News
City Council Resolution for Professor Walter Palmer
On Thursday October 10, 2019 at 10AM, the Philadelphia City Council will offer a resolution, sponsored by councilwoman Jannie Blackwell. This event will be held in the City Council Chambers during…
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Nora Gross, URBS Graduate Fellow 2018-9, Featured in Omnia
Nora Gross, joint doctoral candidate in Sociology and Education, and URBS Graduate Fellow 2018-19, examines how students grieve and recover after gun violence kills peers, in the latest edition of…
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A Day in Domenic Vitiello’s Urban Food Chain Course
Read this great profile of URBS 248 this semester in the Dining Guide edition of 34th Street Magazine!
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Sabrina Aponte (URBS ’19) receives Emerging Young Leaders Award
Sabrina is the recipient of an Emerging Young Leaders Award, after having been nominated by Mayor Kenney's Office of Violence Prevention.
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Urban Studies students interviewed about their work
Professor Davy Knittle talks with three students from his Gender, Sex & Urban Life course, URBS/GSWS 277, about their extraordinary final assignments, what their project elucidated for them, and…
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Introducing this summer’s inaugural group of Urban Studies Gordon Fellows!
From the inception of the Urban Studies Program at Penn, connecting theory and practice has been one of our guiding principles.
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Puentes Education Volunteering
Join the Puentes Education team! (Which URBS alum Alexa Salas helped found!)
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Fall 2019 Share Food Internship Program
Are you looking to make a real difference in Greater Philadelphia? If you answered yes, then URBS alum George Mataysik has an opportunity for you!
Read MoreHassenfeld Fall Grant for Undergraduate Research
Grants of no more than $250 each will be available to offset the costs of doing your senior seminar research projects (there is a total of $2,000 to distribute, so the number of grants awarded…
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Article on Nicetown by Professor Greenspan
For decades a working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia has struggled to repair the damages inflicted by postwar urban renewal.
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Welcome to Urban Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Urban Studies is an interdisciplinary program in the College of Arts & Sciences. It draws on faculty and resources across the university and the city to offer students a multi-faceted approach to the study of urban trends.
Upcoming Events
Richard Florida: From the Creative Class to the New Urban Crisis
Please join Penn IUR for a lecture by Richard Florida, University Professor and Director of Cities, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto; Inaugural Philadelphia Fellow, Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation…
A Contest Without Winners
How Students Experience Competitive School Choice
A Contest without Winners follows a diverse group of Chicago students through the processes of researching, applying to, and enrolling in public high school, finding that the students are powerful policy actors who…
Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
Join us for this talk by Andrew Sandoval-Strausz, director of the Latina/o Studies Program and Associate Professor of History at Penn State University. He is the author of Hotel: An American History, coeditor of Making…
Spotlight
Ariel Ben Amos
"Philadelphians want change, so long as everything looks the same when its done." - Rina Cutler
Marcus Goodwin
“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?” -Robert Browning
Alexander Jacobson
"I shall pass this way but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." - Stephen Grellet
Kelechi Akusobi
"If you were born a King you can't afford to be a slave." - Daniel Akusobi
Julia Hansen
“What is the city but the people?” – William Shakespeare