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Department of City Special Issue The Link and Regional Planning 2001 Newsletter of the Department of City and Regional Planning G S F A

The Link 2001 Special Golden Anniversary Edition The City Planning Department Celebrates Alumni

Herbert Gans, PhD ‘57 is the Robert S. Lind Professor in the Department of Sociology at is Penn’s first graduate of its PhD program in City Planning. After completing his doctorate, he took a faculty position in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning and then moved to Columbia where he has concentrated on urban sociology, poverty and antipoverty policy, stratification and equality, ethnicity, the news media, and popular culture. He is the author of nine books and more than 160 articles. He has recently completed his latest book, Making Sense of America, Sociological Analyses and Essays (1999). He is also past president of the American Sociological Association [ Fifty Years of and the Eastern Sociological Society. Excellence In the course of his career, Gans has made outstanding and noteworthy contributions to the field. While at Penn he was [ inspired by and John Dyckman who helped Fifty Years of him develop the critical faculties that would lead to his seminal Tradition study The Urban Villagers (1959), an outgrowth of his dissertation, and to The Levittowners (1967), one of the nation’s first suburban studies. Together, these works would transform Herbert Gans Inside the theory and practice of planning. continued on page 3 1, 3-5 Alumni Profiles 2 From the Chair... 6 Local Planning News James Nelson Kise, BArch ‘59, Gabby Jones, MCP ‘98 is Director 6 Digital Divide MArch ‘63, MCP ‘64 is the of Economic Development, 7 Recent Awards founding principal of Kise Straw & Partnership Community Development Corporation, 7 Class of 2003 Kolodner, Architects, Planners, and Historians. a key redevelopment organization in West 7 Fall Lecture Series His current projects include the connection in January 2001. Previously a project 8 Planning in Camden between I-95 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike manager for the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, she covered Center City and University 8 2001 APA Conference and the revision of the connection from I-95 to City, and worked on the new Phillies stadium and 9 Photo Gallery Frankford via Cottman Avenue. He is also the Philadelphia Convention Center expansion. In 10 Class of 2001 working on a plan for Eastern North Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Housing Authority to identify her new position, Jones is responsible for the new Keystone Opportunity Zones with strong Partnership CDC’s economic development projects Contact the Link! potential housing markets. In 1999, he was the including the Economic It is now easier than ever to Philadelphia designer for the proposed Development Strategy, and the 40th Street, 52nd contact us with your news - DisneyQuest project at 8th and Market Streets Street, and 60th Street economic development until the project’s collapse. projects. E-mail: [email protected] continued on page 4 continued on page 8

1 The Link 2001 Special Golden Anniversary Edition and development.” Finally, in January the French came across the Atlantic to compare Anglo- government recognized Denise Scott Brown MCP ‘60 American approaches to smart growth, an event honoring her with its coveted “Chevalier” award. we co-sponsored with the Philadelphia chapter of the Urban Land Institute. On September 5, 2001, As we move into the next fifty years we are Jeremy Nowak, President of The Reinvestment building on our grand traditions and there is an undeniable Fund and chief strategist of Mayor John Street’s air of excitement in the Department. Our students, as I Neighborhood Transformation Initiative (NTI) have written elsewhere, are extraordinarily qualified and updated us on NTI’s progress. Gary Hack and very enthusiastic. The masters candidates, 117 strong, Roger Simmonds will preview their new book, are literally devouring the curriculum! They seem to Global Regional Cities, in November. have unlimited energy for extra-curricular activities like field trips— they surveyed three New Jersey Last Fall, John Keene welcomed six communities in Camden, Radburn, and Newark in a mayors to Penn’s second Mayors’ Institute on one-week period —and social life—they continue to City Design (MICD). This one, co-sponsored by Genie Birch populate “Happy Hour,” GSFA’s convivial end-of-week the National Endowment of the Arts and the U.S. libation! Eight of our Ph.D. students presented papers at Environmental Protection Agency, paves new Fifty Years of the ACSP, three funded by the Fannie Mae Foundation. ground by linking design issues to brownfields Excellence… Fifty By all accounts, they universally represented us very clean-up and development. This was the first well, stimulating much discussion with their work that national MICD on this subject. The participants Years of Tradition is a covered a range of topics from faith-based community included the mayors of Salt Lake City, Lawrence, phrase that has deep meaning for this organizations (yes, they are and will continue to work Niagara Falls (home of Love Canal), Buffalo and department. For five decades our faculty with Graduate Group member John Dilulio, the former Bridgeport. and students have contributed blood, Bush appointment to head the office of faith-based sweat and tears to build this reality. As initiatives) to transportation modeling to urban design. Finally, we launched our new course, you read this selection of alumni profiles, Secret Seeds of Form, The Role of Rules and which merely scratches the surface of As in the past, we have had wonderful Limits in Design, taught by Richard Tustian, MCP our nearly 2,000 graduates, you can’t visitors to the Department. Last Fall our first Annual ‘62 and M.Arch.’62, our contribution to reviving help but see how true this is. Symposium on Large City Planning, moderated by Todd the GSFA tradition of sharing knowledge across Bressi, editor of Places, featured discussion by three of department boundaries. It has drawn enrollment Our graduates form the base the nation’s leading directors of planning; Maxine Griffith from every program distributed across all the of our excellence. They have entered all (Philadelphia), Con Howe (Los Angeles), and Andy disciplines. This promises to be a very special aspects of planning. They are and have Altman (Washington) served as a backdrop for our happy experience not only for the students, but also for been practitioners in the public and private news, Dean Gary Hack has been appointed chair of the dozen instructors who are collaborating on this sectors changing the faces of our cities the Philadelphia Planning Commission. Yet another effort. and regions. They are and have been Penn tradition, one of highlighting and supporting distinguished teachers and researchers leadership, goes forward! We will be circulating the So please enjoy this issue and share who have made a difference to practice. symposium proceedings on our web page and Planning our collective pride in our Fifty Years of As we illustrate the accomplishments of magazine had a short piece on it in its December 2000 Excellence…Fifty Years of Tradition. this group, the Department plans to issue. This Fall, Elizabeth Blume (Cincinnati) and Michael expand its recognition of its graduates Dobbins (Atlanta) will join Maxine and Todd for our Genie by adding a new alumni section to our second annual symposium on October 18. web page (http://www.upenn.edu/gsfa/ The Link is an alumnae city_plan/index.htm) so check it Last year, our other speakers showed how newsletter published by regularly to find out more about your they are in the center of some of the world’s most students of the Department of colleagues. And send us your news. We interesting issues. Catherine Ross, Executive Director City and Regional Planning at would love to include it. Just drop me a of the remarkable Georgia Regional Transportation the University of Pennsylvania. line or email: [email protected] Authority breezed in from Atlanta to outline her agency’s newly emerging agenda. Steve Putman and I, along The Link Department of City and Other indicators mark our with Richard Wesley, Chair of the Department of Regional Planning excellence as well. For example, Penn Architecture joined author Joseph Rykwert to discuss University of Pennsylvania graduates and faculty constitute the his wonderful new book The Seduction of Place, The 127 largest cohort in the College of Fellows City in the Twenty-First Century (Pantheon, 2000). Philadelphia, PA 19104-6311 the American Institute of Certified Alexander Garvin, author of The American City What (215) 898-8329 Planners (AICP). This past spring, Works, What Doesn’t and Director of Planning, 2012 fax (215) 898-5731 Martin Meyerson and Tony Tomazinis Olympics, presented a scintillating talk on e-mail: were inducted into the College. In the city’s recently submitted bid, outlining it as a gigantic [email protected] addition, Penn faculty are over- planning problem. Professor of Practice, Jonathan Co-Editors: represented among the recipients of the Barnett, moderated a panel of Penn contributors to the Paul Christner Association of Collegiate Schools of recently published Planning for a New Century: The Meghan Sinnott Planning (ACSP) Distinguished Regional Agenda (Island Press, 2000). While Sir Peter Kristin Szwajkowski Educator awards and in 1998 the Hall, Professor of Planning, The Bartlett School, Department received the “AICP University College, London and member of Britain’s Contributors: Tanya Washington President’s Award for the contribution of Urban Task Force whose report, Towards an Urban Theresa Williamson From the Chair... thought, time, and effort given to its affairs Renaissance, has stimulated widespread discussion,

2 The Link 2001 Special Golden Anniversary Edition Donald A. Krueckeberg Since graduating from Penn, Krueckeberg FAICP, MCP ‘62, PhD ‘66, has pursued varied interests. “Intellectually I’m on my third career,” he observes. “I started out in land use Professor of Planning and location theory, with lots of Regional Science and and Policy Development at Rutgers University methods, and wrote a text on planning methods with in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning Arthur Silvers. I did a lot of work beginning in the mid- and Public Policy, has made major contributions 1980s in planning history, publishing the two edited to education and research in planning. His history books. Then I turned to my current interest in Urban Planning Analysis was the key textbook property rights, starting with an article “The Difficult in this area for a generation. An Introduction to Character of Property: To Whom Do Things Belong?” Planning History is in its eighth printing and his (1995) in the Journal of the American Planning Don Krueckeberg American Planner: Biographies and Recollections Association, which won a National Planning Award.” a shock I’m still not over. The only comparable is the field’s only comprehensive collection on experience was my first visit to England.” this topic. A former editor of the Journal of the Krueckeberg says that his best memories American Institute of Planners and former president of Penn are of his classmates and professors, whom he His advice to current students is to be critical of the Association of Collegiate Schools of considers really special people. Krueckeberg was of everything and everyone. “You will spend the rest of Planning, he was recently elected to the College attracted to Penn because he had read articles by you life confirming what you now know intuitively to be of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified members of the faculty as an undergraduate. Awarded true. Trust yourself and where you come from, take Planners. At Rutgers, he was a Department Chair, a scholarship, he jokes: “I was a token Midwesterner bigger chances, and be a nice person even if they Director and then the first Acting Dean of the from a state university with an undergraduate degree in cannot spell your name [correctly].” Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and planning (there were three of us). Life didn’t get much Public Policy that was founded under his lower than that in the Ivy League. Penn and Philadelphia administration. were my introduction to a truly class culture and it was

Elisabeth (Infield) Hamin, Gans: continued from page 1 PhD ‘97, an assistant professor of Regional Planning in the Department of Landcape Using participant observation methods for Architecture and Regional Planning at the University both books he first examined Boston’s West End, the of Massachusetts, teaches land use planning and site of a major slum clearance project in the fifties, planning theory. Her research generally focuses demonstrating that contemporary definitions for “blight” on community-based land protection and regional- overlooked the fact that within the physically deteriorated scale parks. Her forthcoming book entitled Mojave neighborhood was a strong, healthy civic infrastructure. Voices: Interpretive Planning and the National This finding led later policymakers, who now realized Preserve will be published by the Johns Hopkins the importance if preserving communities, to focus on University Press. rehabilitation programs. A few years later, his work in Levittown also revealed the nature of community’s social Reflecting on Penn, Dr. Hamin has not Nancy Goldenberg organization highlighting class divisions that led to bitter been back to campus since her graduation, but she debate about municipal activities especially regarding has followed news from the DCRP. She described Nancy Goldenberg, MCP ‘80, education and land use regulation, issues that continue the Department as being in a state of transition to characterize suburban life today. His latest book, during her time there, but is enthusiastic about its was recently named Deputy Making Sense of America Sociological Analysis and recent resurgence. Her best memories were of the Exceutive Director at the Center City District. Essays containing reflections on his work in the West GSFA Happy Hours. They were “absolutely End and on urban poverty. Goldenberg had previously worked as Director of Public central to the social scene,” she said. Information at the Center City District where she was When Dr. Gans attended Penn’s 50th involved in the “Make it a Night” project. In her current Hamin feels that one of the major issues Anniversary Gala he enjoyed seeing the renovated position as Deputy Executive Director, Goldenberg is facing planners today is how to deal with people’s Fine Arts library and noticed the many changes to overseeing planning and policy for the entire Center values while planning. Planners are realizing that campus. He felt that the campus felt somewhat suburban City District. Before returning to the Center City District, they need to look at more than just the facts of a with all the new shopping mall-like stores, a sharp Goldenberg was the Program Administrator at the situation and it is often the values of people that contrast to the Penn he attended. He recalled the view Fairmount Park Commission, managing a $26.6 million shape which facts are important for planning. of Center City and the PSFS building he admired from grant from the William Penn Foundation (the largest the bathroom window of his tenement house on 36th grant ever made to a municipal park), for a five year Her advice for current students is to Street. (The tenement house has since been torn down.) Natural Lands Restoration and Environmental Education “relax and enjoy your time [here].” Also she Program. She directed the preparation of natural lands emphasizes gaining strength in communication and His advice for current students is: “The best restoration master plans for seven watershed and estuary presentation skills. Writing, speaking and listening work you do is the work that interests you the most.” park areas, the design and construction of three new skills are all very important. environmental education centers and the expansion of an existing one. continued on page 8

3 The Link 2001 Special Golden Anniversary Edition Kise: continued from page 1

Tim Sobota, MCP ‘98, a transit Lisa LaGrasse, MCP ‘98, Project Of the many accomplishments in his planner for the city of Madison, Manager/Regional Planner, Division career, Kise says that he is proudest of his work in Center City Philadelphia where he prepared a Wisconsin, is currently engaged in a number of of Capital Asset Management, Office of Real Estate, State of Massachusetts, works with the disposition of number of key studies that have helped shape projects, including database development using new downtown. One, the plan for the “Avenue of the transit scheduling software and the project development state land specializing in large parcels. She recently arranged the sale of the 126-acre Northampton State Arts” (South Broad Street), included the siting of and implementation process of ITS-related infrastructure the city’s regional performing arts center, now under for Madison’s system. His responsibilities also include Hospital site to The Community Builders, Inc. for a New Urbanist-style mixed use development. She is construction. In others he was involved in bus stop maintenance, which involves coordinating new decisions regarding the placement of the installations and relocations. now involved in an initiative to locate sites for affordable, moderate and market rate housing. LaGrasse’s eventual Convention Center, the Liberty Bell, and the restoration of Chestnut Street. Kise has fond Sobota took his current position after a post- goal is to work for a private consulting firm, focusing on either real estate or economic development. memories of his adventures in planning abroad. graduation summer spent in Lyon, France where he Before graduating from Penn, he spent a year in was able to practice his French and German, as well as While at Penn, LaGrasse concentrated in Venezuela helping prepare the town plan for Ciudad enjoy World Cup soccer while working at a Guayana as part of the project team from the Joint microbrewery. He is immensely satisfied with his job housing and real estate. Her best memories of Penn were “the friends and acquaintances I made, Tomazinis’ Center of Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard. and his life in his hometown of Madison. He does not Later he headed the project team for Sadat City, a see any major changes in the foreseeable future. parties, late nights finishing the Maracaibo, Venezuela studio, the trip to Washington with Professor Tustian, the new town in Egypt located halfway between Cairo APA conferences, and my job in the office with Patti and and Alexandria. The city now has 500,000 While Sobota came to Penn to study in its inhabitants. renowned transportation planning program, he enjoyed Kathleen..” In retrospect, she observes, “Now that the additional benefit of living without a car because the I’ve completed Penn and have been working for a couple of years, I look back and think about what a great Looking to the future, Kise expects to school’s location within a large city transit system. Both undertake “smart growth” initiatives. He thinks his formal and informal training equipped him for his education I received. Most of the professors and instructors had relevant planning experience that they that planners should have a larger role in developing current employment. Among his best memories of Penn, the urban agenda. He explained that engineers are the GSFA Happy Hour, and, more important, his could relay to the class – it wasn’t just book knowledge. What they brought to the classroom truly made a often drive transportation plans with little concern transportation/land-use planning studio in Maracaibo, for land use. National, state and local planning Venezuela. difference. Also, the Law class that Professor Keene taught was a great help! Planning and land use law issues are often devoid of planners as leaders. As come into everything I do. an example, he cites the fact that the executive Sobota foresees the increasing role of director of the Philadelphia Planning Commission technology as a major issue for transportation planners. is not a member of the Mayor’s cabinet. He cites the use of infrared beams in bus door wells and LaGrasse sees a number of issues facing planners today. Planners in the public sector must deal GPS locator antennas as tools to improve data collection Kise has kept in close touch with the over the current clipboard and stopwatch method. with such problems as traffic congestion, suburban sprawl and keeping up with technology. In certain cities the Department. For the last five years, he has taught lack of affordable or moderately priced housing will a popular second-year studio. This past year he Sobota’s advice for today’s planning students teamed with Paul Levy, head of the Philadelphia is to keep quality of life issues in mind when choosing a become an even greater issue. She thinks that state and local officials need to become more involved in addressing Community Development Corporation, to look at job. He advises planning graduates to be able to develop Alleghany West, an area north of Center City. In a stake in their own work. “There is no greater reward in the resulting conditions by reviewing and updating local master plans and zoning laws. the past, his class has addressed planning issues the planning profession than seeing, and even sharing in Camden, New Jersey, Wilmington, Delaware in, the positive results of your planning efforts.” She recommends that students involve and Philadelphia’s Port Richmond,. Recently, he themselves in everything they can that is related to has taken on a leadership role in the newly planning. invigorated GSFA Alumni/ae Association. Being well-connected to Penn, Kise thinks that the recent changes to the campus have fostered better integration with the surrounding neighborhood. Close to home, Kise sees a new eagerness and commitment among today’s planning students.

He advises current students to “Work hard. Learn both theory and practice.”

Lisa LaGrasse (2nd from left) and Tim Sobota (center) taking a break with fellow planning students during their studio in Maracaibo, Venezuela in 1998.

4 The Link 2001 Special Golden Anniversary Edition Waikeen Ng, MCP ‘99, Deputy Isaac F. Megbolugbe, MCP ‘82, Director, Fundacion Metropoli PhD ‘83, Vice President of Proyecto-CITIES, Madrid, Spain. Research and Policy, the Fannie Mae Created by visiting professor Alfonso Vegara. Foundation, is responsible for establishing the strategic Proyecto-CITIES investigates the competitive direction and research agenda for the Foundation. advantages and factors of success of twenty cities He aims to structure research affiliations and links around the world. Ultimately, the project will be within the Foundation’s network of partnerships to the basis of the foundation’s Global Network of maximize the Foundation’s innovative “virtual ” Excellence that will foster exchanges among operating style. innovative cities. The cities participating in the Proyecto include the Basque Country, Boston, Prior to joining the Foundation, Megbolugbe , Medellin, Miami, Philadelphia, Hong served as project leader for PriceWaterhouseCoopers Kong, Sydney, and Toronto. Ng has responsibilities (PWC) Housing Finance Group and later as the housing for coordinating the basic research already finance industry expert with PWC’s Center for Financial Deborah McColloch underway in the participating cities; establishing Intermediaries. Before joining PWC, Megbolugbe was and maintaining contacts with invited cities and both Senior Director for Research and Evaluation, as institutions; preparing the book of the research Deborah McColloch, MCP ‘79, well as of Senior Director for Housing Finance Research findings; and organizing the 2002 Bilbao at the Fannie Mae Foundation. He has been on the Conference to will publicize the findings of Director, Office of Housing and faculty at the American University and Florida State Proyecto-CITIES. Community Development (OHDC), University. He currently serves on the board of directors of the American Real Estate Society and American City of Philadelphia, manages the city’s $100 million Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. He state and federal allocations for housing and community has written more than eighty scholarly articles on housing development. She is responsible for all funding policy and housing finance. applications, including the Consolidated Plan required by HUD. Megbolugbe came to Penn because two of his professors from the University of Ibadan, his McColloch started at the OHCD directly undergraduate institution, were Penn graduates. after her graduation from Penn and became Deputy Additionally, William Grigsby’s pacesetting book, Director in 1993. She became Acting Director earlier Housing Markets and Public Policy (1963), influenced this year and has just been named Director. During her his choice. After one semester, he entered the Ph.D. time at OHCD, she has worked on several projects program at the suggestion of Professor Seymour including the Settlement Grant Program that offers Mandelbaum. Megbolugbe focused his studies on first-time homebuyers grants of $800 to assist with housing and analytical methods supplementing Waikeen Ng settlement costs, and the Homeownership Rehabilitation departmental offering with various courses at Wharton Plan that combines city subsidy with private financing Regarding his Penn experience, Mr. and the Law School to deepen his skills in real estate to rehabilitate vacant structures. McColloch says that Ng says that since he already held a degree in analysis, valuation and development. architecture, the training in city planning broadened she has always been committed to public service and and complemented his existing skills. He chose has never anticipated being any other area of planning. Penn because of its location in a large metropolitan She sees herself remaining in public sector planning. area and remembers the planning studio in Bogota, Colombia as a unique opportunity. McColloch stays well connected with Penn where she has taught courses on housing policy. One Commenting on the planning profession was a studio designed to create a professional experience in general, Ng cited Thomas Friedman’s recent by having students work with a client (a non-profit book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, to illustrate developer of affordable housing in the city) to develop a that while the global world is still young and still housing proposal complete with site plans and evolving, it is increasingly inter-twined and inter- pro-formas. Through this experience, McColloch sees connected. He believes that planners can best the value for students to be able to interact with practicing understand the global world by having a sense of professionals. the connectivity between different concepts, different countries and different communities. In McColloch came to Penn because of its this respect,. Ng says, “I think that the strength of strength in housing and community development and its the planning profession is in its diversity and ability location in Philadelphia. She also valued taking courses Isaac Megbolugbe to (and having to) operate, never in a vacuum, but in other parts of the university. But most memorable, Megbolugbe teaches the department’s instead with different inputs, forces and scales.” she observes, were the people. McColloch says she made life long friends in the program. One of her best introductory course on housing and community development. He said “I taught the housing course as In his advice to students, Ng advises recollections was the rewriting of Christmas carols with a way of giving something back to Penn. Penn, through them to understand that it is increasingly essential a planning theme. Her favorite, sung to the tune of “O its reputation and also via support of the faculty have to view the world with “multi-focal” lenses, where Tannenbaum,” was “O Mandelbaum”: each “take” will be different, and will add to the continued on page 9 continued on page 9 “big picture.”

5 The Link 2001 Special Golden Anniversary Edition Local Planning News Mayor John Street announced the Neighborhood the possibilities presented in the context of Transformation Initiative on April 19, 2001. The Census Update Philadelphia and the waterfront redevelopment. initiative is pending approval of City Council. To view Philadelphia’s population in 2000 was reported as the complete NTI proposal, go to the City of For more information on the Delaware 1,517,550. In 1990 the population was reported as Philadelphia’s web site: http://www.phila.gov. Riverfront Plan, go to the Planning Commission’s 1,585,577. web site at http://www.philaplanning.org. NTI Highlights: Delaware Waterfront Five-Year Plan Total cost $1.63 Billion DCRP Welcomes Visiting Demolition of 14,000 building Redevelopment Professors Rehabilitate 2500 houses Clean 31,000 lots The Philadelphia Planning Commission has initiated a The department is hosting three Construct 16,000 homes Comprehensive Redevelopment Plan for the North distinguished colleagues for this year. Fulbright Reduce vacancy by 65 percent Delaware Riverfront. The plan covers and 10 miles Fellow and Queens University Professor David Beautify sidewalks along the Delaware River from Penn Treaty Park in LA Gordon will be offering Public / Private Restructure housing agencies south to Poquessing Creek in the north. The planning Partnerships next Spring. While at Penn he will Stimulate commercial and industrial development process is scheduled for completion in September 2001. be using the Kroiz Archives to work on the Create land bank The plan will look at areas along the waterfront for new mixed-use communities, a riverfront park and trail, and biography of Paul Cret. Phillipos Loukissas Funding: new housing and open space development. Professor of Planning and Regional Development $490 million from related city program at the University of Thessaly is co-teaching the $890 million from housing agencies GSFA hosted a Future Cities conference Advanced Transportation Seminar with Professor $250 million from new city bond focusing on large-scale urban development on March Tomazinis, while Andrew Seidel, Professor of 23-24, 2001. Nationally and internationally renowned Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at The bond will finance encapsulations, land assembly, planners, landscape architects, and architects presented Texas A&M and editor of the Journal of sidewalk beatification, commercial/industrial large-scale projects and the conference ended with placing Architectural Education and Research is partnering development, and property inventory. with Gary Hack to teach Site Planning.

Dissertation focuses on bridging the digital divide: of local context that can provide useful insights for people in diverse locations, and the presence of Catalytic Communities, , 600 relatively isolated in terms of their previous information-sharing. Taking an unconventional route flattening the income inequality curve in Brazil than in other countries. Because the physical proximity Theresa’s dissertation will involve down the Ph.D. track at Penn, Theresa between rich and poor is particularly evident in Rio, this documenting and analyzing the evaluation process Williamson (doctoral student in City and Regional effort has been particularly greater there, with a diverse by which Catalytic Communities tailors its Internet- Planning) has decided, with the support of her advisors, set of organizations devoted to various measures of based activities and resources for lower income to simultaneously develop her dissertation and establish narrowing the divide. These measures include wiring communities, and the results of this process. a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Rio de Rio’s favelas for information technology. Internet resources to date have been tailored to Janeiro. This decision came after a two-month high-income, highly-educated individuals. Ideally, preliminary research period in the summer of 2000, Approximately 120 out of Rio’s 600 favelas the results of the dissertation would provide useful when an idea she had been developing for several already have information technology (IT) centers, half of information and tools for others developing online years evolved rapidly based on her experiences and them with Internet access. Non-governmental planning tools targeted to low-income groups. personal contacts in Rio’s favelas. organizations (NGOs) and the city government established these centers. Though use of these resources Please contact Theresa for more infor- Urban life in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is very is still limited, and many favelados (-dwellers) mation at [email protected] or visit different from anything experienced in the . remain without access, Rio de Janeiro’s IT accessibility Catalytic Communities’ website and send in your Favelas (shantytowns) rise up the hillsides alongside rate among the poor is enviable, compared to standards feedback at www.catcomm.org. elite apartment buildings. Nowhere do rich and poor in most developing countries. live so close together as to interact and witness each other’s worlds more than Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s 170 The emerging not-for-profit, Catalytic Check it out! million people face the most uneven income distribution Communities, has at its core the development of an in the world. Fifty percent of the population barely earns international database of innovative grassroots solutions Take a look at the new City $900 each month and half of one percent of the population to community problems to serve as a resource for lower- Planning web site: earns more than $18,000 per month. income communities and to help foster dialogue among http://www.upenn.edu/gsfa/ and between communities. Catalytic Communities’ city_plan/index.htm for Faculty, With the arrival of the digital age, Brazil is no ultimate goal is to extend this database city-by-city so Student, and Alumni profiles, different from the United States, or other nations, that that solutions can be effectively shared worldwide. Rio summaries of past lectures, worry about the coming digital divide. However, perhaps de Janeiro makes a logical pilot city – it boasts a good schedules for upcoming lectures, because of the extreme difference between rich and start at building up Internet resources among the poor, a and student work. poor, there has been a greater public emphasis on multitude of innovation at the community level, diversity

6 The Link 2001 Special Golden Anniversary Edition Just Announced... Ardmore Workshop Group wins PPA Award for best plan! 2001 Student Awards Student & Faculty News Fall Lecture Series William L.C. Wheaton Award Department of City and Outstanding academic performance by first year City Regional Planning Award Second Annual Symposium Planning Student Distinguished academic achievement on Large City Planning Cara Griffin, 2002 Stacy Sanseverino, 2001 Brent Krasner, 2002 Ryan Furgerson, 2001 Elizabeth Blume (Cincinnati) Michael Dobbins (Atlanta) Lewis Mumford Award Maxine Griffith (Philadelphia) Outstanding work in studies on urbanization Kirsten McGregor, 2001 Welcome! Moderated by Todd Bressi Robert B. Mitchell Award Class of 2003 October 18, 2001 Outstanding work in professional practice studies The Class of 2003 promises Christina Alexiou, 2001 Meyerson Hall B-1 to be just as enthusiastic as previous Matthew Jakubowski, 2001 6 PM classes in recent years. This is the Reception to follow largest class ever, 63 students, which Paul Davidoff Award has entered the department. These Outstanding work in areas of contemporary social students, 31 women and 32 men, come concern from diverse backgrounds and a wide “Global Regional Cities” Jennifer Greenberg, 2001 range of professional experience. Overall, sixty-eight percent have work Gary Hack Erwin Gutkind Award experience in a planning related field Roger Simmonds Outstanding work in international planning studies before coming to Penn to pursuing the Eser Devrim Ozdemir, 2001 MCP degree. November 5, 2001 Meyerson Hall (Room TBA) The Gaia Award Seventeen percent of the Outstanding work in environmental planning class graduated with a bachelor’s degree 6 PM Christopher Cahill, 2001 in 2001, forty-one percent are between Reception to follow 22-25 years old, thirty-eight percent are The Pennsylvania Planning Association 26-30, and five percent are 30+. The Outstanding Planning Student majority of students also received Faculty News Scholarship Award academic and merit awards as undergraduates. About half of the In June, Jonathan Barnett, Gary Hack Outstanding second year planning student students have served as volunteers in and Genie Birch presented portions of their work Christopher Cahill, 2001 a wide variety of organizations. from The New Metropolitan Agenda (Island Press, Melissa Saunders, 2001 2000) at the National Building Museum in Most of the students have Washington, DC. Ann Louise Strong Leadership Award travelled extensively and quite a few Demonstrated leadership among his/her peers in are bilingual. Nine international students Jonathan Barnett, Genie Birch and public affairs are coming to Penn from Japan, India, Paul Levy will also be featured in an Urban Land Carolyn Blackwell, 2001 Taiwan, Hong Kong, Canada, China, Institute Fellows panel focusing on new Christopher Cahill, 2001 and the Bahamas. publications at the ULI annual meeting in Boston Jenny Greenberg, 2001 in October. Jennifer Leonard, 2001 Several students are Tony Smith, 2001 pursuing joint MCP degrees with law In July, Sidney Wong announced a (Ken Johnson), social work (Brian new information resource providing information Martin Meyerson Award Armistead and Erin Wilson), and historic sharing, community building, and economic Public service in the profession preservation (Jennifer Hirsch). These development for West Philadelphia: InfoR. Go to Joseph Curtis, 2001 students join second-year joint degree http://westphillydata.upenn.edu MCP/MARCH students Lakisha Hull Albert and Edith Pezzotta Award and Rob Lamb in their academic On a sadder note, Ian L. McHarg, Outstanding work in Infrastructure Studies pursuits. Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture David Averill, 2002 passed away this spring. Professor McHarg was Ciaron Walker, 2002 This year’s HUD fellows are Brian the founding chair of the Landscape Architecture Armistead, Christopher Johnson, and and Regional Planning Department at Penn. He Wallace, Roberts, and Todd Award Ken Johnson. Three students are being was recognized as a planning pioneer by the Distinguished work by a first year student sent to Penn by their employers: Jim American Institute of Planners in 1997 when he Robert Lamb, 2002 Goetschius (US Army), Patricia was awarded the AICP Pioneer Award. Professor Workman (SEPTA), and Carmen McHarg also received the Japan Prize in city Walt D’Alessio Award Zappile (Army Corps of Engineers). planning from the Science and Technology Awarded for best student papers on real estate Foundation of Japan in 2000. He will be Jennifer Rodriguez, 2001 Congratulations and Good Luck! remembered fondly by all who knew him. Brian West, 2001 7 The Link 2001 Special Golden Anniversary Edition Students Explore Old and New Planning Efforts in Camden By Tanya Washington (MCP 2002)

Last fall, about a dozen planned for Spring 2003. Funded by the Delaware on redeveloping vacant houses and selling them to local River Port Authority, it will span the Delaware River at residents. In East Camden, 1 in 30 houses is vacant. planning students caught the River- the height of the Ben Franklin Bridge. The new Camden The Society has responded by investing $20 million Link Ferry from Penn’s Landing to Camden, NJ. Family Entertainment Center will be the terminal of the since 1993 in East Camden’s housing. The organization They visited with two organizations working on tram. The Camden Baseball Stadium, owned by Rutgers also provides home maintenance and financial local revitalization efforts and also took a tour of a University, had its grand opening this spring. The stadium management classes for its clients. World War I-era, federally built planned community. is the new home of the minor-league Camden River Jenny Greenberg (MCP 2001), who lives in Sharks and can hold 400,000 visitors. The fields will be The trip ended with a walking tour of the Camden, led the trip. available for public use during the summer. The SS community of Fairview in South Camden, led by New Jersey, the largest battleship ever built, will have Professor Michael Lang, Chair of the Urban Studies The Cooper’s Ferry Development a new home on the waterfront at the Battleship New Program at Rutgers’ Camden campus. The Association (CFDA), a private, non-profit Jersey Visitor’s Plaza and Museum. Phase I, the neighborhood, formerly known as Yorkship Garden organization that has been redeveloping 150 acres Visitor’s Plaza, is scheduled to open on Labor Day Village, was built in 1918 on 225 acres by the U.S. along Camden’s waterfront since 1984, gave a 2001. Additional projects planned are an aquarium Shipping Boards’ Emergency Fleet Corporation to house presentation to the group. CFDA was created by expansion, the conversion of the old RCA Nipper building shipbuilding workers. Yorkship Village’s design was Campbell Soup and RCA, at the time two major to residential use by Philadelphia developer Carl Dranoff, based on the garden city model. The neighborhood’s waterfront property owners, along with the City of and a hotel and conference center. focal point is the village green, surrounded by a concentric Camden. CFDA created a twenty five-year road. Along this main road two apartment buildings, a master plan for the Camden waterfront to reposition CFDA recently expanded its focus from the hotel, retail and commercial structures were built. the waterfront as a destination point for entertainment waterfront to Camden’s downtown and the nearby Curvilinear radial roads extend out to houses of various and recreation and to expand Camden’s tax base Cooper Grant neighborhood, where the organization styles and setbacks. Green spaces also were provided by creating a new economic center. Since 1992, wants to implement its Interior Gateway Project. CFDA throughout the neighborhood. The neighborhood is easily CFDA has completed several major projects: the was concerned about the state of the deteriorating walkable, and the narrow, curving roads discourage New Jersey State Aquarium, now the fourth most- downtown corridor that leads to the waterfront. CFDA heavy and fast-moving traffic. Unfortunately, the visited destination in the Philadelphia region; the is currently raising funds to implement significant neighborhood is currently experiencing pockets of River-Link Ferry; a high-tech office campus that streetscape and signage improvements and to help fund decline. The apartment buildings are vacant and up for adapted old RCA buildings; the Sony Blockbuster a light rail extension from Trenton to the Sony E-Centre sale. Some of the smaller green spaces now have E-Centre; One Port Center, designed by Michael in Camden. Downtown park restoration and some garages or house extensions on them, and some houses Graves and now the headquarters of the Delaware building demolition are other elements of the project. display signs of neglect. Nonetheless, the overall design Port Authority; and the recently-opened Camden of the community has been preserved and still exudes Children’s Garden, next to the Aquarium. The group also visited the St. Joseph’s a quiet sense of place. Carpenter Society in East Camden. Established in Several major new developments are 1984 by a local Catholic church as a non-profit service in the planning stages, including the Aerial Tram, provider for parishioners, the Society now concentrates

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Goldenberg came to Penn because Community and Economic Development. Jones reflects she wanted to be in a big city on the East Coast. that her best memories of Penn are of the people she Gary Hack, Genie Birch, Martin Her memories of Penn include her favorite course, met, many of whom will be lifelong friends and of her Meyerson, Tony Tomazinis, Dick architectural history taught by George Thomas. first trip abroad, a two-week charette in Santander, Spain As a Philadelphia resident, Goldenberg has kept arranged by Visiting Professor Alfonso Vegara and Tustian, Jim Kise, Todd Bressi and up with Penn’s development efforts and says the underwritten by Overseer Harvey Kroiz. six MCP students attended the 2001 APA Conference campus looks terrific. in New Orleans. Jones often finds herself close to campus. She loves Some major issues that Goldenberg Penn’s recent improvements, because she thinks they Congratulations to College of Fellows, American Institute sees for planners include determining the use of will help attract students to the university. of Certified Planners new inductees: Martin Meyerson open space and using technology to its fullest and Tony Tomazinis advantage. Jones advises current students to take ad- vantage of the other schools at Penn in order to under- The 50th Anniversary Cocktail Party was attended by Her advice to current students is “take stand larger policies in the work world. over 30 alumni. Gary Hack updated alums on GSFA risks and don’t think that what you choose is the events and accomplishments. Genie Birch presented last choice.” the accomplishments of CPLN faculty and students. Jim Kise made a presentation as the new president of Alumni Association encouraging alumni giving.

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O Mandelbaum,O Mandelbaum, for you we been good to my career and me. I get instant credibility have a query. once people know that I am a graduate of Penn, O Mandelbaum,O Mandelbaum, oh, what especially that I had the good fortune of working with the is planning theory? likes of William Grigsby, Peter Linneman and Seymour From John Rawls to Faludi, we’ve read and Mandelbaum.” He reports, “The quality of the students done our duty. in the course was superb. The class discussions were But Mandelbaum, O Mandelbaum, oh, what tremendously energizing.” is planning theory? His memories of Penn include the lifelong McColloch feels that there are two major friends he made among faculty and fellow students alike. sets of issues facing future planners – those dealing with His current boss, James Carr was a classmate and growth and those dealing with decline. In Philadelphia one of those friends. Marja Hoek-Smit and William she deals with a declining population and issues of Grigsby became his “adopted” parents in the U.S. He vacancy and open space. This contrasts with areas also has good memories working as Seymour such as Florida where planners are dealing with growing Mandelbaum’s assistant and also teaching an urban populations. economics class with Britton Harris.

9 The Link 2001 Special Golden Anniversary Edition Stay in Touch! Congratulations to the Class of 2001! It is now easier than ever to contact the Department with your news. Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, who was awarded an honorary degree at the ceremony, Contact us at: gave the convocation address and Philadelphia [email protected] or return Mayor, John Street, delivered the GSFA the form below. Thank you! commencement speech. Return this form with a copy of your business card. Name: ______GSFA students line up to receive their degrees Address: ______In the Fiftieth Anniversary year of the ______department, forty-eight students received a degree in City and Regional Planning at Penn. Forty- City: ______seven students were awarded a MCP degree From left to right: Andres Duany; Elizabeth State:______and one student received a PhD. One student Plater-Zyberk; Gary Hack, Dean of GSFA; John received a certificate. Moore, Chair of the Department of Fine Arts; Zip______and John Street, Mayor of Philadelphia. Phone: ______E-mail: ______New Information Resource for West Philadelphia Class and Degree: ______

Information Resources, West Philadelphia (InfoR) was Return to: The Link, Dept. of City and launched in July 2001 to help facilitate an advanced information Regional Planning, University of infrastructure for community-based projects, housing studies, and policy Pennsylvania, 127 Meyerson Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104 research. The project is directed by Assistant Professor Sidney Wong fax (215) 898-5731 of City & Regional Planning. For more information about the project  and to access the InfoR data, go to: e-mail [email protected] http://westphillydata.upenn.edu

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