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Penn IUR Scholar

Dowell Myers

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Professor of Policy, Planning, and Demography, Director of the Population Dynamics Research Group, University of Southern California

About

Dowell Myers is Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California and Director of the Population Dynamics Research Group. Myers’ areas of expertise are: immigration, demographic trends and census analysis, state and local population change, growth management and urban development, smart growth and sustainability, housing demand and real estate market demand. Myers has received a number of awards for his research and writings including: the 2009 Richard T. Ely Distinguished Educator Award from the Lambda Alpha International honorary society; the 2008 Best Article of the Year Award from the Journal of the American Planning Association; and the 2007 Thomas and Znaniecki Award for best book on international migration. 

Selected Publications

Myers, D. 2007. Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Myers, D. and SungHo Ryu. 2008. Aging Baby Boomers and the Generational Housing Bubble: Foresight and Mitigation of an Epic Transition. Journal of the American Planning Association, 74(1): 17-33.

Myers, D. 2013. California’s Diminishing Resource: Children (Special Report). Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health and USC Population Dynamics Research Group.

Myers, D. 2012. California Futures: New Narratives for a Changing Society. Boom: A Journal of California, 2: 37-54.

Faculty Fellow

Domenic Vitiello

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Associate Professor

About

Domenic Vitiello is Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning in the Weitzman School of Design. He researches the history and contemporary practice of community and economic development; immigrant communities; and urban agriculture and food system planning. His recent and current projects focus on immigration and civil society in Philadelphia, including a book titled The Sanctuary City that examines Central American, Southeast Asian, Liberian, Arab, and Mexican immigration since the 1970s; urban agriculture and poverty in the global North and South, including comparative research on the community economic development impacts of urban farming and gardening around the world, and a book on the social impacts of community gardening in Camden, Chicago, and Philadelphia; and the planned destruction and preservation of Chinatowns in the U.S. and Canada since c.1900.

Selected Publications

Domenic Vitiello and Zoe Blickenderfer (Penn Urban Studies alum), “The Planned Destruction of Chinatowns in the United States and Canada since c.1900,” Planning Perspectives (2020). 

Domenic Vitiello, “Sanctuary and the City,” The Metropole (2019). 

Arthur Acolin (Penn Urban Studies alum) and Domenic Vitiello, “Who Owns Chinatown: Neighborhood Change and Preservation in Boston and Philadelphia,” Urban Studies (2018). 

Vitiello, Domenic and Thomas J. Sugrue, editors. 2017. Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Vitiello, Domenic and Arthur Acolin. 2017. “Institutional Ecosystems of Housing Support in Chinese, Southeast Asian, and African Philadelphia.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 37(2): 195-206.

Acolin, Arthur and Domenic Vitiello. 2017. “Who Owns Chinatown: Neighborhood Change and Preservation in Boston and Philadelphia” Urban Studies.

Vitiello, Domenic. 2017. “Infrastructure: Lifelines, Mobility, and Urban Development.” In Planning History Handbook, edited by Carola Hein. Routledge.

Vitiello, Domenic, Jeane Ann Grisso, Rebecca Fischman, and K. Leah Whiteside. 2015. “From Commodity Surplus to Food Justice: Food Banks and Local Agriculture in the United States.” Agriculture and Human Values 32(3): 419-430.

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