About WPLP

Overview

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

Partners in WPLP