Department of City and
Regional Planning

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.

Highlights


Our Priorities


  • Michael Tomlan

    "Books opened my imagination and shaped my intellectual growth, addressing my insatiable curiosity. My interest in historic preservation stems from linkages between ideas, activities, and objects throughout the world."

  • Suzanne Lanyi Charles

    "I revel in a deeper understanding of the real estate industry because it is a constant source of insights into how our economic and political systems fail to create secure and affordable housing for all members of society."

  • Victoria A. Beard

    "I have always felt most inspired and creative when I am in the field talking to people, producing research work that can be applied and that has the possibility of having a visible impact."

  • Stephan Schmidt

    "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."

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