PENN STRENGTHENS CAMPUS SECURITY: BY REVIVING ITS SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD

摘要

In 1996, the University of Pennsylvania's sprawling campus in Philadelphia was in the grip of an unprecedented crime wave. While other universities chose to wall themselves off from their surrounding neighborhoods, Penn's administrators, led by then-President Judith Rodin, decided that such a strategy wouldn't work for their 280-acre campus. "The notion back then was, 'If West Philly goes down, Penn would go down with it,'" says University Architect David Hollenberg, AIA. So Penn doubled down on its investment in public safety. More important, it launched initiatives that addressed quality of life and security issues as well as housing and economic development in the surrounding West Philadelphia neighborhood.