SCI is a national leader in research connecting sustainable city form with active transportation, ecological services, and healthy residents.

SCI engages and informs faculty, students, and practitioners from multiple disciplines on timely and significant issues. SCI research focuses on cross-disciplinary collaboration and works across all university institutional functions. Learn more about Framing Livability, the SCI Research Theme for 2015-2017. 

Areas of Research

 

• Sustainable urban design framework
• Retrofitting suburbs
• Eco-districts
• Sustainable economic development

 

• Active transportation and walkable communities
• Evaluating how transportation budgets reflect livability goals
• Transportation Oriented Development and Latino communities
• Integration of transportation, climate change and land use plans
• Triple Bottom Line framework for transportation

 

• Communicating livability for transportation projects
• Analysis of wording, marketing and communication of ballot initiatives
• Compilation of best-management strategies for communicating livability
• Examination of messaging techniques used by public agencies

 

• Civic involvement and decision making through mobile mapping
• Engaging communities in design and planning