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Linda Shi

  • Associate Professor
  • Director of the Master of Regional Planning Program
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Academic Research Areas

  • Infrastructure planning
  • International studies in planning
  • Land use/spatial planning
  • Participatory and collaborative planning
  • Sustainability
  • Environmental policy and planning
  • Urban and regional governance
  • Urban resilience and hazard mitigation

Linda Shi’s research concerns how to plan for urban climate adaptation in ways that improve environmental sustainability and social justice. She studies how aspects of urban land governance — including the fiscalization of land use, property rights regimes, and metropolitan regional institutions — shape climate vulnerability and adaptation responses. An urban environmental planner by training, Shi has worked for AECOM, the Institute for International Urban Development, and the Rocky Mountain Institute and consulted for the World Bank and American Institute of Architects on projects and research in the U.S., Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

Shi received a Ph.D. in urban and regional planning from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, a master’s in urban planning from Harvard GSD, and a bachelor’s and master’s in environmental management from Yale University.

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Academic Research Areas

  • Infrastructure planning
  • International studies in planning
  • Land use/spatial planning
  • Participatory and collaborative planning
  • Sustainability
  • Environmental policy and planning
  • Urban and regional governance
  • Urban resilience and hazard mitigation

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.

Publications

  • Transformative Climate Adaptation in the United States: Trends and Prospects

    Shi, Linda, and S. C. Moser. 2021. Science, First Release.

  • Beyond Flood Risk Reduction: How can Green Infrastructure Advance both Social Justice and Regional Impact?

    Shi, Linda. 2020. Socio-Ecological Practice Research 2 (4): 311–20.

  • From Progressive Cities to Resilient Cities: Lessons from History for New Debates in Equitable Adaptation to Climate Change

    Shi, Linda. 2020. Urban Affairs Review: 1–38.

  • Surging Seas, Rising Fiscal Stress: Exploring Municipal Fiscal Vulnerability to Climate Change

    Shi, Linda, and Andrew M. Varuzzo. 2020. Cities 100: 102658.

  • Promise and Paradox of Metropolitan Regional Climate Adaptation

    Shi, Linda. 2019. Environmental Science & Policy 92: 262–74.

     

Classes

  • Environmental and Land Use Planning Workshop

    CRP 3072/5072

  • Qualitative Research and Design Methods

    CRP 3201/6201

  • Urban Adaptation to Climate Change

    CRP 3850/5850

  • Colloquium / Research Seminar

    CRP 3900/7850/8300

  • Introduction to Planning Practice and History

    CRP 5130

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • APA National Student Project Award

    Faculty advisor
    2020

  • Faculty Fellows Program, Cornell Center for Social Sciences

    2020–21

  • Global Public Voice Fellowship, Einaudi Center for International Studies

    2020–21

  • Applied Research Grant, Atkinson Center for Sustainable Futures and The Nature Conservancy

    2019–21

  • Small Grant, Cornell Institute for the Social Sciences

    2018–21

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

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