Cornell Professor guest lectures in Urban Studies class.

Jeffrey Mark Chusid, chair of Cornell's regional planning department, is zooming into Urban Economics and Land Use class on Friday Dec. 03 to teach on plan interpretation from a technical standpoint, specifically how do we interpret historic and current plans both for buildings and urban / public spaces, and how are they used to communicate among architects, planners and other industry partners.

Jeff Chusid is a preservation architect and planner, and Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. He has consulted on preservation policy, natural and cultural resource conservation, and urban design for communities including Shanghai; Sevastopol, Ukraine; Levuka, Fiji; and Bastrop, Texas, as well as museums in California, Texas, and New York. Chusid’s research, teaching, and writing have focused on the fate of historic resources in areas of cultural exchange and conflict, the conservation of modernist architecture and planning, especially in the US and India, and sustainable development using historic sites and communities. His book, Saving Wright (Norton 2011), won the Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. Chusid has taught planning, architecture, and preservation at the University of Texas at Austin, Harvard, Cal Poly Pomona, and the University of Southern California.

Thanks to Prof Emily Reith for arranging this experience for her students.

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