Past Events
The Relationship between Historic Redlining and Modern Zoning in Major US Cities
Presenter: Chris Quattro, PhD candidate, City and Regional Planning…
BIPOC Community Engagement in Community Media
Presenter: Antoine Haywood, PhD candidate, Annenberg School for Communication
Discussant: Aaron Levy, Senior Lecturer, English and History of Art
Link to join: …
Urban Transportation in Flux: Walking Tour Series -- Reading Viaduct
The second of Professor Ben-Amos's course walking tours explores the adaptation of legacy infrastructure in the 21st century via the Reading Viaduct. Space is very limited, first come first serve. Please…
Virtual Alumni Chats
Anna ‘22, Julia ‘22, Sereina ‘23, Zarina ‘22 here, this year's Urban Studies…
Urban Transportation in Flux: Walking Tour Series -- American Street
Many of our courses take students out of the classroom and into the field, and Professor Ben-Amos's Urban Transportation in Flux is no exception. Please write to urbs@upenn.edu by this Friday to RSVP for a…
2021 Honors Presentations
Please join us to hear this year's Urban Studies Honors students describe their research! In the Honors Seminar, students revise and refine their senior thesis papers with an eye toward publishing them in an academic…
Individual, Social, and Environmental Factors Associated with Active Transportation Commuting during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presenter: Meagan Cusack, PhD Candidate of Social Welfare, School of Social Policy and Practice
Discussant: Erick Guerra, Associate Professor and Chair, Weitzman School of Design
The Urbicidal Violence of Massive Infrastructural Construction in Lahore
Presenter: Fatima Tassadiq, PhD Candidate, Anthropology
Discussant: Francesca Ammon, Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning and Historic Preservation
The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood
Carlo Rotella, author and professor of American Studies at Boston College, analyzes the urban class divide through observation of his childhood neighborhood in Chicago.
Public Shaming and Social Policing in Republican Rome
Presenter: Jordan Rogers, PhD Candidate, Ancient History
Discussant: David Grazian, Professor of Sociology and Communication, Faculty Director of Urban Studies