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Rendering of landscape beneath shimmering building skin Story | 04.21.2024 AI as a Design and Planning Partner
A composite of three headshots Story | 04.18.2024 Ng, Henry, and Green Earn 2024 Perkins Awards
Sanya Carley 2 Story | 04.10.2024 Q&A: Sanya Carley, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning
In the Media | 03.22.2024 U.S. carbon emissions fell in 2023, mainly thanks to natural gas displacing coal at power plants However, decarbonizing millions of personal vehicles is a lot harder than cutting emissions from the country’s thousands of power plants, says Sanya Carley, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy & City Planning.  Marketplace
Group of people seated for photo Story | 03.21.2024 A Century Later, Penn-China Connections in Architecture Deepen
In the Media | 03.20.2024 Roosevelt Boulevard’s speed cameras have been ‘overwhelmingly successful.’ It’s still Philly’s most dangerous road. A new study co-authored by Erick Guerra, associate professor of city and regional planning and associate dean for research, offers hope to area residents at a time when the city's roadways are becoming more dangerous. WHYY
In the Media | 03.19.2024 Rents are high and housing vouchers are hard to get. So Philly is giving renters cash. Vincent Reina, an associate professor of city and regional planning whose Housing Initiative at Penn helped reinvigorate Philadelphia's approach, says direct payments help people stay housed. NPR
In the Media | 03.18.2024 Philadelphia’s Market Street East searches for growth and renewal — with or without a new Sixers arena A community engagement process facilitated by Weitzman's Domenic Vitiello, associate professor of city and regional planning, and Rashida Ng, Presidential Associate Professor of Architecture, has Center City residents thinking expansively about the future of their neighborhood. The Philadelphia Inquirer
In the Media | 03.14.2024 New research to consolidate tools to manage salt contamination of freshwater supplies "More and more communities are looking for information on rising salt in their freshwater sources," says Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning and co-principal investigator Allison Lassiter. "But we don’t just want to provide data; we want to share that data in a way that makes it really useful. Working alongside water users and co-developing the interface of the salinity prediction tool is essential to move from data into action.” Smart Water Magazine
Person walks through a valley with small glaciers in distance Story | 03.04.2024 A Greener Greenland