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Weitzman Planning

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Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design

 Philadelphia, PA
design.upenn.edu/city-regional-planning/graduate/work
Joined September 2017
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Greg Shill@greg_shill24 Feb 2025
🎙️🎙️ New @DenselySpeaking! Erick Guerra of Penn Weitzman School of Design joins @jeffrlin and me to talk about his new article (w/ Duranton & Ma) quantifying roadways across 300 US metros (trickier than you'd think!). 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4Vj…
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Megan Ryerson on Resilient, Environmentally-efficient Transportation penniur.upenn.edu/publicatio…

Megan Ryerson on Resilient, Environmentally-efficient Transportation

Megan Ryerson's scholarship examines the interplay between transportation networks, urban development, energy efficiency and resilience.

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“SEPTA has financial crises that come up time and time again, every five to 10 years,” says Professor Erick Guerra. As Philly’s transit system faces yet another funding cliff, will history repeat itself? Read more: hiddencityphila.org/2025/02/…
What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: “Getting There” on Philly’s Public Transit Roller Coaster

What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: “Getting There” on Philly’s Public Transit Roller Coaster

History can teach us about SEPTA's looming "death spiral." After all, Philadelphia has been here before

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Lisa Servon wins the 2024 Provost/Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Award penntoday.upenn.edu/news/lis…

Lisa Servon wins the 2024 Provost/Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Award | Penn Today

A professor in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Servon was recognized for her work with the Kensington Corridor Trust. The honor was presented by Provost John L. Jackson Jr. and Netter Center...

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Summer discussed his work on transportation access and safety with the Penn Today penntoday.upenn.edu/news/pen…
The impact of driverless cars on an urban landscape | Penn Today

The impact of driverless cars on an urban landscape | Penn Today

Weitzman School of Design’s Xiaoxia ‘Summer’ Dong focuses on the travel behavior and mode choice impacts of driverless cars.

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thedp.com/article/2024/11/pe… Domenic Vitiello discussed urban agriculture and food system sustainability at the Climate Solutions for the Living World symposium, hosted by Penn Plant ARC.
Penn Plant ARC hosts inaugural symposium featuring expert presentations on climate change

Penn Plant ARC hosts inaugural symposium featuring expert presentations on climate change

On Nov. 15, the Penn Plant Adaptability and Resilience Center hosted its inaugural symposium, “Climate Solutions for the Living World,” to discuss solutions to climate change.

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Scott Page and Jamie Granger's Vermont Studio was featured on NBC5 mynbc5.com/article/universit…
UPenn students to help Vermont communities

UPenn students to help Vermont communities

For the past two years, students at the University of Pennsylvania have been studying ways to tackle climate change and support recovery efforts in Vermont.

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Erick Guerra commented on commute times in the Inquirer: inquirer.com/transportation/…
Philly commutes are getting slightly quicker, but they’re among the longest in the U.S.

Philly commutes are getting slightly quicker, but they’re among the longest in the U.S.

The average commute to work in Philadelphia was 31.1 minutes one-way in 2023, significantly better than New York, but above the national average.

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Megan Ryerson discusses the $66B investment from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill aimed at advancing US high-speed rail in the Penn Today penntoday.upenn.edu/news/bul…
The bullet train turns 60 | Penn Today

The bullet train turns 60 | Penn Today

In both Asia and Europe, high-speed rail knits regions, countries, and continents together. What will it take to see more rail infrastructure in the U.S.?

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Professor Carley was also featured in a related article by The Guardian. You can read the article here: bit.ly/3Bjy3yv
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Tallahassee Democrat speaks to Professor Sanya Carley about the impact of utility disconnections on US households facing increased temperatures. Read the article here: tallahassee.com
Tallahassee Democrat | News, sports, entertainment, classifieds.

Tallahassee Democrat | News, sports, entertainment, classifieds.

Breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, State Capitol and Florida State University coverage from the Tallahassee (Florida) Democrat newspaper.

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WHYY quotes Professor Vincent Reina in an article on what the presidential election could mean for housing policy in Pennsylvania: bit.ly/3MVuukz
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Pew recently cited Professor Domenic Vitiello's 2017 book "Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States" in an article about Philadelphia’s immigrant entrepreneurs. Read more here: pewtrusts.org

The Pew Charitable Trusts

Pew's work lays the foundation for effective policies and practices by invigorating civic life, conducting research, informing and engaging citizens, linking diverse interests to pursue common cause,...

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Professor John Landis published an article in the Journal of Planning Education and Research. The article will be released in hardcopy this fall, and is available online now at the link here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
Why American City Planning Needs a More Entrepreneurial Practice Modality - John D. Landis, 2025

Why American City Planning Needs a More Entrepreneurial Practice Modality - John D. Landis, 2025

This commentary argues that current practice modalities are inadequate to meet the planning challenges of the day and that planners should seek out more entrepr...

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In addition, the professor's 2003 edited book, "Megaprojects for Megaregions: A Comparative Casebook", is now out in paperback from Edward-Elgar Publishers: e-elgar.com/shop/usd/megapro…
Megaprojects for Megacities

Megaprojects for Megacities

Megaprojects for Megacities is a collection of 14 international case studies of transportation, urban development, and environmental megaprojects completed during the last ten years in North America,...

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The Nation speaks to Professor Lance Freeman about gentrification in South Philadelphia. Read the article here: bit.ly/4d8paFj
Will the Closure of an Oil Refinery Bring Justice or Gentrification to Philadelphia?

Will the Closure of an Oil Refinery Bring Justice or Gentrification to Philadelphia?

Four years after the largest oil refinery on the East Coast shut down, residents in South and Southwest Philadelphia still don’t know what will come next.

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Tallahassee Democrat speaks to Professor Sanya Carley about the impact of utility disconnections on US households facing increased temperatures. Read the article here: tallahassee.com
Tallahassee Democrat | News, sports, entertainment, classifieds.

Tallahassee Democrat | News, sports, entertainment, classifieds.

Breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, State Capitol and Florida State University coverage from the Tallahassee (Florida) Democrat newspaper.

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“The costs of roadways are extremely high.” Bloomberg quotes Professor Erick Guerra in an article discussing the effect of heatwaves on Asia's economies here: bloom.bg/3ZnbIu5

More Intense Heatwaves Pose Long-Term Hit to Asia’s Economies

I’m Katia Dmitrieva, Asia economics correspondent in Hong Kong. Today we’re looking at the threat of more intense heatwaves to Asian economies. Send us feedback and tips to [email protected] or...

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Devon Chodzin (MCP '24) writes a review of Midwife's new LP. He cites Professor Francesca Ammon, who gives background on the urban renewal that inspired Midwife's first single, "Killdozer". Read the review here: pastemagazine.com
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Professor Elizabeth Delmelle will be speaking at the Spatial Data Science Conference in New York on October 17th. Learn more about the conference here: spatial-data-science-confere…
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Professor Domenic Vitiello was recently featured in a Penn Today article, where he discusses his research and teaching his Food Systems class. Read the article here: Penn Today (upenn.edu)
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