Francesca Ammon

About Francesca Ammon

Francesca Ammon is a social and cultural historian of the built environment, focusing on American cities from World War II to present. She is a member of the standing faculties in City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation. She also directs the Initiative in the History of the Built Environment.

Areas of Expertise

Selected Publications

• Francesca Russello Ammon, Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016)., Francesca Russello Ammon, Brian D. Goldstein, and Garrett Dash Nelson, Sunset Over Sunset, https://www.sunsetoversunset.o... , 2024.
• Francesca Russello Ammon, Picturing Preservation and Renewal: Photographs as Planning Knowledge in Society Hill, Philadelphia, Journal of Planning Education and Research 42, no. 3 (September 2022), https://journals.sagepub.com/d...  
• Francesca Russello Ammon, Preserving Society Hill: Sites and Stories of Urban Renewal in a Philadelphia Neighborhood, https://preservingsocietyhill.... , Revised 2022.

Recent Courses Taught

• CPLN 5000: Introduction to City Planning: History, Theory and Practice 
• CPLN 8200-401 / HSPV 8200-401: Readings in Urban & Planning History
• HSPV 6000: Documentation, Research, Recording I
• HSPV 6380-401 / CPLN 6870-401: Photography and the City: The Visual Construction of Urban and Suburban America