Events

10/16 Jose Castillo: a|911 — Concepts of a Plan

View this recorded lecture of AAP's new Architecture Chair speaking about his current disciplinary interests related to his practice, pedagogy, and broader issues.

9/25 2024 L. Michael Goldsmith Lecture featuring Kim Yao

Watch a recording of Kim Yao, coprincipal at the award-winning Brooklyn-based firm Architecture Research Office, as she delivers her talk at the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center.

9/12 Christiana Moss: Lessons from the Desert — Studio Ma

View this recorded talk by Strauch Visiting Critic in Sustainable Design Christiana Moss, exploring the four desert-inflected lenses through which her firm Studio Ma approaches each project.

4/25 Jenny E. Sabin: Transdisciplinary Design — Towards Adaptative Architecture

View this recorded lecture exploring how recent advances in computation, visualization, material intelligence, and fabrication technologies have begun to fundamentally alter how we design, construct, and make.

4/19 2023 L. Michael Goldsmith Lecture featuring Tatiana Bilbao

Watch this recorded talk delivered by Tatiana Bilbao of Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO on the Cornell Tech Campus in New York City.

11/18 Transit Tech: Realities and Possibilities for Serving Our Cities

View this discussion of how transit technology companies have changed the urban mobility landscape.

11/11 Zakhary Mallett: Inequitable Inefficiency: A Case Study of Rail Transit Fare Policies

View this recorded lecture of the inaugural Strauch Fellow in the Department of City and Regional Planning exploring cost recovery across two rail systems — BART and MARTA. 

10/28 Kirk Goodrich: Transformative Development: A New Lens to Evaluate the Impact of Real Estate Projects

View this presentation focused on three historic preservation projects in Harlem, New York, that became anchor institutions that transformed neighborhood revitalization.  

10/21 Between Worlds Lecture: The Life and Work of Joseph Allen Stein in the U.S. and India

Hear reflections from his son David Stein and CRP Associate Professor Jeffrey M. Chusid, who is working on a book about the architect.

10/14 Jade Doskow: A New Wilderness: Freshkills

View this recorded talk by New York-based architectural and landscape photographer Jade Doskow exploring her work and previous exhibition.

9/30 Kim Wheeler: Reality-Based Planning in Rural America

Using examples from Central Pennsylvania, listen to Kim Wheeler explore how to best create implementable plans that achieve lasting impact on the economy and quality of life in the small towns and rural regions of America.

9/23 Gender and Planning Panel

Watch this recorded panel examining the role of planning in creating and maintaining gender divides in urban spaces in the United States.

9/20–10/25 Design Tech Fall 2022 Lecture Series

View this presentation by Jonah Brucker-Cohen, the final lecture in this university-wide series exploring design research, technological innovation, scholarship, and collaboration across disciplinary boundaries in science, engineering, and design.

9/16 Thomas Campanella: Mosaic Roads

Hear CRP Professor Thomas J. Campanella speak about Brooklyn highways and the long shadow of Robert Moses.

9/9 Wilbard Kombe: Institutional Reforms for Urban Land Use Planning and Management in Sub-Sahara Africa: Evidences, Gaps, and Prospects

Watch a recorded lecture reviewing the dramatic changes currently transforming cities in Sub-Sahara Africa largely driven by unprecedented urbanization, the private real estate sector, and unfettered land markets.

9/2 Anant Maringanti: The Hyderabad Urban Lab: Exploring an Alternate Mode of Practice

A recorded conversation between CRP Professor Neema Kudva and Anant Maringanti, Director of Hyderabad Urban Lab, a multi-disciplinary research center.

5/13 AAP Building the Future

Architecture at 150 | Art at 100: View this recorded discussion of foundations, decades of evolution, and the future of architecture and art education at AAP. 

4/29 Sergio Montero: Urban Experiments at the Legal Frontier: Planning and the Politics of Participation in Bogotá, Colombia

View a recorded presentation by Sergio Montero exploring how a rise in legal action around urban policy and planning in Bogotá is impacting the city.

4/22 Luis Aguirre-Torres: Ithaca Net Zero 2030 Strategy: A Blueprint For City-Wide Decarbonization

View this recorded talk with Dr. Luis Aguirre-Torres discussing Ithaca's plans and challenges as it prepares to be the first city to commit to full decarbonization of its buildings by 2030.

3/25 Joe Muturi and Charity Mumbi: Community Centered Slum Upgrading

View this recorded CRP lecture with Joe Muturi, sharing lessons of the Mukuru Special Planning Area (SPA) Project on community centered slum upgrading.

3/11 Nora Libertun de Duren: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities for Inclusive Cities in the Global South

View a recorded talk with Nora Libertun de Duren on 3 myths, 3 challenges, and 3 opportunities to better understand slums and policies affecting inequity in cities.

1/26–4/27 What is Design + Tech?

Watch this recorded inaugural University-wide lecture series co-led by architecture's Associate Professor Jenny Sabin, cross-campus collaborators, and Cornell Tech.

12/3 Dayna Cunningham: The Imperative of Knowledge Cocreation with Communities

View this recorded talk with Dayna Cunningham discussing Participatory Action Research enabling communities to examine and address consequential societal problems.

11/12 Akira Drake Rodriguez: Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing

In this recorded lecture, Akira Drake Rodriguez examines the historical role of public housing in working-class politics & how the loss of tenant associations has deepened inequities.

11/5 Franck Daphnis: A Planner's Pathway to a Career in International Development

Watch Franck Daphnis as he aims to provide planning students interested in pursuing careers in international development with an overview of trends in the field.

10/29 Lyndsey Deaton: No Place to Play?

View this talk with Lyndsey Deaton, investigating the spatialities of neoliberal dispossession through children's use of public space.

10/15 Manal Aboelata: Changing the Landscape: People, Parks, and Power

View this recording of Manal Aboelata, sharing ways past public health successes can be applied to efforts in ensuring low-income urban communities are fair, just, and green.

10/1 Kian Goh: From Urban Resilience to Climate Justice

View this recorded lecture with Kian Goh as she discusses her new book Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice.

9/24 Robin Nagle: When the "Away" Becomes Real: Managing Garbage in New York City

View Robin Nagle's lecture on the history, infrastructures, political controversies, and material consequences of NYC's efforts to grapple with its municipal solid waste.

9/17 Timon McPhearson: Climate Risks, Nature-Based Solutions, and Equity in NYC

View this recorded lecture with Timon McPhearson, on extreme climate risks and the need for urban policy & planning to ensure new efforts do not hinder existing environmental injustices.

4/16 Vincent Reina: Sheltered from Eviction? Subsidized Housing Programs and Evictions

Watch this recorded talk with Vincent Reina (B.S. URS '02) as he explores the effects of policy changes on local dynamics of eviction.

4/9 The Land We Would Like to Be

View Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram on biodiversity conservation and related habitat protection of island ecosystems and large metropolitan areas in North America.

4/5 Catherine Opie: The Present is Reflected in the Past

View this recorded lecture by Los Angeles-based multimedia artist Catherine Opie, inaugural speaker for the John A. Cooper Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

4/2 Andrew Genn: Planes, Trains and Ultra Large Containerships: Living a "Planner's" Dream

View this recording of Andrew Genn (B.S. URS '89) on his journey to create new economic opportunities for residents using New York City's goods movement system.

3/26 A Conversation with Senator James Sanders Jr.

View this recorded conversation with New York State Democrat Senator James Sanders Jr.

3/19 Lynn Ross: Reimagining Policy for Equity and Justice

Listen to a recording of Lynn Ross (M.R.P. '01) on how she applies an equity-in-all-policies approach to her work.