United States EPA awards grant to University of Pennsylvania research team to assess Philadelphia's green infrastructure
Philadelphia riverfront
Green City, Clean Waters
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced that a group of Penn State University researchers is one of five teams to be awarded $US 1 million each to examine local policies and help the City of Philadelphia assess how to better approach and promote green infrastructure.
“The really exciting thing about this project is that Philadelphia has emerged as a national leader in green infrastructure,” says David Hsu, an assistant professor of city 
and regional planning in PennDesign, who will lead the research team. “Philadelphia’s ‘Green City, Clean Waters’ plan is both ambitious and relatively cost-effective, and we’ll be able to do research immediately to see how the plan is going to work.”
Hsu says the team has two goals for the project: to conduct academic research to understand how other cities like Philadelphia can transform themselves with green infrastructure, and to build a tool or information source to help build the market for green infrastructure as Philadelphia’s “Green City, Clean Waters” is implemented.
To Learn More:
Additional details are contained in the news release posted by the University of Pennsylvania. To download a copy, click on Penn research team awarded grant to assess Philly’s green infrastructure.
To read more about Philadelphia’s bold plan for green infrastructure, click here to access the homepage for the Philadelphia Water Department’s Office of Watersheds.
