Mitch Glass

Mitch Glass is a lecturer in the Departments of Landscape Architecture and City and Regional Planning at Cornell and Director of the tRUST-lab (Regenerating Urban Spaces + Terrain). He teaches graduate and undergraduate studios and workshops that focus on urban neighborhoods in Rust Belt cities through community-based planning, social, racial, and environmental justice, green infrastructure strategies, and neighborhood visioning. His other endeavors include collaborations with Cornell research teams on soil development and bionutrient recycling; teaching studios related to the pre-colonial, Indigenous landscape of upstate New York (Haudenosaunee territory); and acting as the Faculty Advisor for the ULI Hines Student Urban Design Competition. Glass is a Faculty Fellow with the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, an Engaged Cornell Faculty Fellow, and has been a member of City of Ithaca’s Planning and Development Board since 2018. Before his appointments at Cornell in 2017, Glass worked in the public and private sectors in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston as a landscape architect and urban designer.