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Proposal submitted to J.N. Pew Charitable Trust for collaboration
between Penn, Philadelphia Green, and West Philadelphia Partnership
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Proposal funded and work begins with
Philadelphia Green.
Data Collection and Planning begins
Course: First WPLP studio, Penn LARP (Smith)
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Many gardens built, including: Westminster Community Garden and
Pennsgrove Community Garden
(http://www.upenn.edu/wplp/plan/pennsg.htm)
Project: First Digital Database
Study of eight community gardens
(http://www.upenn.edu/wplp/plan/garden.htm)
Course: Mill Creek Studio, Penn LARP (Spirn, Smith) produces design
for Aspen Farms and vacant urban land
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Construction of landscape projects, including Aspen Farm Main
Street
Blockscape Program begins (http://www.upenn.edu/wplp/plan/block.htm)
Field survey of all vacant lots in West Philadelphia
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Report: "This Garden is a Town": Shaping the Community Garden
Spirn presents WPLP at international conference on landscape
planning in Hannover, Germany
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Report: West Philadelphia Landscape Plan: A Framework
for Action
Report: Models of Success: Landscape Improvements and
Community Development
Report: Vacant Land: A Resource for Reshaping Urban
Neighborhoods
Report: Shaping the Block: Redesigning Small Urban
Neighborhoods
Funding for WPLP from Pew ends
Planning magazine includes a story on WPLP
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Thomas Hine writes column on WPLP in Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Surroundings: A Long Buried Creek in West Philadelphia"
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National Public Radio's Living on Earth airs a story on WPLP
Spirn presents WPLP to OECD's Program on The Ecological City
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The Philadelphia Planning Commission publishes The Plan for West
Philadelphia with no mention of environmental problems associated with
Mill Creek
Planning magazine features "Dig These Gardens" a story on WPLP
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Support for WPLP from Penn's Center for Community Partnerships begins
Mill Creek Studio, Penn LARP (Spirn)
Mill Creek Project at Sulzberger Middle School begins
Redesign of Digital Database
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First WPLP website
Transforming the Urban Landscape Studio, Penn LARP (Spirn) first
online student projects
First Sulzberger garden project at Aspen Farms
Report: West Philadelphia Digital Database
Hydrological study of Mill Creek Watershed
Grant from Philadelphia Urban Resources Partnership supports Mill
Creek Project with WPLP, Aspen Farms, and Sulzberger Middle School
EPA invites Spirn to present WPLP to federal and city officials,
and convenes working group on Natural Resources Inventory of
Philadelphia Region
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Power of Place: Water, Schools, and History, Penn; Urban Studies
(Spirn)
Power of Place: Visions for Our Mill Creek Neighborhood
Sulzberger students present their visions for the Mill Creek
neighborhood at University of Pennsylvania conference
First WPLP/SMS/Aspen Farms Summer Program
Two SMS interns work on WPLP, learn web-authoring, and produce first
issue of SMS News: Volume 1: Summer Program 1997
Redesigned and enlarged WPLP website wins awards
Sulzberger wins Best Design, Philadelphia Region, Fifth Annual
National Engineers' Week Future City Competition, for "Silver City"
(coached by WPLP RA Martin Knox)
Transforming the Urban Landscape Studio, Penn LARP (Spirn)
Grant proposal to EPA for Mill Creek Project with WPLP, Aspen Farms,
and Sulzberger Middle School is turned down
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Power of the Place: Introduction to Urban Environmental Design;
Penn, Urban Studies
(Spirn) designs for [17]Mill Creek Miniature Golf Course
SMS teacher Glenn Campbell and 2 SMS students receive standing ovation
from the Pennsylvania legislature after their presentation of Mill
Creek Project to and as part of Governor Ridge's Budget
Speech (http://www.upenn.edu/wplp/sms/award.htm)
Second WPLP/SMS/Aspen Farms Summer Program
Two SMS interns work on WPLP and produce second issue of online SMS
News: Volume 2: Summer Program 1998
Transforming the Urban Landscape Studio, Penn LARP (Spirn)
Sulzberger named "School of the Month" by the Philadelphia School
District. Spirn named "Person of the Month"; a 30-minute
documentary airs daily throughout the month on cable television.
Mill Creek Coalition invites Glenn Campbell to speak about the
SMS/WPLP Mill Creek Project
Stories about SMS/WPLP published:
Glenn Campbell writes "Learning Gets Real With Service." About
Penn/SMS Mill Creek Project in Philadelphia Daily News
Boorse, Michael. "GFS Junior Teaches Art of Making Webs." Chestnut
Hill Local.
Spirn publishes The Language of Landscape (Yale University
Press), which features WPLP
Michigan Public Radio airs "The West Philadelphia Landscape
Project"
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Power of the Place: Introduction to Urban Environmental Design;
Penn, Urban Studies (Spirn)
Mill Creek Coalition invites Anne Spirn to speak about WPLP and to
join the MCC's Environment Committee
Pilot research project on subsidence and flooding conditions
with Mill Creek Coalition
WPLP/MCC submit joint proposal to Fannie Mae Foundation:
"Flooding, Subsidence, and Community Development in an Urban
Watershed: West Philadelphia's Mill Creek". It is not funded.
Spirn takes staff from Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) Office
of Watersheds on a tour of Mill Creek Watershed
PWD submits a new proposal to EPA based on the 1997 proposal and it is
funded. PWD plans to work with WPLP, Aspen Farms, SMS and MCC.
NBC Nightly News features SMS Mill Creek Project
(http://www.upenn.edu/wplp/sms/award.htm)
Public Radio airs several programs on WPLP
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President Bill Clinton visits Sulzberger Middle School
MCC/WPLP sponsor sessions for neighborhood residents on Mill Creek
history
PWD hires Sarah Williams, former WPLP RA to work on Mill Creek project
Story: "Landscape Organism: The West Philadelphia Landscape
Project," Landscape Architecture, March 2000.
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Power of Place: Introduction to Environmental Design; Penn, Urban
Studies (Spirn)
Power of Place: Media Technology, Youth, and City Design and
Development; MIT, Architecture/DUSP (Spirn)
(http://architecture.mit.edu/class/place)
PWD/SMS host summer watershed program and build a demonstration
project, "The Watershed," on a vacant lot across street
from SMS front door.
City of Philadelphia is awarded $35 million grant to from HUD to
renovate Mill Creek Public Housing as a demonstration project
incorporating watershed management and community development. PWD
and Philadelphia Housing Authority will work with residents and
SMS.
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Media Technology and City Design and Development; MIT,
Architecture/DUSP (Spirn, McDowell)
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