Penn Urban Studies

URBIES!! Join us this Friday, Sept. 13th, 3:30 - 5:00 pm in the URBS Office, (426 McNeil Building). Stop by for snacks, good vibes, and socializing with other urbies! Feel free to share the news with any other urbies or urbs-interested friends!

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Join the Urban Institute on 9/19 @ 12:00 p.m. ET for a virtual information session on summer internship and early career opportunities in public policy and . Two additional sessions will be held on 9/26 and 10/10.

Register today: https://urbn.is/4gg6PIW

Join us on Monday for a conversation with two former mayors --Mauricio Rodas, Mayor of Quito from 2014-2019, and Claudia López, Mayor of Bogotá from 2020-2023 -- about local governance, urbanization, and climate resilience. Moderated by Tulia Falleti, Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science.

The Future of Cities: Tensions between Environmental Macro-Regions and Decentralization

Monday, September 9
4:30pm - 6:30pm
Perry World House
3803 Locust Walk

RSVP Here: https://clals.sas.upenn.edu/events/future-cities-tensions-between-environmental-macro-regions-and-decentralization-conversation

Perry World House / Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy / Penn Urban Studies / University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences / Penn Environmental Innovations Initiative

Sign up to URBS’ 41st Annual Norman Glickman Lecture on Public Safety Innovation After George Floyd, with Dr. Robert Vargas, University of Chicago, Department of Sociology. RSVP link in bio!

Our very own, Miles Taylor ('22), making waves!

Miles In Transit Wants To Push Transit to the Limit The 24–year–old content creator advocates for better public transportation while fulfilling a lifelong dream.

Welcome New Urban Studies Co-Director! -

Welcome New Urban Studies Co-Director! I am pleased to announce the appointment of Julia McWilliams as Co-Director of the Urban Studies Program, effective July 1, 2024. Julia received her Ph.D. in Anthropology and Education from Penn in 2017, earning the graduate certificate in Urban Studies. Since then she has taught for Urban Studies a...

we had a blast celebrating our urbies during our spring urban studies formal! 🪩 🕺 📸

On Friday, April 12th, join the Penn Urban Studies Department for our 22nd annual trip to New York City!

Please RSVP ASAP, as this trip is first come, first served.

For more info, check out the link in our bio!

You’re invited to the Urban Studies Spring Formal! Join us for a night of music, friends, and celebrating our senior urbies.

The event will take place from 8-11pm in Lauder College House. Please RSVP through the link in our bio or you can go to bit.ly/URBSFormal24.

Attire is cocktail, light food will be provided, and the event will be photographed!

RSVPs are limited to Urban Studies majors and minors (incl. Urban Education and Urban Real Estate). If you are bringing a plus-one, please note the guest’s name in your RSVP.

See you there!

URBS Special Lecture this Wed: Eric Klinenberg - https://mailchi.mp/sas/eric-klinenberg-feb-21st-6060668

URBS Graduate Colloquium Series: Next up this Thursday - https://mailchi.mp/sas/2024-graduate-colloquium-series-6060120

Eric Klinenberg Feb. 21st - https://mailchi.mp/sas/eric-klinenberg-feb-21st-6059388

Rachel Diller, a Penn Urban Studies alum, is featured on the Good Dirt commercial real estate podcast. Check it out linked in bio!

https://mailchi.mp/sas/2024-graduate-colloquium-series

2024 Graduate Colloquium Series

Annually, Penn IUR asks an array of experts to share their views on a critical topic for the year ahead. This time, nearly four years after the onset of COVID-19 began a structural shift to working from home, we asked scholars and practitioners to share their responses to this question: What do you expect will happen to remote work trends in the future? How should cities respond to remote work’s impact on the value of their real estate, tax bases, and more broadly, urban life? Read the responses from Clarence E. Anthony, CEO and Executive Director, National League of Cities; Nicholas A. Bloom, William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Richard Florida, University Professor, Rotman School of Management and School of Cities, University of Toronto; Prema Gupta, President and CEO, Center City District; Bruce Katz, Director, Nowak Metro Finance Lab, Drexel University; Tracy Hadden Loh, Fellow, The Brookings Institution; Marc Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League and Former Mayor of New Orleans; Harriet Tregoning, Director, New Urban Mobility (NUMO) alliance; Stijn van Nieuwerburgh, Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance, Columbia University; Dick Voith, Chairman and Founding Principal, Econsult Solutions. https://penniur.upenn.edu/publications/expert-voices-2024

Urbies at Clark Park on a snow day!! Thanks to Molly McGlone for the photo.

urbies working hard!!! happy finals week 🏙

CALLING ALL URBIES!! Study hall next Tuesday with snacks provided :)) see you all there!

Hey Urbies!

We are the Urban Studies Undergraduate Advisory Board. The UAB drifted into dormancy during COVID, but we're hoping to bring it back to full strength. Some of the UAB activities in the past included organizing social events for undergrads, dinner lectures with faculty, alumni socials, and an annual day trip to New York City facilitated by the many URBS alums in the area. We would love for you to learn about these events and get further connected to the UAB, so please fill out this google form linked in bio!

Many thanks!
Faith Applegate (C'25), Teo Reimbold-Thomas (C'24), Anthony Wong (C'25), Skyla Rimple (C'26), Sophia Liu (C'26), and Harry Yu (C'26)

URBS Grad Colloquium Series: Nov. 9th cancelled -

URBS Grad Colloquium Series: Nov. 9th cancelled

Our urban studies undergraduate advisory board has been hard at work, kicking off the semester with a meet and greet and tabling at the majors and more fair! If you are interested in joining the UAB, please DM us!

Presenting: The URBS 2023-24 Grad Colloquium Series - https://mailchi.mp/sas/urbs-2023-24-grad-colloquium-series

Opening this Friday, Professor Amy Hillier is hosting a weekend of events celebrating the legacy and history of the Old 7th Ward at Mother Bethel A.M.E Church.

Check out the link in our bio to learn more!

is hosting its 8th annual photo contest, themed “Urban Nature." Penn IUR is seeking photos that show the intersection between nature and cities and offering a $500 prize for the best one.

More info on submission guidelines can be found through this link: https://penniur.upenn.edu/press-room/announcements/penn-iur-2023-photo-contest-urban-nature

this friday! come to the urban studies meet and greet :)

Join us for our 40th Annual Norman Glickman Lecture in Urban Studies: The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs
Time: Tuesday, October 17 · 5:30 - 7pm Location: Meyerson Hall, B3 Auditorium
More details link in bio!
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Matt Lassiter is Professor of History, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. He is a scholar of the twentieth-century United States with a research and teaching focus on political history, urban/suburban studies, racial and social inequality, and the history of policing and the carceral state.
His newest book, The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs (forthcoming from Princeton University Press in November 2023), is the topic of our 40th Annual Norman Glickman Lecture in Urban Studies.
The book explores political culture and public policy formation in U.S. history from the 1950s through the 1990s by analyzing the real-and-symbolic relationship between cities and suburbs and the comprehensive role of racial and spatial discretion in the wars on delinquency, crime, and drugs. Based on extensive archival research at the local, state, and federal levels, The Suburban Crisis connects grassroots politics to state-building and public policy formation through a comparative methodology that includes a dozen case studies of states or localities, close analysis of landmark national legislation in the wars on drugs and crime, and investigation of the white/suburban/victim and nonwhite/urban/villain categories that have structured American politics and culture. The book examines the unstable and shifting interplay between the criminalization and decriminalization of white middle-class youth and makes several original contributions to the scholarship on the carceral state.
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The Norman Glickman Annual Lecture in Urban Studies is supported by a gift from the program's founder, Prof. Norman Glickman, his wife Elyse Pivnick, and URBS alum William Witte.

Reserve a spot now for Urban Studies’ 40th Annual Norman Glickman Lecture. Follow the link in our bio to sign up!

Matt Lassiter’s book “The Suburban Crisis” explores political culture and public policy formation in U.S. history from the 1950s through the 1990s by analyzing the real-and-symbolic relationship between cities and suburbs and the comprehensive role of racial and spatial discretion in the wars on delinquency, crime, and drugs.

It'll be in-person registration only.

URBS Annual Lecture: Oct. 17th! - https://mailchi.mp/sas/urbs-annual-lecture-oct-17th-6047656

Come to 223 Houston Hall on Wednesday Oct 4th, 5-6:30pm, to hear from Helen Gym—former teacher, journalist, community organizer, and City Councilmember—on education justice.

Yesterday, Professor Amy Hillier took the students of her first-year seminar, Investigating the Old 7th Ward, to the Philly Historical Society, where their minds were blown by the card catalogue. They spent most of the rest of their time looking at primary sources, including the 1847 Philadelphia census of African Americans, and an original copy of The Philadelphia Negro.