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Francesca Russello Ammon is Associate Arofessor of City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. A social and cultural historian of the post-World War II built environment, she is the author of Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape, winner of the Lewis Mumford Prize for the best book in American planning history. She is currently writing a history of postwar preservation and urban renewal based upon the Philadelphia neighborhood of Society Hill. She has also published two digital humanities projects. Preserving Society Hill (https://preservingsocietyhill.org/) integrates photographs, oral histories, and architectural data into narratives of urban change. Sunset Over Sunset (https://preservingsocietyhill.org/) uses Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles photographs to illuminate examples of everyday, vernacular redevelopment. Ammon serves as President-Elect of the Society for American City & Regional Planning History and is a member of the boards of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia and the Public Art Association.
Providing expert commentary on urban topics and highlighting Penn IUR's research in the context of pressing urban issues.