Student Research & Thesis Topics

Below is a list of Cities senior theses since the inception of the program. Please contact the Cities webmaster with any additions or corrections.

(Note: Some theses are available for reading at the Special Collections Department of Canaday Library, second floor, 610-526-6576. Please call ahead for hours and availability.)

2008-2009 (28)

Neha Agarwal:  “New Urbanism—A look at Downtown Kendall, Florida and Celebration, Florida”

Sarah Ahmad: “Insuring Basic Health for the Urban Poor: Navigating Alternatives in Service Delivery for Lahore”

Melissa Andrews (HAV): “Boston’s Relationship with Its Waterfront after World War II: An Analysis through the Eyes of the City’s Planners, Developers, and Politicians”

Marianna Bogucki: "Transient Irish - The Effect of Polish and Nigerian Immigration on Dublin's Identity"

Ari Briski: “Environmentalism in Los Angeles: the Convergence of Equity, Urban on Dublin’s Cultural Identity”

Vicky Bryant: "Architectural Biennales and their Meanings"

Jeff Bumgardner (HAV):  “Sustainable Identity: Examining ‘Green’ Resort Development”

Jackie Castellanos: “Monterey Park: Demythologizing the First Asian Majority Suburb/Transformation of an Ethnic Economy”

Duncan Cooper (HAV):  “Building Baltimore: City Image in the Inner Harbor and the Wire”

Anna Ellis:  “Urban Renewal Revisited: Changing Visions for Redevelopment in Philadelphia”

Britt Fremstad: “Privatizing Camden’s Water:How Neglect of the Public Sector Made Privatization “Necessary””

Katherine Fung:  “Remaking the Ethnic Enclave: the Survival of Manhattan’s Chinatown and the Changing Right to the City”

Michael Hildner (HAV):  “Port Richmond, Philadelphia, PA: Understanding the Working Class Waterfront”

Sarita Kapadia (HAV):  “Olympics and Housing: A Look into the Treatment of Underserved Populations Before and After the Games”

Josephine Karianjahi:  “Urban School Districts and Childhood Obesity in High Schools”

Lindsay Kieffaber: “Connecting Campus: Reimagining an Athletic and Wellness Center at Bryn Mawr College”

Georgia Lawrence:  “Beyond Bricks and Mortar: How Community Development Corporations Foster the Revitalization of Livable Neighborhoods”

Zoe  Lloyd (HAV):  “A Historical Ecology of Large Dams on the Zambezi River: A Comparative Analysis of the Kariba Dam, Cahora Bassa Dam, and the Mphanda Nkuwa Dam in terns of Sustainability”

Watson Millison (HAV):  “Evaluating Green Architecture: the new Haverford Gymnasium”

Annie Morse: “National Environmental Organizations’  Approaching the Next Environmentalism: The Audubon Society and Sierra Club in the 21st Century”

Elise Nelson: “Transforming Urban Communities and the Evolving Role of Universities in Urban Communities: A Case Study of the Ohio State University and Weinland Park”

Waldean Nelson (HAV):  “Opera Houses: Symbols of Change”

Priya Pappu: “Clothing the City: PRADA + Its Star Architects”       
      
Elizabeth Pounds : “Museums as Ambassadors:Architecture and Cultural Heritage on the National Mall”

Melanie Preston (HAV): “ Monumental Mixed-Use Developments in U.S. Urban Centers: Examining Shared Consumer and Corporate Spaces”

Alison Reingold: “Anarchist Utopias and the Binding Role of Religions”

Jessica Schwartz : “A Place to Call Home: Visionary Downtown Projects in Las Vegas and Atlantic City”

Thomas Sommerville (HAV): “ Places in Time:  The Cultural and Social Evolution of  20th Century Harlem”

2007-2008 (22)

Eunice Ahn: “Dealing With Our Sh!t: Identifying the Winners and Losers of Waste Management through a Case Study of Chester, Pennsylvania”

Aquila Alexander: “ No Queer Left Behind: Gay Politics in Philadelphia Urban Space”

Katia Alexander (HAV): “Of Poets, Paupers, and Planes: Tuberculosis and the City”

Katie Baldwin: “Models for Social Change: Contemporary Urban Faith-Based Communities and Learning from the Historic Settlement House Movement”

Nadia Barclay: “Cafe Culture in Beirut: A Center of Civil Society (16th Century-Present)”

Eric Carlson (HAV): “Preservation for Revitalization: The Costs and Benefits of Preservation for Economic Revitalization in Charleston, Philadelphia, and Denver”

Jen Cuesta: “Rosie the Riveter Meets June Cleaver: An Analysis of Post-WWII American Suburbanization, its Construction of Gender Ideology, and its Lingering Affects on Contemporary American Society”

Leah Fiasca (HAV): “Dubrovnik: Restoring a UNESCO World Heritage Site”

Megan Grehl: “Itsuko Hasegwa and Kazuyo Sejima: A Case Study of How Two Japanese Women Architects Tackle Issues of Contemporary Society”

Matthew Handel (HAV): “Waterfront Highway Obstacles in Philadelphia and New York: A Comparison of Influences, City Planners and the Ultimate Results”

Luke Henderson (HAV): “Neighborhood Revitalization in Hawthorne, Philadelphia: Concepts of Community in the HOPE VI Redevelopment of Housing (1997-present)”

Susannah Henschel (HAV): “Expressions of Power through Architecture: A Case Study of Mussolini’s Rome and FDR’s Washington DC”

Rob Korobkim (HAV): “The Dynamics of Neighborhood Change in Brewerytown, Philadelphia”

Dana Litowitz (HAV) “The Character of An Art Collection: Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry Clay Frick, Albert C. Barnes, David Lloyd Kreeger, and the Donor Memorial in the U.S.”

John Magovern (HAV): “An Examination of Market Solutions to Global Environmental Problems: Carbon and Water”

Cate Megley: “Constructing a New Objectivity for the Future of Coney Island”

Amina Omar:  “Hungry in Philadelphia: The Structure and Limitations of Private Food Assistance”

Charlie Rubin (HAV):  “Public Housing in Chicago, USA;A Focus on Proms and Solutions in Design, Pattern and Practice”

Elisa Sepulveda:  “Lima, Peru: Representation of a City and Culture”

Aley Thompson: “Exclusion, Displacement & Relocation: An Analysis of Public Housing and its Relation to the Revitalization of Newark, New Jersey”

Rachel Zack: “Lessons from Religious Institutions: Planning for the Many “Communities” of West Philadelphia”

Ben Zuckerman (HAV): “Cohousing in Denmark and the United States: An Analysis of Two US Developments and How They Relate to the Danish Housing Model”

2006-2007 (21)

Maude Baggetto: "Millennium Park. The Processes that Get Big City Projects Done"

Nate Broughton (HAV): "Going Green By The Green Mountains: A New Environmental Sciences Building for the University of Vermont"

Kim Cadena: "The perfect imagined community: marketing new urbanism"

Elizabeth Daligga: "HOPE for an inclusive city: affordable housing policy in Philadelphia"

Brian Doherty (HAV): "Student Space at Haverford College: An Architectural Proposal"

Carolina Esquivel: "From Organic Architecture to Sustainable Design: The Changing Nature of the Building"

Michael Grant (HAV): "Who Owns History? The Construction, Deconstruction, and Purpose of the Main Line Myth"

Parker Hoar (HAV): "Heltershelter: The Architecture of Disaster Relief Housing in Post Hurricane Katrina New Orleans"

Alexis Leventhal (HAV): "Landover Regional Shopping Center: The Perceptions and Realities that Caused a Mall to Fall"

Sarah Lynch: ""Is Paris Burning?": The French Banlieue in Crisis"

Sarah Martin: "'And we're waiting here in Allentown': the process of downtown revitalization in post-industrial Allentown, PA"

Jess Pastore: "Painting walls and pulling weeds: approaches to community improvement in Philadelphia"

Vanessa Poggioli: "Portland Improvement: Robert Moses' Response to Postwar Urban Planning in One American City"

Calisse Pollina: "Tourism and the city: the tourist experience in Boston and Philadelphia"

Laura Proctor: "Downingtown, PA: the attempt of a small town to succeed in the 21st Century"

Lin Qian: "Far and Away, yet How Much That Mattered: Nanterre before May 68"
Read, Anna: "Postwar Urbanism and Visionary Planning in Great Britain"

Abby Scattergood (HAV): "Historic preservation in Germantown: a vehicle for community and economic development"

Hannah Shulman (HAV): "People, Places and Spaces: Embracing Environmental Literacy in Philadelphia"

Sarah Spiegel: "Public Library Origins and Development: An Assessment of Popular Theory and Middle Class Influences, Considering the Fayetteville Arkansas Public Library as an Example"

Jennifer Wagner: "Architectural Professionalism and the Dissemination of Architectural Style: Building Contracts in Hunterdon County, New Jersey During the Mid to Late Nineteenth-Century"

Jimi Yu: "The Korean creation of 'ethnic enclave' in the cities of Philadelphia and Los Angeles"

2005-2006 (11)


Pankhuri Agrawal: "Zoning Out of the 'Main Site' at Penn's Landing: Urban Redevelopment between the Delaware River and Center City, Philadelphia"

Rheanna Bensel: "Conflicted Living: Consumption Habits and Environmental Ideals among the Chilean Middle Classes"

Jeremy Berke: "What is really so wrong with aspiring to own a camera and wear fashionable clothes?: Tourism as a Motor for Economic Development in Guatemala"

Anna Blinn: "Four Sides to Everything: Defining the Vernacular House in Harlan County, Kentucky"

Erin George: "The Community Health Worker's Model: A Response to the Urban Health Penalty through Community Health Workers"

Melissa Hope: "The Bala Cynwyd Story: Development of a Suburban Landscape" 

Ben Koski (HAV): "Holding Steady: Survival, Migration and Future Prospects in the Printing and Food Manufacturing Industries in Philadelphia County, PA"

Denette Anggraini Lienau:  "Preserving Identity: The Indonesian Chinese in Crisis"

Claire Mahler: "Palliation and Architecture: The Impact of Design on Inpatient Hospice Care"

Athena Tan:  "Cinematic Citizenship: Consuming Tagalog Film in Manila"

Jordan Teel: "Moravian Academy Middle School: A Green Interpretation of the Past"

2004-2005 (18)


Jai Agrawal: "A New Home for the Village of Arts and Humanities. Village problems. Design Solutions"

Andrea Betancourt: "The Rehabilitation of the Historical Center in Quito: Reconfiguring the Public and Public Space"

Courtney Black: "Athens to Athens: An Ancient Search for a Modern Identity"

Kathryn Butler: "Suburban Meanings: Some Social and Cultural Implications of Collective Landscapes"

Nupur Chaudhury: "What is To Be Done?: An Analysis of Development Plans for Kolkata, India"

Peilin Chen:"Department Stores and Malls: Changing Consumption Patterns"

Robert  Douglass (HAV): "Chestnut Hill Quaker Meeting: Expanding the Meetinghouse Paradigm"

Misa Fujimura-Fanselow: "Homelessness in Tokyo: Competing Interpretations"

Claudine Johnson: "South Street Philadelphia : The Impact of Changing Populations on an Urban Commercial Artery"

Meredith Kendrick: "From a Barrier to a Bridge: Making the Vine Street Viaduct Viable"

Chris Kingsley: "Wireless Philadelphia"

Amanda Lewkowicz: "Beth Sholom and Adath Jeshurun: Illustrations of American Jewish Identity in Architecture"

Monica Locsin: "Housing Policy in Manila"

Eileen Marceau: "Bombings and Blocakades: The Impact of the Maoist Insurgency on the Relationship between Kathmandu and its Hinterland"

Liz Marcus: "Atlanta and Buenos Aires: Evaluating the Process of Water Privatization"

Leah Min: "Promoting Cycling as Transportation in Germany : Getting Germans to Ride"

Jennifer Roberts: "Progress at a Profit? An Analysis of Edison Schools, Inc. in Philadelphia"

Sara Ross: "Re-designing Bryn Mawr: Creating an Alternative Center"

2003-2004 (25)


Chelsea Arkin: "Grassroots Movements in Philadelphia"

Oliver Baker (HAV): "Reinventing the Los Angeles River: Its Historical Importance and Future Significance"

Mary Katherine Baumann: "East Palo Alto: The Viability of a Minority-Dominated City in Silicon Valley"

Imogene Berry: "Whose Space Is it? The Transformation of Public Spaces in the Capital Cities of Washington, D.C. and London into National Public Space through Large National Protests"

Ted Burgwyn (HAV): "Providing Security in the City of Brotherly Love: an Analysis of the Restructuring of Policing in Philadelphia and its Consequences"

Melissa Cook: "Small Cities and the Construction of Metropolitan Los Angeles"

Alexander Craig (HAV): "Hispanics in the Chicago Economy: An Analysis of the Earnings Determination of Chicano and Puerto Rican Males"

Jessica Elton (HAV): "Contending with Privileged Influx: Lessons from Boston's Mission Hill"

Lila Garrott: "Papal (E)states: An Examination of the Attitude of the Renaissance Papacy toward Rome and the Vatican as Expressed through Building Projects"

Emily Melia Grigg-Saito: "Corporate Redevelopment and Ideas of Monumentality: The Shiodome Site, Roppongi Hills, and their place in Tokyo's Polycentralization Policies"

Shah Aashna Hossain: "Representations of London in Ethnic Film"

Karen Jenks: "Musicality and Mutability: An Examination of Relationships between Complementary Concert Halls"

Emily Kahoe: "A Gallon of Milk Weighs Eight Pounds: Toward Greater Community Food Security Though Removing Geographic Barriers to Food Access"

Caleb Linville (HAV): "A New Philadelphia Rowhouse Development: Phresh Additions to an Old Tradition"

Mara Marino: "Multi-Purpose to Sports-Specific: Urban Change, Sports Culture, and Stadium Trends in Philadelphia"

Thatcher  Mines (HAV): "The Military and Americorps: Race, Recruiting and the Realities of National Service"

Emily Moos: "From Glen to Glass: An Exploration of Urban Renewal Planning in Downtown Hartford and its Regional Repercussions"

Laura Smoot: "Whose Streets? Explaining 40 Years of Redevelopment and Gentrification in University City, Philadelphia"

Sonam Tamang: "Philadelphia on Film: Mainstream and Mainstream Representations of Gender, Race and Class"

Junette Teng: "'Star-chitects': The commodification of Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas"

Jennifer Ward (HAV): "Selling the City: Preserving and Producing Memory"

Bethanne Wilson: "It Was All Greek To Them: Nicholas Biddle, Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Greek Revival in Philadelphia"

Linda Wisniewski: "Housing in Philadelphia, 1890-1920: Apartment Houses for a 'City of Homes'"

Sylvia Yoo (HAV): "Behind the Scenes: A Look into the Decentralization Process of the City of Los Angeles and the Future of Downtown"

Nicole Zachary : "Marketing Heritage: Sustaining Images of Community in Vermont"

2002-2003 (20)

Amanda S. Chudnow: "Sapphic Sisters in the City of Brotherly Love: The Interactions of Space, Community and Lesbian Sexuality"

Emily Corbett (HAV): "What It Means to Be Green: Examing Eco-Fad Labels for Lasting Meaning and Solutions in Ecological Design"

Dorcas Davis: "Endangered Islands: The Vulnerable Existence of Gullah Culture within Contemporary American Life"

Michele Doughty: "Sex in the City: Female Prostitution, Criminalization and Legalization in the United States and the Netherlands"

T. Caroline  Drucker: "Neue Kunst Information Mitte – Designing a Resource Center for Berlin’s Contemporary Arts Community"

Michael Freedman (HAV): "From House Form to Urban Form"

Dawni Freeman: "A Woman’s Place is in the Home: Reconstructing Domestic Space in Two Feminist Housing Designs"

Javier Garcia (HAV): "The Grays Ferry Community Center: A Design Thesis"

Lara-Louise Gilman: "Refugees and National Identities Along the Mauretania/Senegal and Mexico/U.S Borders"

Alla Grinblat (HAV): "From Hospitals to Health Systems: Implications for Philadelphia Healthcare"

Alice Gugelman: "Affordable Housing and Urban Sprawl in Chapel Hill, North Carolina"

Allison  Hayes-Conroy: "Harvesting Harmony: A Search for Environmental Meaning in the Seasonal Celebrations of Southern New Jersey"

Jessica Hayes-Conroy: "From Eggs to Ethics: An Analysis of the Role of Farm Markets Within a Changing South Jersey Landscape"

Miriam Jankiewicz: "Displays of Nature: Natural History Museums and Green Architecture"

Keith Kaczorowski (HAV): "Imagination"

Janet J. Lee: "Meaningful Space: The Transformation of Space and Community in Barcelona"

Anne J. Martin: "Experiencing the Urban Coffee Shop: The Social Space within Philadelphia’s Coffee Shops"

Trecia Pottinger: "Commodification and Difference: Kreuzberg (Berlin) and the Meanings of Modern Germany"

Benjamin Toth (HAV): "Dream Space: A Study of Architecture and the City in Fellini"

Shannon Tyman: "Ideologies Enlivened: Examining Social Ecology within the World of Second-Hand Clothing"

2001-2002 (24)

Nathalie Aguinaldo: "Architectural And Educational Ideals Versus Reality In The Contemporary Secondary School: A Study Of The Evolution Of Radnor High School (1958-2001)"

Caroline Barth: "Increasing The Impact Of Foundations On Community Development In Philadelphia"

Audra Benjamin: "Acts Of Memory:The Vietnam War Memorial And The World War II Monument In Washington DC"

Anna Bower: "Beyond The Wall: Art And Social Change In Northern Ireland"

Brooke Conley: "Claiming Place: Squatter Movements In Berlin And Philadelphia"

Aliya Curmally: "Gotham Cities: Comic Book Notions Of The Modern City"

Celestina De La Garza: "Forget The Alamo!: The Mexican Presence In Contemporary San Antonio, Texas"

Emilie Delcourt (HAV): "It Takes A Village... The Village Of Arts And Humanities And Its Roles In North Philadelphia Urban Development"

Margaret Grady-Troia: "Appropriated Dialogues: Exploring Venturi Scott Brown & Archigram"

Elena Guarinello (HAV): "The Promise Of The Games? Imagination And The Washington, D.C. 2012 Olympic Bid"

Ashley Hedrick (HAV): "The Myth Of New Urbanism: Critiquing Development Choices In Hercules, California."

Christine Jung: "The World Bank Development Framework And Urban Policy In Brazil"

Laura Kim: "Visualizing Center City: Explorations In The Image Of Philadelphia"

Kim Ota: "The Portland Region As A Planning Model"

Daria Ovide (HAV): "Creating A Restaurant Experience In The White Dog Café And Pod (Philadelphia)"

Melinda Phelps: "'If You Like What You See, Turn Off Your TV And Do It!': PBS And The Development Of A Public Child"

Prianjali Mascarenhas: "Rising To The Challenge: Philadelphia's Neighborhood
Transformation Initiative And The Vacant Land Issue"

Alexa Ratzlaff: "Designing A Visitors' Center For Shofuso (The Japan House) In Fairmount Park"

Sophie Sikowitz (HAV): "Rethinking The Racial Transition Of The Cedarbrook Neighborhood Of Philadelphia, 1940-2001"

Matthew Spigelman (HAV): "Learning From The Renaissance To Better Investigate The Present: Domed Building Design Within The Western Architectural Tradition Since The Renaissance."

Kurt Spring (HAV): "Defying The Odds: An Economic And Cultural Exploration Of American Indian Society And The Role Of Reservation Gaming"

Maria Taylor: "City Image As Social Identity In St. Petersburg And Budapest"

Susanna Thomas: "Prayer, Monkey-Wrenching And Tactical Frivolity:The Changing Praxis Of Nonviolence"

Melody Tulier: "The Relationship Between Shantytown Dwellers And Urban Regimes: A Case Study Of Buenos Aires, Argentina And Lima, Peru"

2000-2001 (19)

Anderson, Rachel: "Whose Backyard is it, anyway? Nimby Opposition to Social Services in Seattle."

Baim-Lance, Abigail (HAV): "(Un)Weaving Devon: Understanding the Stories of a Chicago Neighborhood"

Bodian, Dena: "Place I Call Home: Community Development Models in West Philadelphia"

Bronzan, Ashley Elizabeth Tidwell (BMC) "Lightmarks: How Lighting Shapes Social Space in Philadelphia"

Conner, Kate: "Finding the Entrance: Form vs. Function in the Modern American Library"

Davis, Heather: "Preservation and Change in Urban Jewish Communities: The Cases of Duluth, Minnesota and South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"

Fliflet, Naomi: "Palm Beach and the Circulation of American Elites"

Gittlen, Lisa (HAV): "‘Charm City’: Tortured Visions of Baltimore through Television and Film"

Goetz, Emily: "Elite Manipulation of Monumentality and Imagery in Cleveland: A Historical Exploration"

Goldberg, Eric (HAV): "Speed Kills: How a Poorly and Planned Expressway Damaged Philadelphia"

Hyams, Deborah: "Planning Dividion in a ‘United’ City: Israeli Planning in Jerusalem since 1967"

Jubert, Danielle (HAV): "Youth as Resources: Examining Programs for Latino Youth in North Philadelphia"

Klinger, Elissa: "Harlem: Myths of the City and Urban Health Care Delivery"
McCool, Joseph (HAV): "The Stadium and Urban Planning: A Comparision over Time"

Morton, Craig (HAV): "Designing a Center for the Cities Program"

Samarasingha, Tanya: "Adaptive Reuse in Historic Colombo, Sri Lanka"

Tseng, Marla: "Latino Media and Latino Community in Philadelphia"
Underwood, Elissa: "Fantasy Planning: What an Investment in Spectacles Means for Cities"

Weidner, Sarah (HAV): "Constructing National Identity with Architecture: A Comparison of the Work of Luis Barragán in Mexico and Antonio Gaudí in Catalonia

1999-2000 (19)

Arati Clarry: "Paradise Lost and Found: Examining the Impact of Corporate Tourism on Hawai'ian Culture"

Christina PioCosta-Lahue (HAV): "New Immigrants, New Gentrification: Exploring New Definitions of Gentrification through the Korean American Community of Fort Lee New Jersey"

Tim Cunningham (HAV): "Neighborhood Revitalization in Philadelphia: An Examination of Two West Philadelphia Initiatives"

Jennifer Hagan: "Reassessing Philadelphia’s Empowerment Zone Plan for Development"

Caroline Horstmann: "Planned and Flexible Communities: An Ethnography of Council Housing in East Brighton"

Marina Kenzer: "Medicine on the Border: An Analysis of Public Health in El Paso, Texas"

Catherine Kim (HAV): "Goodbye Playgrounds, Goodbye Play: School Playgrounds as Places of Growth in Greater Philadelphia"

Shelby Kohn (HAV): "Telemundos: Global and Local Issues in Spanish Language Television"

Isabel Kriegel (HAV): "America's Main Street: From Disney's Imagination to End-of-Century's Realization"

Sara Lefstein (HAV): "Bridging the Gap between Baltimore’s Contrasting Constituencies: Citizens Planning and Housing Associations as Case Study"

Michele Mieuli (HAV): "Rigid Flexibility: The Ossification of Silicon Valley’s Flexible Production Networks"

Yasmin Moya-Gutierrez: "Credit Unions and Community Development in Washington Heights: An Analysis of the Long Term Ability of Community Development Credit Unions to Improve Low-Income Areas"

Dara Newman (HAV): "Changing Landscapes: The Roles of Public Green Space within Changing Urban and Suburban Settings

Joe Ogletree (HAV): "Virtual Architecture: New Technology and Its Impact on Design"

Emily Powell (HAV): "The Redevelopment of Blitz Weinhard: An urban neighborhood in Portland Oregon and a Plan for its Revitalization"

Cynthia Renta: "Dance and the Construction of Pan-Latino Identity in New York City"

Kristin Schade: "Creating Memory: Maps, Memorials and a Museum in Kamenz, Germany"

Claire Whitman: "Little Utopias? Understanding the Ideal of Community Gardens and the Differences from Reality within the Context of Neighborhood Social
Interactions and Urban Revitalization in Philadelphia"

Joanna Wolaver: "The Austin Smart Growth Initiative: Assessing the Future of a Vision of Managed Growth"

1998-99 (16)

Colin Bathory (HAV): "Walls of Fear: The Medieval City and the Gated Community"

Rae Gouirand: "The City in the Voice: The Presence of New Orleans and Pittsburgh in Contemporary Literature"

Noli  Hoye (HAV): "Conflict, Change and the Resilience of Human Community: Balancing Economy and Ecology in the Pacific Northwest"

David Kanthor (HAV): "Nairobi 1998: Colonial Roots/Contemporary Problems"

Deb Kocsis: "Dead End Highway: The Cross-town Expressway as a Turning Point in Planning"

Rachel  Jaffe (HAV): "Retaining Integrity: Historic Preservation as a Low-Income Housing Solution in Norristown"

Amanda Leon: "North Liberties Landscape Plan: A Strategy for Reclaiming Vacant Land"

Nancy I-Shuan Liu: "The Impact of Rural Development and Promotion of Tourism on Prostitution in Thailand"

Jane Meconi: "Women’s Places in Victorian America"

Chris Osgood (HAV): "Mass Transportation and its Impact on Local Economic Development"

Susanna Prough: "Gangster Families: Representations of Crime in Hong Kong and New York Cinema"

Bridget Shea (HAV): "Facing Fear: Women’s Perceptions of Danger in Urban Space"

Melissa Smiley: "People in the Planning Process: Lessons from London Docklands"

Abigail Thorne-Lyman: "The Oakland Estuary: Adapting Global Interests to a Local Redevelopment Plan"

Erin Wark: "Spatial Construction and City Life: The Altbau Mietshaus in Berlin"

Sarah Zaborowski: "The Bronze Bambino: Art and Politics in Philadelphia"

1997-98 (7)

Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani: "Two Visions of New York’s Lower East Side: The Henry Street Settlement House Artscape Project and the Tenement Museum"

Barbara Craven: "Defining the Public in ‘Public Space’: Participatory Planning and the Redefinition of Independence Mall"

Anne Gaddy (HAV): "Medicine and Community in Washington, DC: Zacchaeus Free Clinic and Bread for the City"

Emily Hughes: "The Whole World Needs Recovery: The Meanings of the New Jerusalem Laura Project"

Heather Moore: (not available)

Marc Schulman (HAV): "Beyond California: Richard Neutra and his Work in Southeastern Pennsylvania"

Bianca Siegl: "Urban History in Modern Context: The Parc de la Villette, Paris"

1996-97 (18)

Eugenia Amador: "Grass-roots Activism Breaks the Cycle of Poverty caused by Deindustrialization in West Kensington"

Gabrielle S. Costanzo: "Midwestern Identities in The Great Gatsby and Carl Fisher's Montauk"

Lena DerOhannessian (HAV): "Armenian Identity as it Relates to Religious Architecture: A Survey of Armenian Churches in Historical Armenia and Present-Day America"

Itohan Osayimwese: "The Search For Substance: Modern Architecture in Barbados"

Sumi Paek: "Engaging the Community through Preservation and Recycling Historic Sites in Boston: Three Theaters and Fenway Park"

Monisha Parik (HAV): "London's Past and Present as a Global City"

Rebecca Rabin (HAV): "Boundaries and Bridges, Conflict and Cooperation: the Relationship between Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Neighborhood of East Baltimore"

Courtney Rice: "Conflict at Makua Beach: Interpretations of its Landscape, Claims to its Future"

Cristina Salazar: "The Tejano Musical Revolution: Bringing Rural Roots to the Urban Scene"

Julie Simon (HAV): "Illusory Gains: Jewish Emancipation in Amsterdam and Vienna"

Elizabeth Soltez: "A Study of the Effects of Gentrification on the Residents of Manayunk"

Amanda Springman: "Planned Communities and New Towns: Artificial or Desirable: Constructing Notions of Community in Reston, VA, Columbia, MD, and Kentlands, MD"

Kerri Jennifer Tobin (HAV): "Learning from Barcelona: The Successes of the Nova Icaria and their Relevance to City Planning in the United States"

Alexa Viets: "Community Gardens as Planning Models: Can our Communities Function Like our Gardens?"

Noah Walker (HAV): "Rethinking Vacant Spaces: A Proposal for Philadelphia (paper, photographs of drawings and model)

Elizabeth Werbe (HAV): "The Role of Street Life and Public Spaces in French Cities"

Ellen Winn (HAV): "School-Based Services: A Comprehensive Approach to Serving At-risk Youth"

David J. Wolfe (HAV): "Integrating Public Health and Medicine in the Small City: Towards Better Health in Lancaster, Pennsylvania"

1995-96 (21)

Mark N. Balcer (HAV): "Community Response and Policy Options in the Face of Change: A Case Study of Manayunk, Pennsylvania"

Reshmi Basu: "Renegade No More: Billboard Advertising in Baltimore and the Case for Ultra Organized Coalition"

Pilar Beccar-Varela: "A Walk in Smaller Shoes: Understanding Children's Experiences of the City Street"

Heather Burto (HAV): "Residential Segregation by Social Class in Philadelphia and Santiago"

Elizabeth Grey Cecil (HAV): "People, Power and Architectural Design: A Study of Two Community Development Corporations in Philadelphia"

Daria Curtis: "The Evolution of Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village at the University of Virginia from its Inception to 1976"

Kavita Das: "Yorktown: A Case Study Examining the Historical Context of Home Ownership and Neighborhood Stability in Philadelphia's Urban Renewal Process"

Maria Fernanda Duque: "Gentlemen's Clubs: A Comparison of Exclusive Cultural Institutions in Early- to Mid-Nineteenth Century London and Boston"

Jennifer Evert: "Urban Renewal in Chicago: 100 Years of Reform on the Near West Side"

Brynee K. Gandy: "An Exploratory Study of Jack and Jill of America, Incorporated, and the Organization's Impact on Women of the Black Middle Class"

Shana Stearns Goodall: "Zoned Out: Twenty-four Years of Shoreland Zoning in Maine"

Truc Mai Ha: "The Vietnamese in Philadelphia: Community Redefined through Three Social Structures"

Brenna Herpmann: "The Schuylkill and the Delaware: History, Image and Planning for the Future"

Elizabeth A. Holmlund (HAV): "Growing Up and the City: Looking at Newbery Award-winning Children's Fiction"

Julia Huebner: "Pills Travel Faster than Medicine: The Implications for Health Care in Northern Pakistan"

Erin Manning: "Making Education Work for our Children: A Comparison of Three Educational Alternative Programs in New York City for Disadvantaged Children at the Secondary School Level with Reference to General Trends in London Secondary Schools"

Erica N. Prodouz: "Examining Suburbs with Special Government Systems: Oakmont, Maryland and Narberth, Pennsylvania"

Brad Rogers (HAV): "Negotiating Progress: Land, Community, and Identity in St. Augustine Beach, Florida"

William Stern (HAV): "Fairmount Water Works: A Case Study in Historic Preservation"

Michael Tannenbaum (HAV): "Civic Pride and $500 Million: The Use of Economic and Non-Economic Factors in Legitimizing Public Policy Decisions Involving Professional Sports Teams and Professional Sports Stadiums"

Kate Victoria Viola: "Healthcare Architecture and its Effects on Patient Welfare: Waiting Room Design at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia"

1994-95 (19)

Julie Beckman: "Communal Rehabilitation through Architecture: A Proposal for a Community Arts Facility in a West Philadelphia Neighborhood"

Tony Belber (HAV): "Southwest Washington, DC: Community, Neighborhood, and the Impact of Urban Renewal"

Angie Emery: "The Architecture of Public Education: How Can We Do Better? Designing Schools in Metropolitan Nashville, Davidson County"

Liz Guthrie: "Urban Waterways of Trenton, New Jersey: Striking a Balance between Progress and Preservation"

William Hayes (HAV): "The Broadway Project: Issues in the Revitalization of Downtown Camden, New Jersey"

Kathleen Jones: "Mission Style Architecture in California: New Uses for an Old Style"

Valerie Jones: "Co-Housing: An Analysis of Two California Communities"

Kim Koller: "Three Rows: A Study of a Low Income Housing Renovation Project"

Lawler, Anya: "The Impact of a Tourism-Based Economy on Three Western Towns"

Rebecca Mason: "Developing a Successful Urban Park: The Case of the Seattle Commons"

Mike Metz (HAV): "Rap Music as Cultural Dialogue"

Morris, Jennifer: "The Urban Village Model, and its Application in Phoenix, Arizona"

 Kasia O'Neill: "The Role of Squatter Settlements in Public Policy: Cairo's Cities of the Dead"

Myra Reichel: "Community Development through Community Gardens in Philadelphia"

Joanna Reiner: "Building with Chutzpah: The Search for Form in Synagogue Architecture"

Matthew D. Sauer (HAV): "Cul-de-Sacked: The Success of Hybrid Urban Design in Five Oaks"

Daniel I. Smith (HAV): "The Phoenix Project of Bridgeport, CT: Residents and Urban Planners in Community Redevelopment"

Hillel Soifer: "Greater New York: A Political History of the Consolidationist Movement"

Dana Stidham: "Preservation Education: To Build Broad Constituencies in Historic Preservation Organizations"

1993-94 (27)

Gillian E. Bell: "When the Living Queued Up for Entrance to the Space of the Dead: Nineteenth-Century Laurel Hill Cemetery, the Rural Cemetery Movement, and Philadelphia's Public"

Sarah Cheavens: "A Study of Historical Preservation. The Set and 'Forgotten' Architectural Styles of Santa Fe, New Mexico"

Elizabeth M. Coleman: "Preserving the Image: An Analysis of Change in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and Its Effects on the Amish Population"

Arthur Crane (HAV): "The New Rome: Federal Architecture in Washington, DC, 1930-1945"

Kathryn Davis: "Elements for Success in Downtown Redevelopment: A Study of the Carrousel District in Mansfield, Ohio"

Jennifer De Grazia: "Coop Himmelblau's 'Open House': Open Architecture Compared and Defined"

Marianne Ezell: "My Grandmother's House in the Ozarks"

Monica Farrow: "An Investigation into a Unique Service Structure: The Funeral Home"

Alix Gallagher: "The Art of Political Compromise: Cologne Cathedral 1814-1842"

Ruth Harrington (HAV): "Baseball and Cities: A Study of the Presentation of the Relationship Between Baseball and Cities in Various Media Sources"

Catherine C. Hendren: "Orlando's Church Street Station from 1973 to Today: The Expectations and Customs of a Downtown Entertainment Complex"

Matissa Hollister: "Neighborhoods in the Balance: Chinatowns and City Planning. A Study of Philadelphia with a Comparison to New York City"

Amy Kaleta: "The Effect of Age, Ethnicity and Race on the Growth and Image of Miami Beach"

Max C. Kalhammer (HAV): "Precedents and Predictions: The Relationship Between Archaeology, Tourism and Development in Mochlos, Crete"

Karen Lewinnek: "Walled Towns in Medieval Europe"

Katherine Mangle: "Faster, Higher, Stronger: Olympic Planning and Post-Olympic Remnants in the Architecture, Economy, and Image of the Host City"

Carrie McMillen: "An Architectural Design of an Entrance Space for the Museum of the New South"

Carol Ogelsbey: "Affordable Urban Housing in Philadelphia. A Dream or a Reality? John Kromer's Proposal for North Philadelphia"

Erika A. Oliver: "The Use of Historic Preservation Laws to Resist Urban Evolution in Cleveland Park, Washington, DC"

Elisa Paster: "Colonias in Dona Ana County: Bi-National Planning for the Borderlands"

Jessica Reynolds: "The Influence of the United States Army on Urban Development on the Western Frontier"

Rick Swedloff (HAV): "The Debate over the 'Underclass': Utility, Theory, and Analysis"

Rainey Tisdale (HAV): "The Image of the City in Children's Literature"

Jason Tripp (HAV): "The History of Urbanization in the Washington-Baltimore Region"

Hunter Ford Tura (HAV): "A Gentle Approach to the Difficult Whole: The Successes and Failures of Robert Venturi's and Denise Scott Brown's Western Plaza and Welcome Park"

Eva Watts: "The Demonstration and Metropolitan Act of 1966:'Model Cities' - Federal Intervention in Local City Planning"

Steve S. Yun (HAV): "The Engineer's Aesthetic: Three Late Modern Examples"

1992-93 (11)

Heather Carwile: "Phillip Johnson's PPG Place in Pittsburgh: Successes and Failures as a Planning Endeavor"

Lucinda Davis: "Issues of Government Control and Citizen Input in Kreuzberg, Berlin and the Docklands, London"

Yumiko Ishida: "Sanya, The Blemish and Contributor to Japan's Prosperity"

Graham Jerabek (HAV): "The Historical Transformation of Copley Square"

Tracy Kyger: "Society Hill: Historic Preservation and Urban Policy"

Erik Midtskogen (HAV): "The Changing Role of the Vernacular in Norwegian Architecture from the Middle Ages to the Present"

Jennifer Parker (HAV): "A Proposal for Transforming Modern Suburban Sprawl according to Garden City Principles"

Sarah Jo Powers: "Community-Based Efforts to Provide Low-Income Urban Housing"

Pamela A. Silvestri: "City out of Context: The Effects of Colonial Imposition of Form, Function and Space in Modern Saigon"

Celene Smith: "Christopher Alexander: Modern Theories of Building"

Amy Steltz: "Functions of Public Art: A Case Study of Seattle"

1991-92 (13)

Britt Benner: "Dissatisfaction in Today's Worst Jobs: A Recommendation for Progressive Management"

Jessica Booth: "On the Road to Nowhere: Searching for Meaning in Postmodern Architecture"

Mariah Bowen: "Historic Preservation in the United States: How it Gained Public Acceptance"

Erika S. Bruner: "A Critical Examination of the Designs of Three Successful Philadelphia Parks: Fitler Square, Seger Park, and Starr Garden Park"

Emily Camp: "Feminist Thought and Architecture: An Investigation of Eight Theories"

Joanna S. Clymer: "Anti-Urbanism in Contemporary Film: Batman, Brazil, and Blade Runner"

Joanna Doherty: "The Garden City in Theory and Practice: Ebenezer Howard's Plan as Interpreted at Letchworth and Llano del Rio"

Wendy Gonaver: "A Scandal in Philadelphia: Jacques Lipchitz's Government of the People"

C. Sara Magoffin: "A History of Asian Immigrants to San Francisco and Their Resulting Communities in the City: l850-1990"

Nicole Norwitz: "Regional Differences in Poverty as Examined in Three Cities in the United States"

Benjamin Russin (HAV): "Re-Examining Defensible Space: Crime Prevention and Territorial Functioning through Design"

Heidi Warren (HAV): "Art as a Source of Strength in Communities: Examining the Role of the Village of Art and Humanities in a North Philadelphia Neighborhood"

Stella Wotherspoon: "Community Newspapers of Chestnut Hill and Germantown: Expressions of Community Values"

1990-91 (6)

Susan Aldefer: "Opportunities for the Private Sector in Low-Income Housing: The Role of Community Organizations in Housing Rehabilitation"

Erik D. Blake (HAV): "The Rise of the Postmodern Skyscraper"

Sophia Lin: "A Proposal: The Vietnam Women's Memorial"

David B. Molnar (HAV): "Taverns of the Pennsport Neighborhood of South Philadelphia as Urban Meeting Places: A Case Study"

Natasha Seaman, (Independent Thesis) "The Experience of the Migrant in Domestic Service: Chicanas, Japanese-American and African-American Women, 1891-1991"

Andy Shanken (HAV): "Store-front Churches in North Philadelphia: History, Interviews, and Observations"

1989-90 (14)

Pamala B. Choi: "Philadelphia's Shingle-style Architecture"

David M. Dickinson (HAV): "The Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Historic Preservation"

Jaye S. Fox: "The Social Impact of Public Housing Design: A Case-study Analysis"

Elisabeth R. Friedman: "Case Studies of the Organization in Neighborhoods from the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area"

Patricia A. Friedman: "The Image of Progress and the Architecture of Great Exhibitions"

Daniel M. Ifcher (HAV): "A Proposal for a Festival Marketplace at Penn's Landing"

Kimberly A. Kindya: "The Development of Schemes of Exterior Articulation and Ornamentation in Early New York Skyscrapers"

Laura L. Legate: "The French Ideal and 19th Century American Architecture"

Brett A. Malky (HAV): "The U. S. Crisis in Affordable Housing"

Seanna B. Melchior: "The New Age of Urban Recycling: An Examination of Some Case Studies"

Lisa Orlandini: "Adapting Earth-shelter Design in Conventional Housing"

Laurie B. Saroff: "An Evaluation of the Plans for Market Street East in Philadelphia"

Rebecca N. Sauer: "Jacobs, Myth or Maxim: A Multivariate Analysis of Her Theory of Neighborhood Satisfaction"

Nina B. Sprecher: "An Assessment of the Demand and Need for a Performing/Visual Arts Center in Camden"

1988-89 (14)

Barbara Ann Baker: "The Renovation of Existing Roof Spaces for Recreational Purposes and Green Spaces"

Patrick Bibbins (HAV): "United States Public Housing of the l930s and the Promotion of Modern Architecture by the Museum of Modern Art New York City"

J. V. Jovi Cruces (HAV): "The Uncelebrated Architect: R. M. Schindler and his Role in the Development of Modern Architecture"

Paul Ferrer (HAV): "Small Urban Spaces: The Vest-Pocket Parks of Midtown Manhattan"

Jennifer Kibby: "Freak House: The Darwin D. Martin Residence in the Context of Frank Lloyd Wright's Early Philosophy of Organic Architecture"

Paula Lupkin: "C. F. A. Voysey: Modern Architecture Revisited"

Elizabeth Kay Miller: "Washington: A Capital Struggle. The Growth and Development of Washington, D.C. in the Late Nineteenth Century"

Bethany Neubauer: "A Tale of Two Towers: Interesting Developments in the Back Bay"

Neeta Patel (HAV): "Casinos and the Process of Redevelopment in Atlantic City"

Natica Schmeder (HAV): "From Stone to Skin: The Roles Played by American Architectural Terra Cotta"

Robin Selman: "The Myth of the Mobile Home: From Portable Trailer to Manufactured Home"

Lauren Stahl: "Carl Hagenbeck and the Evolution of the Architecture of Zoos"

Glen Valentine (HAV): "William Van Alen and the Chrysler Building: Beyond Art Deco"

Thomas W. Wagner (HAV): "The Sinking Houses of Logan, Philadelphia: A History of the Problem"

1987-88 (16)

Sarah Batcheler: "Post World War II Bath: Reconstruction, Redevelopment, and Conservation in a Georgian City"

Barbara Breza: "Michael Graves: A Transition from Late Modernism to Post Modernism"

Pantea Fiuzi: "The Menil Collection"

Thomas Gelsanliter (HAV): "The Irredentist Nature of Gustav Stickley"

Catherine Yardley Gilbert: "Aesthetics in Shaker Architecture"

Elise Gruber: "The Marketing of the Toaster and the Housewife"

Jenny Hamilton (HAV): "Cohesion in Modern Architecture: The Work of Mitchell/Giurgola Architects"

Justine Jentes: "Small Business Incubators: Keys to Municipal Economic Development"

Dennis McCarthy (HAV): "Fan Pier and Pier 4: Boston Copes with Development Pressure as a City Grows in South Boston"

Karen Peacock: "The Subsidization of Professional Sports: Baltimore's Efforts to Acquire Baseball and Football Franchises"

Marya Pruss: "Graffiti l969-l987: The Crossing Boundaries of Art and Crime"

Amy Schulman (HAV): "The Paradox of a Modern Monastery: A Case Study of Sainte-Marie de la Tourette"

Caroline Sprinkel: "The Cityscape and High Technology: Social and Spatial Implications of the New Economy"

Heidi Tolo: "A Critique of the Moynihan Report Within the Context of the Civil Rights Movement"

Monique Wahba: "MOVE and the Philadelphia City Police: A Sociopsychological Study"

Lisa Weinstein: "A New Prison Type and the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center"

1986-87 (11)

Anne E. Alcott: "The Congruence of Social and Physical Boundaries: The Definition of Two Neighborhoods through Cognitive Mapping"

Jane Cowan: "Landmarks Preservation in New York City"

Caroline Eaton (HAV): "Reston, Virginia: An Evaluation of a New Town's Planned Diversity"

Karen Herzberg: "Homelessness: A Discussion of its Causes, Consequences and Social Implications in Philadelphia"

Stanley Holt (HAV): "The Origins, Dynamics and Issues of Gentrification"

Janice Kambara: "Prison Systems and Architecture in Pennsylvania and New York 1790-1830: Historical, Analytical and Interpretive Approaches"

Danika O'Neal: "The Historic Development of the Primary Rail System of Vienna 1850-1986"

Sarah Posetyn (HAV): "An Examination of the American Work of Arata Isosaki: The Museum of Contemporary Art"

Elizabeth Rader: "Public Ceremonies in Renaissance Venice: An Analysis of their Influences and Significance"

Sherry Rexroad (HAV): "Landscape Architecture and Water Forms: Lawrence Halprin's Design Theories as Illustrated in the Portland, Oregon, Waterfall Gardens"

Margaret Stewart: "The New York Skyscraper in Photography 1900-1940"

1985-86 (9)

Andrea Bolliger: "The Family Reform Ideas of Charlotte Perkins Gilman"

Jill Caskey: "An Exhibition of the "Stijl" Group Paris 1923--or--Radicalism Reexamined"

Susan Flinn: "The Changing Perception and Presentation of the Architect: The Architectural Record 1891 - 1914"

Amanda Joseph: "Lewis Hine's Portraits of the Worker"

Irene Lambrou: "Noble ideas, Modern Perspectives: a discussion of the evolution of small claims litigation from the literature of 1912 to the city of 1985"

Kristin Manitzas: ""From the Bridge: An Analysis of Robert Moses' Columns in Newsday"

Elisabeth McLaury: "The Urban Development Action Grant Program and the Changing Shape of Urban Renewal"

Elizabeth White: "The Constructive Era: Harold Weston's Procurement Mural"

Andrew Wixom (HAV): "The Evolution of the Row House in 18th Century Philadelphia"

1984-85 (7)

Linda Hope Birbara: "The Rouse Company: A Case Study of a Private Sector Developer"

Timothy J. Choppin (HAV): "Italian Stonemasons on the Main Line: A Study of Two Immigrant Families"

Margaret Eighan: "Madison Square Garden: A History"

Wendy Foster (HAV): "Lewis Mumford's Planning Ideals and Garden Cities: A Perfect Fit"

Elizabeth E. Mintz (HAV): "Imperfect Policy: An Analysis of Benign Quotas in Federally Subsidized Rental Housing"

Ethan Nelson (HAV): "The Development and Approval of the PSFS Design"

Eve Somers: "Lit Brothers and the Reading Terminal: Historic Preservation and Urban Revitalization in Centre City Philadelphia"

1983-84 (13)


André Bilokur (HAV): "The Architecture of Peter Eisenman"

Ingrid Go: "Pattern Language in Architectural Design: Van Eyck, Erskine and Alexander on the Intentions of Modern Architecture"

Jane Goffman: "Institutional Care for the Elderly: Developing Perspectives"

Sara Hathaway: "Radical Municipal Politics: the Value of a Third Party"

Alison Velez Lane: "Urban Planning and Redevelopment in Upton (Baltimore) 1968-83"

Sarah Ludwig: "Environment and Perception: A Science Fiction Parable"

Lori Meltzer (HAV): "The Jane Senft Case: Lower Merion's Home Day Care Controversy"

Mark Miller (HAV): "Charles Ashbee and the Art and Craft of the Machine Age"

Martha Mohr: "The American Public Library as Institution and as Architectural Form"

Gilbert Schafer (HAV): "Anatomy of a Building Design: the Garden Pavilion as Studiolo"

Sylvia Schafer: "Language in the Built World: The Architectural Inscription."

Andrew Searle (HAV): "Men and Malls: Seeking a Good Fit."

Yumi Shilowitz: "Problems in Urban Public Art."

1982-83 (4)

Michele Barrigan: "Deinstitutionalization and Community Mental Health: Partners in Mental Health Reform?"

Katherine Lang-McHenry: "The Greater Baltimore Community: A History of a Private Sector Activist Group"

Lisa Redekop: "The Architecture of U. S. Embassies since the Second World War"

Lisa Winans: "Hershey, Pennsylvania: A Company Town Success Story"

1981-82 (unavailable)

1980-81 (14)

Margrit Bergholz (HAV): "The Role of Private Enterprise in Providing Low-Cost Housing: The Case of Mantua"

José A. Bernas (HAV): "An Empirical Test of the Growth-Pole Model"

Julie Bernatz: "Design Elements in Shopping Centers"

Anne Burri: "Versailles and the Political Philosophy of Louis XIV"

Cheryl Fields: "Two Black Communities on the Main Line: an Oral History"

Mary Anne Griss: "Recent Housing Development in Lower Merion Township"

George Huffman (HAV): "Corporate Image at McDonalds: They Do It All for You"

Carmen B. Iribarren: "The Politics of Planning a New Industrial City: Ciudad Guyana"

Ben Chien-pien Lin (HAV): "The Design of Space Colonies"

James Lindberg (HAV): "An Empirical Test of the Growth-Pole Model"

George L. Mitchell (HAV): "A History of Mercy Douglass Hospital: The Development of Health Care for the Black Community in Philadelphia"

Linda L. Rios: "A Comparison of Three Subway Systems"

James Schwentker (HAV): "John Portman: the Architect as Developer"

Raun Thorp, a dormitory design for Bryn Mawr College

1979-80 (6)

Carolyn Beard: "New Solutions in Correctional Facilities"

Shahin Farzaneh: "Recent Urban Planning in Iran: Shahestan Pahlavi and Nouran"

Cynthia Pushaw: "Urban Renewal in Philadelphia 1942-80: The Program, the Process and Proposals"

Rebecca Rosenthal: "The Economic Crisis in American Dance"

Kathleen Smith: "The Implications of Segmented Labor Markets for Neighborhood-based Economic Development Programs"

Kathleen Thorn: "The Crisis in Urban American Government"

1978-79 (10)

Theresa Craig: "The History of Hotel Location in Philadelphia"

Katherine Davidge: "Architecture and Village Layout in West Africa"

Jeanne Gilmore: "Solar Housing and Solar Housing Developments"

Andrea Glickhouse: "Political Participation in Two Philadelphia Neighborhoods"

Helen Horton: "The Juvenile Justice System Today"

Kathleen Payne: "Coatesville's Main Street: Decay and Decline in a New World of Shopping Centers"

Nancy Seibert: "Aspects of Architecture and Town Development in the Early History of Bryn Mawr, PA"

Kennedy Smith: "Patterns of Planning at Bryn Mawr College"

Shawn Towey: "Shelters for Battered Women"

Gwendolyn Urey: "Murals in Modern American Cities"

1977-78 (6)

Susan Bradford: "The Development of Speculative Row Housing in Philadelphia's Central Business District"

Susan Buckley: "Home-Based Care for the Infirm Elderly: the First Resort"

Ainsley Clement: "The Future of Retailing in Philadelphia's Central Business District"

Jeanne-Marie Duval: "The Planning and Implementation of Demand-Responsive Transportation Systems"

Naomi Richman: "Decision-Making in Philadelphia 1957-77: the Center-City Commuter Tunnel"

Mary E. Updike: "The University in an Urban Environment: the University of Pennsylvania and West Philadelphia"

1976-77 (6)

Elizabeth Ash: "Playground Design"

Caverlee Cary: "The Image of the City in King Vidor's Films"

Marcia Guzy: "Sense of Ethnicity among Third Generation Irish-Americans in a New York City Neighborhood"

Robert W. Harper (HAV): "Kensington Action Now: the Dynamics of Neighborhood Organization"

Robert M. Michel (HAV): "Burglary in Lower Merion Township"

Barbara Sanson: "Sir Christopher Wren and the Development of the Architectural Profession"
1975-76 (3)

Daniela Holt: "The Late Work of Alfred Stieglitz: The Equivalents"

Barbara Walsh: "Modelling the Effects of Urbanization on Stream Flow: the East Branch of the Brandywine Creek"

Janet White: "Improving Commuter Rail Service: the Case of Suburban Station, Philadelphia, PA"

1974-75 (1)

Andrea C. Brown: "A Musical and Rhythmical Analysis of Architectural Form at Francesco Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome"

1973-74 (3)

Pamela Gilbert: "The Rise of Late Colonial Domestic Architecture in Charleston, SC"

Lynn James: "Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's Plan for Prospect Park and Its Environs"

Justine S. Lisser: "Boulevard and Boulevardiers: Parisian Streets at the end of the Nineteenth Century"

1972-73 (1)

M. Katherine Hartnett: "Patterns of Urbanization in Non-Western Countries"

1971-72 (1)

Ann Schubert: "The Early Development of the New York City Subway System"