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

• Cerra, Joshua F. and Libby Zemaitis. (2022, in press) Changing landscapes, changing mindsets; Building capacity toward action in the Climate-adaptive Design Studio. The Routledge Handbook of Urban Landscape Research, Kate Bishop and Linda Corkery, Eds. Routledge.
• Georgakakos, C.B., Cerra, J.F., Allred S.B., Williams, K., Walter, M.T., LCerra, Joshua F. and Libby Zemaitis. 2022 Changing landscapes, changing mindsets; Building capacity toward action in the Climate-adaptive Design Studio. The Routledge Handbook of Urban Landscape Research, Kate Bishop and Linda Corkery, Eds. Routledge.oGiudice, E., Smith, G. (2021). Cross-disciplinary learning in environmental engineering and landscape architecture. International Journal of Collaborative Engineering.
• 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.

Book Chapters

• Muller, Brook, Adell Amos, Josh Cerra, Noelwah Netusil et al. 2021, in press. “Redrawing Our Urban Waters: Seeking Synergies Between Design, Law and Policy in Advancing Distributed, Place-Based Approaches to Urban Water Systems,” in Ken Yocom, eds., Water Handbook. London: Routledge Press