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With PennDOT studying transit options for Roosevelt Boulevard, a subway is back on the table

In an Op-Ed, doctoral candidate Jay Arzu of the Weitzman School of Design explains why plans for the Roosevelt Boulevard subway in Northeast Philadelphia are back on the table.

Weitzman students standing outside the St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church and The Armstrong School.

Tuskegee-Penn partnership advances Black preservation

Architecture students at Tuskegee University are studying historic preservation through explorations of buildings on and near the historic HBCU campus, in part through a collaboration with the Weitzman School of Design.

First-time home buyers priced out by high mortgage rates and price points

PIK Professor Lance Freeman discusses the forces that first-time home buyers must fight against when it comes to gentrification.

How Philly can stay ahead of the curve in addressing climate change

In an Op-Ed, visiting scholar Mauricio Rodas of Perry World House and Eugénie L. Birch of the Weitzman School of Design offer recommendations that might help Philadelphia mitigate and adapt to extreme heat.

Here’s what Pennsylvania can learn from a world climate meeting

In an Op-Ed, Cornelia Colijn of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design discusses her takeaways from COP27 for Pennsylvania’s answers to climate change.

Weitzman’s Daniela Fabricius on architecture, labor, and history

The architectural theorist and historian is teaching a class titled Architecture and Labor while working on two books, including “The Ethics of Calculation: Architecture and Rationalism in Postwar Germany.”

Two people standing over a large-scale painting that will be mounted on an outdoor portico.

Through public art, the U.N. sustainability goals come to life

In FDR Park, a 10x10-foot mural sponsored by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and painted by Penn grad student Eliza Nobles represents the global target of clean energy for all.

Digging up modernist myths at the Glass House

In an interview, David Hartt of the Weitzman School of Design discusses his artwork revamping and recontextualizing the modernist grounds of Philip Johnson’s Glass House.

Trailer: The statue

Paul Farber of the Weitzman School of Design discusses why Philadelphia’s Rocky statue holds such resonance and what that says about which stories people choose to memorialize.

Here’s what causes crowd crushes like the deadly one in Seoul

Norman Badler of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says that the crowd crush in Itaewon was densely packed, with no way for people to exit vertically.

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