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Urban Studies Senior Seminar Papers

Urban Studies Senior Seminar Papers

Submissions from 2019 2019

Getting Campbell’s Planning Triangle Wet: Evaluating Sustainable Development in Philadelphia’s Floodplain, Abigail McGuckin

Submissions from 2018 2018

Riding Scared: Sexual Violence and Women’s Mobility on Public Transportation in Santiago, Chile, Jana Korn

“Show up and hope”: GEAR UP in an Urban High School, Kellen Sillanpaa

Space Producers: An Analysis of Equitably Produced Bike Space, Emma Singer

Footholds: Social and Economic Enfranchisement for Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in Philadelphia Through a Pre-Figurative Capitalist Alternative, Reece Sisto

Submissions from 2016 2016

“Home Alone” at the Piazza: Privatized Public Space in Philadelphia, Kimberly Bernardin

Vegetable Prescription Programs: A New Take on Holistic Health, Zoe Blickenderfer

Soy Moderno y No Quiero Locas: Queer Citizenship in Lima, Perú, Marco Herndon

Profound & Profane Places: The Adaptive Reuse of Sacred Spaces in Philadelphia, Kristen Kelly

Neighboring Development, Distant Goals: Competing Visions for Philadelphia’s Chinatown North/Callowhill in Light of the Reading Viaduct Redevelopment, Emily Marcus

Submissions from 2011 2011

How to Implement an Urban Growth Area without Really Requiring (It): Evaluating the Effectiveness of Voluntary Urban Growth Areas, Frank Weber

Submissions from 2010 2010

Social Capital in Power Networks: A Case Study of Affordable Housing Development in Winston-Salem, NC, April Ognibene

Submissions from 2009 2009

Ethnicity, Space, and Politics in Afghanistan, Benjamin Dubow

Energy Use in Penn's Student Housing and Techniques to Achieve Energy Reduction, Brandon Gollotti

Recruiting for Sanctuary: Explaining Involvement in the Original and New Sanctuary Movements of Philadelphia, Daniel Schwartz

Submissions from 2007 2007

The Implementation of a Public-Use Bicycle Program in Philadelphia, Brittany Bonnette

El Barrio: Latino Relationships in North Philadelphia and Impacts on Puerto Rican Businesses, Marisa Casellas

Measuring the Economic Impact of a Nonprofit Small Business Kitchen Incubator: A Cast Study of Nuestra Culinary Ventures, Emma Hall

Mixed Income or Gentrification? Hawthorne's Spatial Transformation, Natasha Mooney

Measuring the Social and Economic Impact of Keystone Opportunity Improvement Zones and the Cira Centre in Philadelphia, Tristan Nadal

Determining the Demographics of Mortgage Foreclosure in Philadelphia, Adrian Ponsen

The Literal and Figurative Boundaries Between Penn Students and West Philadelphia, Yasmin Radjy

Convergence and Divergence: The Simultaneous Transformation of Old City Philadelphia, Peter Sundheim

Propaganda in Havana: The Politics of Public Space and Collective Memory in the Socialist City, Andrew B. Turner

Fenton Village: How to Preserve & Revive a Struggling Small Business District in Already Developing Downtown Silver Spring, Eric Wrigley