The Remaking Cities Institute’s research on New Local Mobility continues in 2022 through a range of projects, including those focused on the future of regional highway corridors.

The Remaking Cities Institute’s research and programming on resilient industrial regions incorporates an approach to adaptive reuse and urban projects with broad-ranging environmental, social, and urban design objectives.

The Remaking Cities Institute’s research and programming on resilient industrial regions is continuing to contribute to a transatlantic dialogue on challenges and opportunities. RCI will be sustaining this dialogue in 2022, including programs with the Ruhr region which will be announced in early 2022.

The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency has named Carolyn Ristau, Remaking Cities Institute Visiting Scholar, as its inaugural Kathy A. Possinger Housing Policy Fellowship awardee. Ristau will receive a financial stipend of up to $12,000 to support her research project "Residential Zoning by Race: How Pittsburgh's Zoning Districts Promote Different Housing Options for Black and White Residents."

The Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) is pleased to announce that Carolyn Ristau has joined the RCI as a Visiting Scholar. Ristau has over a decade of experience practicing and researching urban issues, including zoning, housing, transportation, and public safety. Her research seeks to understand the origins and context of zoning and development regulations to find ways that these regulations could be used to support more inclusive communities.

Remaking Cities Institute director Ray Gastil will speak on a panel on Wed 08 Sep from 12:00-2:00pm on "Post-Covid Cities: Framework for Opportunity.” The panel, which includes the leadership of the New York New Visions coalition of architects, designers, planners, and related disciplines responding to 9/11, will look back to the lessons learned from that work, and discuss the meaning and value of those to the current urban challenge.

Opening Up: Beyond the Porch, a lecture by Ray Gastil, Director of the Remaking Cities Institute, will be presented as part of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation series on Thursday 20 May from 6:00-8:00pm on Zoom. As we reopen our business districts and neighborhoods, yet at the same time design for a new normal, the places where the private realm opens up to the public are more important than ever.

The Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) and Traffic21 CMU faculty are working with communities in Allegheny County to address first mile/last mile and micromobility challenges that exist outside of the urban core. The Linking our Networked Communities (LINC) project is underway in partnership with the Quaker Valley Coalition of Governments (QVCOG) and the communities of Bellevue, Avalon, Ben Avon, Emsworth, and Kilbuck. The study, supported by a challenge grant from CMU’s Traffic21 and the Mobilty21 Urban Transportation Center, focuses on critical issues for mobility and urban design for towns beyond the urban core in the Southwestern Pennsylvania region.

Remaking Cities Institute director Ray Gastil and faculty Jonathan Kline and Stephen Quick will work with the City of Monessen and the Township of Shaler, winners of Traffic21’s third annual Smart Mobility Challenge, to develop mobility/urban design recommendations from computer visualization data to respond to community priorities.

Remaking Cities Institute director Ray Gastil will speak on "Downtowns: Adaptive Reuse Project of the 2020s" on Friday 05 March at 12:00pm EST. The event is part of the series "COVID-19: One Year Later" organized by the Portland Society for Architecture. The series is intended to speak to larger issues for Portland, Maine, and downtowns like it.

Remaking Cities Institute director Ray Gastil spoke with Christer Larsson, former city planning director for Malmo, Sweden and global thought leader on sustainable urbanism, on “Cities, Planning and the New Service Economy” in a podcast released 24 February 2021.

Remaking Cities Institute director Ray Gastil will be on the panel "Design and Equity: The Value of Eliminating Equity Gaps" at the Georgia Institute of Technology symposium Climate Change and the Design of the Built Environment on Thursday, 04 March 2021 at 10:15am ET. The symposium features remote presentations, student-led interviews, and a look inside Georgia Tech's Kendeda Building.

Remaking Cities Institute presented William H. Frey’s lecture "Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Changing America." Frey is a Senior Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the preeminent demographer in the U.S. His recent book is the definitive work on how the U.S. population is changing and how minorities are infusing our aging labor force with vitality and innovation.

Remaking Cities Institute Director Ray Gastil to speak on "Future Work Force" in recognition of the accelerated shifts of how and where we work and in response to challenges for infrastructure, training, and equity. The panel discussion is part of the #SMARTer Together Webinar Series at Georgia Tech on Thursday 29 October at 9:30am ET.

Remaking Cities Institute Director Ray Gastil, and Senior Research Fellow Don Carter, will speak at the National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE) Fall 2020 Conference on Monday 26 October at 5:00pm ET. Gastil’s talk, "Adaptive Preservation: Responding to the Challenge at Scale," focuses on large scale adaptive reuse projects in Pittsburgh. Don Carter presents "Remaking Small Post-Industrial Cities."

Remaking Cities Institute Director Ray Gastil to give a lecture on “Post-Industrial Pittsburgh: Adaptation and Transformation” Tuesday 27 October at 12:00pm ET as part of "Uncharted Territories," the School of Architecture and Planning Fall 2020 Lecture Series at Morgan State University.

Remaking Cities Institute Director Ray Gastil is serving on the steering committee of the Oakland Plan being developed by the City of Pittsburgh, through City Planning and related departments. This is a critical time for engagement in the Oakland Plan process, which is seeking participants for the Action Teams that will help define the plan’s priorities.

Remaking Cities Institute Director Ray Gastil moderates the discussion "COVID-19 and the Future of our Cities: The Future of Work" on Wednesday 23 September from 11:00am-12:00pm. The event's organizers are University Alliance Ruhr, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, and the German Center for Research and Innovation.

Remaking Cities Institute Director Ray Gastil presents "Health by Design: Challenges for Urban Transformation" at Georgetown University on Tuesday 25 February. The event is presented by the Georgetown Urban Health Collaborative in coordination with the Georgetown University Global Cities Initiative.

Remaking Cities Institute Director Ray Gastil will speak at The Climate of Urban Design, a symposium on urban design education and practice presented by the AIA Regional and Urban Design Committee (RUDC), the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, and The American Institute of Architects February 27-28, 2020.

Don Carter, Senior Research Fellow at the Remaking Cities Institute, will speak at the Engineering and Safety Conference (TESC) at Penn State on Wednesday 11 December. The subject of his talk is “Smart Cities & The Built Environment.” TESC is an annual gathering that brings together professionals from throughout Pennsylvania, the mid-Atlantic region, and the country to discuss pressing issues from some of the foremost experts in transportation today.

Professor Kristen Kurland delivers two GIS keynote talks this month. On November 21, in Kigali Rwanda, Kurland will deliver a talk at Africa GIS 2019 describing recent 3D work with the Remaking Cities Institute and her Health GIS work. She also gave the keynote talk on November 13 (GIS Day) at the Central Pennsylvania GIS Day Conference in Harrisburg.

Ray Gastil, Director of the Remaking Cities Institute, recently spoke on the podcast A is for Anthropocene, where he discussed sustainable cities and species that are no longer extinct. The podcast is produced by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and discusses topics including cities, the future, the region, and research work being done at Carnegie Mellon University and the City of Pittsburgh.

Ray Gastil presents “Learning from Where You Live: Innovation and Connection” during the final installment of the 2019 Fall Lecture Series on Monday 18 November at 5:00pm. Gastil directs the Remaking Cities Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and formerly served as City Planning Director for the City of Pittsburgh.

Ray Gastil, Director of the Remaking Cities Institute, will introduce Mary Miss at the Institute for Public Architecture’s 7th annual Fall Fête on Wednesday 13 November. Miss will receive the Artist for Public Architecture Award during the event.

SoA faculty Stefan Gruber, Christine Mondor, and Ray Gastil to participate in the 10th Anniversary of the EcoDistricts Summit in Pittsburgh Nov 4-5, 2019. The summit brings together community and urban leaders to reimagine cities from the neighborhood up and co-design the neighborhoods of the future.

Donald K. Carter, Senior Research Fellow at the Remaking Cities Institute and faculty member of the School of Architecture, will give two talks in Germany this month about his latest book Remaking Post-Industrial Cities: Lessons from North America and Europe.

Professor Don Carter will be featured in an upcoming special on WQED about house flippers in Pittsburgh called The Pittsburgh Flip. The show airs on Thursday 03 October at 8:00pm on WQED, and will be available online afterwards.

Pittsburgh City Planning Director Ray Gastil has been appointed David Lewis Director of Urban Design and Regional Engagement in the School of Architecture. In this role he will direct the Remaking Cities Institute and teach architecture and urban design. Gastil’s new position begins September 1, 2019.