At Cornell AAP, faculty enriches the college’s commitment to academic and creative excellence through research and engaged learning that bridges fields and inspires and supports the development of the next generation. Their work brings critical inquiry, research, design, and imagination to bear on the greatest challenges of our time to build a more just, sustainable, resilient, thriving, and inspired world.
Paper Tracking the Peacocks: A Gravity Analysis of the Chinese Migration System, 1990–2020
CRP Associate Professor John Carruthers coauthors this paper in The Annals of Regional Science which pays special attention to the nation’s transition toward an advanced economy and older demographic structure.
Paper Incremental Urbanism and the Circular City: Analyzing Spatial Patterns in Permits, Land Use, and Heritage Regulations
In the article published in Sustainability, AAP faculty Jennifer Minner, Felix Heisel, Shriya Rangarajan (Ph.D. RS '22), and Yu Wang assess how commonly used local planning tools shape urban redevelopment trajectories.
Stories US Communities Are Getting Older — And More Livable
CRP Professor Mildred Warner and Xue Zhang (M.S. RS '16, Ph.D. RS '19) lead a national analysis showing that US communities are becoming more age-friendly, with AARP-network localities achieving the greatest improvements in livability, transportation, and civic engagement as the nation's population grows older.
Stories Announcing: Architecture and the Right to Heal, Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster
Cornell AAP Architecture Professor Esra Akcan released a new book examining architecture's dual role as both a cause of human casualties and an agent for the public good with the potential to ameliorate traumas following conflict and crises.
Stories Groundwork: Cultivation Rooted in Art and Action
At the intersection of art, ecology, and community, students enrolled in a course led by Associate Professor Jen de los Reyes explore research and practice that moves beyond the studio and into Ithaca's local ecologies.
Paper Regional Polycentric Spatial Patterns and Air Pollution: An Empirical Study of German Metropolitan Regions
The latest publication produced by CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt's research group examines the effectiveness of these patterns using satellite-based air quality measures, multi-year datasets, and a multi-spatial scale research design.
