The West Philadelphia Landscape Project links environmental action and community development as part of an action research program. Our work, based in the Mill Creek watershed, has inspired projects in many other places.
News
A new WPLP Web site! Here you will find both the history of WPLP (see the Timeline on the homepage) and the most recent ventures. This site presents new information, provides fresh ways of accessing WPLP resources, and introduces the WPLP Network, a forum for WPLP alumni and partners (see PEOPLE).
Recognition
Read about selected honors and recognition
Environmental History calls WPLP a model for how environmental history "could serve to demonstrate the multitude of ways the urban environment affects and shapes city life, 2005
NYU's Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems, in their study of "Innovative Designs for Education," cites WPLP as a model for a "fully integrated, comprehensive approach," 2004
Harvard University's Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies calls WPLP a model project for ecology history, and design, 2004
American Association for the Advancement of Science describes WPLP's Mill Creek Project as "an excellent model" in applying Internet-based learning activities for K-12 classrooms, 2004
Philadelphia City Planning Commission recommends WPLP as an online resource for vacant land and brownfields issues and cites the inspiration of WPLP for current Mill Creek plans, 2004
WPLP wins Community Service Award, American Society of Landscape Architects, 2004
City of Ottawa, Canada Growth Management Plan cites WPLP: "This project demonstrates the links between environmental issues, education and heritage, and is a model for Ottawa as it seeks to comprehensively implement a "green city" strategy," 2003
National Housing Institute cites WPLP as a model of community-based planning efforts, 2000
President Bill Clinton speaks at Sulzberger Middle School, 2000
White House Millennium Councils Imagining America cites WPLP as Model of Best Practice, 1999
Mill Creek Project and SMS featured on NBC Evening News, 1999. See video below.
WPLP featured in Bio-City, a Japanese magazine (in Japanese), 1999
Alexander Porshke, Minister for the Environment, Hamburg, Germany tours Mill Creek Watershed and Aspen Farms, 1999
Presentation to Pennsylvania Legislature as part of Governors Annual Budget Speech, 1998. See video below.
Philadelphia School District names Sulzberger Middle School "School of the Month"
The Mill Creek Project at SMS, 30-minute documentary airs daily on Philadelphia School District Cable TV Station, November 1999
Michigan Public Radio features a story on WPLP, 1998
Sulzberger Middle School students win Best Design, Philadelphia Region, Fifth Annual National Engineers' Week Future City Competition, for "Silver City," 1997