Domenic Vitiello

About Domenic Vitiello

I am a planner and historian whose work has focused on industrialization and deindustrialization; migrant communities; and urban agriculture. Most of my current research and community development practice is with colleagues in East Coast U.S. Chinatowns and in migrant community associations in Western Sicily.

Selected Publications

Domenic Vitiello, The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia (Cornell University Press, 2022). Winner of the Urban History Association's 2023 Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book on North American Urban History. This book is open access., Domenic Vitiello and Zoe Blickenderfer (Penn Urban Studies alum), \The Planned Destruction of Chinatowns in the United States and Canada since c.1900,\ Planning Perspectives (2020). , Domenic Vitiello and Thomas J. Sugrue, editors, Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017). Chapter 9 by Domenic Vitiello and Rachel Van Tosh (Penn Master of City Planning alum), “Liberian Reconstruction, Transnational Development, and Pan-African Community Revitalization.\ , Domenic Vitiello, \Urban Agriculture as a Public Good: Valuing Farming and Gardening in Philadelphia and Chicago,\ in Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States: Future Directions for a New Ethic of City Building, edited by Raja, Campbell, Judelsohn, Born, and Morales (Springer, 2024). This book is open access.

Recent Courses Taught

Planning history and theory, Global migration and development , Food system planning, *See web site for syllabi