Architecture + Urban Design

Luciana Godinho – Urban Designer / MSAURD Alumni


Surabhi Kale – MSAURD Graduate Student

Yuval Eynath – MSAURD Graduate Student

Ishan Shah – MSAURD Graduate Student

Maria Morales – MSAURD Graduate Student

Naqeeb Mohammed – MSAURD Graduate Student

Poormina – MSAURD Graduate Student

Rosario Foinquinos – MSAURD Graduate Student

Smriti Jaiswal – MSAURD Graduate Student