Department of City and
Regional Planning

The Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University provides a dynamic, rigorous, and supportive context for addressing the most urgent planning questions of our time.

Our faculty and students plan for a sustainable future, confront inequality, transform the built environment, engage communities, and re-imagine planning by reflecting on theories, practices, contradictions, and politics. At CRP, the next generation of planners and urbanists hone critical disciplinary planning and urban studies skills through a wide selection of courses offered by the department, the college, and Cornell, a world-class Ivy League university.

Highlights


Our Priorities


  • Michael Tomlan

    "Books opened my imagination and shaped my intellectual growth, addressing my insatiable curiosity. My interest in historic preservation stems from linkages between ideas, activities, and objects throughout the world."

  • Sara Bronin

    "My interdisciplinary research in the areas of property, land use, historic preservation, and energy focuses on how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places."

  • Nancy Brooks

    "My main commitment as a scholar has been primarily about studying inequities that arise from market externalities. While my training is in economics, my research interests have always related to issues of importance to cities and planners."

  • Mildred Warner

    "Local government is ubiquitous. It is usually pragmatic, interested in key environmental, economic, social or political challenges, a potential actor for community development. This is why I find working at this scale across the world so interesting."

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