Domenic Vitiello, PhD, MCP

CPHI Senior Fellow

Assistant Professor
Department of City & Regional Planning
UPenn School of Design

Email: vitiello@design.upenn.edu
Curriculum Vitae: click here

Public Health Interests:

Food Systems; Food Security; Environmental Justice and Sustainability; Urban Agriculture

Current Public-Health Related Activities:

Domenic Vitiello researches planning history and community development, with a focus on immigration and food systems.  In 2008, he led a comprehensive survey of community gardens in Philadelphia, and he continues to study urban agriculture’s impacts on food security.  Domenic is founding president of the Philadelphia Orchard Project (www.phillyorchards.org); serves on advisory committees for Weavers Way Farm and the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission’s food system study; and has assisted the Philadelphia Mayor’s Office of Sustainability in developing a food policy.  He teaches City Planning 626: Metropolitan Food Systems.

Select Publications:

Domenic Vitiello, “Growing Edible Cities,” in Growing Greener Cities: Urban Environmental Issues in the Twenty-First Century, Eugenie L. Birch and Susan Wachter, eds. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). 

Domenic Vitiello and Michael Nairn, “Everyday Urban Agriculture: From Community Gardening to Community Food Security,” Harvard Design Magazine (forthcoming 2009). 

Domenic Vitiello, “Planning the Food Secure City: Philadelphia Agriculture Retrospect and Prospect,” in Nature’s Entrepot: Philadelphia’s Urban Sphere and its Environmental Thresholds, Brian Black and Michael Chiarappa, eds. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming 2009).