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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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SEPTA said ‘there really is no way forward’ to build the Roosevelt Boulevard subway
Jay Arzu of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design appreciates that SEPTA officials are being honest about not having the funding for a massive subway project.
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Fifty years of “Learning from Las Vegas”
A profile examines the architectural novel “Learning from Las Vegas” co-written by Denise Scott Brown, formerly of the Weitzman School of Design.
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The housing struggle
On an episode of “Us and Them,” Claudia Aiken of the Weitzman School of Design and Taylor Kessinger of the School of Arts & Sciences discuss their research and advocacy for housing development in Philadelphia.
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Pennsylvania and New Mexico universities score National Park Service grant to preserve Route 66
Frank Matero of the Weitzman School of Design and colleagues have secured a National Park Service grant for the preservation of the Route 66 cultural landscape in Tucumcari, New Mexico.
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University of Pennsylvania to stage exhibition on first woman architect in U.S. to practice solo
Penn graduate Molly Lester and a curatorial team of the Architectural Archives at the Weitzman School of Design will be honoring architect Minerva Parker Nichols with an exhibition.
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What does the future hold for the Tanner House? Historic preservation grad students have ideas
Graduate students at the Weitzman School of Design are teaming with Weitzman’s Randall Mason to discuss ways to expand the historical significance and preserve the architecture of the Henry O. Tanner House in North Philadelphia.
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A look back at the year in Nashville music news
The Weitzman School of Design’s PennPraxis will lead a study to see how the city of Nashville can stabilize its tumultuous live music industry.
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The push to list the Great Barrier Reef as endangered
On an episode of “The Current with Matt Galloway,” PIK Professor Lynn Meskell discusses whether the Great Barrier Reef could be added to UNESCO’s endangered list.
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National Mall commissions six artists for monument exhibition
Paul Farber of the Weitzman School of Design is co-curating an exhibition at the National Mall that will reimagine the role of monuments in the telling of history.
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America’s blueprint for urban inequity was drawn in Philly. It failed Black Philadelphians
Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta of the Weitzman School of Design sees an opportunity for Philadelphia to reset with an antiracist foundation, using Sankofa urban planning to incorporate Black history as a guide toward the future.