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.
Our Priorities
Place-Based Collaborative Research
We work closely with communities, planners, and scholars across places and disciplines to exchange ideas and develop data-driven theories and practices that shape public discourse and engage critical social issues.
Justice, Equity, Sustainability
We study the built environment, governance, policymaking, and everyday life to address justice, equity, and sustainability in planning for infrastructure, affordable housing, and climate adaptation.
Connecting Multiple Scales
We embrace theories and practices that draw connections across neighborhood, city, regional, and global scales to shape cities and regions now and for the future.
Global Practice, Local Impact
We work in cities and communities across the Global North and South to bring together different ways of teaching, learning, and practicing that create new possibilities in planning.
"My career as an academic is driven by a yearning to inspire others to appreciate the richness, depth, and complexity of the everyday urban world, to develop a lifelong curiosity about landscape, place, and the built environment."
"Fascinated with urban form and spatial patterns since I was a little kid, I became curious about the institutional, cultural, and socio-economic processes that produced very different urban and regional landscapes."
"It's a fantastic time to be a southern urban scholar. We have an invitation to think and work differently, to draw on interdisciplinary approaches to face and engage the crises and creativity that define cities across the world."
"I'm inspired by community-based and grassroots movements whose embodied knowledge and lived experience provide deep and powerful ideas for change. I seek to find ways to connect their ideas with pragmatic, implementable policy reforms and projects."
Degree Programs
Urban and Regional Studies (B.S. URS)
Four-year, undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Studies
Two-year, professional, accredited Master of Regional Planning
Two-year Master of Science in Regional Science
Historic Preservation Planning (M.A. HPP)
Two-year Master of Arts in Historic Preservation Planning
City and Regional Planning (Ph.D. CRP)
Doctoral degree in City and Regional Planning
Doctoral degree in Regional Science
Landscape Architecture (M.R.P. / M.L.A.)
Dual master's degree in Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture
Real Estate (M.R.P. / M.P.S. RE)
Dual master's degree in Regional Planning and Real Estate
Town-Gown Awardees Foster Business, Community, Sustainability
CR0WD receives 14th annual Town-Gown Award; congratulations Circular Construction Lab, Felix Heisel (AAP); Just Places Lab, Jenni Minner (AAP); Susan Christopherson Center for Community Planning, Gretchen Worth (M.A. HPP '20); Preservation Association of Central New York, Andrew Roblee (M.A. HPP '17); Finger Lakes ReUse; and Historic Ithaca.
How Zoning Can Reshape Communities — This Time for Better
City and Regional Planning and Real Estate Professor Sara Bronin discusses her new book Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World with the Cornell Chronicle.
Hochul Set to Resurrect Congestion Pricing at $9
The City: Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Nicholas J. Klein adds his perspective to this article on the revival of congestion pricing in New York City.
Friday, November 15, 2024It's Unfair to Force People Out of Their Homes. Climate Change Demands That We Do It Anyway
Fast Company: Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Linda Shi adds insight to this article covering a more holistic approach to the relocation of communities impacted by climate change.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024'Key to the City' Review: The Right Way to Rezone
The Wall Street Journal: A review of Professor of City and Regional Planning and Real Estate Sara Bronin's recently released book.
Friday, October 11, 2024Unlocking the Hidden Power of Zoning, for Good or Bad
Bloomberg: In her new book, Sara Bronin, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Real Estate, shows how land use regulations shaped US cities and makes a case for using these rules for progressive aims.
Friday, October 4, 2024
Demographic Ageing: an Opportunity to Rethink Economy, Society, and Regions
CRP Professor Mildred Warner and Xue Zhang (Ph.D. RS '19) are among the authors of this paper, suggesting that an "active aging" agenda requires rethinking the economy, urban form, and societal responses.
How Can We Support NYC's Housing Coops in Adapting to Climate Change?
Coauthored by Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Linda Shi and Environmental Defense Fund Senior Analyst Anushi Garg (M.R.P. '20), this post focuses on New York City, the housing affordability crisis, and the impacts of climate change.
A Portrait of New York City by Air in 1924
In this article written by CRP Professor Thomas J. Campanella, we read about the days before Google Maps, when an intrepid inventor with three camera-equipped biplanes captured groundbreaking views of Gotham in its Jazz Age glory.
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