Past Events
Book Talk | City of Gods: Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens
Free and open to the public
A synthesis of archival sources, oral history, and ethnography,…
Info Session | MS in Urban Strategies at Drexel
Join program director Dr. Andrew Zitcer (SAS ’00 Design ’04), as well as some of his Drexel colleagues for an info session this Thursday.
The Potential of Place-based Philanthropy in Legacy Cities
Presenter: Mary Rocco, Post-Doctoral Researcher in Penn's Department of City Planning, and graduate of Urban Studies Graduate Certificate Program
Breakfast included.
Discussant: Ira Goldstein, President of Policy Solutions at Reinvestment Fund
CA Conrad and the Queering of Urban Boundaries
Presenter: Davy Knittle, PhD Student in English, and current member of the Urban Studies Graduate Certificate Program
Breakfast included.
Discussant: Jennifer Ponce de Leon, Assistant Professor of English
Abstract:
This paper reads the poetry of CA Conrad as a site in…
Urban Studies Book Talk
The Rise of the Market City:
Unfettered Capitalism and Urban Transformation in the U.S. and the U.K.
Please join Urban Studies for our first event of the Spring semester!
Dr.…
33rd Annual Public Lecture: Matthew Desmond
"Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City"
Free and open to the public.
From Harvard sociologist and 2015 MacArthur “Genius” award winner Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at…
PHS Pop Up Garden Visit
Join Jeff Barg (Associate Director for Planning at Pennsylvania Horticultural Society) for a discussion on…
URBS Alumni Event - Politics & the American City: Urban Policy in 2016 and Beyond
Panel: 2-3:30pm | Light Reception: 3:30-6pm
Urban Studies Then and Now: 45th Anniversary Celebration
It is the 45th anniversary of the first graduating class of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and you are invited to join us for brunch and a panel discussion. Hear from alumni from…
Street-level: Google Street View, Geovisuality, and the Broken Windows Theory
Presenter: Aaron Shapiro, PhD candidate Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Jessica Lingel, Assistant Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
In studies of the geoweb,…