Field Notes Toward an Internationalist Green New Deal, from The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, is “intended to open new terrains for scholarship, organizing, contestation, and struggle in the fight for a globally just Green New Deal.” The site hosts data and visualizations on topics including deforestation, mass extinction, oil and gas reserves, international development, and global carceral infrastructure.
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“Ken Steif: Data and Decision-Making in the Public Sector”
Associate Professor of Practice Ken Steif, who directs the MUSA Program, explains how the public sector can catch up to private industry in adopting data science to make wiser, more efficient decisions.
“Reassessing Iconography on Campus”
Dean Steiner talks about the work of the Campus Iconography Group to ensure that statues and other prominent iconography on campus better reflect the University’s “achievements and aspirations to increase the diversity of the Penn community.”
“Landlords are waiting for rent payments—and some can’t hold on much longer”
A survey conducted by Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning Vincent Reina found that property owners are dealing with late rent payments and trouble filling vacancies amid the pandemic.
“Testing how navigable SEPTA is, with glasses that see what riders see”
Megan Ryerson, associate professor of city and regional planning and electrical and systems engineering and associate dean for research, is helping the agency improve riders' experience.
“The T List: Five Things We Recommend This Week”
T Magazine highlights OverTime, a new augmented reality app from Monument Lab, the public art and history studio led by Weitzman’s Paul Farber and Ken Lum.
“Next Progressives: PORT”
Christopher Marcinkoski, associate professor of landscape architecture, talks to Architect magazine about his firm’s ‘hyperbolic pragmatism’ and work enhancing civic life in urban realms.
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