On Monday, Feburary 27, PennDesign will host Enrique Peñalosa, a forward-thinking urbanist and former Mayor of Bogotá, Columbia. Peñalosa will speak about mobility, equity, and quality of life in cities.
Urbanist Enrique Peñalosa comes to PennDesign 2/27 to talk equity and mobility in city planning
February 20-24: Kahn in Rome, Thaddeus Squire at Visibly Invisible, Scott Gabriel Knowles on risk and disaster, Paula Scher on design, Grid Alive, reimagining urban highways
January 23-27: Deep Green Seminar, State of the Union Bingo, ‘Clybourne Park’ opens, Architecture and Energy
January 17-20: Robert A.M. Stern, Megaprojects & The Battle for Atlantic Yards, Chang, Lower Schuylkill Master Plan open houses, Philadelphia’s walkability
Patching 19th Street Baptist Church to buy time for its future
Volunteers are patching the holes in Point Breeze’s crumbling 19th Street Baptist Church, a Frank Furness-designed church in dire shape, working against the clock and the elements to save the building before it’s too far gone.
The Battle for Atlantic Yards comes to Penn, bookended with megaproject forums
Talk megaprojects and sing eminent domain blues at Penn this month with In the Footprint: The Battle for Atlantic Yards, a high-drama docu-musical about a controversial Brooklyn development at the Annenberg Center (1/18-1/28), and two panel discussions organized by PennDesign about megaprojects and balancing social good(1/17 and 1/31).
Eyes on the Street is giving away tickets that get you into both.
Holiday lighting, CitiesAlive, high-speed rail forum, Chinatown Community Center presentation, Northeast Resurgent symposium
November 21-25: Biography of Building, Thanksgiving Parade, RiverRink, Holiday Railroad
November 4-6: Monumental!, LOVE Your Park, Passyunk Square house tour, world games
City Hall is Monumental!
PennDesign devotes this weekend (November 4-6) to the history, design, construction, and restoration of Philadelphia’s City Hall.
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