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.
Weitzman School in the Media
“In Philadelphia, Demolition of a Louis Kahn-Designed Hospital Raises Thorny Preservation Questions”
William Whitaker, curator and collections manager at the Architectural Archives, helps explain why the hospital was a key early work by the legendary Penn faculty member and colleague Anne Tyng.
“A Prison Reformed: Eastern State Penitentiary Confronts Injustice”
PennPraxis Researcher Starr Herr-Cardillo (MSHP'17) reports on the challenges and opportunities facing one of Philadelphia's most popular historic sites.
“Spain’s new “right to housing” law enshrines rent control nationwide”
Despite benefits for those in rent-controlled apartments, there are much better options, says Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor of City and Regional Planning Lance Freeman.
“Rental assistance is a lifeline for thousands of Philadelphia families—don’t let it disappear”
Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Vincent Reina calls on the city of Philadelphia to establish a new housing support system that applies lessons from the pandemic’s temporary emergency rent relief program.
“Should you buy carbon offsets for your air travel?”
The Kleinman Center's Jennifer Wilcox weighs in, and says we ought to think of direct air capture facilities as super-forests.
“In parks, universities, and cultural projects from coast to coast, architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi enrich the definition of accessible”
Architectural Digest profiles the firm led by Graham Professor of Practice Marion Weiss and her partner.
