Jennifer Minner
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Jumping Off the “Conveyor Belt of Doom”: How We Could Build New Buildings with Old Ones
CRP Associate Professor Jennifer Minner and Susan Christopherson Center for Community Planning Project Director Gretchen Worth (M.A. HPP '20), coauthors of "Constructing a Circular Economy in New York State: Deconstruction and Building Material Reuse," discuss the white paper's findings.
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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.
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Building Deconstruction, Reuse Would Benefit NYS Jobs, Climate
Felix Heisel, Architecture Assistant Professor and Director of the Circular Construction Lab (CCL); Jennifer Minner, CRP Associate Professor and Director of the Just Places Lab; and Wyeth Augustine-Marceil, Research Associate in the CCL and Just Places Lab, report that transitioning to a circular construction economy in New York could boost significant economic activity, create thousands of green jobs, and advance climate goals by reusing deconstructed building materials.
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The Seine River is Set to Reopen for Swimming After 100 Years, Its Cursed Clean-Up is a Lesson for Future Olympics
In this article, CRP Associate Professor Jennifer Minner shares insights about the impact of mass events on their host cities.
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Community Engagement Awards Honor Exceptional People, Projects
The second annual Community Engagement Awards, held at Cornell and hosted by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, celebrated partnerships like those between the Finger Lakes ReUse and the Circularity, Reuse, and Zero Waste Development (CR0WD) partner network, which includes the labs of AAP faculty Jennifer Minner and Felix Heisel. David Ni (B.Arch. '24) was one of three recipients of this year's Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Awards and among the 15 faculty and five students to receive awards at the event.
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Workbook Tackles Injustice – and Carbon – in Built Environment
CRP faculty Jocelyn Poe and Jennifer Minner, along with Architecture faculty Felix Heisel, are among several coauthors who recently published Embodying Justice in the Built Environment: Circularity in Practice. The guide and workbook seek to help policymakers, practitioners, and communities center justice principles while implementing strategies related to materials resource management, new construction, and alternatives to demolition.
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In Practice with Najeh Abduljalil (B.S. URS ’25)
CRP student Najeh Abduljalil shares insights into the work and impact of Cornell University Research-To-Action Youth (CURTA-Y), the student-run organization and participatory research initiative. CURTA-Y unites Cornell undergraduates with Binghamton-area high school students to work toward transformative change in their communities. CRP Associate Professor Jenni Minner, who leads the Just Places Lab, is a mentor and advisor.
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The Paris Olympics’ Seine River Plan is Bold, Audacious … and Risky
CRP Associate Professor Jennifer Minner, who studies the impact of mass events on their host cities, comments, "If it fails during the Olympics, it will be remembered as a large-scale failure, but that could be overcome by the permanent benefits that are realized over time."
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Remaking the Built Environment by Reimagining Waste
CRP Associate Professor Jennifer Minner and the Just Places Lab team at Cornell AAP map local sites demonstrating the challenges of creating circular construction economies and the opportunities there are in reusing building materials.
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ACHP Chair Convenes Experts Advisory Committee
CRP Associate Professor Jennifer Minner will join the committee, which will provide academic and legal perspectives to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.
