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MarĂ­a Alicia Becdach

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Practitioner Architect and Urban Planning Consultant

About

María Alicia Becdach is a practitioner architect and urban planning consultant. Her urban projects address informality in fragile ecosystems, one of them being the Urban Development and Territorial Plan for the Galapagos Islands with a focus on preserving the environmental services. Her research and teaching has focused on informal settlements, rapid urbanization and urban inequalities. Formerly she served as a professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Universidad de las Américas in Quito, Ecuador. She holds a bachelor of Architecture from Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Affiliated PhD Student

Michael Brinley

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PhD Candidate, Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

About

Michael Brinley is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include sovie history, modern russian history, historic preservation, citizenship and urban studies. Prior to coming to Penn, he received his MA from the University of Washington and hi BA from Pepperdine University.

Emerging Scholar

Elizabeth Bynum

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Project Researcher, Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation

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Areas of Interest

    About

    Elizabeth Bynum is a Project Researcher at the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation. She received a PhD in Music and Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Elizabeth conducted fieldwork at the Gnaoua and World Music Festival in Essaouira, Morocco. Through that project, she asked how festival organizers reimagine Morocco’s relationship with other regions in Africa and connect Gnaoua music to its sub-Saharan roots. In graduate school, her research interests have focused on questions of musical preservation in Mexico. Her dissertation project builds on that interest by exploring the conceptual and practical links between environmental and music/cultural conservation in Mexico City. 

    Penn IUR Scholar

    Daniel Campo

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    Associate Professor, Department of Graduate Built Environment Studies, School of Architecture and Planning, Morgan State University

    About

    Daniel Campo is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore. Campo’s research explores informal, insurgent and do-it-yourself development practices and their intersection with professional urban planning, design and preservation. His book, The Accidental Playground: Brooklyn Waterfront Narratives of the Undesigned and Unplanned was named by the New York Times as one of a ten book “urban canon” of suggested reading for the New York City Mayor. Campo has also published articles on a range of urban topics, including public space studies, downtown and waterfront revitalization, historic preservation, history of the built environment, shrinking cities, and urban arts and culture. His current research examines sub-professional and grassroots efforts to preserve, reuse and enjoy iconic but decaying industrial complexes across the North American Rustbelt. 

    Selected Publications

    Campo, Daniel, “Iconic Eyesores: Exploring Do-it-yourself Preservation and Civic Improvement at Abandoned Train Stations in Buffalo and Detroit,” Journal of Urbanism 7-4 (2014).

    Campo, Daniel, “Postindustrial Futures: Adaptive Reuse versus ‘as is’ Preservation,” in Schwarz, Terry, ed., Historic Preservation and Urban Change (Cleveland: Kent State University, 2014).

    Campo, Daniel, The Accidental Playground: Brooklyn Waterfront Narratives of the Undesigned and Unplanned (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013).

    Ryan, Brent D. and Daniel Campo, “Autotopia’s End: The Decline and Fall of Detroit’s Automotive Manufacturing Landscape,” Journal of Planning History 12-2 (2013).

    Campo, Daniel, “In the Footsteps of the Federal Writers’ Project: Revisiting the Workshop of the World,” Landscape Journal 29-2 (2010).

    Campo, Daniel and Brent D. Ryan, “The Entertainment Zone: Unplanned Nightlife and the Revitalization of the American Downtown,” Journal of Urban Design 13-3 (2008).

    Faculty Fellow

    Randall Mason

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    Professor, Historic Preservation

    About

    Randall Mason is Associate Professor in the Department of Historic Preservation in the School of Design. His courses focus on historic preservation planning, urban conservation, history, and cultural landscape studies. Mason’s research interests include theory and methods of preservation planning, cultural policy, the economics of preservation, historic site management, the history and design of memorials, and the history of historic preservation. He leads the Center for Research on Preservation and Society, which undertakes applied research projects on site management and on social, economic and political aspects of historic preservation. Before joining the Penn faculty in 2004, Mason worked as Senior Project Specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute, researching economic and social issues relating to heritage conservation. Previous positions include Assistant Professor and Director of Historic Preservation at the University of Maryland, and adjunct faculty in landscape architecture at RISD. His professional experience includes several years of consulting practice and co-founding the nonprofit research group Minerva Partners (which develops projects to strengthen the connections between heritage conservation and social development). He serves on the Board of Directors of the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, and was the 2012-13 National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize winner at the American Academy in Rome.

    Selected Publications

    Mason, Randall. 2012. “Broadway as a Memory Site.” In The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011, edited by Hilary Ballon. New York City: Columbia University Press.

    Mason, Randall. 2009. The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City. University of Minnesota Press.

    Page, Max and Randall Mason, eds. 2004. Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States. Routlege.

    Faculty Fellow

    Matthew Kenyatta

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    Director of Justice and Belonging, Department of City and Regional Planning

    About

    Dr. Matthew Jordan Kenyatta is the Director of Justice and Belonging in the School of Design’s Department of City and Regional Planning. He is a photographer, storyteller, and geographer who approaches these topics using mixed methods for producing insights that he weaves into his essays, presentations, teachings, and research. Dr. Miller has worked through fellowships and consultancies at governmental agencies such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the City of Stockton, the City of Los Angeles' Economic and Workforce Development Department, and most recently the National Endowment for the Arts as a Panelist. He is working on his first book, based on his doctoral dissertation, exploring and theorizing around the geography of Black commerce, culture, and creativity in the United States. His intellectual work has been honored by the National Academy of the Sciences and the Association for Collegiate Schools in Planning. His civic work has been recognized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the California State Legislature. His artistic and cultural work has been featured in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Philadelphia Tribune.

    Selected Publications

    Miller, M.J. (2020, forthcoming). “Need Black joy?” A Temporal, Human, and Economic Geography of Black Millennial Leisure in Los Angeles., in Hawthorne, C., and Lewis, J.S. (Eds.) in The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity. Durham: Duke University Press.

    Miller, M.J. (2018). “If I Built the World, Imagine That: Reflections on World Building Practices in Black Los Angeles.” Journal of Planning Theory and Practice (19.2; Spring 2018): 254-288.

    Miller, M.J., 2015. Social Finance in Black Geographies: A Statistical Analysis of Locations in Los Angeles County. Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, p.78.

    Miller, M. J. (2014). Did” Pookie” get a green-collar job?: a critical case study on the East Bay Green Corridor's employment goals, activities, and impacts (Doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

    Affiliated PhD Student

    Charles Starks

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    Doctoral Candidate, City and Regional Planning

    About

    Charles Starks researches theories and practices of heritage, preservation, and planning in the context of urban society and culture. His current project is examining how heritage sites and policies reflect and influence interpretations of China and beliefs about Chineseness. Charles possesses a master’s degree in city planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a master of arts in East Asian regional studies from Columbia University. He has worked as a city planner in the United States and Canada and taught urban studies for eight years at the City University of New York. His most recent project was a monograph examining the legacy of George McAneny, a civic leader who contended with Robert Moses over planning and preservation policy in New York in the first half of the 20th century. Charles is fluent in English and Mandarin.

    Selected Publications

    Starks, Charles (2016). “New York’s Pioneer of Planning and Preservation: How George McAneny Reshaped Manhattan and Inspired a Movement.” The New York Preservation Archive Project. http://www.nypap.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CS-McAneny-manuscript-Aug-5-2018.pdf

    Starks, Charles (2016). “Urban Studies Perspective” in “An Interdisciplinary Review of Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces by SanSan Kwan (Oxford University Press, 2013).” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 1: 28-41. DOI: 10.5749/vergstudglobasia.2.1.0028

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