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Americans face looming rent crisis
Brick facades on a rainy day

Ahousing complex in Albany County, New York on May 5, 2021. Image: Tyler A. McNeil.

Americans face looming rent crisis

When the CDC’s eviction moratorium is lifted, 11 million Americans will face housing instability.

Kristina García

In the backyard at the Philadelphia Flower Show
Abdallah Tabet grips rake in garden Abdallah Tabet, a lecturer in the Weitzman School of Design, designed the 1,000-square-foot exhibit “Philly-Beirut” (pictured) for the 2021 Philadelphia Flower Show.

In the backyard at the Philadelphia Flower Show

Abdallah Tabet of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design is one of 34 major exhibitors at this year’s Philadelphia Flower Show.
‘Cities in water’
Panoramic view of the village of Gangotri at the shore of a river.

‘Cities in water’

Architect and landscape architect Anuradha Mathur and anthropologist Nikhil Anand are collaborating on questions of design and human practices to create new ways of thinking about low-lying coastal cities in India and around the world.

Kristina García

Mystics and visionaries: A fine arts seminar
Image taken from above of people in an art museum taking photos and looking at large abstract paintings.

(Pre-pandemic image) Exhibition view of Hilma af Klint's 'The Ten Largest' at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, 2018. (Image: Courtesy of Ryan Dickey)

Mystics and visionaries: A fine arts seminar

The Weitzman School’s Jackie Tileston’s seminar looks at the ways in which alternative forms of knowledge have fed artistic practices, both in the past and for contemporary artists in cultures around the globe.

Kristen de Groot

Urban planning and politics in Atlanta
A black and white image of high-rise buildings collapsing in a cloud of dust

The 1972 demolition of the St. Louis, Missouri urban housing projects known as Pruitt-Igoe less than 20 years after their completion in 1956 illustrates the lack of maintenance given to public housing in the United States. 

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    • Urban planning and politics in Atlanta

    Akira Rodríguez’s new book, “Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing” explores how the intersection of race and public housing development planning in Atlanta created a politics of resistance.

    Kristina García

    Planning a greener future for Philadelphia’s historic Parkside neighborhood
    Rowhouses in Philadelphia’s Parkside neighborhood.

    Planning a greener future for Philadelphia’s historic Parkside neighborhood

    This spring, students from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the Weitzman School consulted with the Centennial Parkside Community Development Corporation on ways to expand a community garden in the East Parkside neighborhood of West Philadelphia.

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    Reviving Philadelphia’s nighttime economy
    Philly cityscape at night.

    Reviving Philadelphia’s nighttime economy

    Even before COVID-19 curtailed public nightlife in Philadelphia, members of the Weitzman School’s PennPraxis have been working on a civic engagement project to articulate a better, more progressive Philly nightlife.

    From the Weitzman School of Design

    After the pandemic, how will society remember more than 3 million lives lost to COVID-19?
    washington memorial with flags The COVID-19 Memorial Project installed thousands of flags in the National Mall last September to memorialize what was then the 200,000 Americans lost to COVID-19. (Image: angela n.)

    After the pandemic, how will society remember more than 3 million lives lost to COVID-19?

    To date, more than 3 million people worldwide have lost their lives to COVID-19.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    How has COVID-19 changed ‘superstar cities’?
    the philadelphia city skyline looking north on a sunny day

    How has COVID-19 changed ‘superstar cities’?

    A new analysis found that overall mobility in large U.S. cities has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, and some are also experiencing changing segregation patterns, with potential implications that could last well beyond the pandemic.

    Erica K. Brockmeier