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Public Conversation Series

2012: Criminalizing the City
2011 Affordable Housing at the Crossroads
2010 Urban Resilience
2009 Metropolitics
2008 Media and Metropolitan Philadelphia
2007: Urban Poverty and Prosperity: Building an Agenda for Philadelphia’s Next Mayor
2006: Globalizing Philadelphia: Becoming an Immigrant Metropolis
2004-2005: Reuse of Vacant Land and Natural Resources in Philadelphia

Organized in partnership with the City Parks Association.

2003-2004: Arts in Place: Philadelphia’s Cultural Landscape

Organized in partnership with the Social Impact of the Arts Project.

2002-2003: The Future of Public Education in Philadelphia

Organized in partnership with the Philadelphia Education Fund,Research for Action, and Penn's Graduate School of Education.

2001-2002: Neighborhood Revitalization Series

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Urban Studies Program
University of Pennsylvania
426 McNeil Building
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6209

urbs@sas.upenn.edu
215-898-6948
 

David Grazian
Professor of Sociology and Communication
Faculty Director, Urban Studies Program

Elaine Simon, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Urban Studies Program

Adjunct Associate Professor in Anthropology and in the Graduate School of Education

Victoria Karkov
Coordinator

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