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Cities: ‘Where all the good stuff happens’
A person in jeans, a blue button down shirt and a blazer stands with hands in pockets in front of an ornate white-iron stairwell.

Mark Alan Hughes is founding faculty director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and a professor of practice in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.

 

Cities: ‘Where all the good stuff happens’

In his new book, Mark Alan Hughes of the Kleinman Center and Weitzman School of Design argues that cities don’t need to change to be livable. Rather, their unique qualities are the very origins of livability itself.

Michele W. Berger , Lindsey Samahon

30 years of cartographic modeling later, Dana Tomlin retires
A landscape of Dana Tomlin’s face that appears to be block cut.

Dana Tomlin, professor emeritus of landscape architecture. (Image: Weitzman School of Design)

30 years of cartographic modeling later, Dana Tomlin retires

This year, Dana Tomlin is retiring from the Department of Landscape Architecture in the Weitzman School of Design, where he has taught courses in cartographic modeling for thirty years.

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Rethinking resilience in the face of climate change
Hurricane satellite imagery

Rethinking resilience in the face of climate change

Hurricane Ida brought record-breaking rainfall and flooding, and stronger, more destructive storms will inevitably come. Being better prepared will require reconsidering how to protect people and their homes.

Michele W. Berger

ICA debuts first major retrospective of pioneering video artist
Video screen and photographs hung on a wall

Behind-the-scenes photographs of Ulysses Jenkins at work and a monitor displaying a video piece, located inside the ICA for the retrospective exhibit “Without Your Interpretation.” (Image: Eric Sucar)

ICA debuts first major retrospective of pioneering video artist

In ‘Without Your Interpretation,’ the Institute of Contemporary Art showcases the work of Ulysses Jenkins, a pivotal influence on contemporary art for more than 50 years.
Protecting and celebrating civil rights heritage and Black histories
armstrong house

The two-acre site of the Armstrong School, which has been out of use since the mid-1950’s, includes a church, burial ground, and school house. Researchers at Penn’s Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites and Tuskegee University are collaborating on stabilizing the structure and developing an interpretation plan for the historic site. (Image: Kwesi Daniels)

Protecting and celebrating civil rights heritage and Black histories

Launched last fall, Penn’s Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights sites is fostering new and ongoing partnerships while preserving the legacy of civil rights in the U.S.

Erica K. Brockmeier

9/11, 20 years later
ground zero from liberty state park

Tribute in Light, an annual display near the site of Ground Zero, commemorates the Sept. 11 attacks. (Homepage image: Scott Spitzer)

9/11, 20 years later

Experts across the University share their thoughts on how 9/11 transformed their field, their research, and the world.

Kristen de Groot , Louisa Shepard

Walking and listening in San Juan with Ernesto Pujol
Group of people walking around a coffee plantation in Puerto Rico.

Walking through the Hacienda Buena Vista coffee plantation, Ponce. (Image: Carlos Rodríguez, Para la Naturaleza, PR./Weitzman News)

Walking and listening in San Juan with Ernesto Pujol

An eight-day trip to Puerto Rico following a seminar taught by Fine Arts visiting professor led students through the city while engaged in a process of listening to the urban spaces of San Juan and the colonized ecology of its post-industrial hinterlands.

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Artist and professor David Hartt is ‘of the moment’
Artist standing in museum gallery with his artwork installation

Artist David Hartt with his installation “The Histories” (Crépuscule) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the exhibition “New Grit: Art & Philly Now.” (Image: July 2021 when masks were not required.)

Artist and professor David Hartt is ‘of the moment’

This year alone four museums and two galleries are featuring work by artist David Hartt of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, including currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Louisa Shepard