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Green Campus Visionary Sets Sight on Drexel’s Green Initiatives and Buildings
Noted environmentalist and author Dr. David Orr will visit Drexel April 18 Drexel’s Smart House initiative has been spearheading cutting-edge environmental research and design at Drexel for the past...
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Neighborhoods and Health: A Deeper Look at Recent Research
Auchincloss and co-authors examined neighborhood walkability and healthy food access for their relationship to obesity in a population studied over five years. Dr. Amy Auchincloss, an assistant...
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Philadelphia’s 30th Street Can Be More Than a Train Station
By John A. Fry The United States is witnessing something that seemed next to impossible not long ago – the rebirth of its urban centers. Nowhere is this seismic shift more prevalent than along the 450...
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Drexel Snapshot: Abandoned Power Plant Becomes a Classroom for Urban Design
Students tour the abandoned Delaware Power Station. Photo credit: Ryan Debold/Lindy Institute. The Delaware Power Station is a largely vacant 300,000-square foot building – notable as a set for...
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Drexel Snapshot: What Can Venetian ‘High Water’ Teach Us About Climate...
Flooding in Venice during “agua alta” phenomenon. Drexel environmental engineering professor Franco Montalto, PhD, is on sabbatical in Venice, where he’s getting a close look at the effects of climate...
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Wild Animals Aren’t Infiltrating Our Cities, They Live There
A beaver found along Darby Creek in South West Philadelphia. Image credit, Christian Hunold.“Animals take to the streets amid lockdown,” reads an article recently published in the Guardian – however,...
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