Past Events
A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort: Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Right to the City
Join the Urban Studies Program and URBS 290: Metropolitan Nature for the opportunity to hear Professor Stephen Danley, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Rutgers-Camden University, speak about…
Bullets, Books, and Brotherhood: Grief and Recovery in an Urban All-Boys High School after Three Fatal Shootings of Friends
Presenter: Nora Gross, Ph.D. joint-degree candidate in Sociology and the Education, Culture, and Society program at Penn GSE
Discussant: Sara Jacoby, Assistant Professor, Nursing, University…
Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
Join us for this talk by Andrew Sandoval-Strausz, director of the Latina/o Studies Program and Associate Professor of History at Penn State University. He is the author of Hotel: An American History, coeditor of…
A Contest Without Winners
How Students Experience Competitive School Choice
A Contest without Winners follows a diverse group of Chicago students through the processes of researching, applying to…
Global Urban Education Fall Film Series
Join the Global Urban Education class for a mini Fall Film Series!
Kick of your weekends by enjoying film screenings of several critically acclaimed films from around the world! Professor Alec Gershberg,…
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…
CITY PLANNING POETICS 8: Urban Ruins
A rundown hotel building, a decaying medieval church, a deserted wartime bunker, all set alongside the freshly erected skyscrapers of a modern cityscape. What do urban ruins say about our relationship to time and…
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…
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…
Gentrification in Austin: Lessons Learned with Dr. Eric Tang
The Office of Immigrant Affairs, Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Asian American Studies Program of the University of Pennsylvania host a discussion on gentrification with professor and long-time activist…