Faculty Work

Mildred Warner

Coauthored by CRP Professor Mildred Warner this study looks at local cases in Minnesota, Colorado, and Maine to understand the relative role of state broadband policy, local leadership, and private investment in extending broadband coverage to rural areas.

Mildred Warner, Xue Zhang

Coedited by CRP Professor Mildred Warner and CRP Research Associate Xue Zhang, this book lays out the promise and potential of schools as community-building institutions.

Thomas J. Campanella

In this article written by CRP Professor Thomas J. Campanella, we read about the days before Google Maps, when an intrepid inventor with three camera-equipped biplanes captured groundbreaking views of Gotham in its Jazz Age glory.

Wendy Ju

Portobello, a new driving simulator developed by a research team led by Design Tech Associate Professor Wendy Ju, blends virtual and mixed realities, enabling drivers and passengers to see virtual objects overlaid in the real world.

Stephan Schmidt

Coauthored by CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt and CRP Ph.D. students Ryan Thomas and Wenzheng Li (M.R.P. '18), examine the relationship between place attachment and residents' perceptions of various aspects of urban life.

Mildred Warner

A paper coauthored by CRP faculty Mildred Warner and Graduate Student Paula Camila Diaz-Torres (M.R.P. '22) explores the multiple mechanisms localities used to incorporate equity.

Mildred Warner

CRP faculty Mildred Warner and alumn Yuanshuo Xu (M.R.P. '13, Ph.D. CRP '19) coauthored a paper on the impact of the Biden Administration's American Rescue Plan Act on local government finance.

Wenfei Xu

CRP Assistant Professor Wenfei Xu coauthored "The Racial Composition of Road Users, Traffic Citations, and Police Stops," a study that maps the racial composition of roads using mobile phone GPS data.

Stephan Schmidt

In this paper, CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt and Ph.D. candidate Wenzheng Li examine the spatial-temporal evolution of urban spatial structure across 269 Chinese prefectural cities from 2002 to 2019.

Mildred Warner, Xue Zhang

Historical and projected demographic trends indicate that the global population will likely peak by 2086, followed by a marked decline. A paper coauthored by CRP faculty Mildred Warner and Research Associate Xue Zhang argues that these projections hide regional and age-group disparities; the reality is that the adult population peak and decline will occur much sooner in key regions of the world.

Jennifer Minner, Felix Heisel, Jocelyn Poe

CRP faculty Jocelyn Poe and Jennifer Minner, along with Architecture faculty Felix Heisel, are among several coauthors who recently published Embodying Justice in the Built Environment: Circularity in Practice. The guide and workbook seek to help policymakers, practitioners, and communities center justice principles while implementing strategies related to materials resource management, new construction, and alternatives to demolition.

Leslie Lok, Sasa Zivkovic

Architecture faculty Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic of HANNAH designed and built Monarchs: A House in Six Parts, a towering, 3D-printed, robotically fabricated architectural art installation for this year's Coachella music festival in the California desert.

Felix Heisel

Coauthored by Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel, this paper seeks to analyze the current construction industry in the United States to determine emerging trends and developments in sustainable and circular design and construction, focusing on one of the concepts, Urban Mining, and its potential applications.

Mildred Warner

Coauthored by CRP Professor Mildred Warner, Duxixi Shen (M.R.P. '23), Jane Bowman Brady (M.P.A. '23), and Ella Redmond (M.A. RS '25), this report explores three unique case studies that address digital access, affordability, and adoption in low-income multi-family housing.

George R. Frantz

Manufactured housing has remained an underexploited opportunity for providing millions of Americans with decent, affordable housing. In this issue of Zoning Practice, CRP Associate Professor of the Practice George R. Frantz examines the persistent inequitable treatment of manufactured housing in many local zoning codes and offers considerations for code updates.

Esra Akcan

Architecture Professor Esra Akcan makes a plea for what she calls "open architecture" and asks what would have happened if the architectural discipline and profession were shaped by a new ethics of hospitality toward the immigrant.

Felix Heisel

A paper co-authored by Architecture students Yi Xu (M.Arch. '24), Shujie Liu (M.Arch. '24), and Assistant Professor Felix Heisel in Circular Economy proposes an approach to combat construction waste in the architecture, construction, and engineering industry by developing a disassemblable brick partition wall.

Ding Fei

A paper authored by CRP Assistant Professor Ding Fei published in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space investigates the structures, forces, and actors that drive and constrain transnationalizing intrapreneurship under Chinese private investment in Africa.