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CRP Ph.D. Grads Land University Positions CRP Ph.D. candidate Lesli Hoey (M.R.P. ’06) has taken a job as an assistant professor of urban and regional planning at University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Hoey’s research and teaching interests focus on food systems; in particular, ways in which policy planning, implementation, and evaluation strategies facilitate or limit the development of equitable, healthy, and sustainable food systems. Also recently hired is Ph.D. candidate George Homsey, who will start this fall as an assistant professor, tenure-track, in the Department of Public Administration at Binghamton University. Homsey will lead the newly formed sustainable communities master’s degree, and initiate a series of case studies examining the policy-making processes and best practices of the most sustainable places. AAP
CUSD Gets on the Bus
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A group of M.R.P. students and Bob Balder (B.S. URS ’89, M.R.P. ’93), executive director of AAP NYC, visit the Astoria Houses in Long Island City as part of the 2012 CRP New York City Workshop. The annual workshop is designed around real-world planning problems and involves a mix of classes, city tours, client meetings, and fieldwork. This year’s workshop projects included a 10-year master plan for the Harbor School on Governor’s Island, an economic development piece for an arts district in Long Island City, an urban design project for the Design Trust for Public Space, a community development project in Brownsville for the Department of Health, and an energy piece for the Expotential District One Lab in downtown Manhattan.AAP
1 From Tran’s Augmented Shores: 135th St. West Harlem Artificial Shores and Community Gardens. 2 photo / provided rom left: Fanfan Zhao 3 F (M.R.P. ’13); Tomas Moller Holtkamp (M.R.P. ’13); Steven Wang (M.R.P. ’13); Sungyon Kim (M.R.P. ’13); Hunter Zupnik (M.R.P. /M.L.A. ’14); Inna Kitaychik (M.R.P. ’13); Catalina Marshall (M.R.P. ’13); Tim McManus, Senior Urban Planner at New York City Housing Authority; and Bob Balder. photo / Vineet John (M.R.P. ’13)
For two weeks in November, a group of eight Cornell University Sustainable Design (CUSD) leaders traveled across the country on a bus; not a Greyhound or Volkswagen, but a custom-wrapped, 100 percent carbon offset vehicle promoting student involvement with Greenbuild 2012, the world’s largest sustainable design expo and conference. The Students@Greenbuild tour was the culmination of months of work that began last April, when Rick Fedrizzi, president and founder of the U.S. Green Building Council, spoke at Cornell about the importance of sustainability in the built environment. After spending some time with a group of CUSD students, Fedrizzi extended an invitation to attend Greenbuild 2012, scheduled for November in San Francisco. Several weeks later, Fedrizzi contacted CUSD again; this time with the idea of participating in a cross-country bus tour with the goal of creating healthier, more sustainable schools and campuses. “Fedrizzi was really impressed with our enthusiasm and unique interdisciplinary approach,” says Karen Chi-Chi Lin (B.Arch. ’13), one of the leaders of the Greenbuild team. “He thought we were the ideal group to tackle this type of project.” The CUSD team, partnering with the Center for Green Schools, the U.S. Green Building Council, as well as several other colleges and universities across the country, was involved in all aspects of planning and executing the tour. Lin and Kai Keane ’14 designed the Students@Greenbuild logo; Lin and Jesse
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McElwain ’13 drafted press releases; and Keane created the bus wrapper and a series of videos documenting the trip. The tour kicked off in Ithaca on November 5, with activities organized by CUSD, including tours of the university’s lake source cooling plant for students from Lansing High School, and remarks from Fedrizzi. The group then traveled across the country picking up students from other participating universities, and hosting educational outreach events at elementary, middle, and high schools about all aspects of sustainable design, including water conservation, jobs in the “green” industry, and resource management. “Students are working on one of the most visible youth-driven projects to promote healthy, sustainable schools our nation has ever seen,” says Fedrizzi. Once at the conference, a video of the tour produced by Keane was presented at the opening session. “The video was shown immediately after Edwin M. Lee, the mayor of San Francisco, spoke,” says Lin. “Forty thousand people saw it!” CUSD students who participated in the bus tour project include Jeremy Blum ’13, Aylin Gucalp ’14, Keane, Jared Landsman ’14, Tim Lenardo ’14, Sarah Levine ’14, Lin, Katie Mayer ’14, McElwain, Rachel Silverman ’14, and Princess Swan ’15. They were joined by students from Penn State, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champagne, Kirkwood Community College, Colorado State University, University of Utah, and Weber State University.AAP
Architecture Students Receive AIANYS Awards
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Natalie Kwee (B.Arch. ’13) and Anh Tran (M.Arch.’14) are recipients of 2012 Student Awards from the American Institute of Architects New York State (AIANYS). Their work, along with nine other winners, was displayed at the AIANYS convention in September, in Saratoga Springs. Kwee’s winning project, Stockholm Library Extension, is a “study in combining complex forms with architectural intent, working mainly with 3D digital modeling programs and digital fabrication.” Tran’s Augmented Shores: 135th St. West Harlem Artificial Shores and Community Gardens “attempts to address the two principle characteristics of the waterfront at the . . . former waste transfer station in New York City: site inaccessibility and water contamination.” Each received $500 in prize money. According to the AIANYS, the Student Awards were “established in 2007 in order to enrich and reinforce design exploration among students; to establish a stronger relationship between the profession and the academy; and to celebrate, nurture, and recognize the future leadership of our profession and society.” The other 2012 recipients hail from Columbia University, The Cooper Union, New York Institute of Technology, Parsons The New School for Design, Rochester Institute’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.AAP News13 | Spring 2013