|
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: pritchet@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Land Use and Planning
- Legal History
- Property Law
Bio
Wendell Pritchett is presently on leave, serving as the Director of the Office of Research, Planning, and Policy for the City of Philadelphia.
[More]
Wendell Pritchett is presently on leave, serving as the Director of the Office of Research, Planning, and Policy for the City of Philadelphia. In this critical position he will be working with Mayor Michael Nutter and his senior staff to develop and implement administration policies. His first book, Brownsville, Brooklyn: Jews, Blacks and the Changing Nature of the Ghetto (University of Chicago Press 2002), explores race relations and public policy in 20th century Brooklyn. Recent work of Pritchett has been published by the Georgetown Law Journal, The Urban Lawyer, Yale Law and Policy Review, and the Journal of Urban History. His current research examines the development of post-war urban policy, in particular urban renewal, housing finance and housing discrimination. His biography of Robert Weaver, the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008. Pritchett has specialized in real estate and housing law, representing nonprofit organizations involved in the development of affordable housing and economic development.
[Hide]
Representative Professional Positions
Director of the Office of Research, Planning, and Policy for the City of Philadelphia (on leave, 2008-)
Penn Law - Associate Dean and Professor of Law (2006 -07); Assistant Professor of Law (2002-06); Visiting Assistant Professor of Law (2001-02)
Baruch College, City University of New York - Department of History, Assistant Professor of History (1997-2002)
Office of Congressman Thomas M. Foglietta - Executive Director of District Offices (1996-97)
Regional Housing Legal Services, Staff Attorney (1993-95)
Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, Attorney (1991-92)
Representative Publications
Which Urban Crisis: Regionalism, Race and Urban Policy, 1960-1974, 32 J. URB. HIST. __ (forthcoming 2007).
Beyond Kelo: Thinking About Urban Development in the 21st Century, 22 GA. ST. L. REV. 895 (2007).
A National Issue: Segregation in the District of Columbia and the Civil Rights Movement at Mid-Century, 93 GEO. L.J. 1321 (2005).
Identity Politics, Past and Present, INT’L LAB. & WORKING-CLASS HIST. 33 (2005).
Where Shall We Live? Class and the Limitations of Fair Housing Law, 35 URB. LAW. 399 (2003).
The Public Menace of Blight: Urban Renewal and the Private Uses of Eminent Domain, 21 YALE L. & POL'Y REV. 1, (2003).
[View Document]
STEPHEN GRANT MEYER, AS LONG AS THEY DON'T MOVE NEXT DOOR: SEGREGATION AND RACIAL CONFLICT IN AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOODS (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000) 64 The Historian 420 (2002).
BROWNSVILLE, BROOKLYN: BLACKS, JEWS AND THE CHANGING FACE OF THE GHETTO. Univ. of Chicago Press, January, 2002.
Race and Community in Postwar Brooklyn: The Brownsville Neighborhood Council and the Politics of Urban Renewal, 27 J. URBAN HIST. 445 (May, 2001).
LILLIAN SERECE WILLIAMS, STRANGERS IN THE LAND OF PARADISE: THE CREATION OF AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK, 1900-1940 (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2000), American Historical Review, 577 (April 2001).
John Bauman, Roger Biles, and Kristin Szylvain, eds., FROM TENEMENTS TO THE TAYLOR HOMES: IN SEARCH OF AN URBAN HOUSING POLICY IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA (State College: Penn State Univ. Press, 2000), Pennsylvania History, (Fall 2001).
A Northern Civil Rights Movement: The Beth-El Strike of1962 and New York Race Relations, LABORS HERITAGE (Fall/Winter 1999/2000).
JUNE MANNING THOMAS, REDEVELOPMENT AND RACE: PLANNING A FINER CITY IN POSTWAR DETROIT (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1997), 17 Planning and Environment D: Society and Space 629 (Winter 1999).
DAVID DELANEY, RACE, PLACE AND THE LAW, 1836-1948 (Austin, Univ. of Texas Press, 1998) H-Urban On-Line Reviews, May 1999.
For additional publications, please consult
Current & Recent Research
|
|
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- Ph.D. (history) - University of Pennsylvania - '97
- J.D. - Yale - '91
- B.A. - Brown - '86
Courses Taught
- Land Use Law and Policy
- Urban Policy
- Introduction to Property Law
- Local Government Law
Research Areas
- Urban Policy
- Housing Policy
- Urban History
- Race Relations
- Legal History
|
