
Urban Doctoral Symposium Dissertations
As a campus-wide initiative, the Penn Institute for Urban Research is a platform for an integrated urban knowledge base. It informs practices related to urbanism through the multi-disciplinary approach that is the University of Pennsylvania’s specialty.
Theses and Dissertations from 2005
Delinquent networks in Philadelphia: The structure of co -offending among juveniles, Reagan M Daly
The architecture of Maxentius: A study in architectural design and urban planning in early fourth-century Rome, Elisha Ann Dumser
The interrelation between social context, social structure, and social capital in international migration flows from Mexico to the United States, Nadia Yamel Flores
Three essays in urban economics, Kevin C Gillen
Performing the urban village: Art, place-making, and cultural politics in North Central Philadelphia, Rosina S Miller
The choreography of community: Italian ethnicity in postwar Toronto and Philadelphia, Jordan Stanger-Ross
Reading the world and the word after school: African American urban adolescents' reading experiences and literacy practices in relationship to media texts, Jeanine M Staples
Theses and Dissertations from 2004
Port authorities and urban redevelopment: Politics, organizations, and institutions on a changing waterfront, Peter Hendee Brown
On the waterfront: Vernacular recreation at Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal, Daniel Campo
Patterns of interaction across borders: Space, language and architecture. A network model applied to border regions in Belgium and Spain, Annemarie Constantinescu-Strihan
Missed opportunities: Managing achievement and difference in an urban public college preparatory magnet high school, Joseph Daniel Cytrynbaum
Communal re -appropriation of blighted spaces: Governmentality and the politics of everyday life in the Kensington recovery house movement, Robert P. Fairbanks
Assisting communities through university partnerships: A study of the program in nonprofits, universities, communities, and schools, David Howard Grossman
Urbanism as reform: Modernist planning and the crisis of urban liberalism in Europe and North America, 1945–1975, Christopher Klemek
Protecting habitats: New York -New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program. Collaborative planning and scientific information, Lynn Ann Mandarano
Engineering the metropolis: The Sellers family and industrial Philadelphia, Domenic Vitiello
The impact of inner city commuter and community congregations on civic engagement and social action, Hara Leslie Wright-Smith
Theses and Dissertations from 2003
Improving regional transportation system performance through increased suburban intermodalism: A user cost modeling approach, Jeffrey Michael Casello
Hope or harm? Deconcentration and the welfare of families in public housing, Susan E Clampet-Lundquist
Welfare reform and the private safety net, Rebecca Joyce Kissane
Everyone royalty: AFSCME, municipal workers and urban power in Philadelphia, 1921–1983, Francis Padraig Ryan
Theses and Dissertations from 2002
Growth and Its discontents: Localism, Protest and the Politics of Development on the Postwar Northeast Corridor, Peter T Siskind
Theses and Dissertations from 1993
Fiscal decentralization, intergovernmental relations, and education finance: Welfare and efficiency considerations in educational expenditures and outcomes in Mexico, Alec Ian Gershberg
Theses and Dissertations from 1976
LOCATIONAL ANALYSIS FOR PUBLIC FACILITIES: MODELS, PATTERNS, AND PROCESSES., ANDREW NELSON WHITE