Faculty Work
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Lily Chi: "Housing Agency"
Architecture Professor Lily Chi's paper "Housing Agency" in ITA's themed issue "Ideas at Home" examines what incremental and adaptable design offers for contemporary design thinking more broadly.
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3 going through 9 to get to 27
Paintings and tapestries by Assistant Professor Leeza Meksin, art, are part of the Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) Gallery group exhibition on display now through mid-May.
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Abolish Human Bans: Intertwined Histories of Architecture
In a new book, Professor Esra Akcan builds on her theory of architectural translation through the lens of architectural history to ask if architects can commit to peace rather than to dominant geopolitical regimes.
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Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind: Understanding The Sanitation Crisis In Global South Cities
In the Journal of Environmental Management, CRP Professor and Associate Dean of Research Initiatives Victoria A. Beard analyzes the urban sanitation service provision gap in cities in the Global South.
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Amant Art Center by SO – IL
In Architectural Record, Professor of the Practice in architecture Florian Idenburg and his design practice SO–IL designs a sophisticated campus for the Amant Art Center amid its industrial setting in Brooklyn.
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Tracing the Spectacular Growth of New York City
Professor Thomas Campanella, CRP, moderates a conversation between filmmakers Ric Burns and James Sanders, authors of New York: An Illustrated History for the National Arts Club.
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What the Pandemic's "Open Streets" Really Revealed
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.
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Toward Comparative Polycentricity Scores: Assessing Variations in Regional Delineation and Subcenter Identification
A paper by CRP's Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt and Ph.D. candidate Ryan Thomas examines comparative polycentricity indicators, which influence research and policies related to urban development.
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Best Art Books of 2021
A New York Times art critic selects the MoMA exhibition catalog for Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, edited by cocurators Sean Anderson, associate professor of architecture, and scholar Mabel O. Wilson.
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Arts Quad Installation Upcycles Wood With Mixed Reality
Assistant Professor Leslie Lok and her Rural-Urban Innovation (RUBI) Lab used mixed-reality technologies and holographic visualization to process and construct with upcycled barn wood and plywood. In the Cornell Chronicle.
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The Sculptural Facade of This Store Offers a Hint of What Is Inside
Contemporist profiles a unique retail store in Wuhan, China, designed by Antistatics Architecture, the firm of Assistant Professor of the Practice Martin Miller, in collaboration with artist Yue Minjun.
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Bronin and Byrne's Historic Preservation Law, 2d ed
Coauthored by Professor Sara Bronin, CRP, and recently published by Foundation Press, the book is the first comprehensive set of teaching materials covering diverse topics vital to contemporary practice in property, land use, and real estate law.
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Revealing Climate Change Inequities, Redress, and Environmental Justice
CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi discusses her timely research on populations vulnerable to climate change injustices and the planning discipline's critical contributions to the global discussion on adaptation and the future of cities.
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Water Privatization: Lessons and Pitfalls
A recent special issue of Utilities Policy features an exploration of the current state of water privatization research around the globe, edited by policy expert and CRP Professor Mildred Warner.
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High-resolution Combined Building Stock and Building Energy Modeling
A paper on methodology for the Ithaca's carbon neutrality project by assistant professors of architecture Felix Heisel and Timur Dogan; Joseph McGranahan (B.Arch. '22), Joseph Ferdinando (M.Arch. '22). In Resources, Conservation & Recycling.
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Urban Mining and Circular Building: The City As a Raw Material Store
In the new book, editors Assistant Professor Felix Heisel and Dirk E. Hebel present perspectives on how the challenges of a circular economy can be met with completely new methodological approaches.
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One Earth Voices: Inequalities Through the Lens of Science
CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi writes about social justice and recovery from the pandemic while decarbonizing and adapting to climate change. "Prioritizing Land Justice in U.S. Post-pandemic Recovery" appears in One Earth.
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Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Photograph
Associate Professor Michael Ashkin, art, contributes an essay and photo to the new book, edited by Jason Fulford and published by Aperture, which features ideas, stories, and anecdotes from many of the world's most talented photographers.