New Ideas in Urban Research 2020

At the end of each academic year since 2004, Penn IUR has hosted the Urban Doctoral Symposium to celebrate the next generation of urban scholars who have completed their dissertations at Penn. While we are saddened that we will not be able to meet in person this year, we are pleased to dedicate the May issue of Urban Link to highlighting the contributions made by graduating PhD students whose research is on urban-related topics. From a wide range of disciplines, including applied economics, city and regional planning, criminology, nursing, and more, the students below share key findings from their dissertations and identify novel policy recommendations for the urban community. We thank them for their efforts and wish them luck in their careers!

New Ideas in Urban Research

The Contribution of Neighborhood Characteristics to Psychological Outcomes After Serious Injury in a Cohort of Black Men: A Multi-Methods Study | Marta Bruce

Planning and the Politics of Informal Urbanization | Chandan Deuskar

A Philadelphia Rideshare Story: An Investigation of Rideshare’s Impact on Transit | Xiaoxia Dong

Your Uber has Arrived: Ridesharing and the Redistribution of Economic Activity | Caitlin Gorback

Brothers in Grief: The Stages of Grieving for a School and its Students Following Three Shooting Deaths of Black Teenage Boys | Nora Gross

Changes Within the Urban Environment and Their Effect on Crime and the Criminal Justice System | Ruth Moyer

Commuting and Innovation: Are Closer Inventors More Productive? | Hongyu Xiao