Built Environment

Alan Plattus

MArch, Professor, Founding Director of the Urban Design Workshop, Yale School of Architecture

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Andrei Harwell

MArch, AIA, Senior Critic, Director of the Urban Design Workshop, Yale School of Architecture

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Jaehong Kim

PhD, MS, Henry P. Becton Sr. Professor and Chair, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science

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Mohamed Aly Etman

PhD, MArch, MS, Scientific Researcher, Yale School of Architecture

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Elihu Rubin

PhD, MCP, Associate Professor of Urbanism, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Yale School of Architecture

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Drew Gentner

PhD, Associate Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Associate Professor, Yale School of the Environment

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Morgan Grove

PhD, MFS, Lecturer, Yale School of the Environment, Team Leader, USDA Forest Service’s Baltimore Urban Field Station, Scholar in Residence, SESYNC (National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center)

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Study Reveals Surprising Role of Haze In the Warming of Chinese Cities

Note: Yale School of the Environment (YSE) was formerly known as the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES). News articles and events posted prior to July 1, 2020 refer to the School’s name at that time.

A new Yale-led study published in the journal Nature Communications sheds light on the surprising role that haze in China plays in promoting the urban heat island effect [UHI], a process whereby city centers tend to be significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas.

Yale School of Divinity Develops the Living Village Project

A residential project of the Yale Divinity School, the Yale Planetary Solutions Project, and the Living Building Challenge

Mae-ling Lokko

PhD, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Architecture, Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture

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