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

Planning History or History, Housing

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.org, 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/doi/pdf/10.1177/0739456X18815742., Francesca Russello Ammon, Preserving Society Hill: Sites and Stories of Urban Renewal in a Philadelphia Neighborhood, https://preservingsocietyhill.org/, 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