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Fellow James Wright

Project Manager for Strategy and Operations, Center for Health Justice MBA

Urban Development

Oct 03 2025 Past Event Philadelphia’s Green Transformation: From Research to Action Speakers: Shane Jensen Matt Rader Anthony (Tony) Sorrentino Susan Wachter Charles Branas James Wright Urban Development

Article March 26, 2025 John MacDonald on Addressing Abandoned Housing to Improve Public Safety John MacDonald's article, “Lessons Learned from a Citywide Abandoned Housing Experiment,” offers valuable insights into the relationship between the built environment and community wellbeing. Housing

Apr 10 2025 Past Event Book Talk | Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence with Jens Ludwig Speakers: John MacDonald Jens Ludwig Urban Development

Publication September 17, 2024 Scholarly Voices Series To mark 20 years of urban research, Penn IUR launched its Scholarly Voices Series, featuring its Faculty Fellows. Dennis Culhane Gilles Duranton Jessie Handbury John MacDonald Laura Perna Megan Ryerson Erick Guerra Shane Jensen Jere Behrman Urban Development

Emerging Scholar David Mitre Becerril

Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Connecticut

Urban Development Housing

News July 8, 2024 Pennsylvania Legalized Speed Cameras. You Won’t Believe What Happened Next. Penn IUR Faculty Fellow Erick Guerra spoke with Next City about pedestrian safety. Urban Development

Fellow Anthony (Tony) Sorrentino

CEO, Fairmount Park Conservancy

Anchor Institutions

Publication May 18, 2020 Brothers in Grief: The Stages of Grieving for a School and its Students Following Three Shooting Deaths of Black Teenage Boys During my two years of ethnographic research in an all-boys, all-Black Philadelphia high school, three students died in separate incidents of community gun violence, impacting dozens of their friends and classmates and the entire school community.

Fellow Sheela Patel

Founder and Director, Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC)

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 3

Faculty Fellow John MacDonald

Professor of Criminology and Sociology, Criminology, School of Arts and Sciences Director, Master of Science in Criminology

Urban Development Housing

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