The Weitzman Fall 2022 Lecture Series brings together distinguished architects, landscape architects, artists, historians, preservationists, planners, energy policy makers, mobility experts, and data scientists from the US and abroad to discuss recent work and emerging trends in the built environment and visual culture.
Weitzman School in the Media
“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.
“The Travel Industry’s Reckoning With Race and Inclusion”
Paul Farber, Weitzman faculty member and co-founder of the public art and history project Monument Lab, talks about efforts to change the way travelers of all colors understand America’s racially fraught history.
“For Mumbai to cope with frequent floods, it must see itself as a place in an estuary – not an island”
Anuradha Mathur, professor emeritus of landscape architecture, on her ongoing project to redirect the future of one of the world's great cities based on its past.
“The Green New Deal for Public Schools Goes Way Beyond Classrooms”
Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning Akira Drake Rodriguez talks about the report she co-authored behind Jamaal Bowman's proposed legislation to green public schools.
“Conversations in Urban Design”
Weitzman Dean and Paley Professor Fritz Steiner talks to NYIT’s Marcella Del Signore and Karan Ambardekar about his role in the early climate movement, his immersion into ecology at Penn, and a new book on megaregions.
