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Louisa Shepard
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Learning to listen in troubled times
Learning to listen in troubled times
The SNF Paideia Program and partners featured Ernesto Pujol and Aaron Levy, an artist and an interdisciplinary scholar who have transformed both what it means to listen and what the act of listening can achieve as part of a lecture and workshops.
With OurPlan, Weitzman team pilots new data tool for neighborhood democracy
With OurPlan, Weitzman team pilots new data tool for neighborhood democracy
A team of Weitzman scholars designed OurPlan to give residents of West Philadelphia a voice in planning and preservation.
‘Under Pressure: Essays on Urban Housing’ is released
‘Under Pressure: Essays on Urban Housing’ is released
The new publication, edited by Hina Jamelle, senior lecturer and director of urban housing in the Department of Architecture, gathers and contextualizes recent conversations on urban housing through a design lens.
Steiner’s term as dean of Penn’s Weitzman School of Design is extended
Steiner’s term as dean of Penn’s Weitzman School of Design is extended
Frederick “Fritz” Steiner’s term as dean of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design has been extended two years to June 30, 2025. The announcement was made by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Interim Provost Beth A. Winkelstein.
A pandemic year, in photos
A pandemic year, in photos
‘Apart Together,’ a new photography exhibit at the Annenberg School, shows that despite not being physically in the same place the past 18 months, our shared experiences kept us connected.
30 years of cartographic modeling later, Dana Tomlin retires
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.
Walking and listening in San Juan with Ernesto Pujol
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.
A visual archive of an iconic American boulevard
A visual archive of an iconic American boulevard
A trio of undergraduate students worked this summer with Professor Francesca Ammon to catalog and organize photographs for the digital humanities project ‘Sunset over Sunset.’
Americans face looming rent crisis
Americans face looming rent crisis
When the CDC’s eviction moratorium is lifted, 11 million Americans will face housing instability.
In the backyard at the 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.
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Bloomberg
Do prisons deserve a second chance?
A fall 2020 semester studio at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design led by Billy Fleming explored ways to transform prisons and correctional facilities in Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta, such as turning the structures into community spaces or solar and wind farms. “There are so many disenfranchised places in the United States sold on the promise of prisons as economic development who’ve seen what a spectacular failure that is,” Fleming said.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Judge ousts absentee owner of historic Mount Vernon Cemetery. Rehab could involve goats
Aaron Wunsch of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design said efforts to rehabilitate historic cemeteries like Mount Vernon in Philadelphia must consider the needs of stakeholders, including neighbors and those with family ties to the site. “These places have always had a public dimension to them,” he said. “But you always have to be aware of what the descendants of people buried there feel about that, too.”
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Philadelphia Inquirer
More Philly landlords are selling properties and deferring maintenance, which threatens the supply of affordable housing
Vincent Reina of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design is quoted on the strain which a lot of Philadelphia's housing stock is consistently under.
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Bloomberg News
How Philadelphia housing repairs drove down crime
Vincent J. Reina of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design comments on his research into how home repair investment reduced crime levels overall, across every type of crime.
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The Wall Street Journal
Fighting crime with home renovations
Vincent Reina of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design comments on the multiple social costs when a house becomes uninhabitable and vacant.
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CBS News
Landlord faces homelessness as tenants fall behind on rent during eviction ban
The Stuart Weitzman School of Design’s Vincent Reina is quoted on the lack of a safety net for housing.
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