News
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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In Memoriam, Norm Glickman
Norm Glickman, Urban Studies founder and long-time cheerleader and nudger, passed away on the evening of May 8 surrounded by his family and close friends. Norm put in place the guiding…
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NYC City Planning Internship
This internship, offered through the Capital Planning Division of NYC Capital Planning, offers interns the opportunity to learn about strategic capital investment planing in New York City.
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Urban Tree Connection
Civic House is offerring a paid summer internship through Urban Tree Connection, a community-based non-profit that aims to "work with residents in Philadelphia’s historically marginalized urban…
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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
Freedom Fighter James Lawson
Meghna Chandra (URBS '13 and current PhD student at Penn's School of Social Work) is a member of the Saturday Free School, and this year they are celebrating the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi throughout the…
R Workshops
R is an open-source, object-oriented scripting language, an extremely useful tool for analyzing a large dataset. With a little bit of R coding knowledge, you can make R quickly find the answer to a simple question…
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…
Spotlight
Gina Dukes
"We are the people we've been waiting for." - Origin unknown
Ariel Ben Amos
"Philadelphians want change, so long as everything looks the same when its done." - Rina Cutler
Anthony Andre Zarate
“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.” - Aristotle
Phil Dawson
"The important thing is to get things done."--Robert Moses
Jake Becker
"Power comes from two places - organized people and organized money." -Saul Alinsky