Three teams from the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Department of Architecture have been recognized by The American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) with 2021 student honor awards. Their design proposals address water scarcity at a major port city in China, the relationship between rural locales and bird habitat in Canada, and social inequity in the capital of Ecuador.
Weitzman School in the Media
“A New Book Explores The Lost Political Power Of Atlanta’s Public Housing Tenants”
Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning Akira Drake Rodriguez talks about the history of public housing in Atlanta, the subject of her forthcoming book.
“They Are Their Own Monuments”
Tess Thackara interviews north Philadelphia residents and artists involved in Staying Power, the latest project from Monument Lab and Weitzman’s Center for Public Art and Space.
“Reimagining What Monuments Can Be”
In the latest project from Monument Lab and Weitzman's Center for Public Art and Space, artists and residents of the historically Black Fairhill-Hartranft neighborhood of North Philly respond to systemic racism, inequity, disinvestment, and police brutality.
“The Weitzman School of Design will ponder the fate of a fragile planet at the Venice Architecture Biennale”
Richard Weller, professor and chair of landscape architecture, and Winka Dubbeldam, Miller Professor and chair of architecture, are unveiling new work.
“New Study Examines How Halting Evictions Helped Reduce the Spread of COVID-19 in Philly”
Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Vincent Reina on the outlook for renters when the federal eviction moratorium is lifted this June.
“Philly neighborhoods are fighting over development. A new tool may help.”
Faculty members Ken Steif and Akira Drake-Rodriguez, and alum Syndey Goldstein (MCP‘18), have developed a new app to help neighborhoods plan for equity and preservation.
