The Faculty Forum aims to establish an active network of Penn faculty members whose shared interests and expertise in public health, child development, behavior, and spatial research methods, hold promise for productive collaboration on research into the relationship between people and places in the urban setting.  Specifically, the activities of this network will: Strengthen existing research in the area of "neighborhood effects" by Penn faculty investigators; Introduce new faculty and graduate students to the value of geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis techniques, and fine scale demographic and environmental data for modeling the impact of the urban environment; Promote new collaborations among faculty investigators that lead to the development of fundable research proposals; Generate sufficient publishable research for an edited volume on the use of urban spatial analysis tools and techniques; Move this group of faculty toward securing center funding to continue and expand this collaboration.