| 12.19.22 |
| News from the Weitzman School of Design |
| Q&A: Elizabeth Delmelle on Data and Planning |
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| Elizabeth Delmelle, a geographer and geographic information scientist who joined Weitzman this past summer as the director of the School’s Master of Urban Spatial Analytics (MUSA) program, talks about the surprising, and sometimes controversial, findings her research has uncovered on the processes of neighborhood change, urban inequality, and urban transportation. “It can never be one thing that causes neighborhoods to change. It's the whole context,” says Delmelle, an associate professor of city and regional planning. |
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| Students ‘Disrupt the Reflection’ |
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| As part of a campus-wide initiative to make Penn more hospitable to migrating birds, a Fall 2022 ideas competition asked Weitzman students to design exterior window film for select buildings in order to reduce fatal collisions. One of the first-place winners was designed by Wenliu Tu (MArch’24) and Luxin Zhong (MArch’24). |
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| Freeman Examines Racial Equity in City Planning |
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| At a recent Penn event in New York City, alums heard Lance Freeman, the James W. Effron University Professor in the Department of City & Regional Planning, discuss the need for modern city planning to account for the legacy of past planning became clear. “There will have to be some consideration of how any development will impact equity,” Freeman said at the 24th Engaging Minds event. |
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| Gender and Sustainable Energy |
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| One-third of the world’s population lacks access to clean cooking and approximately 733 million people have no access to electricity. A research digest from the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, by Kleinman Energia Fellow Naimat Chopra, argues that a global transition to sustainable energy cannot be achieved unless women are equally included. |
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| Transportation, Urban Development, and Environmental Megaprojects |
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| Megaprojects for Megacities: A Comparative Casebook, edited by John D. Landis, emeritus professor of city and regional planning, has been published by Edward Elgar. The publication includes an essay by Oscar Serpell, associate director of academic programming and student engagement for the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. |
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| ‘Site Planning’ in Translation |
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| Site Planning: International Practices, a 2018 publication by Professor Emeritus of City & Regional Planning Gary Hack, has recently been published in Chinese by China Architecture & Building Press. The translation is by alum Sisi Liang (PhD’11). |
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| The Meanings of Place |
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| Genius Loci: An Essay on the Meanings of Place, a new publication by John Dixon Hunt, professor emeritus of landscape architecture, has been published by the University of Chicago Press. |
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| UNESCO World Heritage at 50 |
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| Lynn Meskell, the Richard D. Green University Professor in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, reports on a recent workshop on global cultural heritage she organized in partnership with Perry World House marking the 50th anniversary of UNESCO’s 1972 World Heritage Convention. |
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| In a presentation for the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Maimunah Mohd Sharif, the executive director of UN-Habitat, shared research spearheaded by Weitzman’s Richard Weller and Matthis Bouw mapping the world’s “hotspot cities” where urbanization and biodiversity are on a collision course. |
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Penn Set to Receive $2.4M in Funding to Research Turning Buildings into Carbon Storage Structures
“We’re taking a multi-scalar approach to minimize the impact of using concrete, which is the most ubiquitous construction material globally,” said Masoud Akbarzadeh, director of the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory and assistant professor of architecture, one of the principal investigators for the project
Reflecting on ‘Rowhouse City’
From October 7-8, the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation co-organized a sold-out symposium on the past, present, and future of the Philadelphia rowhouse.
Amber Wiley to Join Weitzman Faculty and Lead Civil Rights Initiative
The award-winning architectural and urban historian joined Weitzman as Presidential Associate Professor and the inaugural Matt and Erika Nord Director of the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites
Douglas Robb Named Inaugural McHarg Fellow
Robb, a researcher in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, is in residence in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Weitzman for the 2022-2023 Academic Year |
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| Steven Holl |
| The EwingCole Lecture |
| Recorded September 12, 2022 |
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A post from February shared a 2016 project by Yi Yang (MArch‘16) for a studio led by Paul Preissner.
Via @weitzman_school |
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