Since World War II, there's been a deterioration in neighborhood organizations. We don't join as much. The media campaign will highlight ways that local residents can take control of turf issues and ease tensions. He hopes that the campaign that will air first in Philadelphia will go national. The neighborhood is the ideal place to cooperate because everyone has a stake in it.
People moving in want it to be safe, clean and attractive.
Dr. Romer has been at Penn for five years. He formerly taught psychology and worked in advertising in Chicago for 20 years. This spring semester, he and Dr. Hillard Pouncy, a political scientist and Ford Foundation consultant, are teaching a research-based seminar in which students conduct research on campus and in West Philadelphia neighborhoods about racial and ethnic tensions. Send e-mail to The Compass.