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November in the McHarg Center

November in the McHarg Center

January 19, 2019

Richard Weller co-authors a report on biodiversity with The Nature Conservancy, Matthijs Bouw participates in 'The Hackable City', and Design With Nature Now begins to take shape.

October in the McHarg Center

October in the McHarg Center

October 30, 2018Billy FlemingMcHarg Center Newsletter

This month, we opened registration for Design With Nature Now, received a transformative gift from the Wilks Family Foundation, published our work in CityLab, and welcome hundreds of alumni and friends to Philly for ASLA.

The Dutch Can't Save Us from Rising Seas

The Dutch Can't Save Us from Rising Seas

October 17, 2018Billy FlemingThe Atlantic's CityLab

To put it bluntly, there is nothing remotely comparable about the nature of the risk in the Netherlands and the nature of the risk in the United States.

Cape Town Is an Omen

September 11, 2018Vann Newkirk IIThe Atlantic

While each city has a very different set of reasons for its water woes, ranging from pollution to poor infrastructure to poor planning to desertification and drought, they all share a common challenge: Climate change will likely make the task of providing water harder, the populations thirstier, and the people angrier, even as many of the cities grow.

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