| The following histories deal with the most recent years of the University's
presence in West Philadelphia: -
"Come
to Where the Knowledge Is": A History of the University City Science Center
by Mackenzie S. Carlson The
Quality of Life in Two West Philadelphia Neighborhoods: The Case of Belmont and
Mantua by Britt Fremstad, Jodine Gordon, Josh Hoffman, Hollis Savage,
Paul Vande Stouwe, and Andy Turner Values
as the Foundation of Citizenship: Policies for Building Efficacy and Civic Responsibility
by Max Dubin. Written under the direction of Henry Teune and Ira Harkavy as an
independent study in the spring of 2006
(available
as a PDF file - 341 kb, 31 pages) 19
student papers from the research seminar, Penn's past,
present, and future relationships with West Philadelphia / Philadelphia, from
1870 to 2010, taught by Mark Frazier Lloyd in the fall of 2005 More
on Penn and West Philadelphia |