Improving life on streets for all

The Center for Smart Streetscapes forges livable, safe, and inclusive streetscapes.

About Us

As urban areas face threats to livability, safety, and inclusion, it is the streetscape — neighborhood streets, sidewalks, and shared spaces — where a city becomes a home.

The Center for Smart Streetscapes (CS3) is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center taking a unique approach to streetscape research by uniting community members, researchers, students, government officials, and industry partners.

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Research

Our work makes streets more livable, safe, and inclusive through research with Columbia University, Lehman College, Rutgers University, Florida Atlantic University, and University of Central Florida, as well as three testbed facilities. We work on five engineering and scientific areas, also known as "Research Thrusts."

Click here to view recent CS3 research publications, and click on the images below to learn about each thrust.

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Foundations

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Raising the next generation of smart city innovators through educational programs for high schoolers, undergraduates, graduate students, and K-12 teachers.

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Valuing community members in research ideation and design, while achieving the full potential of research by prioritizing diversity in our culture of inclusion.

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Partnering with industry and government to develop an innovation ecosystem that translates research into products, fostering entrepreneurship through our accelerator.

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