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  • URBS 430: Spatial Analysis in Urban Studies

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Hillier. Fulfills the Quantitative Data Analysis Requirement. This course provides students with an opportunity to consider the major spatial processes in 20th century Philadelphia history using historical maps, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and spatial analysis techniques. Specific topics will include industry, immigration, segregation, housing, public transportation, and urban renewal. Students will learn to develop and test research questions as well as the foundations of Geographic Information Science. The instructor and students will collaborate to build an historical GIS around a particular theme. Class sessions will be organized as weekly seminars and will combine lecture, discussion, lab, and studio time.
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  • URBS 440: Introduction to City Planning:Past,Present,and Future

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. Orientation to the profession, tracing the evolution of city and regional planning from its late nineteenth century roots to its twentieth century expression. Field trips included.
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  • URBS 448: Neighborhood Displacement and Community Power

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Palmer. This course uses the history of black displacement to examine community power and advocacy. It examines the methods of advocacy (e.g. case, class, and legislative) and political action through which community activists can influence social policy development and community and institutional change. The course also analyzes selected strategies and tactics of change and seeks to develop alternative roles in the group advocacy, lobbying, public education and public relations, electoral politics, coalition building, and legal and ethical dilemmas in political action. Case studies of neighborhood displacement serve as central means of examining course topics.
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  • URBS 450: Urban Redevelopment

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Gorostiza. An historical background on the origins and changing goals of redevelopment; a detailed review of contemporary housing and community development problems and the implementation of program responses by public, private and neighborhood groups; an overview of economic development efforts using contemporary projects as case studies. The course focuses primarily on Northeastern and North Central cities. The format is that of a seminar, mixing lecture, discussion and guest speakers responsible for housing and economic development in the Philadelphia area. The emphasis is not only on policy choices, but on the mechanisms for financing, implementation and attaining goals of job generation.
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  • URBS 451: The Politics of Housing & Community Development

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Kromer. An exploration of how legislative action, government policymaking, and citizen advocacy influence plans for the investment of public capital in distressed urban neighborhoods. The scope and results of City of Philadelphia policies and programs of the past decade, including Mayor John Street's Neighborhood Transformation Initiative, will be evaluated.
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  • URBS 452: Community Economic Development

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Lamas. Community economic development concerns the revitalization of impoverished communities. As with all things economic, poor and working people may be the subjects or the objects of development. We will utilize case studies from Philadelphia and around the world in an exploration of various models of economic justice and sustainable development.
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  • URBS 453: Metropolitan Growth & Urban Poverty

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Madden. This course analyzes the role of metropolitan regions in the U.S. and global economies, including the sources of metropolitan productivity, the ways that metropolitan structures affect residents, and analyses of public policy in metropolitan areas. The economic, political, and social forces that have shaped World War II urban and regional development are explored, including technology, demography, and government. Special attention is paid to how metropolitan change affects residents by income and race. Topics include: gentrification, schools, suburbanization, sprawl, metropolitan fragmentation, concentration of poverty, race, and various economic revitalization initiatives.
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  • URBS 454: City Limits:The Impact of Urban Policy

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Goldstein, Stern. Prerequisite(s): Student must have taken an introduction to research methods course. This course assesses the changing role of public policy in American cities. In the past, government often believed that it could direct urban development. New realities - the rise of an informal labor market, global capital and labor flows, the flight of businesses and the middle class to the suburbs - have demonstrated that government must see itself as one - but only one - 'player' in a more complete, transactional process of policy making that crosses political boundaries and involves business, organized interest groups, and citizens. This seminar uses a case study method to study how public policy can make a difference in the revitalization of distressed American cities. The seminar is designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Seminar readings and projects will be organized around three themes: 1) history and vision, 2) data and analysis, and 3) policy and implementation. Students will be divided into project teams assigned to work on current development issues that will be reviewed by both public and private-sector experts. Extensive use will be made of real estate, economic development, and social indicator data to understand the complex forces at work in both large and small cities. Students will learn to access, analyze, and map information; to frame and interpret these data within a regional perspective; and to construct profiles of cities and neighborhoods. Students will study recent urban redevelopment initiatives in the Philadelphia region - including Philadelphia's Neighborhood Transformations Initiative and New Jersey's Camden Revitalization plans.
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  • URBS 456: Economics & Urban Affairs

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Angelides. This course discusses contemporary urban issues from an economics perspective, with the dual goal of illuminating the economic foundations of civic affairs and enhancing a student's economic literacy through the use of everyday examples. The first part of the course discusses the broad theory of urban economics by focusing on individual decision makers, both households and businesses, and the incentives they face as the key to understanding how cities operate economically. Significant topics include economic development, zoning, and land use. The second part of the course discusses several topics in detail, including transportation, government taxation and spending, housing, education, cost-benefit analysis, labor, and social choice. We will use current local issues as examples in the course. These issues will include tax reform, charter schools, the development of the Delaware riverfront, the ten-year tax abatements for new construction and rehabilitation, the real estate "bubble", tax increment financing, Keystone Opportunity Zones, "Pay to play" and the convention center expansion. At the conclusion of the course the student will: Be able to apply economic thinking to the analysis of civic issues; Understand how economic forces shaped and continue to shape the urban environment; Appreciate the role of government as an enabler or a hindrance. Note that the emphasis of the course is on the usefulness of economic thought, and as such focuses more on policy implications than abstract economic modeling. The course will teach any necessary economic tools, though an introductory course in microeconomics is helpful.
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  • URBS 457: Globalization and Comparative Urban Development

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Von Mahs; Hill. This seminar title varies depending on which term it is being offered. The title in the summer term is "Globalization and the Welfare State." During the academic year, the title is "Globalization and the city." Check the Urban Studies program for corresponding descriptions.
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