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Overview
Project Partners
Project Staff
Project Sponsors
The West Philadelphia Landscape Project has integrated research,
teaching, and community service since 1987. It has brought together
teachers and students at universities and public schools, members of
neighborhood groups, and public officials on a wide range of
activities.
Accomplishments include: tangible, sustained, community development; a
new curriculum for an inner-city middle school; a community database;
innovative applications of digital technology; and proposals for
watershed management now being implemented by the City of
Philadelphia. WPLP has been featured in newspaper articles,
professional journals, national radio and television broadcasts, and
international conferences and symposia. Since 2000, WPLP has been
based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Project Timeline
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
Center for Reflective Community Practice
University of Pennsylvania and
Center for Community Partnerships
Aspen Farms Community Garden
Sulzberger Middle School
Mill Creek Coalition
Philadelphia Water Department
Environmental Protection Agency
Philadelphia Green
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Project Director:
Anne Whiston Spirn (1987- )
Project Managers:
Martin Knox (1997-1998)
Robert Cheetham (1996-1997)
Penn Research Assistants (1995-2000):
Laura Aibel: Urban Watershed Project, 1995-1996; MRP 1996
Robert Cheetham: webmaster 1996-1997; Digital Database Project
1995-1997; MLA 1997
Danielle Floyd: Penn-Sulzberger Summer Program 1998; College, 2001
Kamni Gill: Urban Wetland Curriculum, 1998; Penn-Sulzberger Summer
Program, 1998; MLA 1999
Damon Hein: Digital Database Project 1995; MLA 1995
Rafael Jiminez: Mill Creek Coalition Project 1999 - 2000; BA 2001
Marcia Karasek: Digital Database Project 1995; MLA 1995
Martin Knox: Project Manager 1997-1998 Mill Creek Curriculum Project
1996-1998; Community-Based Environmental Curriculum 1996;
Penn-Sulzberger summer program 1997; MLA 1998
Laura Lanza, Mill Creek Coalition Project, summer 1999; Ph.D.
candidate in City and Regional Planning
Yu-Ting Lee: Mill Creek Curriculum Project 1997; Penn-Sulzberger
summer program 1997; MLA 1998
Elizabeth McPherson: Mill Creek Archives Project 1997; Nursing 1999
Charles Neer: WPLP web-design, summer 1997; Sulzberger Middle School
Projects 1997; MLA 1999
Cynthia Ott: Mill Creek Archives Project, summer 1997; Ph.D.
candidate, American Civilization
Carla Radoslovich-Delcambre: Mill Creek Coalition Project, 2000; Penn
MLA 2001
Kevin Smith: Aspen Farms Construction; Penn-Sulzberger Summer Program,
1998; M. Arch., 1999
Sam Spirn: Webmaster 1997-1999; WPLP/SMS Summer Program 1998, 1997;
WPLP Web author 1996-1999; Germantown Friends School 1999
Rachel Sterling-Boyers: Sulzberger Middle School Projects 1995-1996;
MLA 1996
Sarah Williams: Webmaster 2000; Mill Creek GIS Project; MLA 2002
Sulzberger Middle School Summer Interns:
Rasean Frasier, SMS 1998
O'neil Hall, SMS 1999
Tyshara Owen, SMS 1997
Justin Parish, SMS 1997
Keith Sisco, SMS 1998
Fatima Williams, SMS 1998
West Philadelphia Landscape Plan and Greening Project Staff
(1987-1991)
Principal Investigators:
Anne Whiston Spirn, University of Pennsylvania
Gerri Spilka, Organization and Management Group
Project Managers:
W. Gary Smith (1987-1989)
Michele Pollio (1989-1990)
Mark Cameron (1990-1991)
Consultants:
Bilge Friedlander, 1988-1989 (Photography)
John Radke, 1988-1991 (Digital Database)
Shlomo Zev, 1990-1991i (Digital Database)
Penn Research Assistants:
Tarna Agranat: MLA 1991
Geoffrey Anderson: MLA 1991
John Berg: MLA 1989
Christopher Britton: MLA 1989
Mark Cameron: MLA/MARCH 1991
Kacey Constable: MLA 1991
Sarah Cunningham: MLA 1990
Sharon Fitzgerald: MLA 1990
Elizabeth Koreman: MLA 1988
Ruth Loewe: MLA 1988
Daniel Marcucci: MLA 1992
Adit Pal: MLA 1991
Michele Pollio: MARCH 1989
Jeffrey Poor: MLA 1990
Rafael Real de Asua: MLA 1990
Karen Reutlinger: MLA 1989
Elissa Sharp: MLA 1991
John Widrick: MLA 1989
Laura Will: MLA 1990
Rumi Yoshimi: MLA 1993
Wei Xu: MLA 1990
Organization and Management Group:
Gerri Spilka
Philadelphia Green, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society:
Blaine Bonham, Michael Groman, Patricia Schreiber, Sally McCabe,
Denise Jefferson, Susan Ross, Jonathon Frank.
West Philadelphia Partnership
George Brown, Blondell Reynolds
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School of Architecture, MIT
Center for Reflective Community Practice, MIT
Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania (support
for research assistants, 1995-2000)
Computer Graphics Laboratory, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University
of Pennsylvania
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (support for research
assistants, 1997-1998)
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Spirn
fellowship,1995-1996)
Philadelphia Urban Resources Partnership (support for WPLP/SMS/Aspen
Farm Parnership,1996-1998)
W. K. Kellogg Foundation (support for teaching assistant, 1997-1999)
Ford Foundation (support for summer research assistant, 1997)
Intergraph Corporation (hardware and software, 1988-1991)
J. N. Pew Charitable Trust (West Philadelphia Landscape Plan and
Greening Project grant 1987-1991)
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