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Throughout the year, Temple University Ambler faculty and students engage in research and projects designed to assist and educate communities throughout the region and beyond. During the 2006-2007 school year, the Center for Sustainable Communities completed its Pennypack Creek Watershed Study, designed to alleviate flooding in a 12-municipality region and began new projects to help streamline community food access in Philadelphia and prevent ongoing flooding issues in the Fort Washington office park. Students in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture transported 300,000 visitors to the "Poetic Landscape of Ireland" with a Best-In-Show winning exhibit at the 2007 Philadelphia Flower Show. Professor Baldev Lamba saw the unveiling of the First Ladies' Water Garden, which he helped to design, landscape architecture students created sustainable garden designs for Habitat for Humanity, and Community and Regional Planning Chair Dr. Deborah Howe began research to support community that encourage "active living and physical activities" across the country.
Community and Regional Planning Chair Dr. Deborah Howe has embarked on research that hopes to change this trend. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation approved a $200,000 grant for research designed to “transform land use regulations to create livable communities that support physical activity in everyday life.” The grant is part of the Foundation’s “Active Living Research” program. This multi-faceted study — a collaborative effort between Temple and Portland State University — of a wide range of U.S. communities and their experiences in adopting and implementing land use policies that support active living seeks to develop an understanding of how to promote reformation of standard U.S. land development policies. A national advisory committee of developers, public health officials, and local policy makers provide guidance on research design and interpretation of results. The study includes a survey of “Best Practices Communities” — up to 100 with policies that support active living — in addition to a survey of a random stratified sample of 500 communities to examine their experience with active living concepts. Developer and lender interviews will identify success factors, barriers, and opportunities for innovation while case studies of three communities with land use policy innovations that support active living development will analyze how and why policies were adopted and the effects of the policies using existing before and after data. Mari Wildt Radford, a Community and Regional Planning Graduate Research Assistant who served in East Africa and Central Asia as a U.S. Department of State Community Liaison Officer, is assisting with the research at Temple. |
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June 2007, Yardley and Morrisville Boroughs
With support from a $13,000 grant from the TreeVitalize Municialities Program, Yardley and Morrisville boroughs enlisted research interns James Searing and Rebecca Bakker, under the direction of Temple University Assistant professor of Horticulture Dr. Jun Yang, in developing a comprehensive tree management plan.
The $13,225 grant was one of 12 awarded to area municipalities from The TreeVitalize Municipalities Program, which partners with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Penn State School of Forest Resources Cooperative Extension, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council. In spring 2007, the grant program awarded a total of $100,000 for 12 projects in 19 different municipalities in southeastern Pennsylvania to help them integrate trees into their municipal plans and projects. Funding for the grants was provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), the William Penn Foundation, and Morris Arboretum.
According to the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the project was the first time since the 1950s that the boroughs have taken an inventory of their trees to foster urban forestry programs. Many older trees in their streetscapes have been lost and not replaced. The goal of the survey is to track all of the trees in the boroughs’ public right of ways and land. The data will be used to create management plans for tree maintenance and potential replacement of any unhealthy trees.
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When Landscape Architecture sophomore Joshua Williams was tasked with creating a new vision for the Joseph K. Gotwals Elementary School playground in Norristown he approached the project “as a blank slate” — an area of little more than asphalt that he wanted to give a much more natural feel. Williams’ was one of 28 designs for the Gotwals playground developed by students in the Landscape Architecture Design Studio taught by Robert Kuper, a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, and Derik Sutphin, a Landscape Architecture Adjunct Assistant Professor. Gotwals Principal Maryanne Hoskins contacted (Temple University Ambler Senior Associate Dean) Dr. Lolly Tai, after seeing her book, Designing Outdoor Environments for Children. According to Kuper, Principal Hoskins was serious about making major changes to the playground. The students’ designs would accompany any proposals or requests for grant funding to make the renovation concepts become reality. Temple students created base maps and topographical surveys, analyzed the physical character of the property, interviewed elementary school students, met with a playground equipment consultant, and conducted a survey of Gotwals faculty and staff. During the spring semester, six members of the sophomore design studio — Michele Deery, Amanda Driscoll, Peter Emerson, Luke Keller, Anna Lavinia Schmitz, and Andrew Morgan — presented their work on the Gotwals Elementary Playground Renovation in a presentation entitled “Serious Play: The Playground Renovation at Gotwals Elementary,” while two members of the senior studio, Takashi Sato and Gabrielle Crowley, presented their work on the “Sandy Run Creek Watershed Landscape Restoration.” Both presentations were part of the 2007 Temple Undergraduate Research Forum and Creative Work Symposium (TURF-CreWS), an event that highlights undergraduate research and creative work from all schools, colleges, departments and programs across the university. |
Thursday, May 3, 2007, Learning Center Room 302
The Temple University Graduate Planning Studio undertook a study of potential trail linkages between the campus and the surrounding communities of Upper Dublin and Ambler Borough. Findings and recommendations were presented and all who were interested in attending and discussing recreational possibilities for residents of all communities were invited to take part.
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Thursday, April 26, 2007, EPA Region III, 4th Floor Conference Center, Room 103, the Chesapeake Room, Philadelphia
Speakers from the Center for Sustainable Communities and Temple University Ambler College presented an analysis focusing on "Applying the EPA’s Regional Vulnerability Assessment (REVA) Approach to the Pennypack Creek Watershed.” A study is being undertaken to determine if the ReVa broad scale regional modeling approach is applicable to smaller scale watersheds in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Speakers included: Dr. Jeffrey Featherstone, Director of the Center for Sustainable Communities; Md. Mahbubur Meenar, GIS Design Specialist; and Dr. John Sorrentino, Coordinator for Economics at Temple University Ambler. |
Saturday, April 14, through Wednesday, April 18, 2007, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia
From Saturday, April 14, through Wednesday, April 18, thousands of professional planners, planning students, firms and organizations converged on the Pennsylvania Convention Center and locations throughout the region for the American Planning Association’s 99th National Planning Conference. The 2007 Conference featured more than 240 conference sessions, dozens of exhibitors, and more than 95 “mobile workshops,” which allowed planners the opportunity to see planning in action. Event organizers estimated more than 5,200 professional planners, planning officials, students, and organization members attended the 2007 APA National Planning Conference, which included a wide variety of programs and workshops specifically catered for new professionals, students, and planning commissioners, elected officials, and appointed officials. Event Co-Chair Anna Breinich, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning at Temple and the Coordinator of the program at Temple’s Harrisburg campus, wasn’t the only member of the Temple community directly involved in the conference. Dr. Lynn Mandarano, Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning at Temple University Ambler, led a mobile workshop tour of Best Stormwater Management Practices (BMPs) with Research Associate Professor M. Richard Nalbandian and Dr. Jeffrey Featherstone, Director of the Center for Sustainable Communities. The half-day tour highlighted five conventional and nonconventional BMPs constructed at the Pennypack Creek Ecological Restoration Trust as part of an ongoing study by Temple University and Villanova University researchers. According to Mandarano, about 25 Temple students were also volunteering at the conference while another 10 were registered to participate. |
The lush greens of Ireland turned gold for Temple University Ambler at the 2007 Philadelphia Flower Show. Students and faculty in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture won Best of Show in the Academic Educational category for their detailed presentation, “Tírdhreach Fileata na hÉireann — The Poetic Landscape of Ireland.” This marked the sixth straight year that the Ambler campus has garnered a major exhibitor award at the Flower Show. At the 2007 Philadelphia Flower Show in March, Temple University Ambler’s exhibit explored the indelible connection between Ireland’s oral traditions and its diverse landscape. From the upland moors to the fields and hedgerows to the bogs and drumlins, the exhibit presented the breadth of the Irish landscape in microcosm. The entire exhibit was backed by a 10-foot by 35-foot mural wall, an extension of the landscape within the exhibit, which includes information stations providing insight into how the Irish landscape has influenced poets through the ages. In addition to hedgerows, hawthorns, holly, alders, roses, heathers, and foxglove, the exhibit prominently features a pool and bog alive with a wide variety of bog plants. Creation of the award-winning exhibit was subsequently detailed in an extensive 12-page article in the May 2007 edition of Landscape Architecture magazine. |
Students in Professor Pauline Hurley-Kurtz’s Planting Design studio helped Habitat for Humanity in Philadelphia create home designs that not only provide shelter but provide for yards that are sustainable and provide sanctuaries amid the urban landscape. Habitat for Humanity was interested in creating a sustainable approach to the landscape design for seven homes on a lot that Habitat for Humanity is redeveloping on West Stiles Street, close to Parkside, in Philadelphia, which began as an urban abandoned lot. The goal for the class, according to Hurley-Kurtz was community outreach — service-based learning. Students had to develop sustainable, low cost solutions to challenging urban conditions. The student designs incorporated native plants, strategies to accommodate water run-off from the building, and recycling existing material, such a bricks that were left on the site that may in turn be used for pathways. Hurley-Kurtz said there is the potential to conduct educational workshops with the future homeowners, some of whom may have no gardening background. Since the completion of the project, four separate designs, which may be adapted to suit all of the houses on the Stiles Street lot, have been sent to Habitat for Humanity’s North Philadelphia offices. There is the potential that students in our junior-year Design-Build Studio would be involved in the construction of the gardens during the spring semester of 2008. |
When Baldev Lamba’s children visit the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., they will know that their father has left a legacy in stone that will last for generations to come. Lamba, an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Temple University Ambler, saw the unveiling of the new First Ladies Water Garden in Fall 2006. The water garden is based on a design created by him and his design team way back in 1993. The water garden is a central feature of the U.S. Botanic Garden’s “National Garden,” built on the DC mall beside the Capitol Building. The winning team that initially designed the water garden consisted of Lamba; Kim Douglas, who was a student at Ambler, and is now an adjunct instructor in the Landscape Architecture and Horticulture Department; John Collins, Jr., son of John Collins, who helped establish the Landscape Architecture program at Temple; and Alison Towers. |
After 32 years of teaching at Temple, the impact Henry Meil and his students have had on area communities and the business owners who live and work there will be felt for years to come. Meil, who retired this year, was most proud of the series of six or seven business-owner surveys conducted by students in his Marketing Research course.
The goal of these projects was to help townships and boroughs improve their local business climate and attract more visitors. It also gave students an opportunity to engage in several types of hands-on learning experiences. During the projects, Meil’s students would work for an actual client, Ambler Main Street or the Cheltenham Township Restructuring Committee, for example, breaking up into teams to analyze a different aspect of the local business community — restaurants, retailers, service businesses, and professional businesses. Other municipalities studied included Hatfield, Norristown, Jenkintown, and Elkins Park. |
Friday, November 3, 2006, Shusterman Hall, Main Campus
This day-long conference showcased the diverse urban research underway across Temple. It featured four topical panels: Diversity and Inequality; Children, Youth and Family; Urban and Regional Development; and Geographic Information Systems and Urban Research. Presenters were faculty members from Temple’s departments of Community and Regional Planning — Department Chair Dr. Deborah Howe took part in the Urban and Regional Development panel; Geography and Urban Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, Religion, Psychiatry, and Architecture. President Ann Weaver Hart delivered a morning keynote address. |
Wednesday, October 25, 2006, Ambler Campus and Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust
This tour of stormwater best management practices (BMPs) examples began at Temple University Ambler in the commuter parking lot. Participants toured the campus wetland garden and learned about the PECO Green Roof Garden on campus. Following the campus tour, participants were taken to the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust (PERT) in Huntingdon Valley to tour the five BMP’s that have been constructed as part of the Temple University - Villanova University Sustainable Stormwater Initiative. After that stop the participants then traveled to McNeil to view the meadows that have been constructed on that site. This event was sponsored by the Montgomery County Conservation District in conjunction with the Temple University Center for Sustainable Communities. |
Friday, September 29, 2006, Temple University Fort Washington
The Center for Sustainable Communities hosted a briefing to formally present the completed Pennypack Creek Watershed Study to township managers, public officials, funding partners, and interested citizens. The study was a four-year project to completely map and provide updates to the floodplains of the Pennypack Creek Watershed, suggest stormwater best management practices to avoid flood in the future, provide recommendations for open space preservation, and analyze water quality in a 12-municipality region. The research team consisted of Temple University faculty members, experts, and students from disciplines including landscape architecture, horticulture, geology, geography, geographic information systems, urban and suburban studies, land use policy and planning, environmental justice and civil engineering. Though initially stating that the maps were too precise for use by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA has since accepted the maps for review and implementation in the watershed — a 56-square-mile region consisting of Abington, Bryn Athyn, Hatboro, Horsham, Jenkintown, Lower Moreland, Rockledge, Upper Dublin, Upper Moreland, Upper Southampton, and Warminster. A portion of northeast Philadelphia is also in the watershed, but was not part of this study.
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After 32 years of teaching at Temple, the impact Henry Meil and his students have had on area communities and the business owners who live and work there will be felt for years to come. Meil, who retired this year, was most proud of the series of six or seven business-owner surveys conducted by students in his Marketing Research course.
The goal of these projects was to help townships and boroughs improve their local business climate and attract more visitors. It also gave students an opportunity to engage in several types of hands-on learning experiences. During the projects, Meil’s students would work for an actual client, Ambler Main Street or the Cheltenham Township Restructuring Committee, for example, breaking up into teams to analyze a different aspect of the local business community — restaurants, retailers, service businesses, and professional businesses. Other municipalities studied included Hatfield, Norristown, Jenkintown, and Elkins Park.
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Dr. Mary Myers, Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture, had her latest article, “Design on the Prairie published in the February 2007 edition of Landscape Architecture magazine. “Much has been written about ecologically based design, particularly about the need to understand scientific principles and to integrate them into design. Many questions remain, however, about the form ecological design should take,” Dr. Myers writes. To read the complete article, visit http://www.ambler.temple.edu/news/documents/design_on_the_prairie.pdf.
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Assistant Professor Lynn Mandarano, Ph.D., P.E.
Studio Team Members: Stacey Blankin, James Ennis, Natalie Glasco, Allison Hamilton, Wendi Kapustin, Kenneth J. Kugel II, Cindy O'Connell, Patrick Stuart, and Brent Weaver
The Fort Washington Office Park offers a tremendous opportunity to demonstrate how man and nature can thrive together, turning a "constraint" into a model for the region by integrating ecological design principles and perhaps evening becoming an eco-model. The Office Park has all of the necessary ingredients to succeed - location, visibility, population, and employees. It also has vast natural resources that could be restored and enhanced to create a strong sense of identity, enhance accessibility, and attract employers, employees, and the community. To achieve this objective and mitigate the challenge of flooding, it is necessary to tie the goals of stormwater management, transportation and circulation, and identity together.
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Assistant Professor Lynn Mandarano, Ph.D., P.E.
Prepared for the Urban Sustainability Forum by Keith M. Argue, Fred Conner, Amy M.M.P. Hurley, Joseph Nixon, and Jennifer Rezeli
These days, it is getting increasingly hard to keep track of all of the many independent initiatives underway for improving the city's quality of life. A unifying theme would go a long way in synergizing all the many ongoing public, private, and grassroots efforts. Further, aligning an integrated vision with a reasonable timeframe for actionable items would bring a sense of urgency to the endeavor. Philadelphia's legacy of turning problems into solutions offers a handy theme and the next mayoral election cycle an expedient timeframe. The authors suggest that a series of signature projects along a path that includes the necessary visioning, disciplined planning, and education could transform Philadelphia into a cleaner and greener city by 2016. Another essential element within this 10-year planning horizon is the establishment of meaningful and indicative metrics for tracking the City's progress in developing a sustainable Philadelphia.
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The CSC has undertaken a fourteen-month study to model flooding problems in the Sandy Run Watershed and prepare new floodplain maps for submission to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Flooding problems have seriously hampered economic development in the Fort Washington Office Park and the Borough of Ambler. Unless these problems are addressed and ameliorated, wise development of these areas will continue to languish. The study, funded by a $200,000 grant from FEMA, will include the following outputs: hydrologic/hydraulic modeling and the preparation of new floodplain maps for the watershed areas; two-foot digital contour coverage for the watersheds and a Digital Elevation Map (DEM) based on aerial photography flown in 2005; and an evaluation of existing stormwater management facilities in the areas and field verification of flood elevations and stream obstructions. There is a possibility to extend the scope of this study by adding engineering evaluations of the transportation and water and sewer systems in the watershed areas and their impact on flooding.
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The CSC has undertaken an eighteen-month study on the revitalization of the Fort Washington Office Park, located in Upper Dublin Township, Montgomery County. The purpose of this project is to study the flooding and transportation problems plaguing the Office Park and to recommend solutions that will mitigate the flooding, enhance accessibility, and in general revitalize the Office Park, and to prepare a Development Implementation Plan with short-term and long-term recommendations, including a prioritized list of physical; improvements. The study, funded by a $420,000 Federal Grant through Upper Dublin Township and $200,000 grant from FEMA, will include the following outputs: New floodplain maps using existing conditions Recommendations for changes in transportation system; Recommendations for implementing new BMPs; Alternative floodplain maps to reflect proposed changes in transportation network and stormwater management; Sustainable design guidelines and public input through design charettes; and Redevelopment implementation plan.
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The Center has formed a partnership called Temple-Villanova Sustainable Stormwater Initiative (T-VSSI) with Villanova University’s Villanova Urban Stormwater Partnership (VUSP) to demonstrate stormwater best management practices (BMPs), to conduct research and to conduct outreach program focusing on regional stormwater management. This partnership will combine best resources from the both centers to create a larger, more powerful stormwater initiative. The T-VSSI, funded by a $440,000 grant by William Penn Foundation and a spending grant by PA Department of Environmental Protection, will produce several key outputs within its first two years of operation:
- A technically and ecologically integrated approach to demonstrate stormwater BMPs, which builds upon VUSP’s experience and technical focus.
- A multidisciplinary research program involving engineers, planners, horticulturists, geographers, ecologists, GIS specialists, etc to develop much needed evidence of the effectiveness of stormwater BMPs.
- A broad public outreach program reaching out to such individuals as municipal officials, regulators, developers, engineers, planners, layers, etc, while working as an agent of change on regional stormwater management.
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The Philadelphia Community Food Access study is a joint collaboration of the Center for Sustainable Communities and Philabundance, a non-profit food distribution system fighting hunger while reducing food waste. The study will assess the spatial relationship between hunger and the distribution of hunger relief services in Philadelphia and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania. The purpose of this study is to identify areas of need without access to services and those areas without sufficient service capacity to address the present levels of need for households in low income neighborhoods. The USDA studies have established that 80% of the nation’s food insecure population have never availed themselves of food cupboard and pantry services. This study aims to find out, address, and analyze this contradiction in Philadelphia region.
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The Center is undertaking a six to eight month study to develop a GIS based environmental resources inventory of Upper Dublin Township. The inventory will primarily include elevation data and natural and built environment data. The final output of the study will include a series of GIS data, metadata, a technical report, and a series of GIS maps.
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Temple University, along with Philadelphia University, Villanova University, Ben Franklin Technology Partnership, Delaware Valley Green Building Council, and other partners, has formed the Pennsylvania Green Growth Partnership (PGGP), funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. The mission of this partnership is to bring together academic resources from the state of Pennsylvania to foster economically and environmentally sustainable business in Pennsylvania related to the building and construction industries. As a founding member of the partnership, the Center is undertaking a 3-D GIS visualization project, which is closely tied with another project, the “Fort Washington Area Flooding and Transportation Improvement Study.”
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The Center for Sustainable Communities and the Temple University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, in partnership with the Philadelphia University Engineering and Design Studio and the Villanova Institute for Environmental Engineering Research were awarded a grant by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development to develop a Consortium of Sustainable Design and Research for Southeastern Pennsylvania. The consortium builds upon the work of the Engineering and Design Studio, which included research on the design and manufacturing of green construction materials, assistance to architecture and construction firms seeking to design green buildings and the establishment of the Sustainable Design Resource Center. Between the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Center, Temple is approaching its research from a structure-by-structure and community-by-community perspective with the goal of improving energy efficiency and environmental protection.
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The Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance (DVSGA) is a collaborative initiative of various government, private sector, and non-profit organizations in the Greater Philadelphia tri-state region encompassing Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, and Delaware. Initially spearheaded by the Philadelphia District Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI Philadelphia) and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, more than 100 diverse organizations representing all aspects of land use policy and practice — including the Center for Sustainable Communities — were invited to participate in the initial planning efforts. The Center has taken a leadership role in the new Alliance and Dr. Jeffrey Featherstone, Director of the Center, is the organization’s secretary treasurer.
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For the first time since the 1950s, The Yardley and Morrisville bureaus of Bucks County are taking inventory of their trees and planning urban forestry programs after receiving grant money from the TreeVitalize Municipalities Program. The $13,000 grant was one of 12 awarded to area municipalities from The TreeVitalize Municipalities Program, which partners with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Penn State School of Forest Resources Cooperative Extension, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council. The Yardley and Morrisville project includes a tree survey by Temple University Ambler students under the leadership of Assistant Professor of Horticulture Dr. Jun Yang, as well as by staff and volunteers from the Yardley and Morrisville boroughs. The survey will be held from until June 30.
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August and September 2006 and Spring 2007
Dr. Jun Yang, Assistant Professor of Horticulture and Dr. Mary Myers, Acting Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture
Field assistants: Annmarie Rambo, Joshua Roberts
This report describes findings related to the ability of urban vacant lots to retain stormwater. Temple University Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture studied five vacant lots in north Philadelphia after they were cleared and planted with trees, shrubs and grasses by the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society (PHS). This project quantifies the stormwater runoff changes before and after the restoration. The unit cost of runoff reduction through clearing and planting was compared to the costs of other conventional BMPs. The analysis will provide information for the PHS and Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) to guide future restoration efforts in vacant lots.
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On a beautiful day in the fall of 2005 a team arrived at the Ambler campus to film a gardening program about the Arboretum. The host of the show was Charlie Nardozzi, who interviewed Jenny Rose Carey in her role as Arboretum Director. After an introduction to the history of the campus standing by Haines House, different segments were filmed in different locations around the Arboretum. Tips in the garden included watering the garden and protecting young trees from animal gnawing. These can now be viewed at the Garden Smart Web site: http://www.gardensmart.tv. One of the more dramatic segments was filmed in the Formal Perennial Garden. The show has now aired on many different PBS stations around the country, including in New Jersey. Arboretum Director Jenny Rose Carey has been much in demand for her expertise in the garden and garden history in particular. On February 2, she was a speaker in the Today’s Horticulture Symposium at Longwood Gardens. On February 21, she gave a presentation at Innovation Philadelphia to a group of British Architects “who may be interested in doing projects in the Delaware Valley,” Carey said. The presentation featured Temple University Ambler’s PECO Green Roof, its installation and progress. Other sustainable features of the campus featured included the Native Plant Garden and the Sustainable Wetland Garden. Other recent talks have included local garden clubs on the history of Philadelphia gardens and “A personal approach to Garden Design.” In April, she spoke about Healing Gardens at the Crosslands Retirement Home in Chester County. In May, Carey spoke speak at the historic Peter Wentz Farmstead about “Colonial History and Colonial Revival Gardens.”
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Community and Regional Planning Chair Studies “Active Living” With $200,000 Grant
Temple University Ambler Students Assist PHS, TreeVitalize With Urban Forestry Project in Bucks County
Temple University Ambler Students Seek to Breathe New Life into Gotwals Elementary’s Landscape
“The Poetic Landscape of Ireland” wins Best of Show at the 
Landscape Architecture Students Design Home Gardens for Habitat for Humanity
Baldev Lamba Creates Legacy at the U.S. Botanic Garden
Henry Meil and His Students Leave Their Mark on Area Communities
Pennypack Creek Watershed Study Briefing
Community and Regional Planning Studio - Fall 2006 
Community and Regional Planning Studio - Spring 2006
Temple –Villanova Sustainable Stormwater Initiative 
3-D GIS Visualization of Fort Washington Office Park Improvement Study 
Temple University Ambler helps TV become “Garden Smart”