Senior Seminar Thesis Titles

Please contact the Urban Studies Program to view a paper.

  • Spellman, Jessie. Penn and West Philadelphia: How an Enlightened University Created a Beacon for Public Education in the Shadow of its Historical Negligence:

  • Stolper, Madeleine. University Investment and its Impact on the Housing Market:

  • Thompson, Adam. Evaluating the Financial Effects of School District Consolidation in New Jersey: Cost savings vs. Home Rule:

  • Thompson, Kajsa. Implementation of a Summer Bridge Program: A Case Study of Programs at Bartram High School:

  • Tompkins, Michael. Coastline Development and Surfing:

  • Weber, Francis. Local Government Response to Growth Management and Farmland Protection Programs in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania:

  • Weiss, Hannah. “Some Kind of Survival:” The Experience of University City Hospitality Coalition Soup Kitchen Clients:

  • Weiss, Max. NTI Demolitions: Impact of Greening on Development:

  • Werber, Kelsey. Peter Cooper Village Stuyvesant Town: The Future of Affordable Housing in New York City:

  • Wyden, Lilly. Financial and Academic Support Programs in Education: Say Yes to Education as a Case Study:

  • Arthur-Asmah, Enoch. An In Depth Look at the Roles of Structure and Cultural Values in the Rates of Marriage for Black Women with Advanced Degrees and Low Income Black Women:

  • Bernal, Marina. WIC Participation and Stigmatization of Low Income Women:

  • Blake, Gabriella. Breaking Barriers: Overcoming the Outsider Effect in an Urban Public School District:

  • Chow, Davin. You Are Where You Sleep: A Study of the 25-year Metamorphosis of the Boutique Hotel:

  • Ciccotti, Matthew. Assessing Organizational Relations in Development Partnerships: The Role of Industrial Reuse in Public-Private Redevelopment:

  • Dawson, Philip. By the People, For the People: The Role of Public Participation in Contemporary City Planning:

  • Dubb, Tracy. Managing the Costs of Green Building:

  • Dubow, Benjamin. Ethnicity, Space, and Politics in Afghanistan:

  • Eisenburg-Guyot, Nadia. The Throwaway People: Social Marginality and Community Solidarity among Informally-Housed Heroin Injectors:

  • Gollotti, Brandon. Energy Use in Penn’s Student Housing and Techniques to Achieve Energy Reduction:

  • Grayson, Christina. “God Bless the Child That’s Got His Own:” Neighborhood and Identity in Middle Class African-America:

  • Hankins, Kristin. Building Green Utopia: Community perception of green design and neighborhood change in East Kensington and Fishtown:

  • Hansen, Julia. The Loss & Recovery of Public Plazas in Asuncion, Paraguay:

  • Hardoon, Zachary. Copabanana: Barriers in Peer Social Interactions amongst Penn Students and the Local Population:

  • Heller, Daniel. Parent-teacher Conferences: Perspectives from Working Class Parents: