…as city fortunes have risen. Charting the tension between the practice of corporate subsidy and efforts to assure social justice, The Paradox of Urban Revitalization assesses the course of urban politics and policy over the past half century, before the COVID-19 pandemic upended everything, and details prospects for achieving greater…
November 1, 2023 @ 4:00 pm-5:30 pm – In University City, Laura Wolf-Powers chronicles five decades of planning in and around the communities of West Philadelphiaβs University City to illuminate how the dynamics of innovation district development in the present both depart from and connect to the politics of mid-twentieth-century urban renewal. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, Wolf-Powers concludes that even as […]
…profiling), defunding and/or reforming the police. This webinar will feature a panel discussion of experts on the current national state of police and policing, police reform, and a local/regional perspective. The webinar will be moderated and offer time for online audience Q&A. Panelists: Michael Fortner Professor of Political…
…Case Study of Camden, New Jersey.” Prentiss Dantzler, GSC ’16, an assistant professor of sociology and a Mellon Faculty Fellow at Colorado College, wrote “American Dream, Democratic Nightmare: Refocusing Governmental Approaches to Housing Policy.” Dantzler’s article addresses the preference of homeownership within U.S. housing policy, and how this negatively affects…
December 15, 2017 @ 12:15 pm-1:30 pm – Lawnside, New Jersey, is a unique community because it is the only self-governing African American Borough in the State of New Jersey. This talk will first examine the early history of Lawnside and the regional, state, and federal political processes which impacted its growth and development. The second section will be an analysis of how […]
