THADDEUS PAWLOWSKI

Urban Design and Urban Planning for Climate Change Adaptation

Thaddeus Pawlowski is the managing director of the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes at Columbia University, where he also teaches urban planning and urban design. Before co-founding CRCL, he worked for 15 years in New York City government: planning for futures disasters at NYC Emergency Management, working on neighborhood resilience and climate adaptation at NYC Planning, and rebuilding from Hurricane Sandy with the Mayor's Office of Housing Recovery. Trained as an architect and recipient of the Harvard Loeb Fellowship, he has sought to use the tools of design to help communities and ecosystems around the world adapt to climate change.