Mui Ho
Center for Cities

The Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities transfers knowledge to action to build more equitable and sustainable cities today and in the future.

photo / Johnny Miller

People

The Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities is the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning faculty whose research relates to cities and urban issues, support staff with subject matter expertise, and students.

Leadership and Administration

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Victoria A. Beard

Director

Claire Fisher

Claire Fisher

Program Assistant

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Benjamin Wilde

Program and Research Coordinator
Faculty With Affiliated Research Labs

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Victoria A. Beard

Director, Water In, Water Out Lab; Professor, City and Regional Planning

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Sara C. Bronin

Director, Legal Constructs Lab; Professor, City and Regional Planning

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Suzanne Lanyi Charles

Director, Housing + Property Lab; Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning and Acting Chair of the Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate

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Timur Dogan

Director, Environmental Systems Lab; Associate Professor, Architecture

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Tao DuFour

Director, Landscape and Urban Environmentalities Lab; Assistant Professor, Architecture

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María González Pendás

Co-Director, &Lab; Assistant Professor, Architecture

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Felix Heisel

Director, Circular Construction Lab; Assistant Professor, Architecture

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Nicholas J. Klein

Director, Transportation Access and Policy Lab; Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning

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Suzanne Lettieri

Co-Director, &Lab; Assistant Professor, Architecture

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Leslie Lok

Director, Rural-Urban Building Innovation Lab; Assistant Professor, Architecture

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Farzin Lotfi-Jam

Director, Realtime Urbanism Lab; Assistant Professor, Architecture

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Katharina Kral

Director HILAB; Lecturer, Architecture

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Jennifer Minner

Director, Just Places Lab; Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning

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Linda Shi

Director, Adaptive Land Lab; Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning

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Mildred Warner

Director, Local Government Restructuring Lab; Professor, City and Regional Planning

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Marta H. Wisniewska

Director, Regenerative Architecture Lab; Lecturer, Architecture

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Wenfei Xu

Director, Urban Data Research Lab; Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning

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J. Meejin Yoon

Director, Design Across Scales; Gale and Ira Drukier Dean, AAP
Students

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Majd Alsaif

M.R.P. '24

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Cameron Howland

B.S. URS '26

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Shivani Lakshmi

M.R.P. '24

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Carlos Arturo Lopez Ortiz

Ph.D. City and Regional Planning

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Rama Ramachandran

M.R.P. '25

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Madhumitha Vasu

M.R.P. '24
Center Alumni

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Jada Cannon

M.Arch. '24

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Andrew Epps

M.R.P. '23

Kanij Fateema

Kanij Fateema

M.R.P. '24

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Shhrruti Jain

M.S. AAD '22

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Aashka Patel

M.R.P. '23

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Nicholas Wilsey

B.S. URS '25
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