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
“The Dreams We Live Inside: Dreams in the Earth”
Richard Weller, professor and chair of landscape architecture and co-executive director of The McHarg Center at Weitzman, talks about Ian McHarg’s vision for aligning human development and the landscape.
“Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births”
Led, in part, by Associate Professor of FIne Arts Orkan Telhan, a new project bridges art and science for a more comprehensive and empowered approach to sexuality, procreation, and rearing.
“Can Biden Deliver on His Promise to Expand Housing Vouchers?”
A new report from Weitzman’s Claudia Aiken and Vincent Reina shows the gulf between the number of households that have vouchers and the number of households that need them.
“They’re White, Male and on Their Pedestals, for the Time Being”
A new report from Monument Lab, which was co-founded by Weitzman’s Ken Lum and Paul Farber, reveals a dramatic lack of representation for BIPOC Americans among 50,000 U.S. monuments.
“De Blasio Vowed to Make City Streets Safer. They’ve Turned More Deadly.”
Erick Guerra, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, calls De Blasio's signature initative to reduce traffic fatalities, Vision Zero, “aspirational.”
“«We cannot live without biodiversity»: professor Richard Weller at the International Architecture Venice Biennale”
The professor and chair of landscape architecture talks about his three-part contribution to the Biennale, which revisits NASA’s historic Apollo 17 mission.
