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Tasco became active in city politics in the 1970s. From 1970 to 1976, she worked for the Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition and worked with political leaders including coalition director Charles W. Bowser and State Representative William H. Gray III. [3] [6] In 1975, she worked for Bowser's campaign for Philadelphia mayor. [5]
Babette Josephs (August 4, 1940 – August 27, 2021) was a Democratic politician and attorney, who served 28 years in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.Josephs was first elected in 1984, representing the 182nd Legislative District, which encompasses Center City and South Philadelphia.
Brother Michael J. McGinniss, F.S.C., Ph.D., a De La Salle Christian Brother, was the 28th president of La Salle University in Philadelphia, U.S. [1] McGinniss became president on July 1, 1999. He had been a member of La Salle University's Religion department and was president of Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee from 1994 to ...
The YIMBY movement (short for "yes in my back yard") is a pro-housing social movement [1] that focuses on encouraging new housing, opposing density limits (such as single-family zoning), and supporting public transportation.
Southwest Philadelphia (formerly Kingsessing Township) is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that can be described as extending from the western side of the Schuylkill River to the city line, with the northern border defined by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission as east from the city line along Baltimore Avenue moving south along ...
Julian Wolpert (born 1932) is Bryant Professor Emeritus of Geography, Public Affairs, and Urban Planning at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, where he taught from 1973 to 2005 [1] and chaired the Program in Urban and Regional Planning. He was previously a member of the Regional Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania ...
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Chester W. Hartman (1936–2023) was an American urban planner, author, and academic.He was Director of Research of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was PRRAC's Executive Director.