Past Events
Graduate Colloquium: "Ideas, Coalition Building, and Political Development in the City: Urban Policy and Politics in the U.S. and the UK, 1976-2000"
Tim Weaver, a graduate student in Political Science, will be presenting his work entitled,…
Graduate Colloquium: "Newspapers, Government, and the Perception of Crime: How the Phoenix 40 Saved Itself From a City"
Please join us for the next in our 2010-11 Urban Studies Graduate Student-Faculty Colloquium Series. Anthony Pratcher, II, a graduate student in History, will be presenting his work…
Globalization & Inner-city Economic Development
Asian American Studies Program
A virtual live lecture with Dr. Derek S. Hyra, Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech
in the course Ethnic Economies and Globalization*
Wednesday, December 8
7-8:15pm
McNeil Bldg.…
VENEZUELA Photographic Exhibit and Panel Discussion
Join us for a glimpse in the life of ordinary people, trying to live their lives in the precarious Barrios of Venezuela.
Panel:
Carlos Beltran, Photographer and Director
Philippe…
"Philadelphia: The Great Experiment" -- A Special Movie Event
East Falls Community and William Penn Charter School
Thanks to the generosity of producer Sam Katz, William Penn Charter School, and the East Falls Community Council, East Falls will have its own screening of the pilot episode of "Philadelphia: The Great Experiment"…
America in 2050: How Housing Preferences Will Shape Our Urban Landscape
Penn IUR Public Interest Series
By mid-century, the U.S. will have half a billion people. Two-thirds of the built environment seen in 2050 does not currently exist.
Join the Penn IUR for a conversation with Arthur C. Nelson, Presidential…
Witold Rybczynski: Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities
Penn IUR Public Interest Series Book Talk
Penn Institute for Urban Research hosts the acclaimed architectural thinker at the Philadelphia Center for Architecture. With his new book, Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski is back to the…
Edmund N. Bacon's "Understanding Cities”
Cost: Suggested donation: $5
Registration: Required (…
Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice
Mark Warren, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University