Joshua Cerra

Josh Cerra's teaching and research investigate relationships between urban ecosystems, communities and site development processes, and their implications for climate-adaptive design and urban ecological design. He is principal investigator for the Climate-adaptive Design program with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and co-principal investigator for the Cornell Climate Change Garden Installation with the Cornell Botanic Gardens and the YardWorks Project with the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. His studio-based efforts have received award recognition from the national American Society of Landscape Architects, the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, and Cornell.

Selected Publications

Journal Publications

• 2021 Georgakakos, C.B., Cerra, J.F., Allred S.B., Williams, K., Walter, M.T., LoGiudice, E., Smith, G. (in press). Cross-disciplinary learning in environmental engineering and landscape architecture. International Journal of Collaborative Engineering. DOI: 10.1504/IJCE.2020.10033950.
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• Cerra, J., Smith, G., & Zemaitis, L. 2019. People and place: Understanding social dimensions of resilience in the Climate-adaptive Design Studio. 2019 Environmental Design Research Association Conference Proceedings, Environmental Design Research Association.

• Cerra, Joshua F., Brook W. Muller, and Robert Young. 2017. A transformative Outlook on the 21st Century city: Patrick Geddes’ Outlook Tower revisited. Landscape and Urban Planning. 166:90-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. landurbplan.2017.05.015

• Cerra, Joshua F. 2017. Emerging strategies for voluntary urban ecological stewardship on private property. Landscape and Urban Planning. 157: 586-597. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.06.016.

• Cerra, Joshua F. and Rhiannon Crain. 2016. Urban birds and planting design: Strategies for incorporating ecological goals into residential landscapes. 19(4):1823-46. Urban Ecosystems. DOI 10.1007/s11252-016- 0570-0.

  Book Chapters
• Cerra, Joshua F. and Libby Zemaitis. 2022. Changing landscapes, changing mindsets; Building capacity toward action in the Climate-adaptive Design Studio. In Bishop, K. (Ed.). Routledge handbook of urban landscape research. New York, NY: Routledge, pp265-279. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003109563
• Muller, Brook, Adell Amos, Joshua F. Cerra, Chingwen Cheng, David L. Feldman, Tatum Lau, Noelwah R. Netusil, and Erik Porse. 2022. Redrawing our urban waters: Merging design, law and policy in advancing distributed water systems. In Routledge Handbook on Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim, Yizhao Yang, Anne Taufen (Eds). New York, NY. Routledge.