Department of City and Regional Planning
MidTown Cleveland: Neighborhood Vision Plan; a collage analysis of infrastructure and residential life in MidTown from the Spring 2020 Urban Design Workshop led by Lecturer Mitch Glass.
The Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) is home to leading programs in planning, regional science, historic preservation planning, and urban and regional studies.
Cornell University has been offering coursework in city and regional planning since 1935, and offering degrees in planning since the 1940s. Over the decades, distinguished alumni and faculty have played an extraordinary role in shaping communities worldwide. Today, CRP is a vibrant home to students and faculty from across the globe undertaking cutting-edge research and engaged practice aimed at advancing the discipline and changing the world.
CRP offers an undergraduate degree in urban and regional studies, and both master's and doctoral degrees in regional planning, historic preservation planning, and regional science. We share the leadership of the Baker Program in Real Estate housed in the Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate and collaborate with Cornell Tech in New York City. Our students can take courses in CRP programs in Ithaca, New York City, and Rome; and pursue their research around the world. As a unit within a New York State land-grant institution, we are by nature deeply engaged with communities locally, regionally, and beyond.
Photo of the day
From left to right: Shriya Rangarajan (Ph.D. RS), Jared Enriquez (Ph.D. CRP '21), Seema Singh (Ph.D. CRP '21), Dylan Stevenson (Ph.D. CRP), Farhana (Sonia) Ahmad (Ph.D. CRP).
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Gianni Valenti (M.R.P. '23)
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Natane Deruytter (M.R.P. '22)
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Sustainable Preservation Certificate Launches to Address Climate Concerns
Launched by CRP Visiting Lecturer Katelin Olson, the online certificate program offered through eCornell demonstrates how sustainability, energy efficiency, and historic preservation can work collaboratively, reports the Cornell Chronicle.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Study of Unions, Local Government Earns Prize
CRP Professor Mildred Warner's study with co-author Amir Hefetz exploring how the unionization of local governments impacts contracting for services earned the top research article award from the journal Local Government Studies.
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Thursday, July 28, 2022
Debunking Stereotypes About Mobile Homes Could Make Them a New Face of Affordable Housing
The Conversation covers research by CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi and colleagues exploring the misguided stereotypes that blind scholars and policymakers to the possibility that this widespread form of housing could provide.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Are Would-Be Planners and Engineers on Board with Transportation Reform?
The Streetsblog podcast The Brake speaks with CRP Assistant Professor Nicholas Klein about a new survey he coconducted that explores the policy preferences of various stakeholders who shape America’s transportation system.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Urban Containment as Smart Growth
The just-published Handbook on Smart Growth contains a chapter, "Urban Containment as Smart Growth," coauthored by John Carruthers alongside doctoral student Hanxue Wei and Lucien Wostenholme (B.S. URS '23).
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Friday, July 8, 2022
Three Women, Three Projects Bring Zoning into the Future to Fix Housing Crisis
Forbes surveys work tackling the technological evolution of complicated zoning issues, including the National Zoning Atlas Project spearheaded by CRP Professor Sara Bronin.
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May 16, 2022
Cornell Team Comes in 2nd Place at EPA's RainWorks Challenge
A Cornell team with students from six graduate programs received second place for their project titled Rain Delay in the EPA's 10th Annual Campus RainWorks Challenge.
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April 13, 2022
Kellen Cooks (B.S. URS '23) Awarded Cornell Council for the Arts Grant
Kellen Cooks (B.S. URS '23) has been awarded a Cornell Council of the Arts grant for his Dreaming-on-Hudson project, selected for the Cornell Biennial.
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MARCH 16, 2022
Cornell Team Receives Honorable Mention at ULI Hines Urban Design Competition
A team guided by CRP Lecturer Mitch Glass, comprising of students from four different graduate programs received an honorable mention at the 2022 ULI Hines Urban Design Competition.
Events
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Beyond AAP
May 11–September 3, 2022
Deconstructing Demolition: An Exhibition on Salvage, Reuse and Deconstruction
Explore alternative demolition through this Circular Construction Lab / Just Places Lab cocurated exhibition, part of the partner network CR0WD (Circularity, Reuse and Zero Waste Development).
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Exhibition
October 10–November 4, 2022
Jade Doskow: Freshkills Exhibition
View Doskow's rigorously composed and eerily poetic images examining the intersection of people, architecture, nature, and time.
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Lecture
Friday, October 14, 2022
A New Wilderness: Freshkills
Attend a talk by New York-based architectural and landscape photographer Jade Doskow exploring her work and current exhibition.
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Exhibition
November 7–18, 2022
Kellen Cooks: Dreaming-on-Hudson: The Politics and Power of Speculation in the Hudson Valley
Explore how spatial imaginations are produced from communities and their environment, and how these imaginations dovetail and/or lie in contestation within the Hudson Valley's racialized and stratified socioeconomic structure.
