Diana Lind

Diana Lind is the founding managing director of the Penn Fels Policy Research Initiative. Previously she was editor in chief and executive director of Next City.

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Civic Lesson

Civic Lesson: New Social Infrastructure

Cities are finding new ways to invest in social infrastructure, helping to bridge gaps among diverse socioeconomic groups and foster a greater sense of community.
Diana Lind
April 1, 2017
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Of all President Trump’s campaign promises, the proposal to invest $1 trillion in infrastructure was one of the few to appeal to Republicans and Democrats alike.


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Philly Forward

The arrival of the Barnes Foundation in its new quarters on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway promises to further Philadelphia's identity as an artistic magnet.
Diana Lind
June 16, 2012
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Sandwiched between Washington, the capital, and New York, the center of culture, commerce, and media, Philadelphia has long had an inferiority complex. But the city's recent addition of nearly 90,000 people since 2006, ending a population free fall since 1950, attests to Philadelphia's comeback. It wasn't easy, or without controversy. 


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Varied Responses to Vague Theme at the Venice Biennale

Diana Lind
October 1, 2010
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The international architecture exhibition produced every two years in Venice is a sprawling, humid, one-stop shopping experience. When done right, it’s also exhilarating. Though the strategy of showcasing architecture’s freshest ideas through national pavilions and exhibition galleries has had its drawbacks in the Architecture Biennale’s 30-year history, high-quality submissions help make this year’s show feel curated. The recurring threads of sustainability, adaptive reuse, and traditional building methods — while planning for an uncertain future — give the show an underlying coherence. This year’s director, Kazuyo Sejima of the Japanese firm SANAA, chose a remarkably enigmatic theme for the Biennale —
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Little Ram Island House

William Pedersen's Little Ram Island House sets sail.
Diana Lind
July 19, 2008
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When William Pedersen, FAIA, cofounder and principal design partner of Kohn Pedersen Fox, bought a 3-acre piece of waterfront land on Shelter Island, New York, in 1981, “Things were a little different on the island,” he wryly recalls.


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Dairy House

Skene Catling de la Pe'a combines sustainability and seduction at the Dairy House in Somerset, England
Diana Lind
April 1, 2008
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The new buzz words of the 21st century—“organic,” “ecofriendly,” “sustainable”—have inundated today’s architectural vocabulary despite their indifference to definition.


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