Seymour Jacob Mandelbaum[1] (January 13, 1936 – January 23, 2013) was an American professor of urban history and planning at the University of Pennsylvania.
[2] Mandelbaum was born in Chicago on January 13, 1936.
[3] His Ph.D. dissertation on 1870s New York City history led to his publication of Boss Tweed's New York (1965).
[2][4] Mandelbaum taught at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Annenberg School for Communication, and joined the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in 1967 and was made emeritus professor in 2004.
[1][5][6] Mandelbaum received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1965.