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
“More Philly landlords are selling properties and deferring maintenance, which threatens the supply of affordable housing”
A new report from the Housing Initiative at Penn, led by Weitzman’s Vincent Reina, raises alarm.
“National parks are great. Now, let's create a World Park.”
Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture Richard Weller explains why, to preserve biodiversity and ecosystems, protected areas should be connected into a gigantic World Park.
“The artist creating mind-bending new worlds from the queer Black experience”
Alum Jacolby Satterwhite (MFA‘10) talks about a decade of work that challenges the hegemony of Western art history.
“David Hartt’s A Colored Garden Is In Full Bloom at The Glass House”
The Associate Professor Fine Arts has planted a circular garden on Philip Johnson's lawn inspired by the under-appreciated paintings of 19th-century artist Charles Ethan Porter.
“Trees as Influencers”
What could possibly be bad about planting trees? Associate Professor Landscape Architecture Sonja Duempelmann, a historian of urban landscapes, answers the question in this short TED talk.
“Urban forest or urban boulevard? Philadelphia tries to reimagine the Parkway—again.”
Architecture Critic Inga Saffron revisits the public debate about the iconic site, which Weitzman faculty Paul Levy and Laurie Olin have helped lead.
