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Protecting Indigenous heritage in an age of climate vulnerability
Wupatki Pueblo in Arizona at dusk.

Wupatki Pueblo, north of Flagstaff, Arizona, is among the villages built by Native peoples in the desert Southwest centuries ago. “We look at those sites as still alive, as offering us the opportunity to connect with our ancestors and to continue the work, and legacy of that work, of communing with that place,” says Chas Robles, ALCC’s executive director.

(Image: Colin Cohan)

Protecting Indigenous heritage in an age of climate vulnerability

A preservation plan being developed by researchers in the Weitzman School in consultation with local stewards conserves a millennium of human settlement.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Preservation studio teaches preservation planning practice
Liz Trumbull and Cameron Moon in the hospital ward of Eastern State Penitentiary, wearing hard hats.

Weitzman Historic Preservation Studio students Liz Trumbull and Cameron Moon in 2022 in the hospital ward of Eastern State Penitentiary.

(Image: Elizabeth Donison)

Preservation studio teaches preservation planning practice

The Weitzman School of Design’s Preservation Studio promotes sound decision-making practices in the face of contemporary preservation challenges.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Penn Vet’s Wildlife Futures Program launches habitat initiative for Philadelphia bats
Nick Tanner and Daniel Flinchbaugh with a finished bat box.

Penn Facilities and Real Estate Services assistant landscape planner Daniel Flinchbaugh (left) and Penn undergraduate Nick Tanner (right) with a nearly finished bat box in the Weitzman School of Design Fabrication Lab.

(Image: John Donges/University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine)

Penn Vet’s Wildlife Futures Program launches habitat initiative for Philadelphia bats

With the bat population on a sharp decline since 2008, the Program collaborated with Penn Sustainability and Penn Facilities and Real Estate Services to develop bat boxes designed to mimic tree habitat and support the daily needs and overall health of bats.

From Penn Vet

Penn solutions to climate change
Banner that reads climate week at Penn

At a Climate Week event, Penn’s Climate Solutions Showcase, a group of faculty and researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Weitzman School of Design presented innovative strategies to combat the causes and effects of climate change.

(Image: Felice Macera)

Penn solutions to climate change

As society grapples with the impacts of a worsening climate—from the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events to rising sea levels and deadly heat waves—the need for actionable solutions has never been greater, Penn researchers say.
The curious origin of the ‘climate haven’ myth
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The curious origin of the ‘climate haven’ myth

Billy Fleming of the Weitzman School of Design explains why the idea of a “climate refuge” is an escapist fantasy fueled by the real estate industry.

Toward carbon-negative architecture
A rendering of the carbon-absorbing and storage system

A rendering of the carbon-absorbing and storage system developed by the Penn team and its partners suggests how minimized material use and maximized surface area are expressed in the structure's slabs, columns, and beams.

(Image: Courtesy of Weitzman News)

Toward carbon-negative architecture

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Weitzman and Penn Engineering are working to develop a new building system that would reduce carbon in all aspects of concrete construction.

From the Weitzman School of Design

The bullet train turns 60
An Amtrak Acela train with the Philadelphia city skyline in the background

An Amtrak Acela passenger train heads south after leaving 30th Street Station.

(Image: AP Photo/David Boe)

The bullet train turns 60

In both Asia and Europe, high-speed rail knits regions, countries, and continents together. What will it take to see more rail infrastructure in the U.S.?

Kristina García

‘A place of collaborative conversation’
Catherine Seavitt (fourth from left) at a Spring 2024 studio review

Catherine Seavitt (seated, glasses) at a Spring 2024 studio review. “Our department is recognized as a place of collaborative conversation,” says Seavitt, who is also co-executive director of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism & Ecology.

(Image: Courtesy of Weitzman News)

‘A place of collaborative conversation’

On Sept. 26 and 27, the Weitzman School will host Landscape Futures: Centennial of the Department of Landscape Architecture, a two-day symposium to celebrate the department’s unique ecological foundations, its evolving curriculum, and its ongoing global influence on landscape architectural practice and education.

From the Weitzman School of Design