[3][4] Pritchett grew up in Society Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to which his family moved in 1967, and attended Friends Select School.

[5][4] Kringel was the director of the legal research and writing program at the University of Pennsylvania Law School for 20 years.

[8][17] Pritchett has written two books and many articles on urban history and policy, especially in the areas of housing, race relations, land use, and economic development.

[10] His first book was Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews and the Changing Face of the Ghetto (University of Chicago Press, 2002).

[10][8] His second book was Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer (University of Chicago Press, 2008).