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Visualizing future cities with Zhongjie Lin
Beijing skyline at dusk

Visualizing future cities with Zhongjie Lin

A new three-year project called called “Spatial Visions Connecting China and the West: A Centennial Review and New Perspectives on Future Urban Environments” will address global issues like climate change and migration will begin at Penn and travel to Beijing.

Penn Today Staff

‘An Atlas for the Green New Deal’
a map of the united states with colored dots showing different types of land usage

‘An Atlas for the Green New Deal’

The McHarg Center releases a new collection of maps and datascapes capturing the spatial consequences of climate change in support of a coordinated national response.

Erica K. Brockmeier

An Inca ceremonial center, recreated in a digital landscape
group of students working on laptops around a table

An Inca ceremonial center, recreated in a digital landscape

Students use computer graphic technologies to bring historic sites to life as part of a summer research program and fall semester course that unites anthropology and computer science.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Moelis Fellowships brings African-American and Latinx students to city planning
Eboni Senai Hawkins and Sean Dajour Smith

Planning students Eboni Senai Hawkins and Sean Dajour Smith are the Weitzman School’s first Moelis Scholars. (Image: Weitzman School)

Moelis Fellowships brings African-American and Latinx students to city planning

The Department of City and Regional Planning is welcoming the first cohort of Moelis Scholars, a new program open to African-American and Latinx students who are thinking about pursuing careers in housing and community and economic development.

Penn Today Staff

The housing market is fueling our collective climate denial

The housing market is fueling our collective climate denial

Billy Fleming of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design said the U.S. needs to take action when it comes to preparing for climate change. “Every day we do not spend organizing communities around this question of ‘how do we leave and where do we go?’ is just making all of these other decisions harder and more expensive down the road.”