A Penn State of Mind
1 September 2009 | Primer Magazine
The visionary William Penn has ideas about city planning. He’s experienced the great London fire of 1666 and observed vulgar Paris.
Posts tagged with “Sustainability”
“The Granite Garden”
20 November 2007
Spirn, who is a professor of landscape architecture and planning at MIT, is in many ways the godmother of the current green city-sustainability movement. She was one of the first to think of the city not as an aberration of nature but as its product, a point-of-view now being pursued across the world.
No Other Way
5 October 2007 | Philly Skyline
Cities, in reinventing themselves, are obliged to think for themselves, think big, and turn liabilities into assets. That takes force of political will — the payoff being growth, recognition, new fortunes.
Wanderlost
29 September 2005 | Philadelphia City Paper
To practice what the Independent of London calls “one of the most liberating trends of the last half century” — that is, to discover places and people different from ourselves.