City & Regional Planning News

CRP students participate in innovative urban eco-design during trip to China — Thursday, April 30, 2009

A Cornell team including two M.R.P. graduate students participated in a two-week urban design workshop in northern China. [Full story]

Multidisciplinary conference focuses on the rebirth of Washington, DC's NoMA district — Thursday, April 16, 2009

The convergence of planning, real estate, architecture, and art was on display during the recent “Point/Line/Plane — Transit-Oriented Development in the Nation’s Capital” conference hosted by AAP and the Program in Real Estate. [Full story]

CRP grad students accept federal service appointments — Thursday, March 26, 2009

Peter Rizzo (M.R.P. ‘09) and Mitchell Harrison (M.R.P. ‘09) have been accepted as Presidential Management Fellows. [Full story]

Planning students and professor hold spotlight APA annual conference — Thursday, March 26, 2009

Lingwen Zheng (M.R.P. ’09) has been awarded a American Planning Association’s (APA) scholarship and Professor Mildred Warner, Kathleen Hoover (M.R.P. ’10) and Erica Gutierrez (M.R.P. ’10) will present at the APA conference. [Full story]

Design for Health Program receives 2009 National Planning Award for Best Practice — Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Design for Health (DFH) recently received the National Planning Excellence Award for Best Practice from the American Planning Association (APA). CRP professor Ann Forsyth is a member of the team. [Full story]

Milstein Hall gets final site approval from City of Ithaca — Friday, January 30, 2009

Paul Milstein Hall cleared its final municipal hurdle January 27 receiving final site plan approval from the city of Ithaca's Planning and Development Board. The project will expand AAP facilities. [Full story]

Excited students take Big Red to the inauguration — Wednesday, January 21, 2009

On Jan. 20 at the National Mall, 100 Cornell students, faculty and staff took an all-night bus together to brave the cold and witness the historic inauguration ceremony. [Full story]

Interdisciplinary student design and planning group places in national competition — Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Students in the Design and Planning Student Group placed second in the Ed Bacon Foundation competition. The team consisted of undergraduate and graduate students from City and Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture. [Full story]

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