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George Frantz

  • Associate Professor of the Practice
  • Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies

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Academic Research Areas

  • Community-based planning and development
  • Participatory and collaborative planning
  • Sustainability
  • Open space
  • Agricultural lands protection planning

George Frantz ’80 (M.R.P. ’91) has taught planning field workshop classes in communities ranging from the Ninth Ward of New Orleans to Catskill Mountain resort towns. He has an active private practice in land-use planning and design. His primary areas of expertise are in urban design and comprehensive land-use planning and zoning, with particular emphasis on addressing the needs of agriculture and the protection of environmentally sensitive lands. His current research interests include Chinese and American cities and their potential to evolve into more environmentally and socially sustainable communities. He has also studied the impacts of Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling on agricultural land resources in northern Pennsylvania. Frantz received his B.S. in landscape architecture and his M.R.P. from Cornell in 1980 and 1991 respectively.

George Frantz

Academic Research Areas

  • Community-based planning and development
  • Participatory and collaborative planning
  • Sustainability
  • Open space
  • Agricultural lands protection planning

My commitment to planning equity and justice is rooted in my own ties to the land and the trauma I witnessed when I-80 punched through the eminent domain portions of my grandfather's and uncle's farms in Liberty Valley.

Publications

  • Life After Service Learning: From a Class Project to a New Town Park

    Frantz, George R. and Sherene Baugher. 2011. Landscape Journal.

  • Marcellus Shale Drilling and Agricultural Lands

    2011. Finger Lakes Environment and Development Conference, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY.

  • Short-Circuiting Controversy in Culture Resource Protection in Ithaca, New York

    Frantz, Georg R. and Sherene Baugher. 2009. ASLA Landscape-Land Use Planning Newsletter.

Classes

  • Land Use, Environmental Planning, and Urban Design Workshop

    CRP 3072/5072

  • Special Topics in Planning: Environmental Impact Review

    CRP 3850/5850

  • International Planning and Development Workshop: Contemporary Urban Planning in Shanghai

    CRP 5076

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • Faculty Fellow-in-Service, Cornell University

    2011–12

  • Community Achievement Award, New York Upstate Chapter American Society of Landscape Architects

    Inlet Valley Archaeological Survey and creation of Tuleto Park
    2005

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Water Resource Protection in Small Cities and Rural Areas, American Techniques and Lessons for China

    International City Infrastructure Management Conference, Hangzhou, PRC, 2018.

  • Cultural Resources Protection: A Proactive Approach

    American Planning Association Tuesdays at APA Webinar Series, 2010.

  • Land Use, Agriculture, and Farmland Protection Strategies

    American Society of Landscape Architects Annual Conference, Washington, DC, 2010.

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