Faculty Work
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Can Spatial Patterns Mitigate the Urban Heat Island Effect? Evidence from German Metropolitan Regions
A paper coauthored by CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt published in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science explores the potential of certain features of urban fabric and the benefits of polycentric development.
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A Circular Built Environment in the Digital Age
Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel and former Circular Construction Lab researcher Joseph McGranahan co-authored an included chapter covering digital tools for circularity evaluation in this open-access publication.
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Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination: Turkey, Pakistan, and their European Diasporas
Edited by Architecture Professor Esra Akcan and Iftikhar Dadi, Art History, this essay collection -- which includes contributions by current and former Cornell faculty and students -- explores the scope of diverse artistic media, including architecture, painting, postcards, film, music, and literature, that has responded to the partitions of the 20th century and the Muslim diasporas in Europe.
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State Broadband Report
Ph.D. candidate Natassia Bravo, under the supervision of CRP Professor Mildred E. Warner, examined data collected by The Pew Charitable Trusts on state broadband grants and explored the criteria for grant allocation, and whether needed funds made it to communities less likely to be served by broadband — rural, sparsely populated, and high-poverty.
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Sector Interactions, Multiple Stressors, and Complex Systems
CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi is a co-author of a chapter in the Fifth National Climate Assessment examining intersectional vulnerabilities to climate risks.
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Prototypologies of Circularity
Felix Heisel, Marta H. Wisniewska
An article co-authored by Architecture faculty Felix Heisel and Marta H. Wisniewska in Technology|Architecture + Design applies a prototypological method to address the research issues and opportunities presented by scaling a circular economy.
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Pandemic Relief Spending by New York Local Governments
An article in the Journal of Rural Studies explores how New York State local governments planned to use their American Rescue Act funding, which encouraged communities to invest in infrastructure, resilience, and equity.
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Thomas Heatherwick Selects Ten "Humanized" Buildings, Including AntiStatics Architecture's MaoHaus
Heatherwick showcases buildings that are "givers rather than takers," including MaoHaus in Beijing, China, by Assistant Professor of the Practice Martin Miller's design office.
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Opportunities to Support Equitable and Just Housing Adaptation in the Floodplain
CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi coauthored a post on the Environmental Defense Fund blog to share preliminary takeaways about opportunities to close the resilient housing gap.
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High Stakes, High Hopes: Urban Theorizing in Partnership
CRP Chair Sophie Oldfield's new book explores how research and assessment were reshaped when framed in neighborhood questions and commitments, and what was reoriented in urban theorizing when community activism and township struggles were recognized as sites of valid knowledge-making.
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Always Be Around: Corita Kent, Community and Pedagogy
Explore the work of Corita Kent through a lens of teaching and community-building, paired with the work of contemporary artists including Art Associate Professor Jen de los Reyes.
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Facade Scanner: A Scalable Workflow for Building Geometry and Window-to-Wall Ratio Capture for Urban Building Energy Modeling
A team of B.Arch. researchers from Architecture Associate Professor Timur Dogan's Environmental Systems Lab presented this work at the IBPSA International Conference Building Simulation 2023 in Shanghai.
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Intermunicipal Cooperation and Agreement Formalization
CRP Professor Mildred Warner has coauthored a paper in the Journal of Economic Policy Reform that investigates the effect formalization of cooperation agreements has on the cost of service delivery across NYS local governments.
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Representative Bureaucracy, Age-Friendly Planning, and the Role of Gender, Public Engagement, and Professional Management
In an article published by Administration & Society, CRP Professor Mildred Warner and Xue Zhang explore what leads to more age-friendly cities.
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Playing Place: Board Games, Popular Culture, Space
History of Architecture and Urban Development (HAUD) Professor D. Medina Lasansky and HAUD alum Chad Randl (Ph.D. HAUD '14) release a collection of essays that connect 35 or more different board games to various elements of the built environment.
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Structural Design Using Reclaimed Wood – A Case Study and Proposed Design Procedure
An article coauthored by Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel in the Journal of Cleaner Production explores new design processes that account for variability in the dimension and mechanical properties of reclaimed wood.
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National Mall Installation Invites Public to "Let Freedom Ring"
Featured in the Cornell Chronicle, the exhibition includes an interactive bell tower by Art Chair and Professor Paul Ramírez Jonas, one of six featured projects which aim to create a more inclusive commemorative landscape on the mall.
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Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography
Named one of the Best Art Books of 2022 by New York Times Art Critic Holland Cotter, this exhibition catalog includes an essay by Art Associate Professor Jolene Rickard.