Resources
Links to University Urban Sustainability Research Centers
The first phase of CSC research project, “Towards Evidence-Based Sustainable Communities” , sponsored by the Urban Institute, included an inventory and survey to University-based Urban Sustainability Research Centers. As part of this project, we are providing links and contact information for the Centers identified:
| Research Center | University | Website |
|---|---|---|
| Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems | Georgia Institute of Technology | http://www.sustainable.gatech.edu/ |
| Center for a Sustainable California | University of California, Berkeley | http://sustainablecalifornia.berkeley.edu |
| Center for a Sustainable Future | Cornell University | http://www.sustainablefuture.cornell.edu/index.php |
| Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development | Georgia Institute of Technology | http://www.cqgrd.gatech.edu/ |
| Center for Resilience | Ohio State University | http://resilience.osu.edu/CFR-site/index.htm |
| Center for Sustainable Building Research | University of Minnesota | http://www.csbr.umn.edu/ |
| Center for Sustainable Development | University of Texas at Austin | http://soa.utexas.edu/csd/index/ |
| Center for Sustainable Systems | University of Michigan | http://css.snre.umich.edu/ |
| Center for Sustainable Urban Development | Columbia University | http://csud.ei.columbia.edu/ |
| Center for Urban Research | City University of New York Graduate Center | http://www.urbanresearch.org/ |
| CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities | City University of New York | http://www.cunysustainablecities.org/ |
| Global Institute of Sustainability | Arizona State University | http://sustainability.asu.edu/ |
| Initiative for Sustainability and Energy | Northwestern University | http://www.isen.northwestern.edu/ |
| Institute for Energy and the Environment | The Ohio State University | http://iee.osu.edu/ |
| Institute for Sustainability Planning and Governance | The College of New Jersey | http://www.tcnj.edu/~mluc/index.php (website for the Municipal Land Use Center, the parent center) |
| Institute of Transportation Studies | University of California, Irvine, (There are also affiliated ITS centers at Berkeley, Davis and Los Angeles) |
http://www.its.uci.edu/ http://www.its.ucdavis.edu/index.php http://its.berkeley.edu/ http://www.its.ucla.edu/ |
| Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation | University of Pittsburgh | http://www.mascarocenter.pitt.edu/ |
| Metropolitan Design Center | University of Minnesota | http://www.designcenter.umn.edu/ |
| National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education | University of Maryland | http://www.smartgrowth.umd.edu/ |
| Northwest Center for Livable Communities | University of Washington - Seattle | http://depts.washington.edu/nwclc/ |
| Northwestern Institute of Sustainable Practices | Northwestern University | http://www.sustainability.northwestern.edu/ |
| Rutgers Center for Green Building | Rutgers University | http://rcgb.rutgers.edu/ |
| Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (“SAGE”) | University of Wisconsin - Madison | http://www.sage.wisc.edu/ |
| Sustainable Cities Initiative | University of Oregon | http://sci.uoregon.edu/ |
| Sustainable Transportation Center | University of California, Davis | http://stc.ucdavis.edu/ |
| Sustainable Transportation Systems Program | Iowa State University | http://www.ctre.iastate.edu/stsp/index.cfm |
| The Center for Sustainable Suburban Development | University of California, Riverside | http://cssd.ucr.edu/ |
| The Earth Institute | Columbia University | http://www.earth.columbia.edu/ |
| The Institute for Energy Efficiency | University of California, Santa Barbara | http://iee.ucsb.edu/greenscale |
| The Sustainable Communities Initiative of the Metropolitan Institute | Virginia Tech | http://www.mi.vt.edu/initiatives/sustain-init-index.html |
| Transportation Research Center | University of Vermont | http://www.uvm.edu/~transctr/ |
| Tyson Research Center | Washington University in Saint Louis | http://www.tyson.wustl.edu/ |
| Urban Ecology Research Laboratory | University of Washington - Seattle | http://www.urbaneco.washington.edu/ |