The University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design and the McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology will host a Special Session of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design in Philadelphia, PA from August 12-14, 2026.
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The University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design has long been at the forefront of research that advances public space as critical civic infrastructure. The school has a legacy of interdisciplinary leadership in design, planning, and public policy, with a proven capacity to convene expertise across sectors. With faculty expertise of the departments of Landscape Architecture, City Planning, Architecture, Historic Preservation, Fine Arts, and Urban Spatial Analytics, the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design educates the designers, the planners, and the artists of the future to address complex sociocultural and environmental issues through thoughtful inquiry, creative expression, and innovation.
The McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at Penn empowers landscape architects and planners to meet current and future challenges to life on Earth. Through transdisciplinary research and public dialogue with scholars, students, communities, and practitioners, the Center provides a global platform for ecological thinking and innovative design across multiple scales of the landscape.
Read more about MICD Institute Sessions here.