Other Yale-Affiliated Resources

Hixon Center for Urban Sustainability (Speaker Series) 

Established at the Yale School of the Environment, the Hixon Center aims to integrate, synthesize & apply scientific and environmental knowledge to foster sustainable cities including solving pressing 21st century problems such as the UHI, flooding and inequities; and educate the public and train students and future leaders with a deep knowledge of urban environments. 

Every semester, they host a weekly lecture series centered around pertinent topics like sustainable transportation, data-driven urban forestry, and sustainable urban mobility. All lectures are free, open to the public, and often livestreamed. 

Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions (YCGS) 

YCGS’s mission is to create geospatial knowledge that solves humanity’s most pressing challenges, and their experts come from every corner of Yale and pioneer the use of geospatial tools across all disciplines. They offer a wide range of geospatial computing resources and datasets, and their website is a great hub for learning about related resources available to you through Yale.  

Urban Studies students interested in accessing ArcGIS training can do so through Esri ArcGIS at Yale, as well as Yale GIS Accelerator, a 5-day intensive GIS training program offered in January and May by YCGS and Yale Library. They also host the Yale Remote Sensing Accelerator program in June. 

Yale Urban Media Project (YUMP) 

YUMP is a collective public scholarship initiative focused on the built environment, city planning, and urban change over time. The project aims to connect Yale students, staff, and faculty with local organizations to create research-based interpretive materials; with Artspace, Armory Community Advisory Committee, the International Festival of Arts & Idea, and others.   

New Haven Building Archive (NHBA) 

The NHBA is a web-based project that has been contributed to by students of the American Architecture and Urbanism class and other researchers. It is a building inventory that hopes to preserve the architectural history of New Haven and make it accessible to the public.  

Paprika! Magazine 

Paprika! Magazine is a window into emerging discourse from the Yale School of Architecture. Every issue is student-curated and aims to broadcast diverse voices in the fields of architecture, art, and design. Every issue of Paprika! Magazine is a newspaper broadsheet uniquely designed by students from the Graphic Design program at the Yale School of Art. No two issues are alike. 

Founded in 2014, Paprika! Magazine is named after the vibrant orange carpet in Rudolph Hall. The publication aimed to provide a fast-paced, student-centered alternative to Yale’s existing architectural publications of Perspecta, Retrospecta and Constructs.