Titles Available Now:
Roger D. Abrahams, Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul (2006)
Elijah Anderson, Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male (2008)
Eugénie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina (2006)
Eugénie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century (2008)
Peter Brown, On the Waterfront: Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment (2008)
Ram A. Cnaan, The Other Philadelphia Story: How Local Congregations Support Quality of Life in Urban America (2006)
Judith Rodin, The University and Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets (2007)
Titles in Development:
Eugénie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, Global Urbanization (2009)
Eugénie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, How Place Matters (2009)
John Calame, Divided Cities (2009)
John Timoney, Policing the American City (2010)
Andrew Whittemore and Sam Bass Warner, The City Grows (2010)
Robert Yaro and Armando Carbonell, Megaregions (2010)
Gary Hack, Eugénie Birch, and Maritza Mercado, Degrees of Change: Re-Imagining Cities After Oil (2010)
For more information on this book series or to purchase, please visit Penn Press.
Coming Soon:
"The Shape of the New American City," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (2009)
Centennial Edition, Journal of the American Planning Association (2009)
Penn IUR Faculty Associate Publications
Participation in various Penn IUR programs, such as Penn IUR Faculty Forums or the Penn IUR Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium, has supported Penn IUR Faculty Associates in the development of noteworthy research publications. Following are publications by Penn IUR Faculty Associates. Those noted with an asterisk developed from Penn IUR programs.
Eric Bruun, Better Public Transit Systems, (American Planning Association, 2007). Interview about the book available at the APA Website.
*Thomas Sugrue and Andrew Goodman, “Plainfield Burning: Black Rebellion in the Suburban North," Journal of Urban History, vol. 33 (May 2007): 568-601.
*E. Sullivan-Marx, J. Davitt, D. Wormley, H. Steinberg, R. Cohen and L. Kerman, "Thinking globally, acting locally: Using spatial modeling to assess health and social services in urban environments," The Gerontologist, 47 (Special Issue) (2007), [Abstract 428], S643.
Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko, Rethinking Federal Housing Policy, (Washington, D.C.: The American Enterprise Institute Press, 2008).
*David Grazian, On the Make: The Hustle of Nightlife, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
Michael B. Katz, "What is an American City?," Dissent, Summer 2009: 19-26.
Wendell Pritchett, Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
*Allison Ramsey-Lefevre and Stella Lucia Volpe, "Assessment of Physical Fitness of Girls-on-the-Go Program Participants," Journal of Student Nursing Research , 1(2) (2008), 20-23.
*Audrey Singer, David Park, Michael Katz, and Domenic Vitiello, “Recent Immigration to Philadelphia: Regional Change and Response,” Brookings Institution (November 2008).
Thomas J. Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (New York: Random House, 2008).
*E. Sullivan-Marx, J. Davitt, H. Steinberg, D. Schlossberg, D-L. Wormley, L. Kerman and R. Cohen, "Care management: Building community capacity to support aging in place," Geriatric Case Management Journal (Summer, 2008).
*E.M. Sullivan-Marx, C.L. Cuesta and & S.J. Ratcliffe, "Exercise among urban dwelling older adults at risk for health disparities," Research in Gerontological Nursing, 1, (2008) 1-10.
Robert P. Inman, Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban America,(Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2009).
*Dana Tomlin and Dennis Culhane, eds. (other Penn contributors include Amy Hillier, Stella Volpe, Eileen Sulivan-Marx, Joan K. Davitt, Harris Steinberg, Charles Branas, Douglas Wiebe), PhillyDotMap, Scholarly Commons (January 2009).
*E.M. Sullivan-Marx, J.K. Davitt, H. Steinberg, D. Schlossberg, D-L. Wormley, L. Kerman, and R. Cohen, Using Spatial Modeling to Design Elder Friendly Urban Environments. In D. Culhane, D. Tomlin, & S. Kinnevy, Place Matters: The Shape(s) of Philadelphia. Scholarly Commons. (in press)
For more Faculty Associate publications, please visit ScholaryCommons@Penn.