The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology

Mission

The Ian L. 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.

Vision

The McHarg Center is a platform for design and planning research that supports the future of life on Earth.