Senior Student Theses

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 through 1995 are available for reading at the Special Collections Department of Canaday Library, second floor, 610-526-6576.  Please call ahead for hours and availability.  Most theses after 1995 are available at the Cities Department office.  Please call 610-526-5053 or 5334 for more information.)

2006-2007 (22)
Baggetto, Maude: "Millennium Park. The Processes that Get Big City Projects Done"
Broughton, Nate (HAV): "Going Green By The Green Mountains: A New Environmental Sciences Building for the University of Vermont"
Cadena, Kim: "The perfect imagined community: marketing new urbanism"
Daligga, Elizabeth: "HOPE for an inclusive city: affordable housing policy in Philadelphia"
Doherty, Brian (HAV): "Student Space at Haverford College: An Architectural Proposal"
Esquivel, Carolina: "From Organic Architecture to Sustainable Design: The Changing Nature of the Building"
Grant, Michael (HAV): "Who Owns History? The Construction, Deconstruction, and Purpose of the Main Line Myth"
Hoar, Parker (HAV): "Heltershelter: The Architecture of Disaster Relief Housing in Post Hurricane Katrina New Orleans"
Leventhal, Alexis (HAV): "Landover Regional Shopping Center: The Perceptions and Realities that Caused a Mall to Fall"
Lynch, Sarah: "“Is Paris Burning?”: The French Banlieue in Crisis"
Martin, Sarah: "‘And we’re waiting here in Allentown’: the process of downtown revitalization in post-industrial Allentown, PA"
Pastore, Jess: "Painting walls and pulling weeds: approaches to community improvement in Philadelphia"
Poggioli, Vanessa: "Portland Improvement: Robert Moses’ Response to Postwar Urban Planning in One American City"
Pollina, Calisse: "Tourism and the city: the tourist experience in Boston and Philadelphia"
Proctor, Laura: "Downingtown, PA: the attempt of a small town to succeed in the 21st Century"
Qian, Lin: "Far and Away, yet How Much That Mattered: Nanterre before May 68"
Read, Anna: "Postwar Urbanism and Visionary Planning in Great Britain"
Scattergood, Abby (HAV): "Historic preservation in Germantown: a vehicle for community and economic development"
Shulman, Hannah (HAV): "People, Places and Spaces: Embracing Environmental Literacy in Philadelphia"
Spiegel, Sarah: "Public Library Origins and Development: An Assessment of Popular Theory and Middle Class Influences, Considering the Fayetteville Arkansas Public Library as an Example"
Wagner, Jennifer: "Architectural Professionalism and the Dissemination of Architectural Style: Building Contracts in Hunterdon County, New Jersey During the Mid to Late Nineteenth-Century"
Yu, Jimi: "The Korean creation of ‘ethnic enclave’ in the cities of Philadelphia and Los Angeles"

2005-2006 (11)
Agrawal, Pankhuri: "Zoning Out of the 'Main Site' at Penn's Landing: Urban Redevelopment between the Delaware River and Center City, Philadelphia"
Bensel, Rheanna: "Conflicted Living: Consumption Habits and Environmental Ideals among the Chilean Middle Classes"
Berke, Jeremy: "What is really so wrong with aspiring to own a camera and wear fashionable clothes?: Tourism as a Motor for Economic Development in Guatemala"
Blinn, Anna: "Four Sides to Everything: Defining the Vernacular House in Harlan County, Kentucky"
George, Erin: "The Community Health Worker's Model: A Response to the Urban Health Penalty through Community Health Workers"
Hope, Melissa: "The Bala Cynwyd Story: Development of a Suburban Landscape" 
Koski, Ben: "Holding Steady: Survival, Migration and Future Prospects in the Printing and Food Manufacturing Industries in Philadelphia County, PA"
Lienau, Denette Anggraini:  "Preserving Identity: The Indonesian Chinese in Crisis"
Mahler, Claire: "Palliation and Architecture: The Impact of Design on Inpatient Hospice Care"
Tan, Athena:  "Cinematic Citizenship: Consuming Tagalog Film in Manila"
Teel, Jordan: "Moravian Academy Middle School: A Green Interpretation of the Past"

2004-2005 (18)
Agrawal, Jai: "A New Home for the Village of Arts and Humanities. Village problems. Design Solutions"
Betancourt, Andrea: "The Rehabilitation of the Historical Center in Quito: Reconfiguring the Public and Public Space"
Black, Courtney: "Athens to Athens: An Ancient Search for a Modern Identity"
Butler, Kathryn: "Suburban Meanings: Some Social and Cultural Implications of Collective Landscapes"
Chaudhury, Nupur: "What is To Be Done?: An Analysis of Development Plans for Kolkata, India"
Chen, Peilin:"Department Stores and Malls: Changing Consumption Patterns"
Douglass, Robert: "Chestnut Hill Quaker Meeting: Expanding the Meetinghouse Paradigm"
Fujimura-Fanselow, Misa: "Homelessness in Tokyo: Competing Interpretations"
Johnson, Claudine: "South Street Philadelphia : The Impact of Changing Populations on an Urban Commercial Artery"
Kendrick, Meredith: "From a Barrier to a Bridge: Making the Vine Street Viaduct Viable"
Kingsley, Chris: "Wireless Philadelphia"
Lewkowicz, Amanda: "Beth Sholom and Adath Jeshurun: Illustrations of American Jewish Identity in Architecture"
Locsin, Monica: "Housing Policy in Manila"
Marceau, Eileen: "Bombings and Blocakades: The Impact of the Maoist Insurgency on the Relationship between Kathmandu and its Hinterland"
Marcus, Liz: "Atlanta and Buenos Aires: Evaluating the Process of Water Privatization"
Min, Leah: "Promoting Cycling as Transportation in Germany : Getting Germans to Ride"
Roberts, Jennifer: "Progress at a Profit? An Analysis of Edison Schools, Inc. in Philadelphia"
Ross, Sara: "Re-designing Bryn Mawr: Creating an Alternative Center"

2003-2004 (25) Abstracts
Arkin, Chelsea: "Grassroots Movements in Philadelphia"
Baker, Oliver (HAV): "Reinventing the Los Angeles River: Its Historical Importance and Future Significance"
Baumann, Mary Katherine: "East Palo Alto: The Viability of a Minority-Dominated City in Silicon Valley"
Berry, Imogene: "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"
Burgwyn, Ted (HAV): "Providing Security in the City of Brotherly Love: an Analysis of the Restructuring of Policing in Philadelphia and its Consequences"
Cook, Melissa: "Small Cities and the Construction of Metropolitan Los Angeles"
Craig, Alexander (HAV): "Hispanics in the Chicago Economy: An Analysis of the Earnings Determination of Chicano and Puerto Rican Males"
Elton, Jessica (HAV): "Contending with Privileged Influx: Lessons from Boston's Mission Hill"
Garrott, Lila: "Papal (E)states: An Examination of the Attitude of the Renaissance Papacy toward Rome and the Vatican as Expressed through Building Projects"
Grigg-Saito, Emily Melia: "Corporate Redevelopment and Ideas of Monumentality: The Shiodome Site, Roppongi Hills, and their place in Tokyo's Polycentralization Policies"
Hossain, Shah Aashna: "Representations of London in Ethnic Film"
Jenks, Karen: "Musicality and Mutability: An Examination of Relationships between Complementary Concert Halls"
Kahoe, Emily: "A Gallon of Milk Weighs Eight Pounds: Toward Greater Community Food Security Though Removing Geographic Barriers to Food Access"
Linville, Caleb (HAV): "A New Philadelphia Rowhouse Development: Phresh Additions to an Old Tradition"
Marino, Mara: "Multi-Purpose to Sports-Specific: Urban Change, Sports Culture, and Stadium Trends in Philadelphia"
Mines, Thatcher (HAV): "The Military and Americorps: Race, Recruiting and the Realities of National Service"
Moos, Emily: "From Glen to Glass: An Exploration of Urban Renewal Planning in Downtown Hartford and its Regional Repercussions"
Smoot, Laura: "Whose Streets? Explaining 40 Years of Redevelopment and Gentrification in University City, Philadelphia"
Tamang, Sonam: "Philadelphia on Film: Mainstream and Mainstream Representations of Gender, Race and Class"
Teng, Junette: "'Star-chitects': The commodification of Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas"
Ward, Jennifer (HAV): "Selling the City: Preserving and Producing Memory"
Wilson, Bethanne: "It Was All Greek To Them: Nicholas Biddle, Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Greek Revival in Philadelphia"
Wisniewski, Linda: "Housing in Philadelphia, 1890-1920: Apartment Houses for a 'City of Homes'"
Yoo, Sylvia (HAV): "Behind the Scenes: A Look into the Decentralization Process of the City of Los Angeles and the Future of Downtown"
Zachary, Nicole: "Marketing Heritage: Sustaining Images of Community in Vermont"

2002-2003 (20) Abstracts
Chudnow, Amanda S.: "Sapphic Sisters in the City of Brotherly Love: The Interactions of Space, Community and Lesbian Sexuality"
Corbett, Emily (HAV): "What It Means to Be Green: Examing Eco-Fad Labels for Lasting Meaning and Solutions in Ecological Design"
Davis, Dorcas: "Endangered Islands: The Vulnerable Existence of Gullah Culture within Contemporary American Life"
Doughty, Michele: "Sex in the City: Female Prostitution, Criminalization and Legalization in the United States and the Netherlands"
Drucker, T. Caroline: "Neue Kunst Information Mitte – Designing a Resource Center for Berlin’s Contemporary Arts Community"
Freedman, Michael (HAV): "From House Form to Urban Form"
Freeman, Dawni: "A Woman’s Place is in the Home: Reconstructing Domestic Space in Two Feminist Housing Designs"
Garcia, Javier (HAV): "The Grays Ferry Community Center: A Design Thesis"
Gilman, Lara-Louise: "Refugees and National Identities Along the Mauretania/Senegal and Mexico/U.S Borders"
Grinblat, Alla (HAV): "From Hospitals to Health Systems: Implications for Philadelphia Healthcare"
Gugelman, Alice: "Affordable Housing and Urban Sprawl in Chapel Hill, North Carolina"
Hayes-Conroy, Allison: "Harvesting Harmony: A Search for Environmental Meaning in the Seasonal Celebrations of Southern New Jersey"
Hayes-Conroy, Jessica: "From Eggs to Ethics: An Analysis of the Role of Farm Markets Within a Changing South Jersey Landscape"
Jankiewicz, Miriam: "Displays of Nature: Natural History Museums and Green Architecture"
Kaczorowski, Keith (HAV): "Imagination"
Lee, Janet J.: "Meaningful Space: The Transformation of Space and Community in Barcelona"
Martin, Anne J.: "Experiencing the Urban Coffee Shop: The Social Space within Philadelphia’s Coffee Shops"
Pottinger, Trecia: "Commodification and Difference: Kreuzberg (Berlin) and the Meanings of Modern Germany"
Toth, Benjamin (HAV): "Dream Space: A Study of Architecture and the City in Fellini"
Tyman, Shannon: "Ideologies Enlivened: Examining Social Ecology within the World of Second-Hand Clothing"

2001-2002 (25) Abstracts
Aguinaldo, Nathalie: "Architectural And Educational Ideals Versus Reality In The Contemporary Secondary School: A Study Of The Evolution Of Radnor High School (1958-2001)"
Barth, Caroline: "Increasing The Impact Of Foundations On Community Development In Philadelphia"
Benjamin, Audra: "Acts Of Memory:The Vietnam War Memorial And The World War II Monument In Washington DC"
Bower, Anna: "Beyond The Wall: Art And Social Change In Northern Ireland"
Conley, Brooke: "Claiming Place: Squatter Movements In Berlin And Philadelphia"
Curmally, Aliya: "Gotham Cities: Comic Book Notions Of The Modern City"
De La Garza, Celestina: "Forget The Alamo!: The Mexican Presence In Contemporary San Antonio, Texas"
Delcourt, Emilie (HAV): "It Takes A Village... The Village Of Arts And Humanities And Its Roles In North Philadelphia Urban Development"
Grady-Troia, Margaret: "Appropriated Dialogues: Exploring Venturi Scott Brown & Archigram"
Guarinello, Elena (HAV): "The Promise Of The Games? Imagination And The Washington, D.C. 2012 Olympic Bid"
Hedrick, Ashley (HAV): "The Myth Of New Urbanism: Critiquing Development Choices In Hercules, California."
Jung, Christine: "The World Bank Development Framework And Urban Policy In Brazil"
Kim, Laura: "Visualizing Center City: Explorations In The Image Of Philadelphia"
Mascarenhas, Prianjali: "Rising To The Challenge: Philadelphia's Neighborhood Transformation Initiative And The Vacant Land Issue"
Ota, Kim: "The Portland Region As A Planning Model"
Ovide, Daria (HAV): "Creating A Restaurant Experience In The White Dog Café And Pod (Philadelphia)"
Phelps, Melinda: "'If You Like What You See, Turn Off Your TV And Do It!': PBS And The Development Of A Public Child"
Ratzlaff, Alexa: "Designing A Visitors' Center For Shofuso (The Japan House) In Fairmount Park"
Sikowitz, Sophie (HAV): "Rethinking The Racial Transition Of The Cedarbrook Neighborhood Of Philadelphia, 1940-2001"
Spigelman, Matthew (HAV): "Learning From The Renaissance To Better Investigate The Present: Domed Building Design Within The Western Architectural Tradition Since The Renaissance."
Spring, Kurt (HAV): "Defying The Odds: An Economic And Cultural Exploration Of American Indian Society And The Role Of Reservation Gaming"
Taylor, Maria: "City Image As Social Identity In St. Petersburg And Budapest"
Thomas, Susanna: "Prayer, Monkey-Wrenching And Tactical Frivolity:The Changing Praxis Of Nonviolence"
Tulier, Melody: "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)
Clarry, Arati: "Paradise Lost and Found: Examining the Impact of Corporate Tourism on Hawai'ian Culture"
PioCosta-Lahue, Christina (HAV): "New Immigrants, New Gentrification: Exploring New Definitions of Gentrification through the Korean American Community of Fort Lee New Jersey"
Cunningham, Tim (HAV): "Neighborhood Revitalization in Philadelphia: An Examination of Two West Philadelphia Initiatives"
Hagan, Jennifer: "Reassessing Philadelphia’s Empowerment Zone Plan for Development"
Horstmann, Caroline: "Planned and Flexible Communities: An Ethnography of Council Housing in East Brighton"
Kenzer, Marina: "Medicine on the Border: An Analysis of Public Health in El Paso, Texas"
Kim, Catherine (HAV): "Goodbye Playgrounds, Goodbye Play: School Playgrounds as Places of Growth in Greater Philadelphia"
Kohn, Shelby (HAV): "Telemundos: Global and Local Issues in Spanish Language Television"
Kriegel, Isabel (HAV): "America's Main Street: From Disney's Imagination to End-of-Century's Realization"
Lefstein, Sara (HAV): "Bridging the Gap between Baltimore’s Contrasting Constituencies: Citizens Planning and Housing Associations as Case Study"
Mieuli, Michele (HAV): "Rigid Flexibility: The Ossification of Silicon Valley’s Flexible Production Networks"
Moya-Gutierrez, Yasmin: "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"
Newman, Dara (HAV): "Changing Landscapes: The Roles of Public Green Space within Changing Urban and Suburban Settings
Ogletree, Joe (HAV): "Virtual Architecture: New Technology and Its Impact on Design"
Powell, Emily (HAV): "The Redevelopment of Blitz Weinhard: An urban neighborhood in Portland Oregon and a Plan for its Revitalization"
Renta, Cynthia: "Dance and the Construction of Pan-Latino Identity in New York City"
Schade, Kristin: "Creating Memory: Maps, Memorials and a Museum in Kamenz, Germany"
Whitman, Claire: "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"
Wolaver, Joanna: "The Austin Smart Growth Initiative: Assessing the Future of a Vision of Managed Growth"

1998-99 (16)
Bathory, Colin (HAV): "Walls of Fear: The Medieval City and the Gated Community"
Gouirand, Rae: "The City in the Voice: The Presence of New Orleans and Pittsburgh in Contemporary Literature"
Hoye, Noli (HAV): "Conflict, Change and the Resilience of Human Community: Balancing Economy and Ecology in the Pacific Northwest"
Kanthor, David (HAV): "Nairobi 1998: Colonial Roots/Contemporary Problems"
Kocsis, Deb: "Dead End Highway: The Cross-town Expressway as a Turning Point in Planning"
Jaffe, Rachel (HAV): "Retaining Integrity: Historic Preservation as a Low-Income Housing Solution in Norristown"
Leon, Amanda: "North Liberties Landscape Plan: A Strategy for Reclaiming Vacant Land"
Liu, Nancy I-Shuan: "The Impact of Rural Development and Promotion of Tourism on Prostitution in Thailand"
Meconi, Jane: "Women’s Places in Victorian America"
Osgood, Chris (HAV): "Mass Transportation and its Impact on Local Economic Development"
Prough, Susanna: "Gangster Families: Representations of Crime in Hong Kong and New York Cinema"
Shea, Bridget (HAV): "Facing Fear: Women’s Perceptions of Danger in Urban Space"
Smiley, Melissa: "People in the Planning Process: Lessons from London Docklands"
Thorne-Lyman, Abigail: "The Oakland Estuary: Adapting Global Interests to a Local Redevelopment Plan"
Wark, Erin: "Spatial Construction and City Life: The Altbau Mietshaus in Berlin"
Zaborowski, Sarah: "The Bronze Bambino: Art and Politics in Philadelphia"

1997-98 (7)
Bendiner-Viani, Gabrielle: "Two Visions of New York’s Lower East Side: The Henry Street Settlement House Artscape Project and the Tenement Museum"
Craven, Barbara: "Defining the Public in ‘Public Space’: Participatory Planning and the Redefinition of Independence Mall"
Gaddy, Anne (HAV): "Medicine and Community in Washington, DC: Zacchaeus Free Clinic and Bread for the City"
Hughes, Emily: "The Whole World Needs Recovery: The Meanings of the New Jerusalem Laura Project"
Moore, Heather: (not available)
Schulman, Marc (HAV): "Beyond California: Richard Neutra and his Work in Southeastern Pennsylvania"
Siegl, Bianca: (not available)

1996-97 (18)
Amador, Eugenia: "Grass-roots Activism Breaks the Cycle of Poverty caused by Deindustrialization in West Kensington"
Costanzo, Gabrielle S.: "Midwestern Identities in The Great Gatsby and Carl Fisher's Montauk"
DerOhannessian, Lena (HAV): "Armenian Identity as it Relates to Religious Architecture: A Survey of Armenian Churches in Historical Armenia and Present-Day America"
Osayimwese, Itohan: "The Search For Substance: Modern Architecture in Barbados"
Paek, Sumi: "Engaging the Community through Preservation and Recycling Historic Sites in Boston: Three Theaters and Fenway Park"
Parikh, Monisha (HAV): "London's Past and Present as a Global City"
Rabin, Rebecca (HAV): "Boundaries and Bridges, Conflict and Cooperation: the Relationship between Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Neighborhood of East Baltimore"
Rice, Courtney: "Conflict at Makua Beach: Interpretations of its Landscape, Claims to its Future"
Salazar, Cristina: "The Tejano Musical Revolution: Bringing Rural Roots to the Urban Scene"
Simon, Julie (HAV): "Illusory Gains: Jewish Emancipation in Amsterdam and Vienna"
Soltez, Elizabeth: "A Study of the Effects of Gentrification on the Residents of Manayunk"
Springman, Amanda: "Planned Communities and New Towns: Artificial or Desirable: Constructing Notions of Community in Reston, VA, Columbia, MD, and Kentlands, MD"
Tobin, Kerri Jennifer (HAV): "Learning from Barcelona: The Successes of the Nova Icaria and their Relevance to City Planning in the United States"
Viets, Alexa: "Community Gardens as Planning Models: Can our Communities Function Like our Gardens?"
Walker, Noah (HAV): "Rethinking Vacant Spaces: A Proposal for Philadelphia (paper, photographs of drawings and model)
Werbe, Elizabeth (HAV): "The Role of Street Life and Public Spaces in French Cities"
Winn, Ellen (HAV): "School-Based Services: A Comprehensive Approach to Serving At-risk Youth"
Wolfe, David J. (HAV): "Integrating Public Health and Medicine in the Small City: Towards Better Health in Lancaster, Pennsylvania"

1995-96 (21)
Balcer, Mark N. (HAV): "Community Response and Policy Options in the Face of Change: A Case Study of Manayunk, Pennsylvania"
Basu, Reshmi: "Renegade No More: Billboard Advertising in Baltimore and the Case for Ultra Organized Coalition"
Beccar-Varela, Pilar: "A Walk in Smaller Shoes: Understanding Children's Experiences of the City Street"
Burton, Heather (HAV): "Residential Segregation by Social Class in Philadelphia and Santiago"
Cecil, Elizabeth Grey (HAV): "People, Power and Architectural Design: A Study of Two Community Development Corporations in Philadelphia"
Curtis, Daria: "The Evolution of Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village at the University of Virginia from its Inception to 1976"
Das, Kavita: "Yorktown: A Case Study Examining the Historical Context of Home Ownership and Neighborhood Stability in Philadelphia's Urban Renewal Process"
Duque, Maria Fernanda: "Gentlemen's Clubs: A Comparison of Exclusive Cultural Institutions in Early- to Mid-Nineteenth Century London and Boston"
Evert, Jennifer: "Urban Renewal in Chicago: 100 Years of Reform on the Near West Side"
Gandy, Brynee K.: "An Exploratory Study of Jack and Jill of America, Incorporated, and the Organization's Impact on Women of the Black Middle Class"
Goodall, Shana Stearns: "Zoned Out: Twenty-four Years of Shoreland Zoning in Maine"
Ha, Truc Mai: "The Vietnamese in Philadelphia: Community Redefined through Three Social Structures"
Herpmann, Brenna: "The Schuylkill and the Delaware: History, Image and Planning for the Future"
Holmlund, Elizabeth A. (HAV): "Growing Up and the City: Looking at Newbery Award-winning Children's Fiction"
Huebner, Julia: "Pills Travel Faster than Medicine: The Implications for Health Care in Northern Pakistan"
Manning, Erin: "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"
Prodouz, Erica N.: "Examining Suburbs with Special Government Systems: Oakmont, Maryland and Narberth, Pennsylvania"
Rogers, Brad (HAV): "Negotiating Progress: Land, Community, and Identity in St. Augustine Beach, Florida"
Stern, William (HAV): "Fairmount Water Works: A Case Study in Historic Preservation"
Tannenbaum, Michael (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"
Viola, Kate Victoria: "Healthcare Architecture and its Effects on Patient Welfare: Waiting Room Design at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia"

1994-95 (19)
Beckman, Julie: "Communal Rehabilitation through Architecture: A Proposal for a Community Arts Facility in a West Philadelphia Neighborhood"
Belber, Tony (HAV): "Southwest Washington, DC: Community, Neighborhood, and the Impact of Urban Renewal"
Emery, Angie: "The Architecture of Public Education: How Can We Do Better? Designing Schools in Metropolitan Nashville, Davidson County"
Guthrie, Liz: "Urban Waterways of Trenton, New Jersey: Striking a Balance between Progress and Preservation"
Hayes, William (HAV): "The Broadway Project: Issues in the Revitalization of Downtown Camden, New Jersey"
Jones, Kathleen: "Mission Style Architecture in California: New Uses for an Old Style"
Jones, Valerie: "Co-Housing: An Analysis of Two California Communities"
Koller, Kim: "Three Rows: A Study of a Low Income Housing Renovation Project"
Lawler, Anya: "The Impact of a Tourism-Based Economy on Three Western Towns"
Mason, Rebecca: "Developing a Successful Urban Park: The Case of the Seattle Commons"
Metz, Mike (HAV): "Rap Music as Cultural Dialogue"
Morris, Jennifer: "The Urban Village Model, and its Application in Phoenix, Arizona"
O'Neill, Kasia: "The Role of Squatter Settlements in Public Policy: Cairo's Cities of the Dead"
Reichel, Myra: "Community Development through Community Gardens in Philadelphia"
Reiner, Joanna: "Building with Chutzpah: The Search for Form in Synagogue Architecture"
Sauer, Matthew D. (HAV): "Cul-de-Sacked: The Success of Hybrid Urban Design in Five Oaks"
Smith, Daniel I. (HAV): "The Phoenix Project of Bridgeport, CT: Residents and Urban Planners in Community Redevelopment"
Soifer, Hillel: "Greater New York: A Political History of the Consolidationist Movement"
Stidham, Dana: "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"