Senior Seminar Thesis Titles
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Bailey-Castro, Denise. Small Business & Microenterprise: Organic Sources of Community Economic Development:
Benitez, Oscar. Philadelphia as a Re-Emerging Immigrant Gateway: An Exploration of Mexican Entrepreneurship & Its Economic Value:
Benjamin, Ryan. The Missing Link: Inner city high school students and motivation: University of Pennsylvania:
Cash, Ashley. KIPP Philadelphia Charter School: Professional Learning Communities and Teacher Inculcation:
Caulder, Lowell. Market Creek Plaza: Toward a New Theory of Development:
Cunningham, Katharine. Community Gardens Value:
Curran, John. Forecasting the Social Effects of Casinos in Philadelphia:
Davis, Nathan. Denver’s Road Home: A New Road Forward? Public-Nonprofit Collaboration in Social Service Delivery:
De Leon, Andrea. Illegal Immigration: The Study of Day Laborers and Immigrants with Fraudulent Documentation:
Dewey, Clint. Reshaping the Community: The Case of Urban Renewal in White Plain:
Edosomwan, Efe. Preserving the American Dream: The Efficacy of Federal Policy Responses in the Aftermath of the Subprime Implosion: University of Pennsylvania:
Ehret, Margaretha. PHILADELPHIA: A CITY OF EXCLUSION?:
Gertman, Jonathan. Protecting Neighborhoods: The Shaker Heights Response to the Foreclosure Crisis:
Gray, Gloria. The Impact of Government and Private Partnerships:
King, Noemia. The Theory and Practice of Community Project Pedagogy at West Philadelphia High School’s Urban Studies Academy:
Kouriatova, Anastasia. Philadelphia Fashion: Measuring Different Ideas of Success in Marketing Tourism and Developing the Creative Economy:
Levine, Jessica. University Community School Partnerships: Service Delivery Versus Participatory Democracy as Effective Vehicles for Urban Change:
Levy, Kevin. Sustainability in Philadelphia: Community Gardens and Their Role in Stormwater Management:
Liang, Lisa. Olympics and the Environment: Exploring the politics of the International Olympic Committee and Host City Environmental Reform:
McDermott, Drew. THE IMPORTANCE OF ANCHOR RETAIL FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: A Case Study of the Philadelphia Parkside Community:
Miller, Mary-Kate. Homelessness and Social Control: A Look at Rittenhouse Square:
Orozco, Eduardo. The Distribution of public space in Coyoacan, Mexico:
Price, Hayling. he Rezoning of 125th Street: A Second Harlem Renaissance? Neoliberal Governance and the Urban Regime:
Rupe, Christopher. Business Improvement Districts: Can They Succeed in Revitalizing Urban Neighborhood Commercial Corridors?:
Sagues, Laura. 40th and Market: A study of social and economic interaction and the multiple layers of an urban space: