Faculty Work
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How "Digital Twins" are Enabling City-Wide Electrification
In collaboration with RMI, Architecture and Design Tech Associate Professor Timur Dogan and Hung Ming Tseng (M.S. AAD '24) are among the authors of a report on how digital building modeling is helping the City of Ithaca.
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Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design
HANNAH, the firm led by Assistant Professors of Architecture Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic, is among the artists featured in this exhibition that examines the role of nature as a starting point for material experimentation in the domains of architecture, craft, and science.
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Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran
Authored by Pamela Karimi, Associate Professor in the History of Architecture and Urban Development program, the book explores the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising sparked by Jina Mahsa Amini's death. It highlights the role of grassroots art and design in shaping what many consider the first feminist quasi-revolution and showcases the creative power behind acts of peaceful civil disobedience.
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Innovative State Strategies for Rural Broadband
Coauthored by CRP Professor Mildred Warner this study looks at local cases in Minnesota, Colorado, and Maine to understand the relative role of state broadband policy, local leadership, and private investment in extending broadband coverage to rural areas.
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Community Development and Schools: Conflict, Power, and Promise
Coedited by CRP Professor Mildred Warner and CRP Research Associate Xue Zhang, this book lays out the promise and potential of schools as community-building institutions.
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A Portrait of New York City by Air in 1924
In this article written by CRP Professor Thomas J. Campanella, we read about the days before Google Maps, when an intrepid inventor with three camera-equipped biplanes captured groundbreaking views of Gotham in its Jazz Age glory.
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Virtual, Mixed Realities Converge in New Driving Simulator
Portobello, a new driving simulator developed by a research team led by Design Tech Associate Professor Wendy Ju, blends virtual and mixed realities, enabling drivers and passengers to see virtual objects overlaid in the real world.
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Place Attachment, Regional Identity, and Perceptions of Urbanization in Moshi, Tanzania
Coauthored by CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt and CRP Ph.D. students Ryan Thomas and Wenzheng Li (M.R.P. '18), examine the relationship between place attachment and residents' perceptions of various aspects of urban life.
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A Policy Window for Equity? The American Rescue Plan and Local Government Response
A paper coauthored by CRP faculty Mildred Warner and Graduate Student Paula Camila Diaz-Torres (M.R.P. '22) explores the multiple mechanisms localities used to incorporate equity.
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Fiscal Federalism, ARPA, and the Politics of Repair
CRP faculty Mildred Warner and alumn Yuanshuo Xu (M.R.P. '13, Ph.D. CRP '19) coauthored a paper on the impact of the Biden Administration's American Rescue Plan Act on local government finance.
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Study Finds Racial Bias in Traffic Stops by Chicago Police
CRP Assistant Professor Wenfei Xu coauthored "The Racial Composition of Road Users, Traffic Citations, and Police Stops," a study that maps the racial composition of roads using mobile phone GPS data.
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The Spatial-Temporal Evolution of Urban Development Patterns in Chinese Cities: Dynamics and Interpretations
In this paper, CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt and Ph.D. candidate Wenzheng Li examine the spatial-temporal evolution of urban spatial structure across 269 Chinese prefectural cities from 2002 to 2019.
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Population Aging and Decline Will Happen Sooner Than We Think
Historical and projected demographic trends indicate that the global population will likely peak by 2086, followed by a marked decline. A paper coauthored by CRP faculty Mildred Warner and Research Associate Xue Zhang argues that these projections hide regional and age-group disparities; the reality is that the adult population peak and decline will occur much sooner in key regions of the world.
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Workbook Tackles Injustice – and Carbon – in Built Environment
Jennifer Minner, Felix Heisel, Jocelyn Poe
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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Architectural-Art Installation Takes Center Stage at Coachella
Architecture faculty Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic of HANNAH designed and built Monarchs: A House in Six Parts, a towering, 3D-printed, robotically fabricated architectural art installation for this year's Coachella music festival in the California desert.
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Industry and Literature Review of Urban Mining Applications in the United States: Gaps and Drivers for Implementation Towards a Circular Industrialized Construction Economy
Coauthored by Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel, this paper seeks to analyze the current construction industry in the United States to determine emerging trends and developments in sustainable and circular design and construction, focusing on one of the concepts, Urban Mining, and its potential applications.
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Assessing the Digital Divide in Affordable Housing: The Power of Collective Action
Coauthored by CRP Professor Mildred Warner, Duxixi Shen (M.R.P. '23), Jane Bowman Brady (M.P.A. '23), and Ella Redmond (M.A. RS '25), this report explores three unique case studies that address digital access, affordability, and adoption in low-income multi-family housing.
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Equitable Zoning for Manufactured Housing
Manufactured housing has remained an underexploited opportunity for providing millions of Americans with decent, affordable housing. In this issue of Zoning Practice, CRP Associate Professor of the Practice George R. Frantz examines the persistent inequitable treatment of manufactured housing in many local zoning codes and offers considerations for code updates.