Department of City and
Regional Planning

The Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University provides a dynamic, rigorous, and supportive context for addressing the most urgent planning questions of our time.

Our faculty and students plan for a sustainable future, confront inequality, transform the built environment, engage communities, and re-imagine planning by reflecting on theories, practices, contradictions, and politics. At CRP, the next generation of planners and urbanists hone critical disciplinary planning and urban studies skills through a wide selection of courses offered by the department, the college, and Cornell, a world-class Ivy League university.

Highlights


Our Priorities


  • Victoria A. Beard

    "I have always felt most inspired and creative when I am in the field talking to people, producing research work that can be applied and that has the possibility of having a visible impact."

  • Nicholas J. Klein

    "I teach students how to look at cities, neighborhoods, and streets to provide ways of thinking about how they could be changed and rebuilt to mitigate so many of the daily transportation challenges and barriers people face."

  • Nancy Brooks

    "My main commitment as a scholar has been primarily about studying inequities that arise from market externalities. While my training is in economics, my research interests have always related to issues of importance to cities and planners."

  • Jocelyn Poe

    "Planning processes often contribute to communal trauma, and communities respond with resistance in the varying ways that they can. In this fight for place, I believe we can identify strategies for care and repair that can lead to more just futures."

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