cityLAB leverages design, research, policy, and education to create more just urban futures with real impacts for communities in Los Angeles and beyond.

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Founded in 2006, cityLAB is a multidisciplinary research center within UCLA’s Architecture and Urban Design Department. Through rigorous analysis, radical methodologies, education, and practical implementation the lab actively explores urban dynamics in the postsuburban metropolis, rethinking sustainable approaches to spatial, political, and social infrastructures to promote equitable and sustainable cities.

Although based in Los Angeles, cityLAB’s impact extends well beyond the region. The lab has garnered significant national and international recognition and focuses on building creative partnerships with educational and community organizations in the US and around the world. Our team of architects, designers, planners, and humanists further disseminates new ways of approaching urban studies.

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BruinHub was featured in the Los Angeles Times!


cityLAB's commitment to supporting UCLA students facing long commutes is making headlines, and we are proud of the positive impact of BruinHubs as part of a broader strategy to address housing insecurity.


Check out the article to learn how BruinHubs provide resting spaces—including napping pods, study spaces, and snacks—for extreme commuters to recharge during long days on campus.

Read the article here!

We are thrilled to invite you to an unforgettable evening celebrating architecture, creativity, and community! Join us on April 22, 2024, at 5:30 pm in Peloff Hall Decafe. UCLA cityLAB and AUD present Tatiana Bilbao of Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO, who will speak about "Architecture is a Collective Act."

Following the lecture, join us at 7:00 pm in Perloff Hall Courtyard for the cityLAB Block Party! Immerse yourself in interactive exhibitions showcasing cityLAB's ongoing projects, while enjoying tacos, refreshing drinks, music, and limited-edition swag.

BEWell Parklet
2023–Ongoing

Collaborating with the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative, UCLA transportation, and UCLA students to propose and design a parklet on campus.

Promoting a healthier and happier campus

Urban Humanities offer an emerging paradigm to explore the lived spaces of social justice and injustice, dynamic proximities, cultural hybridities, and networked interconnections. The complexity of such spaces calls for new intellectual and practical alliances between environmental design and the humanities. Urban Humanities integrates the interpretive, historical approaches of the humanities with the material, projective practices of design, to document, elucidate, and transform the cultural object we call the city.

Urban Humanities Initiative

Urban Humanities Initiative

Architectures of Spatial Justice
Year: 2023

Organized around projects and topics, Architectures of Spatial Justice is a compelling blend of theory, history, and applied practice that focuses on two foundational conditions of architecture: its relation to the public and its dependence on capital. Emerging from more than two decades of the author's own project-based research, Architectures of Spatial Justice examines ethically driven practices that break with professional conventions to correct long-standing inequities in the built environment, uncovering architecture’s limits—and its potential.