Director of the Max J. Bond Center for Urban Futures, CCNY
Shawn Rickenbacker, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Max Bond Center for Urban Futures at CCNY’s Spitzer School of Architecture. A native New Yorker, he is deeply engaged with community planners, bringing data and data-analysis to bear on decision-making and design. An experienced problem-solver, he has particular interests in the future of urban housing, urban data policy analysis, urban form and innovation and is committed to creating transformative change by bringing together and managing cross disciplinary leaders and integrative design research teams representative of academia, industry, the non-profit sector, government agencies and communities to effectively collaborate and respond to complex equitable and sustainable design and urban challenges. Previously, Shawn held positions at Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and Tulane.
