Faculty Work
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The Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) Work
Coauthored by Architecture Professor of the Practice Florian Idenburg, explore American office design from the 1970s into the future through a series of images and essays.
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Chats in the Stacks: Jonathan Ochshorn's Building Bad
In a virtual Chats in the Stacks talk, Ochshorn discusses his latest book which examines how utilitarian function in architecture can be thwarted by political and economic forces and undermined by artistic expression.
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Urban Containment as Smart Growth
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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Contracting Dynamics and Unionization: Managing Labor, Contracts, and Markets
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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Urbanization and Child Growth Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Geographical Analysis
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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Planning and Markets at Work: Seattle Under Growth Management and Economic Pressure
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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Why Do Planners Overlook Manufactured Housing and Resident-Owned Communities as Sources of Affordable Housing and Climate Transformation?
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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Designing Peace at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum on view through September 4, 2023
The exhibition designed by Höweler + Yoon Architecture, the Boston-based firm cofounded by AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon (B.Arch. '95) and Eric Höweler (B.Arch. '94, M.Arch. '96), explores the unique role design can play in pursuing peace.
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Intertwined Histories: A Conversation about Open Architectures with Esra Akcan
Akcan discusses her book Open Architecture (2018), which explores the urban renewal implemented in the late 1980s in Berlin's Kreuzberg borough while investigating broader architectural and social implications.
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Three Women, Three Projects Bring Zoning into the Future to Fix Housing Crisis
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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Cornell Atkinson Awards $1.4 Million to New Sustainability Projects
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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Are Transportation Planning Views Shared by Engineering Students and the Public?
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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Edition IX—Bodies and Technologies (2022–23)
If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution presents their ninth biennial program which features six new artist and research commissions including work by Architecture Assistant Professor Samia Henni.
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Farzin Farzin: My Domestic Routines
Part of the digital exhibition by winners of the 2022 League Prize, this installation by Architecture Assistant Professor Farzin Lotfi-Jam and his team at Farzin Farzin explores how smart home devices are reshaping domestic space.
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Architecture's Aesthetics Should Support, Rather than Sabotage, a Building's Function
In an op-ed for The Architect's Newspaper, Architecture Professor Jonathan Ochshorn illustrates why successful architectural theory must reconcile utility with expression.
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White House Nationwide Zoning Reform Effort Needs Data
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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To Get to Net Zero, This City Is Making a Map
Bloomberg CityLab reports on the real-world applications of an energy modeling map developed by Architecture faculty Felix Heisel and Timur Dogan that could help Ithaca meet its decarbonization goals.
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Tear Down Academic Silos: Take an 'Undisciplinary' Approach
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.