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Transforming 75 Years of City Edited by

Planning and Regional Ann Forsyth and
Planning Neema Kudva
at Cornell
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This book was compiled for
the 75th anniversary of the
Department of City and Regional
Planning at Cornell University,
funded initially by a grant from
the Carnegie Corporation.
The anniversary was celebrated

at an event held on October
15–16, 2010, in Ithaca, New York.
Copyright © 2010
College of Architecture, Art, and
Planning, Cornell University.
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2 75 Years of City and Regional Planning

at Cornell
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You cannot be a distinguished educator
without distinguished students. If you
do it right, your students will go on to
do things you could never do, write things
you could never write, conduct research
you could never carry out, solve problems
beyond your capacity, and surpass you
in numerous ways. What you must
do as an educator is create a learning
opportunity for younger people that
will make you obsolete.
Barclay Jones
Distinguished Planning Educator,
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, 1990
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Table of Contents
1 Preface: Transforming Planning 8

Department Timeline 12
2 Planning Emerges at Cornell 14

The Early Years 16
Past Department Chairs 22
Past AAP Deans from Planning 24
The 1960s and 1970s—The Policy and Physical Planning Divide 30
3 Cornell’s Evolving Programs 36

Historic Preservation 40
Regional Science 44
International Studies in Planning 46
Urban and Regional Studies 54
Real Estate 56
4 CRP in the World 58

Where We Are 64
CRP in New York City 68
CRP in Upstate New York 73
CRP in Brazil 74
CRP in Puerto Rico
CRP in Rome 77
CRP in New Orleans 78
CRP in Public Office 82
Workshops, Field Work, and Field Trips 84
Student Organizations and Department Governance 88
5 Transforming Ideas 92
Progressive Planning 96
Design and Physical Planning 104
The Analytical Tradition 110
International and Global Planning 112
Cornell Planning: Beyond 75 119
6 Acknowledgements and Sources 120
OPPOSITE Sibley as construction site. Above Winter 2009. Below Summer 2010. Photos: William Staffeld.
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Preface:
Transforming
Planning
Ann Forsyth and Neema Kudva
Over the past 75 years Cornell’s planning students, alumni,
and faculty have worked to transform planning. In doing
this they have bridged social concerns and physical design,
local and global scales, methods, critique, and ethics. Theirs
is a pragmatic idealism emerging from both studying the
world and efforts to change it. The Department of City and
Regional Planning (CRP) at Cornell celebrates this progressive,
international, and analytic tradition.
While planning topics were the subject of courses starting

in 1918, it was only in 1935 that a three-year grant from
the Carnegie Corporation enabled Cornell to establish
an interdisciplinary suite of planning courses under the
leadership of Gilmore D. Clarke (Cornell ’13). The first regional
planning master’s degree was awarded in 1943, though the first
full class of eight students graduated after the war in 1947–48.
Professor Emeritus John Reps was a member of that class.
Since that time Cornell has gone on to expand its offerings

to include an undergraduate program, a doctoral program,
and other joint programs with architecture, law, landscape
architecture, public administration, and real estate. In 2010
the department housed over 120 undergraduate urban and
regional studies majors; 96 master’s students; and 27 PhD
students in planning and regional science. Over the years CRP
has graduated 1,250 MRPs; 260 PhDs; and hundreds of BAs
of urban and regional studies. There have also been almost
200 MAs in historic preservation and 70 MAs and 60 PhDs in
regional science. These graduates have gone on to promising
careers around the world.
This book documents this remarkable history of

accomplishments and looks towards the future.
OPPOSITE TOP The class of 1947 was the first large group to OPPOSITE BOTTOM The class of 2011 has 58 students, a diverse
graduate, coming to study after the war. Pictured in the fall of 1946 group from across the United States and the world. Pictured in the fall
were Myer Wolfe, John Reps, John Via, Fred McLaughlin, Don of 2009 (from left to right) were Jonathan Wellemeyer, Jesse McCree,
MacDonald, Charles Woodman, instructor Tom Mackesey, Roland unknown, Danielle Bergstrom, Sara Lepori, Aditi Sen, Jeong Eun Lee,
Bedard, and Richard Rathfon. Photo: Collection of John Reps. and Courtney Shum. Photo: William Staffeld.
Preface: Transforming Planning 11

Department Timeline
1918 Professor Everett V. Meeks presents lectures on the

history of planning
1928–30 William Schuchardt teaches city planning seminar
1935 First regional planning classes taught under Carnegie
Corporation grant in a joint architecture and engineering
program
1943 First planning master’s degree awarded to Leslie Stott
O’Gwynn Jr.
1947–48 First full planning cohort graduates, including John Reps
1952 First PhD degree awarded to Robert Hoover
1956 First woman planning graduate, Sobhagya Komarakul
1960s International activities expand in the department
1962 Cornell starts offering courses in historic preservation
1971–75 Department splits in two: Urban Planning and Analysis &
Policy Planning and Regional Analysis
1972 Regional science program established
1975 Historic preservation becomes a major concentration
1976 Departments merged
1981 Undergraduate program started as two-year major;
expanded to four-year degree in 1987
1987 First tenured woman faculty member (Lourdes Benería)
and two tenure-track faculty hired (Susan Christopherson
and Margaret Wilder)
1988 CRP joins Cornell in Rome program
1998–99 Three tenure-track faculty hired (Ann-Margaret Esnard,
Rolf Pendall, and Mildred Warner): first major expansion
of the department in 10 years
2005–07 Three tenure-track faculty hired (Stephan Schmidt,
Clement Lai, and Arturo Sanchez) and two tenured
professors hired (Ann Forsyth and Kieran Donaghy):
second major expansion of department
2010 Department celebrates 75 years of transforming planning
OPPOSITE Maps of bastides in France, a long-term interest of

John Reps. Photocopied Maps: Collection of John Reps.

Preface: Transforming Planning 13
Planning
Emerges
at Cornell
The Early Years
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, several classes offered within the
university’s architecture, horticulture, and later landscape architecture
programs addressed large-scale planning and design issues that became the
central foci of the soon-to-emerge planning curriculum. In 1918 Professor
Everett V. Meeks presented the first series of lectures surveying the history of
planning, reviewing the subject of parks and squares in the world’s then largest
cities, and discussing the design of river, sea, and harbor fronts. The Cornell
Architect (June 1919), in applauding Meeks’s course, noted, “It would seem at
times that the city planner in this country was not wanted, that the American
people were blind to his usefulness….” Yet, they argued that the desires for
better living conditions and “better employment of natural beauties” were
becoming more important and soon “...the day of the city planner will be at
hand.”
Interest in planning continued to grow across campus and the country. In 1928
Professor William Schuchardt offered a seminar on city planning. According to
a 1935 letter written by George Young, dean of architecture, Schuchardt “laid
down the principle that large-scale planning is not and cannot be primarily a
professional activity; that actual accomplishment in this field is necessarily a
group activity which must depend on doctors, lawyers, businessmen [in those
days he even included bankers], and others, united by an informed interest in
the betterment of our physical environment as a means toward a bettered life.”
In addition, Cornell provost A.R. Mann became chairman of the newly formed
New York State Planning Board.
This widespread interest and early groundwork led to the submission of a

joint proposal to the Carnegie Corporation by the Colleges of Engineering
and Architecture, supported by the Colleges of Agriculture, Arts and Sciences,
and by President Farrand. Cornell’s fledgling but popular course of study in
planning, its large diverse student body, a faculty that was experienced at
working across disciplinary and college lines, and Gilmore D. Clarke, who was

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, several
classes offered within the university’s architecture,
horticulture, and later landscape architecture
programs addressed large-scale planning and design
issues that became the central foci of the soon-to-
emerge planning curriculum.
ready to lead the new program were all in its favor. Cornell received
a three-year grant to start a program in regional planning.
Cornell’s planning story thus formally begins in February 1935 when

Gilmore Clarke, the first Board of Trustees appointed professor of
ABOVE Students working on a regional planning, initiated a full series of lectures on planning,
planning project, c. late 1950s. given mainly by visiting architects, landscape architects, and
Photo: Collection of John Reps.
engineers. In 1938 Thomas W. Mackesey, one of the first persons in
Page 18 the nation to hold an advanced degree in planning from MIT, joined
the faculty and, with further Carnegie support, developed courses in
TOP Thomas (Tom) Mackesey
(second from left) with students, planning history, zoning, and field work. Three years later, in 1941,
from left to right, S.S.H. Kirmani, the New York State Regents approved a formal degree program in
Herb Smith, unknown, John
Vatet, Bob Hoover in a bow tie,
planning, in 1943 Leslie Stott O’Gwynn Jr., received the first Master
the first PhD to graduate from of Regional Planning degree.
the department, Mohammed Ali,
and unknown. Photo: Cornell
University Archives. Until the end of World War II only two other students completed
the MRP degree, although many undergraduates in architecture,
BOTTOM Student Carmen
Torres, one of the first women to
engineering, and from the arts college took courses in planning. It
graduate from the department, was not until the spring term of 1945–46 that the first true class of
instructor Frederick (Fred) graduate candidates arrived. In 1950 Frederick Edmundson joined
Edmundson, and two others in
the late 1950s. Photo: Cornell the college’s landscape architecture faculty and offered courses
University Archives. in site planning: now called urban design. His class projects dealt
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with faraway places: a uranium-mining town in Canada, Waikiki
Beach in Hawaii, the oil shale industry in Colorado, and the Grand
TOP Fred Edmundson, Bahamas resort area. It was around this time that the doctorate
instructor, and students working
on a physical planning project in was approved and the first PhD degree in planning was awarded to
a posed picture. Photo: Cornell Robert Hoover. Hoover and another graduate, John Reps, taught
University Archives.
part-time while serving consecutive terms directing the Broome
BOTTOM John Reps (front, third County Planning Department. In 1952 Reps joined the faculty
from left), Fred Edmundson, full-time and became the first chairman of the new Department of
and students in 1960. Photo:
Collection of John Reps. City and Regional Planning, a position he held for 12 years. During
Planning Emerges at Cornell 17

that time, he also developed courses in city planning law, practice, OPPOSITE Plate prepared as
part of an invited submission
and administration, and instituted two additional joint degrees for the 2006 Venice Biennale.
in law and city management and public administration with the It illustrates student work to
rehabilitate and develop the
Business School. By the end of the 1950s enrollment averaged 12–16 Faubourg St. Roch Market,
students, not counting those who were enrolled in joint degrees. one of the only intact historic
Several faculty who went on to shape the department in important markets in New Orleans. Initial
documentation was done as part
ways joined Cornell around this time including: Stuart Stein, Glenn of a Measured Drawing class,
Beyer, Barclay Jones, Alan Feldt (who had a joint appointment in and students later worked with
stakeholders and community
the Department of Sociology), Jack Fischer, Fred Clark, Coleman partners during the HPP/
Woodbury, and more. CRP Work Week to prepare a
rehabilitation plan; instructor
Jeffrey Chusid.
In 1957 K. C. Parsons (MRP ’53), who became department Collage: John Gunderlach.
chairman in 1964 and later served as dean of the college, moved
from professional work in Cleveland to Cornell to offer courses
in planning practice, urban renewal, and design-oriented field
work. The addition of required courses from other colleges on
campus rounded out what was by then a strong and varied planning
curriculum. The primary aim of the curriculum was the preparation
of planners for work related to the physical planning, design,
construction, and management of the city. Students focused on
courses that introduced them to the comprehensive planning
process, land use policymaking and administration, infrastructure
investment, urban design, and site planning.

Past Department Chairs
1935 Gilmore D. Clarke

First Professor of Regional Planning
1938–52 Thomas W. Mackesey
1952–64 John W. Reps
1964–69 Kermit C. Parsons
1969–70 Stuart W. Stein
Acting Chair while Parsons was on leave
1971–74 Barclay Jones
Chair, Department of Policy Planning and Regional Analysis (PPRA)
1971–75 Stuart W. Stein
Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Analysis
1974–75 Sidney Saltzman
Chair, PPRA
1975–82 Sidney Saltzman
1982–88 William W. Goldsmith
1988–91 David Lewis
1991–94 Richard Booth
1994–98 Porus Olpadwala
1998–01 John Forester
2001–04 Pierre Clavel
2004–07 Kenneth Reardon
2007–08 William W. Goldsmith
2008– Kieran Donaghy
City and Regional Planning became a formal department after World War II.
OPPOSITE “Central Gary: 1980,” central business district redevelopment plan

for Gary, Indiana; instructor K.C. Parsons, 1959. CRP has a long history of engaging
with the physical city and social processes through such revitalization plans.
Photo: Cornell University Archives.

Past AAP Deans
from Planning
1938–50 Gilmore D. Clarke

1951–60 Thomas W. Mackesey
1960–71 Burnham Kelly
1983–84 Ian Stewart Acting Dean
1998–04 Porus Olpadwala
OPPOSITE Map of Ithaca by K.C. Parsons for his

master’s thesis, 1953. Photo: Collection of John Reps.

CRP PROFILE
Gilmore D. Clarke
First Professor of
Regional Planning
Thomas J. Campanella
No urban planner had greater impact on the American landscape in the 20th
century than Gilmore D. Clarke, founder and first professor of regional planning
at Cornell. A 1913 graduate of Cornell’s Department of Rural Art, Clarke
rejected a lucrative career in private estate design to become the leading public
works landscape architect of his time. In Westchester County in the 1920s
he helped design the first modern parkways in the world, and used them to
connect together a vast regional network of playgrounds, beaches, and forest
preserves. Clarke’s Westchester system was emulated as far away as Germany
and China, but it was Robert Moses who recognized in this first landscape of
the motor age the means by which he might realize his “cherished ambition…
to weave together the loose strands and frayed edges of New York’s arterial and
metropolitan tapestry.”1
By the 1930s the two men had launched a professional collaboration that would
span 50 years. With Moses, Clarke and his partner, Michael Rapuano (Cornell
’27), reinvented the city’s park infrastructure during the New Deal, building
hundreds of new playgrounds, pools, and waterfront recreation areas in one of
the most heroic chapters in American planning history. Clarke and Rapuano
would go on to plan both the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs; the United Nations
complex; the Idlewild Airport (now known as the John F. Kennedy Airport);
the Grand Central, Belt, Garden State, and Palisades Parkways; the Van Wyck,
Major Deegan, and Brooklyn-Queens Expressways; and scores of public
housing and urban renewal projects throughout the New York metropolitan
area. Planning studies Clarke and Rapuano prepared in the post-war years—for
Portland, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Flint, and other American cities—carried their
message of urban modernity from coast to coast.
Clarke was a pioneering educator. In 1934, while riding back from Chicago on
the 20th Century Limited, Clarke fell into conversation with Frederick P. Keppel,
then head of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Keppel told Clarke that the
Carnegie Corporation had just funded a new city planning program at MIT, and
was looking to seed a similar venture elsewhere. Clarke suggested that the new
program stress collaborative, interdisciplinary education. “I think you ought to
set up a course somewhere,” he told Keppel, “where instruction in city planning
would be so broad, and of such great interest, that people from different areas of

study in a university, no matter whether they were sociologists, economists, or
engineers, would come and put their heads together in seminars and discuss the
problems of the city from their own points of view.” 2 In the meantime, President
Livingston Farrand and the deans of engineering, architecture, agriculture, and
Arts and Sciences submitted a proposal to the Carnegie Corporation. A year
after their meeting, Keppel invited Clarke and Farrand to lunch at the Century
Club in New York, where he announced that the Carnegie Corporation was
ready to fund a chair in city planning at Cornell for a period of three years, on
the condition that Clarke would accept the position.
Clarke’s first course was a history of city planning, followed by a survey on

planning theory. The new material was a hit. “I succeeded by some strange
magic in attracting a pretty good cross section of the students in the university,”
Clarke recalled. “I not only had architectural and engineering students, [but] a
good many from agriculture, economics, sociology, and government.” 2 By 1938,
at the end of the three-year Carnegie trial period, City and Regional Planning
had become a permanent part of Cornell’s educational landscape. Clarke
himself became dean of the College of Architecture, and would serve in that
role until 1950, spending three days a week in Ithaca and the balance in New
York City.
ABOVE Gilmore D. Clarke. Photo: Collection of Department of City and Regional Planning.

CRP PROFILE
THOMAS W. MACKESEY
Chair 1938–1952
Thomas W. Mackesey came to Cornell in St. Lawrence Seaway. In 1964 President

1938, hired by Professor Gilmore Clarke James Perkins tapped Mackesey for the
for the new graduate program in city office of vice provost (later vice president)
and regional planning. A native of Lynn, for planning. In the next decade Cornell
Massachusetts, Mackesey held one of the would complete nearly $90 million worth of
nation’s first professional master’s degrees in new buildings.
city planning from MIT, where he’d already
earned a bachelor’s in architecture. Under Mackesey’s supervision as Cornell’s
chief planner during the construction boom
Mackesey was the prime mover in of the ’60s and ’70s, Cornell built several
developing coursework and a strong library important buildings including Uris Hall and
for CRP. During the 1950s Mackesey also the Johnson Museum of Art, designed by the
performed location studies for Brasilia, the revered I.M. Pei.
new capital of Brazil, as well as work for
New York State on the development of the
ABOVE Cornell vice provost Tom Mackesey announcing the university’s most extensive construction program in its history,
an effort involving 27 buildings and more than $82 million, c. 1960. Photo: Cornell University Archives.

CRP PROFILE
JOHN W. REPS
Chair 1952–1964
Professor Emeritus John W. Reps is no less at Cornell from 1952 to 1987, chairing the
than a “National Planning Pioneer” and department from 1952 to 1964. He also
“the father of American planning history,” served for three years as director of planning
according to the designation awarded for Broome County, New York, and spent
him by the American Institute of Certified several years on the Ithaca planning board.
Planners in 1996. He also received the
Distinguished Planning Educator Award “I ought to add that I did things in the exact
from the Association of Collegiate Schools opposite way that any sensible person
of Planning. Author of the seminal work would have proceeded. Normally a scholar…
The Making of Urban America (1965), would do a series of regional studies … on
Reps has 13 other books, including Town individual cities, and then toward the end of
Planning in Frontier America (1969), Cities his life, in the twilight years, try and pull it all
of the American West (1980, winner of together in a grand synthesis. Well, I never
the Beveridge Award from the American really thought about it. I just got interested in
Historical Association), and Bird’s Eye Views: the country as a whole and how its cities got
Historic Lithographs of North American Cities planned ... [it] gave me scaffolding on which
(1998). A graduate of Cornell (MRP ’47) I could then begin to build more detailed
John Reps taught city and regional planning studies of individual cities.”
ABOVE John Reps in his office. Photo: Collection of Department of City and Regional Planning.

The 1960s and 1970s:
The Policy and Physical
Planning Divide
The 1960s were a time of great social awareness and political

upheaval throughout the country and the world. Planning practice
and education expanded and changed accordingly. At Cornell
enrollment increased to about 80 students; several professors with
advanced degrees in the social sciences were added to the faculty;
Burnham Kelly, a planning lawyer and housing researcher, became
dean of the college; and there was much community assistance,
outreach, and research activity.
Under the vigorous leadership of Barclay Jones—an architect,

planner, and economist—the doctoral program offered numerous
ABOVE Burnham Kelly, dean
fellowships in the environmental health and comprehensive health of AAP, 1960–1971. Photo: AAP
training programs. In addition, for several years the department Communications.
received large grants from the Mellon Trust. Other major
BELOW Cover of Burnham
department involvements included the United States-Yugoslav Kelly’s book, Design and the
project; the development of a graduate program in planning at Production of Houses. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1959.
the University of Puerto Rico (with sizeable assistance from the
Ford Foundation); and a series of research contracts with the
New York State Urban Development Corporation. Alan Feldt, a
sociologist with prior training as a physicist, who later went on to
receive an ACSP Distinguished Planning Educator Award, brought
in large federally funded research and training grants. During this
time, an associated research center, PURS, or the Program on
Urban and Regional Studies, was set up to administer and support
research grants.

… a departmental culture evolved that accepted the
legitimacy of diverse approaches: theory building,
analytical, descriptive, and codification work,
action-oriented professional practice and work
with established institutions, as well as a strong
commitment to social justice and social change.
Because of the growth in enrollment, research activity, and the increasing

distinction between the city ‘physical’ and the city ‘social,’ two distinct
departments were formed in the early 1970s: Urban Planning and
Development, chaired by Stuart Stein, an architect and planner who had come
to Cornell some years earlier from private practice, and Policy Planning and
Regional Analysis, chaired by Jones. The first was focused on the department’s
traditional urban design and physical planning concentration and the other
focused on the rigorous analysis of social problems confronting the city.
Although academically successful, the division proved to be expensive.

In 1976 the departments were merged to form the Department of City
and Regional Planning and Sidney Saltzman, a computing specialist and
engineer, was elected chairman. Within the newly reunified and reorganized
Department of City and Regional Planning there remained a concentration
in environmental planning and physical design and a second concentration in
economic development at the community and regional level. More importantly,
a departmental culture evolved that accepted the legitimacy of diverse
approaches: theory building, analytical, descriptive, and codification work,
action-oriented professional practice and work with established institutions
as well as a strong commitment to social justice and social change. At that
point, some 160 students were in residence, and by the end of this period 700
graduate degrees had been conferred through the department.

CRP PROFILE
KERMIT C. PARSONS
Chair 1964–1969, 1970–1971
A planner with deep local and international the world. Among his clients were the
concerns, K.C. Parsons served the College University of the Philippines, the University
of Architecture, Art, and Planning for over of Puerto Rico, the University of Ife in
40 years, from 1957 until his retirement Nigeria, and the World Bank, for which he
in August 1999. He died just four months advised on agricultural markets in Mexico
later. His final work was the Green Cities and Korea.
Conference.
Parsons was also deeply involved in planning
As dean, Parsons helped establish the issues at home, both on campus and in the
architecture program in Washington and City of Ithaca. In the mid-1960s he was
to reunite planning studies, then under two among the designers of the urban renewal
departments, into the single Department plan for downtown Ithaca and in 1968 he
of City and Regional Planning. He was published The Cornell Campus: A History
also instrumental in starting the process to of Its Planning and Development, widely
bring the Clarence Stein letters to Cornell. regarded as a model for campus planning
Throughout his career Parsons served as a studies.
consultant to cities and universities around
ABOVE K.C. Parsons speaking at the Red Key Honor Society Calendar Benefit in Franklin Hall (now Tjaden) lecture theater, which hosted many
CRP speakers and events. Photo: Collection of John Reps.

CRP PROFILE
STUART W. STEIN
Chair 1969–1970 (Acting), 1971–1975
Stuart W. Stein graduated with a BA in become The Commons, a pedestrian mall.

architecture in 1952, a MA in city planning in He remained actively involved in numerous
1954 from MIT, and served as the principal elected and appointed positions, including
planner for the Rhode Island Development being chair of the New York State Board on
Council from 1954-1957. In 1957, he became Historic Preservation and of the Tompkins
a partner in Blair and Stein Associates, a County Legislature. Unlike many physical
planning consulting firm in Providence, RI, planners, who concern themselves mainly
Washington, DC, and Syracuse, NY, where with efficiency and attractive design, Stein
he worked until 1962 when he moved to has had a strong commitment to putting
Cornell. He retired in 1993. planning decisions in a broader context—a
commitment that Cornell planners still hold.
Coming to Ithaca did not mean sinking into “Cities are planned and designed to carry
quiet small town life. The first year he was out social and economic functions. That’s
asked by the City Planning Board to come why I’ve always been more interested in
up with a way to save the city’s decaying neighborhoods, towns, villages, and cities as
downtown. He and three other planning opposed to regions or countries.”
professors developed a plan for what was to
ABOVE Stuart (Stu) Stein. Photographer unknown.

CRP PROFILE
BARCLAY JONES
Chair 1971–1974
A faculty member at Cornell from 1961, planning. He was recognized as an authority

Barclay Jones was instrumental in the on earthquake damage prevention and wrote
growth of the graduate programs in City prolifically on the subject.
and Regional Planning and in Historic
Preservation Planning. He received the Barclay Jones’s commitment to his students
Distinguished Planning Educator Award was fabled, as was his collection of bow
from the Association of Collegiate Schools ties. It is estimated that he served as chair
of Planning. for over one-third of all the students
who received doctoral degrees in city
In his professional career, Jones was a and regional planning from Cornell, in
sought-after consultant, working for addition to working with other graduate and
municipalities throughout the Northeast undergraduate students. He was known to
and for governments around the world. He meet with students at all hours of the day,
also worked with the United Nations and granting each student personal and focused
the U.S. State Department. Jones published attention.
over 50 articles on issues ranging from city
planning to historic preservation to disaster
ABOVE Barclay Jones. Photo: Collection of Michael Tomlan.

CRP PROFILE
SIDNEY SALTZMAN
Chair 1975–1982
Sid Saltzman’s research interests focus necessarily because they will use them
on regional modeling, regional science, in their own professional and research
economic development, and public policy work but because they will need to protect
analysis in both the United States and themselves (and their clients) from the
abroad. Saltzman has taught, lectured, and/ intentional and/or unintentional incorrect
or consulted in various countries, and co- use of these techniques by others. In terms
organized major conferences and workshops of my own research and professional work,
on energy planning, large-scale social the use of quantitative methods is often fun
science models, regional science, and spatial and may provide new insights into issues
econometrics. that may not be obtained any other way.
(On the other hand, if applied incorrectly,
As Saltzman has remarked, “I’ve focused their use may be worse than no such formal
my teaching and research on the application analysis.) Of course, a similar and correct
of quantitative methods for a variety of argument can be made for teaching other
reasons. I believe all students should planning methods (e.g., design, expository
develop a basic understanding of how to writing, etc.) and these should be treated in a
use various quantitative techniques not parallel manner in the curriculum.”
ABOVE Sid Saltzman. Photo: William Staffeld.

Cornell’s
Evolving
Programs
In the late 1970s and 1980s three vital additions to the
graduate curriculum emerged—the programs in historic
preservation, regional science, and international studies—
as well as the undergraduate program in urban and regional
studies. By the 1990s a graduate program in real estate was
also added. In addition to existing joint degree programs with
landscape architecture and architecture and law, joint degree
programs with real estate and public administration were
introduced. A master’s international program in partnership
with the Peace Corps was also established, allowing MRP
students an opportunity to combine a Cornell learning
experience with a hands-on Peace Corps community building
experience. Joint faculty appointments also continued to be
made. Earlier appointments had been with sociology, rural
sociology, architecture, women’s studies, and landscape
architecture, and in the 2000s with programs on Asian
American studies and Latino studies.
OPPOSITE As part of a spring break field trip in CRP395, with instructor

George Franz, students worked in New Orleans conducting a residents’
survey, preparing a property conditions inventory, and developing recom-
mendations for park and recreation facilities, transportation, housing, and
community gardens for ACORN Housing Division. Photo: Bob Barker,
Cornell University Photography.
Cornell's Evolving Programs 39

Historic Preservation
In 1962 Cornell began offering historic preservation courses and

in 1970 it became a minor concentration. The program became
a major concentration in 1975. Stephen Jacobs, professor of
architecture in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning and
first director of the program, along with Professor Barclay Jones,
developed the early courses. Professor Ian Stewart served as the
next director from 1978 until 1988, when current director, Michael
Tomlan, assumed the position.
Cornell was one of the first institutions in the country to offer

preservation courses and continues to be an international leader in ABOVE Ian Stewart, director
the field. Graduates with a master’s degree in historic preservation of the Historic Preservation
Program from 1978–1988 and
planning work in state historic preservation offices, local planning dean of AAP, 1983–1984. Photo:
agencies, landmark commissions, and private architectural and Collection of the Department of
City and Regional Planning.
restoration firms. They also teach and perform research in the field.
Degrees have been awarded to almost 200 students. OPPOSITE TOP Building
materials conservation field
trip to Alfred and Angelica, NY,
visiting an early 19th century
nine-sided barn; instructor
Jeffrey Chusid. Photo: Jeffrey
Chusid.
OPPOSITE BOTTOM Historic

preservation work weekend
in Shelburne, NY, in Sullivan
County. The project was the
Shelburne Playhouse. Photo:
Collection of the Historic
Preservation Program.

CRP PROFILE
MICHAEL TOMLAN
Michael Tomlan is a historic preservation educator who teaches the

history of urban development, documentation techniques, problems
in contemporary preservation planning practice, and museum
planning and development. Coming to the department in 1979
as an instructor, Professor Tomlan directs the graduate program
in historic preservation planning and Cornell’s Clarence S. Stein
Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies.
Since 1992, Professor Tomlan has been president of Historic Urban

Plans, Inc., an Ithaca-based business. In 2009 he received
the James Marston Fitch Award for lifetime achievement in
preservation education. ABOVE Michael Tomlan leading
CRP orientation tour in fall 2009.
Photo: William Staffeld.
BELOW Cover of Michael

Tomlan’s book, Tinged With Gold:
Hop Culture in the United States.
Athens: University of Georgia
Press, 1992.

CRP PROFILE
WALTER ISARD
Walter Isard, the founder and guiding spirit behind the two
academic disciplines of regional science and peace studies, is a
leading authority in regional economics and development, peace
economics, and science. Isard founded the Regional Science
Association, now with some 2,000 members and 30 international
sections, and launched the Journal of Regional Science, the flagship
journal in the field. In the early 1960s he founded the Peace
Science Society to bring rigorous analytical tools to the study of
international conflicts and founded the Journal of Peace Science,
later renamed Conflict Management and Peace Science.
ABOVE Walter Isard. Photo:
AAP Communications. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, as well as a fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Isard has published
BELOW Cover of Walter Isard’s
book titled, History of Regional prolifically, authoring hundreds of articles, reports, and book
Science and the Regional Science chapters, including over two dozen edited and authored books.
Association International: the Be-
ginnings and Early History. Berlin:
Springer, 2003. This is the most
recent in a list of over two dozen
texts, edited or authored alone or
with colleagues, since Isard’s first
book published in 1952.

Regional Science
In 1972 professors Stanislaw Czamanski, Walter Isard, Barclay

Jones, and Sid Saltzman organized the graduate program in regional
science under the administrative auspices of the department.
Professor Iwan Azis has taught in regional science since 1992 and
directs the graduate program.
ABOVE Matthew (Matt)
Regional science is a field in which diverse combinations of Drennan with students.
analytical and empirical research methods are brought to bear Photographer unknown.
in the study of socioeconomic problems with a prominent

OPPOSITE Stanislaw (Stan)
regional or spatial character, often in the support of planning Czamanski. Photo: AAP
and policy analysis. Among other subjects, regional scientists Communications.
study interindustry trade, the environment and natural resource BELOW Cover of seminal text
use, industrial location, migration and demographic change, titled, Methods of Interregional
and Regional Analysis, edited by
transportation and land use, spatial agglomeration and segregation
Walter Isard, Iwan Azis, Matt
of activities, and methodological challenges posed by the statistical Drennan, Ronald Miller, Sid
analysis of spatial data. The graduate program in regional science, Saltzman, and Erik Thorbecke.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.
which has conferred more than 50 doctorates and 70 master’s
degrees, is presently the only such degree-conferring program
in the United States.

International Studies in Planning
In the late 1960s growing interest in community, metropolitan, and national

planning within developing countries, along with an escalating interest in
comparative studies of human settlement and urban policymaking among
domestic scholars, led to the formation of International Studies in Planning,
which is both a concentration within CRP and a program of the Mario
Einaudi Center for International Studies. An early emphasis on international
development planning with courses on project planning, urbanization, and
development theory broadened starting in the 1980s to include coursework and
research on participatory planning with a particular emphasis on gendered and
other effects, the role of NGOs and other community-based actors, as well as an
increasing focus on understanding the environmental, economic, political, and
social consequences of the current urban transformation. The program provides
funding for students to travel and conduct research in various contexts.
Cornell’s International Studies in Planning (ISP) program represents one of the

nation’s first and most highly regarded graduate planning programs designed
to train future generations of international development policymakers, urban
planners, researchers, and critics. The global reputation of this program,
supplemented by the success of its graduates, brought a significant number
of international graduate students to the department long before most
other schools experienced this phenomenon. While the presence of these
international students continues to make a critical contribution to enhancing
CRP’s students’ awareness of diverse global contexts, more recently a faculty
effort to incorporate an international dimension into the core curriculum has
been instrumental in strengthening CRP’s tradition as one of the only planning
departments that does not create thematic silos within its MRP program.

LEFT Poster announcing evening seminar with speakers Ignacio
Armillas of UN-Habitat, architect Jonathan Ferrari, and Cornell
English professor Dagmawi Woubshet. Seminar hosted by David
Driskell, Jeremy Foster, and Neema Kudva. Poster design: Prasad
Khanolkar and David Driskell.
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TOP Students in the Urban Africa Studio presenting to community

partners in Nairobi, Kenya. The studio included students in planning,
architecture, landscape architecture, and engineering; instructors
David Driskell and Jeremy Foster. Photo: Jeremy Foster.
BOTTOM Images from Ashley Russell’s (MRP ’06) work on economic

development and cultural change given the state’s partnership with
private entrepreneurs for redevelopment in the historic Bai small town
of Xizhou, in southwest China. Built by a wealthy Nationalist coal
merchant in the 1930s, the sprawling yet deteriorating Dong Family
Mansion was leased in 2000 by a local orchid grower with grand plans
for a new brand of ‘authentic’ restoration to create tourism revenue;
plans that were constrained by a lack of both power and resources.
Photos: Ashley Russell.
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TOP Barbara Lynch (center), director of ISP from 1996 to 2003 and
director of the URS program from 2003 to 2005, with students in her
office. Photo: William Staffeld.
BOTTOM Images from CRP doctoral student Sudeshna Mitra’s

field work. Mitra is studying real estate development on the outskirts
of two Indian cities. The image on the right shows McMansions in
Cyberabad, Hyderabad’s iconic IT subcity of campuses, golf courses,
shopping malls, and gated communities, while the image on the left
is of Rajarhat, a new high-end township with specialty hospitals,
malls, and IT campuses promoted by the West Bengal State Housing
Department in Kolkata. Photos: Sudeshna Mitra.

Zulu Boys soccer club led a photo tour of Kibera
for students in the Growing Up in Nairobi project;
instructor David Driskell. Photo: David Driskell.

CRP PROFILE
LOURDES BENERÍA
The First Female Tenured Faculty Member
Lourdes Benería, an economist, joined include several books (most recently, Gender,
CRP in 1987 in a joint appointment with Development, and Globalization: Economics as
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies if All People Mattered), six coedited volumes
(FGSS, previously Women’s Studies). While with colleagues, and many articles in
Dorothy Nelkin, a professor of sociology journals, and the popular press.
who made her home in Science and
Technology Studies taught several courses Parallel to her academic work, Benería has
in the department in the 1970s, Benería was been involved in activities of international
the first woman tenured in CRP. At Cornell, organizations such as the International
she has directed the Latin American Studies Labor Organization (ILO), United Nations
Program, the Gender and Global Change Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM),
program, and the ISP program at various and the United Nations Development
times. Her work and multiple publications Programme (UNDP). She has also
have focused on issues related to labor collaborated with activist organizations and
and the informal economy, women’s work, international solidarity groups. Benería is
gender and development, globalization, recipient of the Narcis Monturiol Award
the feminization of migration, and Latin given by the Catalan government for her
American development. Her publications contribution to the social sciences.
ABOVE Lourdes Benería with student. Photo: William Staffeld

Clockwise from top left
1 Sobhagya Komarakul from

Thailand, the first woman to
graduate from the MRP program
in 1956. Photo: Collection of
the Kroch Archives, Cornell
University.
2 Doctoral student Lesli Hoey in

2010 with community members
in a Bolivian highland town
where she is researching local
level implementation of Bolivia’s
Zero Malnutrition Program.
1 2 Photo: Collection of Lesli Hoey.
3 Lourdes Benería and Marcela

González Rivas with students
during a field trip to UN
Headquarters in New York City.
Photo: Collection of Marcela
González Rivas .
4 MRP student discussing

her poster on modernization
processes and cities with a
colleague. Photo: Ann Forsyth.
5 Doctoral student Ruth

Yabes, c. 1985–1986, with staff
from the National Irrigation
Administration Office of the
Ilocos Norte Irrigation Project
at the construction site of the
Solsona Dam, northern Luzon
island, Philippines. Yabes
was studying a participatory
planning project that sought
to involve local farmers in the
design and construction of
a regional irrigation project.
Photo: Collection of Ruth Yabes.
3
5 4

Urban and Regional Studies
The URS program began in 1981 as a two-year interdisciplinary

CRP sponsored major for juniors and seniors. In 1985 CRP began
planning to transform the two-year Urban and Regional Studies
(URS) major into a four-year major, in which students would be
admitted as freshmen. The faculty, with the college, made a very
specific and clear decision to develop this major along the lines of
Cornell’s best known liberal arts majors in the College of Arts and
Sciences.
The first freshmen joined the program in the fall of 1987. URS uses
urban studies as a lens for a liberal arts, nonprofessional degree. ABOVE Illustration from
Students explore how social and economic forces shape and change neighborhood analysis of
cities, what these changes mean for people in their daily lives, and Quadraro for the Rome
Neighborhood Workshop;
are introduced to the methods used to study cities and regions. instructors Mildred Warner and
Students are also encouraged to take up summer internships, study Gregory Smith, 2010. Illustration:
Nate Baker, Sarina Cirit, Mia
in the Cornell in Washington program, and to study abroad as they Ficerai, and Ryan Richards.
learn how citizens, community groups, planners, and policymakers
can work together to make productive, safe, lively, and livable OPPOSITE TOP URS students
at an exhibition of Cornell Urban
places. The program’s small size (about 25 graduates each year) Scholars Program curated by
encourages close working relationships with faculty. Julie McIntyre (far right). Photo:
William Staffeld.
OPPOSITE BOTTOM
URS student conversing with
community members at a
mosque in India during a field
trip organized by MOAAP,
the Minority Organization of
Architecture, Art, and Planning
students, which includes
undergraduates from across the
college; instructor Jeffrey Chusid.
Photo: Jeffrey Chusid.

Real Estate
Also affiliated with the department is Cornell’s Program in Real OPPOSITE TOP Robert (Bob)
Abrams, founder of the Program
Estate. In this two-year interdisciplinary graduate program, started in Real Estate at Cornell. Photo:
in the 1990s, students take courses across various fields including Collection of Program in Real
Estate.
city and regional planning, business, and hotel administration.
The program is at once comprehensive, specialized, and flexible. A OPPOSITE BOTTOM LEFT
comprehensive required core insures that students understand real Students enjoy a light moment
with guest speaker Richard
estate from a variety of perspectives—developer, owner, investor, Baker, president/CEO of
financier, operator, and user—and from the discipline foundations— National Realty & Development
Corp., during the weekly Real
architecture, construction management, development, finance, Estate Industry seminar. Photo:
investment and deal structuring, law, transactions, property Collection of Program in Real
management, urban economics and planning—that apply in the Estate.
industry. There are several concentrations from which to choose, OPPOSITE BOTTOM RIGHT
including sustainable development, and the recently instituted Pike Oliver, lecturer in real estate.
Photo: Collection of Program in
graduate minor in real estate. The result is broad, professionally Real Estate.
educated graduates equipped to provide leadership across the real
estate industry. BELOW David Funk, director
of the Program in Real Estate.

CRP in
the World
Striving to find a balance given the productive tension between
professional practice and public service, and academic
research and teaching has marked CRP’s engagement with
the world. Since the field workshops of early years, planning
students have been engaged in work worldwide through
classes, internships, field trips, and applied research. Many
bridge between departments such as the activities of the
recently formed student-led outreach group DesignConnect,
the pro bono development consulting group Cornell Global
Solutions, or the teams that compete in various competitions
including the Urban Land Institute’s Gerald D. Hines Student
Urban Design Competition.
Department faculty lead a number of ongoing research and

outreach projects including: Lourdes Benería’s comparative
study of policies with an emphasis on Spain and Latin America
to balance family and labor market work; Pierre Clavel’s
Progressive Cities Archives Project, profiling progressive
mayors from across the United States; the Creative Economy
Project by Susan Christopherson; the Regional Infrastructure
and Air Quality Planning Project led by Kieran Donaghy; the
national award-winning Design for Health Project led by Ann
Forsyth; Neema Kudva’s small cities project in India and East
Africa; Project Planning workshops, most recently in Haiti, led
by David Lewis; Rolf Pendall’s Building Regional Resilience
Project; numerous historic preservation initiatives in Asia
led by Michael Tomlan, Jeff Chusid, and Thomas Hahn; and
the national Linking Economic Development and Child Care
Research Project, directed by Mildred Warner.
Here we highlight some of the places and realms where CRP

students and faculty have engaged over the years.
OPPOSITE Zoe Daniels, then country director of Mercy Corps, Uganda, MRP student Akosua Asare, and
Godfrey Kayongo from local NGO partner, KCCC, working on a livelihood survey in Kampala. The survey
was part of a year-long project, which included coursework and summer research internships with Mercy
Corps in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Zimbabwe; instructor Neema Kudva with assistance from Nick McDonald,
Mercy Corps, Portland, OR, 2007. Photo: Andrew Rumbach.
CRP in the World 61

CRP PROFILE
SUSAN CHRISTOPHERSON
First Woman to be Promoted to Full Professor in CRP
Susan Christopherson, J. Thomas Clark oriented projects. Her international research

Professor in the Department of City and includes studies in Canada, Mexico, China,
Regional Planning, came to Cornell in 1987. Germany, and Jordan as well as multicountry
With Margaret Wilder and Lourdes Benería, studies. She has held several distinguished
Susan Christopherson brought the number fellow positions and has been honored for
of tenured and tenure-track women in the her work. Her book, Remaking Regional
department in the late 1980s to three. She Economies: Power, Labor, and Firm Strate-
was also the first woman to be promoted to gies in the Knowledge Economy (with Jennifer
full professor from within the department. Clark, 2007) focuses on barriers to regional
economic development in the U.S. economy
Christopherson is an economic geographer and was awarded the 2009 Best Book Award
with a Berkeley PhD whose research and by the Regional Studies Association.
teaching focus on economic and social poli-
cy, economic development, urban labor mar-
kets, and the media industries. Her research
includes both international and U.S. policy-
ABOVE Susan Christopherson. Photo: William Staffeld.

CRP PROFILE
WILLIAM W. GOLDSMITH
Chair 1982–1988, 2007–2008
In 1967, after a year of teaching at the a book on prospects for better urban policy.
University of Puerto Rico and as he was Goldsmith chaired the department in the
finishing his PhD in the department under 1980s and again in 2007–2008.
Barclay Jones, William W. Goldsmith began
teaching at Cornell. He was hired to teach Bill’s happiest moments with colleagues and
and conduct research on international students at Cornell’s CRP include a mix of
planning, matters of race and ethnicity, domestic and international involvements:
residential segregation, urbanization, and teaching at the new Puerto Rico program
regional development in the United States in 1966; the founding of the International
and Latin America. His book Separate Studies in Planning program (ISP) in 1970;
Societies: Poverty and Inequality in U.S. setting up Planners Network; recruiting
Cities, with Edward Blakely won the Paul three women to the faculty in the 1980s;
Davidoff Award from the Association of directing the URS program and the Cornell
Collegiate Schools of Planning in 1993 in Rome program; and establishing the
and has just been published in its second Brazilian Cities program.
substantively revised edition; forthcoming is
ABOVE William (Bill) Goldsmith in Brazil. Photo: Rosie Hoyem.
CRP in the World 63

Canada
Where
We Are
Cornell graduates continue to make
their mark on the world, through
positions in government, nonprofit
agencies, international organizations,
universities, and the private sector in
well over 70 countries. On the following
two pages are a selection of recent
published works by Cornell alumni.
A larger selection of publications by
alumni and faculty is available at
http://www.aap.cornell.edu/crp/75/.
United States of America

South
Asia
Latin America &

Caribbean
East Asia
Africa
Southeast
Asia
Mexico &
Central
America Middle
East
Western Europe
U.K.
Eastern
Europe &
Central
Asia
Australia
& Oceania
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CRP in New York City
The New York City program for the college, which included a CRP component, was
originally run by K.C. Parsons and Stuart Stein in the 1960s and 1970s with a grant
obtained by Dean Kelly. The program was revived in the mid-2000s by Dean Mostafavi.
Departmental activities continue today. In the early years, CRP students worked summer
internships in NYC agencies coupled with an evening class each week in the city. In
later years Professor Roger Trancik, who had a joint appointment in CRP and landscape
architecture taught planning studios in New York, while Ann-Margaret Esnard conducted
Environmental Justice and GIS workshops in collaboration with community organizations
in the South Bronx, Harlem, and the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ.
Three recent programs are illustrative of CRP’s continued engagement with NYC. A
Cornell-wide program based in CRP, the Cornell Urban Scholars Program (CUSP), ran
from 2002 to 2009 and was dedicated to supporting the efforts of New York City’s most
innovative nonprofit organizations and local government agencies to eliminate the
fundamental causes of poverty. Each year 25 to 30 students participated in a preparation
class and summer internship; later graduate student research fellows were added. The
Growing Up in New York City (GUiNYC) program, also Cornell-wide but based in CRP,
ran from 2005 to 2007. Along with coursework in CRP, the program included summer
internships for select undergraduate and graduate students with five community-based
nonprofits and schools that work with children and youth in low-income, immigrant
neighborhoods. GUiNYC partnered with the organizations to use participatory action
research tools to encourage and support young people to make significant changes in their
neighborhoods. The Cornell Urban Mentorship Initiative (CUMI), started in 2007, is a
year-long, long distance mentorship program that combines online communication with
face-to-face interaction. CUMI matches 30 Cornell undergraduate students with 30 eighth
graders from the Urban Assembly School for the Urban Environment (UE) in Bedford
Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
OPPOSITE TOP Students in the Cornell Urban Scholars Program (CUSP) tour the OPPOSITE BOTTOM CUSP orientation activity in
city with MRP alumnus Bob Balder. Photo: Collection of the Department of City and AAP NYC space. Photo: Ann Forsyth.
Regional Planning.

CRP in the World 69
Clockwise from top left
1 Arturo Sanchez taking MRP students on a spring

field trip through Jackson Heights in Queens, NY.
Photo: Ann Turcotte.
2 Students meeting with community leaders

from the Ironbound Community Corporation in
Newark, NJ. They were part of an environmental
justice/GIS workshop that brought students
from AAP, engineering, natural resources, and
the biological sciences together with a group of
community partners in the South Bronx, Harlem,
and New Jersey; instructor Ann-Margaret Esnard.
Photo: Collection of Ann- Margaret Esnard.
3 Illustration from the Urban Systems Studio:

Designing Cities in the Electronic Age; instructor
Roger Trancik. Illustration: Zac and Zlata.
4 Youth participants from the Jackson Heights

1
group (with CRP student participants standing
on right) presenting at the all-site meeting of 6
the Growing Up in NYC (GUiNYC) program at
the Lower East Side site in Manhattan. GUiNYC
brought together Cornell students and five
community partners in Harlem, the Bronx,
Manhattan, and Queens, to support young
people in making significant changes in their
neighborhoods; instructor David Driskell.
Photo: David Driskell.
5 Graffiti image painted by GUiNYC youth

participants. Photo: David Driskell.
6 Illustration from the Urban Systems Studio:

Designing Cities in the Electronic Age; instructor
Roger Trancik. Illustration: Marquared and
Hegedis.

2
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CRP in Upstate New York
OPPOSITE TOP LEFT Upstate New York is CRP’s natural setting. Over the years faculty
Illustration from study on
Marcellus Shale Risk Assessment have been centrally involved in Ithaca and the region, both through
in Schuyler County, NY; shorter-term research projects and course-based commitments,
instructor Stephan Schmidt.
Illustration: Kevin Dowd.
and through longer-term professional and political involvements,
as the text of this book continually notes. Students are involved
OPPOSITE TOP RIGHT as researchers, interns, field workers, and through coursework,
Sherene Baugher working on
Inlet Valley archaeology dig particularly in workshops in various cities including Ithaca, Lansing,
excavation of AD750 Indian site. the Village of Cayuga Heights, Utica, Binghamton, and more.
Photo: Collection of Sherene
Baugher.
Recent longer-term programs include the Rochester Project, which
OPPOSITE BOTTOM Working included various community-based, economic development and
with a student at the Beverly J.
Martin Elementary School in workforce initiatives with funding from the city of Rochester, the
Ithaca on ideas for playground Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Labor.
design in a class on action
research with urban children and
Five department faculty as well as more than 50 students at the
youth; instructor David Driskell. undergraduate and graduate levels were involved in this project.
Photo: Neema Kudva. Similarly, the Liberty Project involved the creation of an economic
development plan using participatory methods for this small city
in the Catskills, with funding support from various local
entrepreneurs and businesses. More recently, CRP faculty and
adjunct lecturers have been involved in doing research and
conducting community workshops to address the Marcellus Shale
controversy in Tompkins County.
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CRP in Brazil CRP in Puerto Rico
CRP’s association with planning in Brazil In the 1960s, with the aid of a Ford
is deep and long-standing. In the 1950s Foundation grant, CRP joined forces with
students took courses from Professor Cornell PhD Salvador Padilla to invent one
Don Belcher in civil engineering and later of Latin America’s most innovative graduate
accompanied Belcher on the air-photo schools of planning at the University of
team that selected the site for the new city Puerto Rico. A group of CRP graduate
of Brasilia. Through the 1970s, during the students and faculty taught at UPR as the
depth of the military dictatorship, more program developed, and a sizeable group of
than two dozen Brazilians came to Cornell Puerto Rican students took PhDs at Cornell.
for MRP, MPS, and PhD degrees with The collaboration continues informally.
CRP as their major or minor field. These
graduates include many top government
officials, university professors, and leading LEFT Fred Edmundson likely
working on site selection for
planners. In the early 1980s one of them, Brasilia, a project that also
Antonio Dantas invited Bill Goldsmith to involved Tom Mackesey. Photo:
teach at the University of Brasilia. Later, Cornell University Archives.
a grant from the U.S. Department of OPPOSITE TOP Students in the

Education and the Brazilian counterpart Brazilian Cities Summer program
at the favela Rio das Pedras in
CAPES funded a five-year faculty exchange Rio de Janeiro; instructors Bill
agreement with the planning department at Goldsmith and Razack Karriem.
the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In Photo: Carly Fox.
the early 2000s, CRP and FURJ established OPPOSITE BOTTOM Meeting
the Brazilian Cities Summer program. about work in Puerto Rico.
Participants include from left to
Numerous U.S. students have studied in right Tom Cranfield, John Reps,
Brazil and students continue to travel in both K.C. Parsons, Jamie Benítez
directions today. (chancellor of the University of
Puerto Rico), Burnham Kelly,
and Morris Wells. Photo: Cornell
University Archives.

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CRP in Rome
OPPOSITE TOP Illustration The AAP Cornell in Rome program opened in fall 1986 and CRP
from final report prepared by stu-
dents in the Rome Neighborhood joined in 1988. The purpose of the program was to provide MRP
Workshop showing case neigh- students with internationally oriented internships, mainly with
borhood locations, spring 2008;
instructors Neema Kudva,
UN agencies, including the very large FAO and WFP offices in
Gregory Smith, and David Rome. As the URS program grew, however, URS enrollments
Driskell. Illustration: Rosie came to dominate the program and courses on the European city,
Hoyem and Neema Kudva.
Italian regional development, and neighborhood workshops in
OPPOSITE BOTTOM Students Rome, along with extensive field trips to understand planning and
on a field trip to Genoa led by
Professor Marco Cremaschi,
policymaking in the Italian context, were introduced. Since the late
visiting faculty (far left). Field 1990s, between 15 and 22 URS students and 2 to 5 graduate students
trips to various parts of Italy are have enrolled each spring and work out of the Palazzo Lazzaroni,
an important part of the semes-
ter’s experience. Students meet a handsome restored 17th century palazzo in Rome’s historic
professionals, community orga- center. Graduate student placements, especially for those with
nizers, administrators, activists,
and local government officials,
language skills, now include internships in city planning agencies,
as well as hearing from notable European think tanks, and private organizations. Thirteen members
architects, historians, and artists of the CRP faculty have taught in Rome, each bringing their own
to better understand Italian
urban planning and policymak- perspective to the program and course offerings, as have five visiting
ing. Photo: Mildred Warner. professors from Cornell departments and other universities.
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CRP in New Orleans
The devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 shook the

United States in many ways. Environmental justice, race/class
struggles, and a strong sense of distrust towards government
agencies were some of the issues raised by this tragic disaster. As
a response to this complicated phenomenon, a group of planning
students decided to make an attempt to disentangle these issues
and obtain a deeper understanding of the city of New Orleans.
This movement resulted in a collective reading course directed by
Professor Ken Reardon in the later half of the fall 2005 semester.
Late in the summer of 2006, CRP students began drafting a pro-

posal to offer comprehensive recovery planning services to the city’s
9th Ward. Working collaboratively with ACORN and students and
faculty from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and
Columbia University’s Earth Institute, the students outlined a pro-
cess by which they could prepare a comprehensive redevelopment
plan. Weeks later, in a national competition managed by the New
Orleans Community Support and the Rockefeller Foundations,
CRP’s proposal emerged as one of 16 chosen from a pool of 64
architecture, planning, and engineering firms.
The CRP team was assigned to work with residents, busines-

spersons, institutional leaders, and elected officials from the
city’s 9th Ward, where more than 65,000 people had lived prior
to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

ABOVE Illustration highlighting In the fall of 2006, more than 80 CRP students—undergraduate
the location of the 9th Ward in
New Orleans. and graduate, in an urban studies course, a neighborhood planning
workshop, and an urban design studio—began what came to be
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called The People’s Plan for Overcoming the Hurricane Katrina Blues:
TOP Students helping with A Comprehensive Strategy for Building a More Vibrant, Sustainable,
clean up in the 9th Ward on and Equitable 9th Ward (2007).
their first visit to New Orleans
after Hurricane Katrina. Photo:
Samuel Bell, New Orleans. The semester’s highlight was a deeply moving and instructive
BOTTOM Students with ACORN
five-day trip to New Orleans. The findings were striking. The
members during clean up in overwhelming majority of buildings in storm-affected areas of the
the 9th Ward. Photo: Samuel Bell, 9th Ward were structurally sound and could be cost-effectively
New Orleans.
rehabilitated. In addition, many more residents than anyone had
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TOP Working on a property
their neighborhoods. These findings framed the People’s Plan.
conditions inventory.
Photo: Bob Barker, Cornell More than 10 Cornell faculty have been involved with New Orleans
University Photography.
projects. Cornell has continued its involvement through several
BOTTOM Community meeting workshops, class projects, and internships.
in spring 2006 where students
presented findings from their
preliminary research and field
work on the 9th Ward and the
St. Roch market.
Photo: Jeffrey Chusid.
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CRP in Public Office
As well as engaging in public service, a number of CRP faculty and

graduates have held elected office. A sampling includes:
• Elected members of the Tompkins County Legislature: Carol

Chock, Michael Koplinka-Loehr (chair), Tim Joseph (chair),
Barbara Blanchard, plus CRP faculty members Richard Booth
and Stuart Stein, who also became chair during his term in office.
• CRP graduate Susan Blumenthal and faculty members Richard

Booth and Stuart Stein were also elected members of the Ithaca
City Council.
• José Serra (minor in CRP), governor of the state of São Paulo,

formerly mayor of São Paulo, run-off candidate for president of
Brazil, and former Minister of health attended Cornell while in
forced exile during military dictatorship.
• Gabrielle Giffords was elected to the Arizona legislature from

2000–2005 and subsequently to the U.S. Congress.

CRP PROFILE
RICHARD BOOTH
Chair 1991–1994
Richard Booth has taught law in CRP since serves as a Commissioner on the New York
1977. Referring to himself as “a political State Adirondack Park Agency, pursuant
junkie,” Booth first ran for Common Council to an appointment by the governor. He
because he was interested in development was elected to two four-year terms on the
issues in the Collegetown area. But his Tompkins County Legislature and served
concerns have grown with experience: there from 2002 to late 2007, when he
“Now I’m much more interested in the resigned to take his appointed seat on the
overall management of the city—in the Adirondack Park Agency.
pressures, the resources, and the divergent
views on what should be done.” He served as a member of the NYS Low-
Level Radioactive Waste Siting Commission
Booth’s long involvement in political issues from 1991 to 1995, a position he described as
began early. “I grew up in a family in which “highly political and terribly controversial.”
the public service ethic was strong,” he In addition, he was elected alderperson on
said. Before coming to Cornell, he was an the City of Ithaca’s Common Council in
attorney for the New York State Adirondack 1985 and served for a decade, including six
Park Agency and for the NYS Department years as chairperson of the city’s Budget and
of Environmental Conservation. Booth Administration Committee.
ABOVE Richard (Dick) Booth. Photo: William Staffeld.
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Workshops, Field Work, and Field Trips
Studios were an important part of Cornell’s early curriculum. From OPPOSITE Working with a
GUiNYC participant at the
the 1960s through the early 1990s, Stuart Stein built several field citywide group planning session.
work credit courses for the graduate programs. The basic field work Photo: David Driskell.
course for MRP had students work directly with real clients on Page 86
projects that clients framed. This approach was expanded to include
three more special courses using the same approach: the Built- TOP Departmental spring field
trips to cities are an annual
Environment Education Team (partially funded by the NEA, and affair and students hear from
run by Tania Werbizky); the Small Town Workshop run by Norman local government officials,
staff at international agencies,
Mintz; and the Historic Preservation Planning Workshop (both nonprofits, and community
partially funded by the NYS Council on the Arts). The field work groups, as well as planners,
and workshop tradition continues to be strong, and the department preservationists, and activists.
Pictured here is preservation
offers four to six field-based workshops dealing with a variety of planner Steve Calcott (MA ’89)
thematic issues every year. In addition, graduate students are speaking with students on a
field trip to Washington, DC.
liberally funded through travel research grants and other Cornell Photo: Jeffrey Chusid.
programs and many of them get support through CRP’s cooperative
internship program. BOTTOM Brad Olson, former
senior lecturer in real estate,
leading a field trip in Ithaca
Over the years CRP has also expanded field trips, workdays, and for a course on residential
development. Photo: Collection
programs away—including short annual trips sponsored by the of Program of Real Estate.
department, the preservation program, and various student groups—
as well as larger programs such as the summer program in Brazil, Page 87
the winter program in Panama, short-term courses, and coordinated TOP Pierre Clavel with CRP509
internship programs with NGOs. CRP has become well-known for class in Newark, New Jersey,
2008. Photo: Collection of Pierre
courses and workshops in community and economic development Clavel.
planning that integrate action-based research with a progressive
political orientation. This approach emphasizes commitment to BOTTOM Youth participants
preparing mural at Jackson
serve established institutions in planning and policy while remaining Heights site of GUiNYC.
involved with and advocating for social justice and social change. Photo: David Driskell.
These commitments have a polarizing potential but reflect the

difficulties of practicing planning in deeply inequitable societies.

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CRP in the World 87
Student Organizations and
Department Governance
An important part of the CRP experience are its vibrant student-

led organizations. While they may be more about establishing
links and strengthening bonds inside the department and across
Cornell, these organizations serve additional functions. The main
organizations for the graduate and undergraduate student bodies,
the Organization of Cornell Planners (OCP) and the Organization
ABOVE In spring 1995 a group
for Urban and Regional Studies (OURS) interface with faculty, of students decided that CRP
organize field trips to nearby cities, and more. would participate in the annual
ritual of Dragon Day (when the
engineers seek to vanquish the
Currently there are three professionally oriented organizations. dragon made by the architects)
The International Planning Students Organization (IPSO) reaches by offering a peacemaking
effort in the form of floating
out to other development and planning students across campus, sky sheep. The helium filled
establishes relations with alumni and practitioners in a variety of sheep accompanied by chanting
fields across the world, and supports various ISP initiatives. The students were inspired by a
quote attributed to Sir Patrick
Preservation Studies Student Organization (PSSO) organizes social Geddes, “Sheep Eat Grass,”
and networking events, advocates for preservation on campus, which was interpreted as a
symbol for planners working in
and maintains contact with program alumni. The Cornell Design place to negotiate conflict given
and Planning Group (CDPG) and its social entrepreneurship wing, a particular context. Needless
DesignConnect, focuses on bringing together students in the to say the planner’s intervention
only created additional conflict!
design and built environment disciplines—planning, architecture, Photo and caption text: Matthew
landscape, design and environmental analysis, engineering, and Zook (MRP ’95).
real estate—from across Cornell.
Equally important are organizations rooted in particular identities.

The Women’s Planning Forum has been instrumental in bringing
women faculty and students together, to raise awareness of a host of
issues that still affect women in the workplace, and to build strong

Page 90 ties between the department’s women graduates. Planning Students
Posters announcing events for Diversity (PSD) and MOAAP (a college-wide minority student’s
organized by various student organization in which URS students are active) are both dedicated to
groups over the years. Photo:
Collection of Department of City
providing a safe and supportive environment to minority students
and Regional Planning student so they can make the most of their Cornell experience and life
groups. beyond.
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The department-based student organizations are centrally involved
TOP The college’s diversity
director for a number of years,
in departmental governance. Their representatives attend faculty
Leon Lawrence, with students. meetings, provide leadership at the annual Town Hall meetings that
Photo: William Staffeld. are important in setting the department’s course, and are actively
BOTTOM Marcella Gonzalez involved in various departmental committees as well as faculty
Rivas (center), Stephan Schmidt searches. Learning to work collaboratively within a committee is an
(left), and MRP students at 2010
Town Hall meeting. Photo: Ann
important part of the CRP experience—and planning worldwide.
Forsyth.
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CRP in the World 91
5
Transforming Ideas
Divergent faculty interests, expertise, and engagement are
held together by four common commitments that through
faculty teaching and research over time, have transformed
the department and its contributions to planning. Central
among these are the department’s articulation of progressive
planning practice, its understanding of physical planning as
located within and acting on a broader social context, its close
attention to various analytical traditions, and all this while
acknowledging the diverse global contexts within which
we live and work.
Pierre Clavel, housing advocate

Emily Achtenberg, Bill
Goldsmith, human ecology
faculty member Patricia Pollack,
and visiting faculty member
and feminist scholar Marsha
Ritzdorf in the late 1980s. Photo:
Collection of Pierre Clavel.

Transforming Ideas 95
Progressive Planning
Public policies and private initiatives like urban renewal, expressways, real
estate developments of various kinds, and the environmental effects of certain
private enterprises such as oil and coal extraction and heavy industry, created
intense reactions starting in the 1960s. Planners were implicated in both the
initiatives and the reactions. Cornell, like some other planning schools, responded
and its curriculum saw several shifts from an early emphasis on “social planning”
to “advocacy planning,” and finally, “progressive planning.” For a time, the
department split, but in coming back together established a tradition where the
social, political, and physical coexisted, however uneasily. A particular focus
on redistributive policies, diversity, and participatory practices in coursework,
accompanied by local interventions in the form of workshops, internships,
and research projects, and occasional involvement with local “progressive”
governments, came to the forefront in Cornell’s tradition of progressive
planning. At Cornell a chronology of this tradition would include:
1960s Stuart Stein joins with ILR Extension professor Christopher Lindley
sponsoring interventions and studies in minority communities in
Elmira and Geneva.
1965 Cornell PhD graduate Salvador Padilla initiates the first graduate
planning program at the University of Puerto Rico: Reps, Parsons,
Goldsmith, Clavel, and other CRP faculty are involved to varying
degrees, contributing to a broadening of the curriculum in Ithaca
in the 1970s. Walter Thabit founds Planners for Equal Opportunity.
Clavel and Goldsmith become members. Planners Network is PEO’s
successor organization.
1969 Janet Scheff appears in the first of several visiting lecturer

appointments teaching “social planning” from a grassroots
perspective, introducing new ideas into the curriculum.

Cornell’s curriculum saw several shifts
from an early emphasis on “social
planning” to “advocacy planning,”
and finally, “progressive planning.”
LEFT The proceedings of three planning theory conferences were published in a book
jointly edited by Pierre Clavel, John Forester, and Bill Goldsmith titled, Urban and
Regional Planning in an Age of Austerity. New York: Pergamon Press, 1980.
1970s Richard Schramm and Sandar Kelman teach courses on local

economic development, health economics, and related topics as
visitors or adjuncts. Dorothy Nelkin teaches courses on public policy
decision-making processes, defining an area that she later refers to
as “controversy studies.”
1970 Faculty member Bert Swift introduces Extension-supported

social planning initiatives, particularly focused on community
health planning, with student projects in many upstate New
York communities. Faculty Darrell Williams and Cary Hershey
introduce policy analysis on urban social issues. Hershey writes the
first HUD work-study grant proposal, making possible significant
matriculation of graduate-level minority students.
1978 John Forester joins faculty and teaches courses on participatory

planning and begins important research and writing providing a
theoretical underpinning for participatory planning practice. In
the 1980s Forester was centrally involved in a Cornell-wide joint
student-faculty led initiative, the Cornell Participatory Action
Research Network (CPARN), which had a global virtual presence.
1979 Nancy Gilgosch joins faculty and teaches courses on neighborhood

planning with much student interest. Howard Hammerman teaches
courses on neighborhood sociology.
Pierre Clavel, John Forester, and Bill Goldsmith convene the third of
three consecutive “Planning Theory” conferences at Anabel Taylor
Hall. Beyond expectations, 300 people attend, mostly planning
faculty and students. Proceedings published as Urban and Regional
Planning in an Age of Austerity (1980).
LEFT Ann-Margaret Esnard with
student. Photo: William Staffeld.
RIGHT Clement Lai. Photo:
William Staffeld.
OPPOSITE LEFT Mildred

Warner. Photo: William Staffeld.
OPPOSITE RIGHT Rolf Pendall.
1979–83 Progressive Planning Summer School program brings in Bernie

Sanders, Bert Gross, Marie Kennedy, Norm Krumholz, Chester
Hartman, Bennett Harrison, Jackie Leavitt, and other luminaries.
Cornell participation includes Forester, Schramm, Clavel,
Goldsmith, and others.
1980s Increasing student interest in “progressive planning” through the

1980s and 1990s exemplified by thesis and project work.
1980 Goldsmith represents CRP on a Planners Network and public health

tour of Cuba, observing planning in a new context.
1987 Lourdes Benería, a feminist economist, joins faculty and creates

significant depth on women and work issues, especially in
developing-world context.
Susan Christopherson joins faculty. Courses on industrial structure

add depth to economic development offerings.
Margaret Wilder joins faculty, teaches courses adding depth to inner

city issues.
1989 Benería produces Cortland impact study, a significant community

development outreach effort.
1998 Ann-Margaret Esnard joins faculty, brings an environmental

and social justice perspective using GIS methodologies and is
instrumental in setting up the GEDDeS Lab with support from Dean
Olpadwala, Steve Catechi (MRP ’95), and Robert Abrams.

1998 Rolf Pendall joins faculty, brings progressive perspectives to courses
and research in land use planning and regulation, affordable
housing, and planning methods.
Mildred Warner joins as the first tenure-track faculty member

funded by Cornell Cooperative Extension to expand CRP’s outreach
efforts in economic development and local government policy at the
local, state, and national levels.
1999 Ken Reardon visits while on sabbatical leave; eventually stays as

faculty member, does community development outreach in Ithaca,
Rochester, Liberty, and later, New Orleans.
2001 Neema Kudva joins faculty, brings a teaching, research,

and outreach focus on nongovernmental organizations and
decentralized participatory planning practices in international
contexts.
2005 Clement Lai and Arturo Sanchez join faculty. Both have joint
appointments with ethnic studies programs (Lai with Asian
American studies, Sanchez with Latino studies). They bring
depth to courses on race, ethnicity, migration, and local economic
development issues. David Driskell, UN chair of Growing Up in
Cities (a UNESCO-supported program), joins CRP.
2007 Ann Forsyth joins faculty, brings Planners Network office to Cornell,
and coedits Progressive Planning magazine until 2009, when Pierre
Clavel goes on the editorial board.
CRP PROFILE
JOHN FORESTER
Chair 1998–2001
Joining CRP in 1978, John Forester conducts when they need a new perspective in order
research into the micropolitics of the to go on. But more than that, planners are
planning process, ethics, and political practical theorists: they have to look into an
deliberation assessing the ways planners uncertain future to anticipate a broad range
shape participatory processes and manage of events in space, on communities, on the
public disputes in diverse settings. As he environment.
explains: “I’m most interested in what I call
the micropolitics of planners’ work. While “There’s no escaping questions of better
other faculty study economic development and worse, questions of practical ethics.
or environmental issues, for example, I What I’ve tried to do in lots of work is to
study the actual people we call planners and understand what’s possible in planning, not
how they do their work day to day. what’s typical. I tend to look for striking,
instructive, even moving stories of skillful
“I’m interested in the social and political practitioners who illuminate, who can teach
theory too, because it can help us to see us about the elements of excellent practice.”
more clearly real and messy situations of His 1990 book with Norman Krumholz
practice. I like to say that planning theory (MRP ’65) Making Equity Planning Work won
is what planners need when they get stuck, the ACSP Paul Davidoff Book Award.
ABOVE John Forester talking at fall 2009 CRP orientation. Photo: William Staffeld.

CRP PROFILE
PIERRE CLAVEL
Chair 2001–2004
Pierre Clavel, likened being chair of an in their best moments representing all
academic department to sailing a boat. “You the people, and am annoyed at those who
get to steer and tack, but you have to sort of oppose planners in a fundamentalist way,
edge the way the wind is blowing anyway. especially the claims that the market or
You have to think about a multiplicity of pluralism is always better. I found a way
constituencies.…. This is an intellectual around this in progressive cities that
challenge in our discipline…. challenged this thinking, and devoted
myself to writing about them. Some of the
“I was a city planner, starting with results are at www.progressivecities.org and
Lexington, NC in 1958; then Cranston, RI, Activists in City Hall (2010).” His 1986 book,
Binghamton, NY, and several other places. Progressive Cities, received the ACSP Paul
Later I wanted to write about it and did a Davidoff Award.
PhD at Cornell, taught in the new graduate
planning program at the University of Clavel retired from Cornell in 2010 but will
Puerto Rico (1965–1967), then at Cornell continue doing oral histories of progressive
in Rural Sociology, and CRP from 1967 on. planners. By transcribing and writing, he
My interest is the politics of planning and intends to contribute to a history that might
community development. I see planners not otherwise be written.
ABOVE Pierre Clavel. Photo: Collection of Department of City and Regional Planning.

CRP PROFILE
KENNETH REARDON
Chair 2004–2007
Joining the CRP faculty in 2000, Ken CRP he directed redevelopment planning
Reardon became chair of the department in projects in Rochester, Ithaca, and Liberty,
July 2004. Before coming to CRP, Reardon initiated and worked on the New Orleans
taught for about 10 years at the University 9th Ward rebuilding plan, and established
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There he the Cornell Urban Scholars Program (CUSP)
launched and directed the East St. Louis in NYC.
Action Research Project, which earned
him the 2000 President’s Award from the Reardon is also an innovative educator.
American Institute of Certified Planners. While many planning academics involve
students in real projects, Reardon stands
Reardon is a passionate advocate for out in being at the forefront of work to fully
progressive planning. During his tenure as integrate student learning with community
chair he wrote, “We have a strong reputation projects, which involves providing
for doing equity-oriented work in politically opportunities for student reflection as well
contentious circumstances in a manner as engagement.
that’s highly inclusive and participatory. It’s
a great foundation to build on.” While at
ABOVE Ken Reardon in New Orleans. Photographer unknown. OPPOSITE Selection of published books by current faculty.

Design and Physical Planning
Physical planning has been taught continuously at Cornell since

the very start of the city and regional planning program. As other
dimensions emerged over the years, it shared space with these
approaches, briefly separating to become a department for a short
period in the 1970s. Throughout, Cornell’s tradition of physical
planning, as exemplified in Stu Stein’s position, has always
emphasized the broader contexts within which physical planning
takes place. By the 1990s however, Roger Trancik’s courses
jointly listed in CRP and landscape architecture, and the historic ABOVE CD produced by
preservation planning program had become the mainstay for Roger Trancik, Layers of Rome:
physical planning interests at CRP. Architecture, History and
Geography of Ancient Rome,
which explores urban design
Physical planners and designers create new forms that take concepts through the city’s
growth over time.
both material and institutional modes. Their practices—as land
use planners, urban designers, and environmental planners—
encompass activities whose technical and practical, social and
environmental, aesthetic and ethical aspects enable more useful
and socially responsive results. As important is the emphasis on
implementation. By deploying design processes and planning tools,
implementation approaches, and institutional innovations, physical
planning brings uniquely integrative capacities.
Physical planning at Cornell was enhanced starting in 1998 with

the appointments of Rolf Pendall and Ann-Margaret Esnard.
While Pendall brought a renewed focus on land use planning and
equity into the program, Esnard did the same through the lens

ABOVE LEFT Stephan Schmidt. of an environmental planner skilled in GIS technologies. Neema
Photo: Ann Forsyth.
Kudva, trained as an architect and planner and arriving at CRP in
ABOVE MIDDLE Katia 2001, brought a spatial sensibility to her teaching and advising.
Ballassiano, visiting faculty.
Stephan Schmidt, a landscape architect and environmental planner,
joining in 2006, brought additional depth, as did a series of joint
ABOVE RIGHT Historic workshops with architecture and landscape under the Growing
preservation faculty member, Jeff
Chusid. Photo: William Staffeld. Up in Cities program in Nairobi and the Panama Program. Jeff
Chusid’s appointment in historic preservation planning also opened
up engagement with other Cornell departments and worldwide
sites. A series of visiting appointments, Rob Young, George Frantz,
Ole Amundsen, and since 2009, Katia Balassiano, kept physical
planning vibrant. With the appointment of urban designer and
planner Ann Forsyth in 2007, physical planning and design once
again became a central piece of CRP’s planning vocabulary.
Planners in the Cornell program have a strong history of

using physical planning tools while engaging the problem
of differential effects on vulnerable populations, locally
and globally. It is this focus on social equity as well as envi-
ronmental concerns and design quality, which distinguishes
Cornell’s approach to physical planning.

TOP Students working on a
physical planning project in the
1950s. Photo: Cornell University
Archives.
BOTTOM Local newspaper

clipping of Mayor Jay Nelson of
Dundee, NY, Cornell students,
and others discussing plans
for the preservation and
redevelopment of downtown
Dundee, a project funded
by HUD and led by Stu Stein
(standing on left). Photographer
unknown.
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TOP Roger Trancik with

students in the urban design
lab. Photo: William Staffeld.
BOTTOM Ann Forsyth

speaking on a field trip,
outside Jane Jacobs’s former
home in Greenwich Village.
Photo: Sarah Smith.

TOP LEFT AND RIGHT,
BOTTOM LEFT Figure-ground
maps showing street patterns in
Irvine, CA, The Woodlands, TX,
and Tsukuba, Japan, all planned
communities. Maps: Collection
of Ann Forsyth.
MIDDLE LEFT Plans of

capital cities. Maps: Collection
of John Reps.
MIDDLE RIGHT AND

BOTTOM RIGHT
Figure-ground diagrams of built
and unbuilt areas in Rochester,
NY, for a physical planning
workshop; instructor Kris Fox.
Illustrations: Marvin Chaney,
Justin Queirolo, Shannon Stone,
Agnes Ladjevardi, and Zachary
Sivertsen.

CRP PROFILE
KIERAN DONAGHY
Chair 2008–present
Coming to Cornell in 2007 from the neighborhood ecology. He has also

University of Illinois, much of Kieran maintained an active interest in environ-
Donaghy’s teaching and research has mental and development ethics. A con-
involved constructing, estimating, and sultant to the World Bank, the European
simulating nonlinear dynamic systems Commission, and other international and
models to test theoretical propositions, state and federal agencies, he served as
evaluate policy interventions, and support the executive director of the Regional
planning decisions. Some of this work has Science Association International from
been of an applied nature addressing issues 1997 to 2003 and was the executive director
of housing, transportation, land use, the of the Illinois European Union Center from
physical environment, economic conversion 2001 to 2006.
(of military facilities), employment, public
finance, climate change, migration, and
ABOVE Kieran Donaghy talking with students. Photo: William Staffeld.

The Analytical Tradition
The Department of City and Regional Planning is justly known for

its teaching and research in planning analysis. The arrival of Barclay
Jones in 1961 marked the beginning of the period of greatest activity.
Jones developed a course in methods of planning analysis that fast
became a signature element of every Cornell planning student’s
professional education. The course was based on Walter Isard’s
classic handbook, Methods of Regional Analysis, and Jones’s own
exhaustive survey of analytical methods as applied to municipal and
regional data sets. This course was soon complemented by others
on project management, impact and industrial-complex analysis,
econometrics and statistics, simulation modeling, optimization
techniques in planning, and game theory, all taught regularly by
ABOVE Cover of Russel
Jones and other CRP faculty—Stan Czamanski, Sid Saltzman, Cooper, Kieran Donaghy, and
David Lewis, Walter Isard, and Thomas Vietorisz. Similar courses Geoffrey Hewings’s edited
book, Globalization and Regional
were later offered by Matt Drennan and José Lobo and continue Economic Modeling. New York:
to be taught by Iwan Azis, Susan Christopherson, Kieran Donaghy, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
Rolf Pendall, and Nancy Brooks. These faculty, along with David
Lewis, have also taught workshops that teach students to use
modeling skills to address economic development policy and
regional planning challenges. Several projects have won state and
national awards. In the late 1970s, Dick Booth developed what
was to be one of the first courses in environmental impact analysis
taught anywhere.

ABOVE LEFT José Lobo. This impressive development in planning analytic curricula
was complemented by a full research program led by faculty
ABOVE MIDDLE Nancy Brooks. and graduate students that addressed such topics as regional
development in Puerto Rico, Canada, South America, Africa, and
ABOVE RIGHT Cover of John Southeast Asia, as well as rural poverty in Appalachia; land use
Forester’s book, The Deliberative patterns in Wichita, Kansas; urban regeneration in Baltimore,
Practitioner: Encouraging
Participatory Planning Processes. Maryland; industrial clustering across the U.S.; and capacity and
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. pricing in the utility industry of New York State, to list only a few.
In parallel came developments in planning theory, many in the

area of progressive planning. John Forester, arriving in 1978,
worked on a series of projects on planning in the face of power, and
was a key developer of the influential communicative approach
to planning theory. Political economy perspectives were evident
in the work of such faculty as Bill Goldsmith, Lourdes Benería,
and Porus Olpadwala. Starting in the 1980s, Goldsmith, Benería,
Christopherson, Forsyth, Warner, Kudva, Lai, and Sanchez made
important theoretical contributions to work on poverty, gender,
and diversity. While workshop courses taught by a range of faculty
remain central to teaching analytical methods in planning, an ethics
course by Donaghy and revamped courses on qualitative methods
by Forester and Kudva are important recent additions.

International and Global Planning
Cornell views itself as the land grant university to the world. Its
international reputation is strong and growing, and CRP benefits
from this. It has always had international students, but its deep
engagement with international planning began in the early 1960s
with initiatives in Yugoslavia and later, Puerto Rico. Faculty and
students’ exposure to planning in the midst of extremes of poverty
and inequality and the brush with ‘difference’ made possible an
early opening to a different set of ideas. Pierre Clavel and Susan
Christopherson credit ISP’s focus on both mainstream institutions ABOVE Abdulrazack (Razack)
Karriem, visiting faculty member
and those outside them, as well as its consideration of the talking to students about his
implications of planning for people’s lives and livelihoods in diverse research in Brazil.
contexts with further strengthening Cornell’s progressive tradition.
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The ISP program, started in the 1970s, remains a center for
TOP Our reality is that of an
international and global planning work at Cornell. ISP is able to urbanized planet where the bulk
mobilize additional funds for student travel and research through its of people live in smaller cities.
The image on the left is of the new
joint location at CRP and the Mario Einaudi Center for International tax bureau in the small town
Affairs. Its weekly Friday afternoon seminar series once served as a of Xizhou in Yunnan province,
meeting place for leftist academics, researchers, student activists, China, built in 2004 in an exag-
gerated hyper ethnic architectural
and international development practitioners from across campus. style. It exemplifies the momen-
The seminar remains the longest continuously running lecture tum to tear down the old to make
way for the new “traditional”
series at Cornell, bringing in a range of speakers, both academics across China’s urban landscapes.
and practitioners, on international issues. Early ISP faculty Porus The image on the right is of the
Olpadwala, Bill Goldsmith, David Lewis, Barbara Lynch, and old bus stand at the center of
Mangalore in Karnataka state,
Lourdes Benería headed various programs across campus including India, a city that exemplifies the
the Institute for African Development (Lewis), the Gender and changes that are evident in post-
liberalization India and is the
Global Change program (Benería), and the Latin American Studies subject of Neema Kudva’s on-
Program (Benería, Goldsmith, Lynch). Current faculty (Neema going research on small cities.
Kudva, Razack Karriem, Marcela Rivas, Katia Balassiano), who Photos: Ashley Russell (Xizhou);
Neema Kudva (Mangalore).
include among them a vibrant group of visitors, continue to

ABOVE Thomas Vietorisz. maintain strong affiliations with programs focused on those parts of
the world where they work.
ABOVE MIDDLE Iwan Azis.
International and global planning at CRP is however more than
ABOVE RIGHT Neema Kudva. ISP. Several faculty do comparative work in international contexts
Photo: David Driskell. (Christopherson, Chusid, Donaghy, Forsyth, Pendall, Schmidt,
Page 114 Tomlan, and Warner, to name a few). Conversely, faculty most
strongly associated with ISP maintain a primary interest in teaching
BOTTOM Community members
in Vista Alegre, Gran Sabana,
and research practice in the global south, even as most of them
Venezuela, at a community- also work in northern contexts. As important is the push to include
based mapping workshop in the international contexts and comparative cases within the core
early 2000s. They worked with
doctoral student, Bjorn SlettØ, to planning curricula for all MRP students, making their education
document traditional land uses truly global.
and collaboratively create a plan
for managing grassland wildfires.
Photo: Bjorn SlettØ. International and global planning at Cornell has benefitted greatly
from the presence of visiting faculty and practitioners both on short-
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term visits and with long-term commitments. Thomas Vietorisz,
Map of Montebello, Gran Sabana, a professor emeritus of the New School of Social Research, has
created by indigenous cartogra-
phers and Bjorn SlettØ. This is the
been associated with ISP/CRP for 40 years, offering seminars on a
second in a series of participatory range of topics, most recently on sustainability. An early advocate
maps developed to document of international planning, regional science, and social change, he
indigenous place names and land
uses. Photo: Bjorn Slettø. worked as a PhD student with Walter Isard; later taught United
Nations graduate faculty in Santiago, Chile; and advised the
Ministry of Economics for the revolutionary government of Cuba
in 1960, before joining the faculty of the New School. Another
long-term visiting faculty member is Iwan Azis, a highly reputed
international economist known for his consulting and research
work on financial economics, economic modeling, and the linkages
between macrofinancial policy and social issues, mostly in South
East and East Asia. At Cornell, Azis holds joint appointments in
CRP/RS, the Business School, and the Department of Economics.

CRP PROFILE
DAVID LEWIS
Chair 1988–1991
David Lewis joined the Cornell faculty in has worked with the Agriculture Research
1973 and has been actively engaged in plan- and Extension program at the Catholic
ning and policy research in Africa, Asia, and University of the Sudan. CGS now works
the Middle East. His work focuses on the with Cornell’s vice provost of International
role of governments in allocating resources Relations on a range of projects in Haiti,
as needs outstrip administrative capacity. including a strategic plan for establishing
His required course, the Project Planning a public/private foundation with Haitian
Workshop, has brought real world projects leadership to coordinate development in
in diverse international contexts into the the neighborhood of the GHESKIO Clinic
MRP curriculum. Recent projects include a with which Cornell has had a long-term
training program for government officials relationship.
from Kazakhstan and establishing a plan-
ning program in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2009 he Lewis was director of Cornell’s Institute for
helped students from CIPA, CRP, and other African Development for 17 years and direc-
programs come together to form the pro tor of the Cornell Institute of Public Affairs
bono international development consulting for 9 years until his retirement in 2010.
firm, Cornell Global Solutions (CGS), which
ABOVE David Lewis with students in the Project Planning Workshop. Photo: William Staffeld.

CRP PROFILE
PORUS OLPADWALA
Chair 1994–1998, Dean 1998–2004
Born and raised in India, Olpadwala began intellectual (and moral) question for
his professional life with Price, Waterhouse, Olpadwala is why there is so much poverty
Peat, and Co. in Calcutta. Later he headed in a world of plenty.
the export department of the Indian associ-
ate of Jardine Mathieson and Co. Becoming For CRP and the College of Architecture,
“increasingly disenchanted with the Art, and Planning, Olpadwala’s biggest
bottom-line driven imperative of private legacy is his deft handling of the proposal by
business,” he decided to join one of India’s then-president Hunter R. Rawlings III and
many government-owned corporations, Provost Biddy Martin to disband AAP, and
expecting “that such a move would provide realign and relocate its constituent depart-
greater leeway for incorporating social con- ments to other campus units. Professor Buzz
cerns into business decision making.” This Spector, then chair of the Department of
did not seem to be the case, and Olpadwala Art, outlined Porus’s contribution when
eventually joined the CRP faculty in 1984, he said, “With unfailing courtesy, but also
becoming department chair and then dean. relentless advocacy, Porus worked to keep
the college together. ”
Underlying his work is a deep theoretical
interest in the processes of economic ABOVE Porus Olpadwala at the installation of the plaque honoring
and social development. The overriding John Reps as a National Planning Pioneer. Photo: Bob Barker, Cornell
University Photography.

Future planners will face considerable challenges
from adaptation to climate change and overhauling
an aging infrastructure to stimulating innovation for
sustainable development and creating healthy, vital,
just cities in a rapidly urbanizing global world.
The booming northern suburbs and disappearing wetlands of Malad and Goregaon in Mumbai, where slum settlements,
malls, call centers, office complexes, and high-rise housing are being built at breakneck speed. Photo: Neema Kudva.

Cornell Planning: Beyond 75
What is the future of planning at Cornell? It is clear that:
• Planning brings uniquely integrative capacities to solve important human problems in

scientifically rigorous, aesthetically critical, and responsively practical ways.
• Planning uses a diverse range of implementation tools: built works, spatial ordering,
policies (principles for dealing with recurring decisions), regulations, budgeting, and
public process approaches.
• Planning has a special focus on interconnectivity, interdependence, pluralism, and
interdisciplinarity—inevitably negotiated diversity—of issues, cultures, and forms of
knowledge and media.
• Planning also emphasizes the interconnections between different scales: sites,
neighborhood and districts, cities, metropolitan areas, and regions.
It is also clear that new problems will emerge while others that have haunted planners for
some time will remain, including marginality, inequality, and injustice. Future planners will
face considerable challenges from adaptation to climate change and overhauling an aging
infrastructure to stimulating innovation for sustainable development and creating healthy,
vital, just cities in a rapidly urbanizing global world.
Yet a view of planning as a uniquely integrative activity that can have substantial impact,
allows us to look forward. Cornell’s history of interdisciplinarity and field-based teaching
dating back to the program’s founding in the early twentieth century; of critically examining
the underpinnings of growth and change in diverse contexts; of providing learning
opportunities through integrated coursework and public service for students; and the
transformative tradition of progressive planning provides substantial future direction.
Paraphrasing Barclay Jones’s memorable words with which this book started: most of all,
Cornell’s planning program will work to create a learning environment so that students can
continue to go on to do, write, conduct research, and solve problems beyond the capacities
of their teachers.

6
Acknowledgements
and Sources
Acknowledgements
Projects such as this are the work of many hands. We would like
to thank a number of key people. Dean Kleinman and CRP Chair
Kieran Donaghy for allocating the necessary funds to implement a
project of this scope. Bill Staffeld, the college’s photographer, helped
find and select images and Aaron Goldweber, communications
director, provided key support on the logistical aspects of producing
a book. Sarah Subin in the CRP office provided support and
coordination. Brian Cornell helped set up server systems for file
sharing. Thanks also to our copy editor Julie Simmons-Lynch.
Graduate student Amanda Wilson took on the role of coordinating

other graduate students and Rhoda Pflum showed a particular
talent for getting information from faculty. Other graduate
assistants included Chris List, Jessica Stevenson, Victoria Demchak,
Tiffany Ho, Gabby Voeller, and C.J. Randall. John Reps provided
unparalleled help in identifying resources and people. This project
could not have happened without his help. Pierre Clavel interviewed
TOP A meeting of the CRP 75
Stu Stein and also tracked down various progressive planning book team in Ann Forsyth’s office.
artifacts and department reports. Stu Stein was very generous with From left to right: Tiffany Ho,
his files and knowledge. Chris List, Amanda Wilson, C.J.
Randall, and Rhoda Pflum. Not
pictured are Victoria Demchak,
Thanks to our colleagues who reviewed and made extremely Jessica Stephenson, and Gabby
Voeller. Photo: Ann Forsyth.
valuable additions to the text: Bill Goldsmith, Susan
Christopherson, Rolf Pendall, and Mildred Warner. BOTTOM Staff of the City and
Regional Planning main office in
2010. From back to front: Tina
Design: Soulellis Studio. Nelson, Sarah Subin, and Lorie
Walker. Photo: Ann Forsyth.

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1 Preface: Transforming Planning 8

2 Planning Emerges at Cornell 14

3 Cornell’s Evolving Programs 36

4 CRP in the World 58

6 Acknowledgements and Sources 120

While planning topics were the subject of courses starting

Since that time Cornell has gone on to expand its offerings

This book documents this remarkable history of

Preface: Transforming Planning 11

1918 Professor Everett V. Meeks presents lectures on the

OPPOSITE Maps of bastides in France, a long-term interest of

12 75 Years of City and Regional Planning

This widespread interest and early groundwork led to the submission of a

16 75 Years of City and Regional Planning

Cornell’s planning story thus formally begins in February 1935 when

Planning Emerges at Cornell 17

20 75 Years of City and Regional Planning

1935 Gilmore D. Clarke

OPPOSITE “Central Gary: 1980,” central business district redevelopment plan

22 75 Years of City and Regional Planning

1938–50 Gilmore D. Clarke

OPPOSITE Map of Ithaca by K.C. Parsons for his

24 75 Years of City and Regional Planning

26 75 Years of City and Regional Planning

Clarke’s first course was a history of city planning, followed by a survey on

Planning Emerges at Cornell 27

Thomas W. Mackesey came to Cornell in St. Lawrence Seaway. In 1964 President

28 75 Years of City and Regional Planning

Planning Emerges at Cornell 29

The 1960s were a time of great social awareness and political

Under the vigorous leadership of Barclay Jones—an architect,

30 75 Years of City and Regional Planning

Because of the growth in enrollment, research activity, and the increasing

Although academically successful, the division proved to be expensive.

Planning Emerges at Cornell 31

32 75 Years of City and Regional Planning

Stuart W. Stein graduated with a BA in become The Commons, a pedestrian mall.

ABOVE Stuart (Stu) Stein. Photographer unknown.

Planning Emerges at Cornell 33

A faculty member at Cornell from 1961, planning. He was recognized as an authority

ABOVE Barclay Jones. Photo: Collection of Michael Tomlan.

34 75 Years of City and Regional Planning

ABOVE Sid Saltzman. Photo: William Staffeld.

Planning Emerges at Cornell 35

OPPOSITE As part of a spring break field trip in CRP395, with instructor

Cornell's Evolving Programs 39

In 1962 Cornell began offering historic preservation courses and

Cornell was one of the first institutions in the country to offer

OPPOSITE BOTTOM Historic

40 75 Years of City and Regional Planning

Michael Tomlan is a historic preservation educator who teaches the

Since 1992, Professor Tomlan has been president of Historic Urban

BELOW Cover of Michael

42 75 Years of City and Regional Planning

Cornell's Evolving Programs 43