About the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism

The mission of the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism (CCU) within the School of Architecture at Tulane University is to advance a more holistic understanding of the role of the built environment in causing, mitigating, and adapting to climate change.

Through multidisciplinary research, CCU is tasked with providing and translating new forms of knowledge to support public, private, and civic sector stakeholders in their stewardship of the built environment. Through design studios, courses, applied research, and the dissemination of pedagogical innovations, CCU is invested in the education of the next generation of built environment professionals who are tasked with addressing climate change in all aspects of design, planning, management, and preservation.

By balancing normative design research with scientific and social scientific methodologies, CCU offers a unique platform for testing, experimenting, prototyping, validating, and communicating the opportunities for a more ethically responsible, socially just, ecologically sensitive, and environmentally sustainable future. With a geographic focus on North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, CCU is centered on advancing teaching and research on the cutting-edge of climate change scholarship and practice.