It would help to have a visual arts requirement, like the University of Chicago's. Two, we ought to be teaching people to become artists and teachers in the arts in our master's program. Faculty need students as much as students need faculty to provide models for new ideas, new ways to see things and do things. Three, we need the fine arts here at Penn for a constant infusion of artistic vision. The fine arts give us new ways of representing things and seeing things.
Planning needs to emerge from artistic vision about places.
This university has a huge stake in the inner city. Philadelphia is a wonderful place. It has to do with its smallness and congeniality. We have to pay attention to West Philadelphia. Suburbs can't survive if the core city is in bad shape, and the core city these days can't survive unless it has the revenues and responsibilities of people who live in the suburbs.