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Past issues:
Spring 2013, Issue 4
Spring 2013, Issue 3
Spring 2013, Issue 2
Cornell City and Regional Planning
Friday, May 17, 2013
The Cornell Planner - Spring 2013 - Issue 5
Please send your news updates to Martha Stettinius at mcs73@cornell.edu.
Past issues:
Spring 2013, Issue 4
Spring 2013, Issue 3
Spring 2013, Issue 2
Thursday, April 25, 2013
The Cornell Planner - Spring 2013 - Issue 4
Please send your news updates to Martha Stettinius at mcs73@cornell.edu.
Past issues:
Spring 2013, Issue 3
Spring 2013, Issue 2
Friday, April 5, 2013
The Cornell Planner - Spring 2013 - Issue 3
This semester’s third issue of the Cornell Planner is available on the CRP website. CLICK HERE to view online.
Please send your news updates to Martha Stettinius at mcs73@cornell.edu.
Past issues:
Spring 2013, Issue 2
Graphic Communication: CRP Students Display Work in Sibley
Earlier in the semester, students from Fall 2012's CRP5851: Graphic Communication class displayed their final projects in the hallways of West Sibley dome. The class, taught by lecturer Zachary Boggs, centers around developing a solid grounding in graphic communication theory and practice as well as employing industry standard software to develop professional-level project graphics.
"There's an undertone of urban design in the class," said Boggs. "I document real-world sustainable developments and divide them out among the students. They should know what's happening in the industry."
The posters below were designed from actual developments and feature highlights from a group of excellent design work. The class will be offered again this Fall 2013. "Its a great class—there's usually a lot of diverse student experience coming into the class," said Boggs.
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| Sophie (Ke) Tong, Battery Park City West, NYC |
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| Jay Siegel, Bo01, Malmo Sweden |
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| Victoria Long, Jamison Square, Portland Oregon |
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
University Resources: Food Systems
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| By Linda from Chicago, USA; (New crops) via Wikimedia Commons |
"There are fantastic resources at Cornell, but there are so many choices that the options can seem daunting at first," said Becca Jablonski, a PhD Candidate in the CRP department and a Predoctoral Fellow with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. A strong proponent of food systems planning research, her research focuses on assessing short and long-run impacts of alternative local and regional food systems to participating farmers (with an emphasis on small and medium-scale), supply chain participants, and rural economies.
"[W]hat separates Cornell from the other more "sustainable ag" or "food system" type programs...[is] in my opinion, the strengths of the University in agriculture offer different and more [broad] opportunities to students than more narrowly focused programs. Students have the opportunity to gain skills unavailable at other schools that do not have such a robust agricultural college," Jablonski emphasizes.
In addition to formal resources, Cornell houses a variety of informal resources for food systems enthusiasts. For example, in the past month, events have included a free public film screening of "Symphony of the Soil" and the showing of acclaimed documentary "The Garden"—next week the Ezra's Round Table Seminar is
entitled,"Progression to Multi-Scale Models and the Application to Food System Intervention Strategies."
Support for Food Systems research continues within the CRP department as well. As part of the department colloquium last Fall, Ken Meter, one of the most experienced food systems analysts in the U.S. delivered a colloquium presentation entitled Food Systems: Planning for Emergence. Also in the past, Professor Mildred Warner, of the CRP Department has taught a popular course on Food Systems Planning (syllabus available here).
Thanks to the work of Jablonski and Warner, the below list is a primer to classes and resources available in different colleges and departments across Cornell. This list is also available via the Cornell OCP website.
College of Agriculture and Life Science
The Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management (AEM)
AEM 3290/3291: International Agribusiness Study Trip Fall and Spring. 2 credits
AEM 4310: Agricultural and Food Policy Fall. 3 credits.
AEM 4420: Emerging Markets Fall. 3 credits.
AEM 4430: Food-Industry Strategy Fall. 2 credits
AEM 4450: Food Policy for Developing Nations (also NS 4450) Fall. 3 credits
AEM 4460: Food Marketing Colloquium Fall. 1 credit
AEM 4640: Economics of Agricultural Development Fall. 3 credits
AEM 6420: Globalization, Food Safety, and Nutrition Fall. 2 credits
AEM 6600: Agroecosystems, Economic Development, & the Environment Spring. 3–4 credits
Biological and Environmental Engineering (BEE)
BEE 3299: Sustainable Development Spring, summer. 3 credits
Crop and Soil Science (CSS)
CSS 3800: Organic Food and Agriculture Fall. 3 or 4 credits
CSS 4030: Traditional Agriculture in Developing Nations Fall. 1 credit
CSS 4100: The GMO Debate: Science and Society Spring. 3 credits
CSS 4140: Tropical Cropping Systems: Biodiversity, Social, and Environmental Impacts Fall. 4 credits
CSS 4900: Food, Farming, and Personal Beliefs Spring. 1 credit
Development Sociology (DSOC)
DSOC 3060: Farmworkers: Contemporary Issues and Their Implications Fall. 1 credit
DSOC 3240: Environment and Society Fall. 3 credits
DSOC 3400: Agriculture, Food, and Society Spring. 3 credits
DSOC 6270: Agrarian Social Mobilization: From Resistance to Revolution Spring. 3 credits
DSOC 7500: Food, Ecology, and Agrarian Change Fall. 3 credits
International Agriculture and Rural Development (IARD)
IARD 4020: Agriculture in Developing Nations I Fall. 2 credits
IARD 6030: Planning and Management of Agriculture and Rural Development Spring. 4 credits
IARD 6040: Food Systems and Poverty Reduction: Concepts and Themes Fall. 3 credits
IARD 6060: Food Systems and Poverty Reduction: Integration Fall. 4 credits
IARD 6960: Perspectives in International Development Fall, spring. 1 credit
Natural Resource Management (NTRES)
NTRES 4800: Global Seminar: Building Sustainable Environments and Secure Food Systems for a Modern World Spring. 3 credits
College of Arts and Sciences
Government (GOVT)
GOVT 6494: Agrarian Political Economy Spring. 4 credits
Division of Nutritional Science
Nutritional Science (NS)
NS 3060: Nutritional Problems of Developing Nations Fall. 3 credits.
NS 4450: Toward a Sustainable Global Food System: Food Policy for Developing Countries Fall. 3 credits
NS 4570: Health, Poverty, and Inequality: A Global Perspective Fall. 3 credits
NS 6440: Community Nutrition Seminar Fall and spring. 1 credit
Internship Opportunities
Cornell Cooperative Extension
Cornell Centers and Institutes
Monday, March 25, 2013
Cornell Team Receives Honorable Mention in Urban Design Competition
A multidisciplinary team of Cornell students has received
honorable mention in the 2013 ULI Gerald D. Hines Urban Design Competition. The
juried competition selected the team’s project from among 149 entries
representing 70 universities in the U.S. and Canada.
The annual competition is an urban design and development
project for teams comprised of five students representing at least three
disciplines. This year’s challenge focused on transforming an undeveloped
expanse at the edge Minneapolis’s downtown near the new Minnesota Vikings
stadium.
The team describes their project, LOOPolis, as being about “completion,
connectivity, and community.” Their goal was to plan a vibrant mixed-use
neighborhood. “It’s about honoring past visions for a complete downtown, for a
continuous greenway circling the city, and for new centers of opportunity for
families, businesses, and college graduates, while envisioning anew and closing
the loop on what downtown Minneapolis could become,” states the team in their
project summary.
The team included: Man Su (B.Arch. ’13), Jia Li (M.R.P.
’14), Qianqian Ye ’14 and Yang Chen ’14 both graduate students in the landscape
architecture program, and Bret Molan Colazzi ’13 who is a graduate student at
the Johnson School. H. Pike Oliver, CRP, and Marc Miller, landscape
architecture, advised this team as well as six other Cornell teams. This was
the first year that B.Arch. students were able to participate in the
competition, which had previously been reserved for graduate students.
Related Links:
ULI/Hines Student Urban Design Competition
Team’s presentation board and narrative
Friday, March 15, 2013
In Memoriam: Joseph Quandt
JOSEPH EDWARD QUANDT
Nov. 28, 1992–Feb. 27, 2013
URS 2015
“He was a gentle soul — bright and considerate, observant and gifted, an insightful friend of many in our program. A life of unlimited possibilities lay ahead of him.” -- Prof. John Forester"[As a student, he was] outstanding amongst an outstanding group. He had a great enthusiasm and regard for what he was doing. He was from the Cleveland area; he was very concerned about doing something for Cleveland in the future. Cleveland lost a part of its future.I am just disappointed that I’m not going to get to read about him in 10 years in the newspaper when he is governor of Ohio.” -- Prof. Hans Pike Oliver
“You know, some people have a kind of two-facedness. He was very even keel[ed]. He was the same way to everyone: funny and cynical, but progressive. It’s a shame for the world and us. It’s a shame not just for the Cornell-centric world. We are really losing someone who was going to stand up for the people.” -- Levi Schoenfeld
“He was one of those people that [was] always ready for everything that [was] happening –– always ready to help you, always ready to learn something new.” -- Zoloo Brown
The following are some notes posted in the 1st floor of Sibley Hall to remember Joe.
"I only met you fall semester but by December you treated me like a true friend. If anything I hope that my song and dance put a smile on your face."
"I wish I had gotten to know you better. You always seemed so hip, so at ease. Everyone misses you here. I hope you're still as at ease as you were."
"We will miss you so much. Your loving smile, quiet watchfulness, patient words. You had a perpetual brightness in your eyes, a hopefulness that couldn't be extinguished. You lived a life of abundance and promise. We will keep telling your story."
With you gone I feel the need to be a better planner. You had so much passion, I would hate to see a world where it went to waste. I take it upon myself to do a portion of the work you would have."
"You always had a smile on your face and a hearty laugh at the ready. You never let any situation get you down, and because of you, I want to live like you did—always smiling and optimistic. I know, and am comforted by, that wherever you are now, you've got a smile on."
"Joe had a peculiar way of communicating, but if you dug just a little deeper you would know he was truly passionate about where he's from. He reminded me of why I'm in URS, and his mannerisms defined what URS'15 classes were like. I will truly miss all of that."
"Joe was a special young man. He was insightful, deeply interested in improving the world around him/us, and very smart. In his quiet, unassuming way, he had a gift for stepping forward and providing effective leadership for whatever task was at hand. His gentle smile welcomed everyone and encouraged all to play a constructive role in our common endeavors. We miss him now, and we will miss all the contributions he would have made for years to come. Let him rest in peace."
Joseph Quandt, who was 20 years old, died of natural causes. A memorial service will be held in Anabel Taylor Chapel on March 27 at 4 PM, followed by a reception in the One World Cafe.
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