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: