Please join us for a memorial lecture and panel discussion in memory of Professor Emeritus John W. Reps. Reps was a fixture in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University for over 70 years. After graduating as part of the first class of students to confer master's degrees in city and regional planning at Cornell in 1947, and several years of study in England both at the University of Liverpool and the London School of Economics, Reps returned to Ithaca in 1951 to join the planning department as a member of the faculty. His service to CRP took almost every form imaginable. Reps taught lecture courses and seminars and chaired the department for twelve years, acting simultaneously as the department secretary as well as director of admissions, commencement, and scheduling as he wrote books and papers, documented cities and towns, and collected historical city plans.

The memorial lecture titled "Planning in an Era of Rapid Urbanization: The Case of Indonesia" will be presented by Professor Christopher Silver, University of Florida. The lecture will be presented in person in the Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall. The lecture is open to members of the Cornell community who are actively completing the Daily Check. The lecture will also be live-streamed. Please see The John Reps Memorial Lecture tab for more details.

Following a brief intermission, a panel of Cornell faculty and former students will present on the work and legacy of the late John Reps. This panel will be held online via Zoom. Please see the Panel Discussion tab for more details. After this panel, please join us for a virtual reception where we invite guests to share memories and stories of John.

Schedule of events
Lecture

12:25–2:20 p.m.

Milstein Auditorium/Livestream

Panel Discussion

3:00–4:00 p.m.

Available on Zoom

Virtual Reception

4:00–5:00 p.m.

Available on Zoom

This lecture is sponsored by the Russell Van Nest Black Lecture Fund and by a generous gift from Dr. Vukan Vuchic, Emeritus Professor of Transportation Systems Engineering and of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.