In the Media
Thursday, April 21, 2022
White House Puts Out a Playbook to Help Rural Areas Get Infrastructure Funding
NPR: CRP Professor Mildred Warner speaks with NPR about the challenges local governments face when seeking federal funding.
Monday, April 11, 2022
House Price Squeeze: "I Bid Dozens of Times but Lost"
BBC: For the BBC, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Suzanne Lanyi Charles comments on rising home prices.
Monday, April 11, 2022
Business Insider: Thomas Campanella, Professor of City and Regional Planning, comments on development trends in Brooklyn across the decades in Business Insider.
Monday, March 28, 2022
People Saving Places: Sara Bronin and an Interdisciplinary Approach to Preservation
The National Trust for Historic Preservation: The National Trust for Historic Preservation features Sara Bronin, a CRP professor focused on historic preservation and land use law who is currently investigating how local governments regulate historic places.
Monday, March 14, 2022
Remembering Susan Christopherson (1947–2016)
The Ithaca Voice: In remembrance of Susan Christopherson, the first woman to chair the Department of City and Regional Planning, and her impact on the community.
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
But Next Time: "Toward the Fire"
Shareable: Assistant Professor Linda Shi, CRP, featured in the latest episode of "But Next Time" a limited-run podcast that spotlights powerful stories of community-led disaster prevention and recovery.
Monday, February 28, 2022
USC Sells Frank Lloyd Wright's Freeman House To Private Buyer — With Agreement That It Be Preserved
Los Angeles Times: In the LA Times, CRP Associate Professor Jeffrey Chusid says the level of work required at the house was beyond what USC could have provided. Chusid was director of the Freeman House, wrote a book on it, and for a time lived in it.
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Why the U.S. Needs a National Zoning Atlas
Bloomberg CityLab: In a Bloomberg CityLab opinion piece, CRP Professor Sara Bronin advocates for an interactive online zoning map of the entire U.S. Bronin teaches A Zoning Atlas for NY State this spring, based on a standard methodology she has proposed.
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Miami Beach's Ocean Drive Revs Up for a Car Comeback
Bloomberg CityLab: Research by CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt is referenced in a Bloomberg CityLab story on the pandemic ups and downs of Miami's South Beach strip.
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
What the Pandemic's "Open Streets" Really Revealed
Bloomberg CityLab: In his Bloomberg CityLab op-ed, CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt examines popularity and pushback to covid-inspired traffic restrictions and street changes in U.S. cities.
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Places Journal: Places Journal recently published Katie Oran's (M.R.P. '21) 2020 Summer Writing Workshop essay on how catastrophic wildfires are increased by climate change, fire-control techniques, and (re)building in wildfire hazard zones.
Friday, December 17, 2021
Rolling Coal vs. Biking: How Politics Has Changed Transportation
Governing: CRP Assistant Professor Nicholas J. Klein is quoted in Governing's story on partisan rancor in the formerly "quiet" field of transportation policy. The story cites a recent paper Klein coauthored on the topic.
Thursday, December 16, 2021
Covid Infection Rate Affected by Water Access
Health Europa Quarterly,: In Health Europa Quarterly, post-doctoral researcher Xue Zhang (Ph.D. RS '19, M.S. RS '17) outlines how a lack of access to clean, affordable water results in a higher Covid infection rate and deaths.
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
The Best U.S. Suburbs For City-Like Living
Storage Cafe: Storage Cafe consults experts like CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt on the direction suburban living is headed. Schmidt says inner ring suburbs increasingly represent the urban core demographically, economically, and politically.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Cornell Photographer Exhibits Work at Campus Gallery
The Ithaca Times: The Ithaca Times reviews AAP staff photographer William Staffeld's solo retrospective exhibition at Cornell's John Hartell Gallery in November. Staffeld will retire in January after 37 years at Cornell.
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Own an Old Barn? A New Tax Credit Aims to Spur Rehab, Transformation of Old Structures
Binghamton Press Connects: CRP's Professor Michael Tomlan tells Binghamton Press Connects that there are thousands of barns in need of rehabilitation throughout New York state. If signed before the start of the 2022 legislative session in January, a new law will help.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Lack of Watershed Laws Cited by Seneca-Keuka Watershed Partnership
Finger Lakes Times: Finger Lakes Times reports on the preliminary findings of the spring '21 CRP Land Use, Environmental Planning, and Urban Design Workshop led by Associate Professor of the Practice George Frantz.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
What We Learn from Experience and Reflection
Einhorn Collaborative: Upon the dedication of Cornell's David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement., Einhorn Collaborative director Jennifer Hoos Rothberg (B.S. URS '04, M.R.P. '05) reflects on her community-engaged learning experiences as a CRP student.
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
And This Is Why It's Useful to Talk about Historical Examples of Institutionalized Racism
The Washington Post: Historian and CRP Professor Thomas J. Campanella adds credence to an example of racism embedded within infrastructure, a view that is repeatedly debated in partisan politics, according to the Washington Post.
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
New Study Explicitly Links Protection of Water Access with Lower COVID-19 Infection and Death Rates
Sciencemag: Further coverage of Mildred Warner's and Xue Zhang's (Ph.D. RS '19) study on water shut-offs and COVID, in the U.K. journal Sciencemag.
