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Louisa Shepard
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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.
Urban planning and politics in Atlanta
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.
Planning a greener future for Philadelphia’s historic 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.
Reviving Philadelphia’s nighttime economy
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.
The Sachs Program announces 2021 arts grants
The Sachs Program announces 2021 arts grants
The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation will support 25 new Penn arts projects, totaling $177,000 in funding.
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.
Orkan Telhan’s ‘Microbial Fruits of Istanbul’
Orkan Telhan’s ‘Microbial Fruits of Istanbul’
“Microbial Fruits of Istanbul” is a collaboration between Orkan Telhan, associate professor of fine arts, and the architecture firm elii which explores the complex histories of Istanbul community gardens from the perspective of microorganisms.
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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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Big Think
National parks are great. Now, let’s create a World Park
Richard Weller of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design writes that, to preserve biodiversity and ecosystems, protected areas should be connected into a gigantic World Park.
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