Assistant Professor - City & Regional Planning

Assistant Professor - City & Regional Planning

The Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University invites applications for a full time tenure-track faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin on July 1, 2025.

Cities and regions around the world are exploring the potential of data-driven urban analytics and new digital technologies to transform how places are planned, built, and governed. These technologies address our diverse urban challenges from facilitating mobility, adaptation of legacy infrastructure systems, public participation, and scenario planning to responses to climate change and inequality. Urban planners must grapple with the possibilities, risks, and ethics of these new methods of analysis and technologies. We seek scholars who simultaneously engage both with the technological (e.g., AI, augmented reality, cloud computing, geomatics, digital twins, crowd-sourced data) and the social (e.g., activist-led data generation, counter mapping, privacy, fairness, etc.). We seek a scholar with expertise in data analytics (generation, classification, analysis, implementation) at the intersection of urban planning, urban studies, urban policy, and economic development. We are particularly interested in scholars who employ rigorous and critical theoretical approaches with innovative data science methods and tools to analyze the most pressing issues facing cities and regions in the United States and / or across the world.

The Department of City and Regional Planning seeks to promote vibrant communities, urban sustainability, and social equity, through its teaching, research and professional engagement. Successful applicants for this position must demonstrate high quality research through publishing and obtaining grants, excellence in teaching and advising, as well as professional engagement in the urban environment in the U.S. and / or internationally. Applicants should have a Ph.D. or an equivalent terminal degree in city and regional planning, urban data science, geography, or another relevant field. Candidates for this position should be prepared to teach a combination of core and elective courses in the department's degree programs. The regular teaching load is three courses per year. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience, ranging from $85,000 - $110,000.

CRP is a top-ranked planning department with 120 undergraduate majors (BS-Urban and Regional Studies), 110 master’s degree students in programs in City and Regional Planning (accredited MRP), Historic Preservation Planning (MA), and Regional Science (MS), and 22 Ph.D. students in City and Regional Planning and Regional Science. The Department, with a full-time faculty of 20, draws students from across the U.S. and the world and is one of the premier programs for U.S. and international planning. As part of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, the department is committed to advancing scholarship in the art and science of placemaking and urban design by providing a supportive, resource-rich context for collaborative studies both within the unit and across the university. Demonstrating this commitment, CRP supports dual degrees with Cornell programs in Landscape Architecture and Real Estate. Situated on Cornell University’s main campus in Ithaca, NY, the department also offers semester-long programs in New York City and Rome, Italy. The new faculty member will have the opportunity to engage with faculty and programming at the Jacobs Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island in New York City.

Diversity and inclusion are a part of Cornell University’s heritage. We are a recognized employer and educator valuing AA / EEO, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

Cornell is committed to hiring faculty who share its commitment to educating and pursuing knowledge for any person in any study. We require that every applicant for an academic appointment provide a Statement of Contribution to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. This statement offers candidates an opportunity to describe their potential contributions to diversity and inclusion at Cornell and our legacy of “. . any person . . any study.” Candidates are also invited to connect their contributions to Cornell’s role as a land-grant institution enabling community improvement through research and teaching.

Required application materials :

• Letter of application
• Statement of research and teaching interests
• Statement of contribution to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Writing sample
• List of three references and contact information. These references will be contacted only for the later stages of the search and with the applicant’s permission

Applications will be reviewed from November 30, 2024 until an adequate pool of candidates for the position has been identified.

Further information about the Department of City and Regional Planning and its students, alumni, and faculty, may be found at the following links :

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