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Remembering Eastern North Philadelphia: A Path to Building Community
presented by Dr. Lynn Mandarano
In this presentation, Dr. Mandarano explores the role history can play in building community identity, capacity, and cohesion after decades of disinvestment and recent onset of gentrification. For more than seven years she has been partnering with Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha (APM) in Eastern North Philadelphia for the capstone service-learning course in the Community Development major. Recent student work has focused on uncovering the history of the iconic businesses, retail, and entertainment venues along the three main commercial corridors, Germantown Avenue, Lehigh Avenue and North 5th Street. In addition, students designed community engagement activities and historic walking tours. These projects engage residents in remembering and learning about the community’s vibrant legacy while building capacity to envision the future and creating a shared sense of identity between longer-term and newer residents.
Lynn Mandarano is an expert in sustainable development, community engagement, and capacity building for collective action to address complex social and environmental concerns. Her research explores how everyone from individuals to regional collaborative institutions develop capacities, such as knowledge, relationships and political will to plan and implement projects that have positive, long-term impacts. Her work in Philadelphia assists communities with capacity building and engages students through community-based service learning projects.
She is actively engaged in research and has been awarded over $1,000,000 in external funds. Mandarano’s work is published in leading planning journals including the Cities, Journal of Planning Literature, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Journal of Planning, Education and Research, Local Environment, Planning Practice and Research and Society and Natural Resources, among others.
Prior to becoming a professor at Temple University, Mandarano worked for more than 20 years as a professional consultant in the fields of environmental engineering and environmental policy for United States municipal, county and state governments, private business and international clients. In 1998, Mandarano started her own consulting practice, The Natural Resource, which is a certified as a woman-owned business enterprise in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.
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