Faculty Work
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Monday, February 13, 2023
Linking Urban Planning, Community Environment, and Physical Activity: A Socio-Ecological Approach
Mildred Warner
In a paper published by the Interntional Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, CRP Professor Mildred Warner and coauthor Xue Zhang (Ph.D. RS '18) explore the links between planning and public health.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Report Highlights Zoning Reforms that Could Improve Montana's Housing Supply
Sara Bronin
The Frontier Institute has released The Montana Zoning Atlas 2.0, part of the National Zoning Atlas project led by CRP Professor Sara Bronin, which advocates for bold, pro-housing reforms on a statewide scale, The Center Square reports.
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Monday, December 12, 2022
Ash Trees Are Vanishing. So Is a Basket Maker That Has Depended on Them for 168 Years.
Thomas J. Campanella
In an opinion piece for The New York Times, CRP Professor Thomas J. Campanella reflects on the history of The Peterboro Basket Company, which is set to shut down.
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Thursday, November 17, 2022
The Intimate City: Walking New York
Thomas J. Campanella
CRP Professor Thomas J. Campanella guides author Michael Kimmelman on a walking tour through Brooklyn neighborhoods, now included in this new collection.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Equitable Buyouts? Learning from State, County, and Local Floodplain Management Programs
Linda Shi
CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi coauthors a paper published in Climatic Change examining five leading U.S. state, county, and local buyout programs to see what they teach us about redesigning future federal policies.
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Friday, August 19, 2022
Spreading the Gospel of Induced Demand
Nicholas J. Klein
CRP Assistant Professor Nicholas Klein coauthors research, published in Transfers Magazine, which aims to reorient transportation investments away from the idea that construction solves congestion.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Urban Containment as Smart Growth
John Carruthers
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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Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Contracting Dynamics and Unionization: Managing Labor, Contracts, and Markets
Mildred Warner
Awarded the John Stewart Prize for Best Article, this research published in Local Government Studies explores the impact of unionization on contracting dynamics using a panel of 523 U.S. local governments from 2007 to 2012.
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Monday, July 25, 2022
Urbanization and Child Growth Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Geographical Analysis
John Carruthers
Forthcoming in a special issue of the Journal of Geographical Systems, lead author and doctoral student Yating Ru (M.R.P. '17) and Carruthers examine the impact of urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa on child health.
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Monday, July 25, 2022
Planning and Markets at Work: Seattle Under Growth Management and Economic Pressure
John Carruthers
An analysis of Seattle’s redevelopment under Washington State’s urban containment policy and the city’s own urban village plan, coauthored by John Carruthers alongside doctoral student Hanxue Wei and Lucien Wostenholme (B.S. URS '23)
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Why Do Planners Overlook Manufactured Housing and Resident-Owned Communities as Sources of Affordable Housing and Climate Transformation?
Linda Shi
CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi contributed to this exploration of common biases and argues why this housing type deserves greater attention.
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Friday, July 8, 2022
Three Women, Three Projects Bring Zoning into the Future to Fix Housing Crisis
Sara Bronin
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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Friday, July 1, 2022
Cornell Atkinson Awards $1.4 Million to New Sustainability Projects
Jenny Sabin, Stephan Schmidt
The 2022 round of Academic Venture Fund seed grants will support nine collaborative projects, including work involving Architecture Associate Professor Jenny Sabin and CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt, the Cornell Chronicle reports.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Are Transportation Planning Views Shared by Engineering Students and the Public?
Nicholas J. Klein
A paper coauthored by CRP Assistant Professor Nicholas Klein published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research explores the policy preferences of various stakeholders to identify points of consensus and divergence.
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Monday, June 13, 2022
White House Nationwide Zoning Reform Effort Needs Data
Sara Bronin
In an op-ed for The Hill, CRP Professor Sara Bronin explains that in order for President Biden's incentives for zoning reform to be most effective, there's a need to collect a lot more data.
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Monday, June 6, 2022
Tear Down Academic Silos: Take an 'Undisciplinary' Approach
Mitch Glass
The Cornell Chronicle highlights "Undisciplining the University Through Shared Purpose, Practice, and Place," a paper coauthored by CRP Lecturer Mitch Glass that identifies drivers that bring different disciplines together in joint research.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Renters Are the Overlooked Victims of Big Investors
Suzanne Lanyi Charles
In an op-ed for The Hill, CRP Associate Professor Suzanne Lanyi Charles offers suggestions on how to protect families from the practices of mega-landlords who compromise housing stability, security, and affordability.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022
What is Critical Urbanism? Urban Research as Pedagogy
Sophie Oldfield
CRP Chair Sophie Oldfield is an editor of this innovative toolkit exploring how alternative urban futures can be imagined by addressing the historical injustices and global entanglements that shape the urban present.
