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
“Will America be cut off to the world once the lockdown ends?”
Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Domenic Vitiello on the challenges facing travellers to and from the US.
“SEPTA faces an unprecedented financial challenge.”
Erick Guerra, associate professor of city and regional planning at Weitzman, sounds a note of hope.
“You don’t have to be great right now. ‘Good enough’ will do.”
In an op-ed, Lisa Servon, the Kevin and Erica Penn Presidential Professor and chair of city and regional planning, reassures the Type A personalities among us.
“The Megaregion Is Having a Moment”
To restart their economies, states are teaming up according to a planning framework originated at Penn. Dean Steiner, Robert Yaro, and Jonathan Barnett weigh in.
“How ‘Filthydelphia’ made Earth Day a thing”
Catalina Jaramillo reports on the Weitzman planning students who organized an historic weeklong program 50 years ago.
“Press of the West”
'Colorado Experience' reports on a Weitzman initiative to resurrect a rare, historic print shop in Southwest Colorado as a cultural hub.
