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Smart Cities

Penn IUR Co-Director Genie Birch and Faculty Fellow Richard Voith ask: What will the year bring for smart cities?

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Urban Fellows

Penn IUR's new Fellows in Urban Leadership program gives outstanding Penn undergrads the opportunity to engage with urban leaders.

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The Inclusive City

The Mellon Foundation has awarded $1.533 million to Penn for a five-year project focused on urban diversity and inclusion entitled “The Inclusive City: Past, Present, and Future.”

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The Competition for Amazon

Penn IUR's experts weigh in on whether cities will win or lose from the competition to host Amazon's second headquarters.

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The Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) is dedicated to advancing cross-disciplinary urban-focused research, instruction, and civic engagement on issues relevant to cities around the world. As the global population becomes increasingly urban, understanding cities is vital to informed decision-making and public policy at the local, national, and international levels.

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Events

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3/14
past event

Urban Book Talk with Erick Guerra

book-talk
2/27
past event

Book Talk with Mayor Michael Nutter, “Mayor: The Best Job in Politics”

lecture
2/26
past event

Sensing the City

lecture
2/20
past event

Partners in Policy: A New City O/S

book-talk
1/29
past event

Urban Book Talk with Patrick Sharkey

lecture
1/25
past event

Smart Cities: From Innovation to Reality

conferences
1/17
past event

The New Urban Agenda: How Stakeholders are Defining and Driving Implementation

general
11/15
past event

MUSA GIS Day 2017: Computer Vision and Remote Sensing in Spatial Analysis

lecture
10/27
past event

MUSA Brown Bag Lunch with Tim Wisniewski

lecture
10/25
past event

Keeping the “Public Option” for Low-Income Housing

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In progress

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Global Urban Commons

The Global Urban Commons (the Commons), is a publicly-accessible, global directory of university-based urban research centers.The Commons, which includes more than 200 urban-research focused organizations from around the world, is a platform to build awareness about the breadth and depth of global urban research. The site i...

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Metrolab Network

Penn IUR has joined other universities across the nation to create a “Metro Lab Network” of university and city government partnerships committed to collaboration focused on 21st century solutions to the challenges confronting infrastructure, city services, and civic engagement. The Metro Lab Network will bring together...

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Energy Smart Communities Initiative (ESCI) of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

In partnership with the Taiwan Institute for Economic Research (TIER), Penn IUR is working to develop and maintain a knowledge-sharing platform (KSP) for the Energy Smart Communities Initiative (ESCI) of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Energy Working Group (EWG).

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Mayor: The Best Job in Politics

Michael A. Nutter

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Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States

Domenic Vitiello and Thomas J. Sugrue

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Principles of Housing Finance Reform

Susan M. Wachter and Joseph Tracy

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top headlines

Penn IUR Announces Recipient of 14th Annual Urban Leadership Awards

April 10, 2018

Penn IUR Launches Fellows in Urban Leadership Program

April 4, 2018

Mellon Foundation Awards $1.533 Million to University of Pennsylvania to Study the Inclusive City

March 29, 2018

What the Fed’s interest rate hike means for mortgage rates

March 28, 2018
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