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Penn IUR Scholar

Richard Bernknopf

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Director of the Science Impact Laboratory for Policy Economics

Research Professor, Department of Economics, University of New Mexico

Areas of Interest

    About

    Richard Bernknopf is Research Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of New Mexico. Previously, Berknopf was an economist with the USGS Western Geographic Science Center; his work with USGS has spanned more than three decades. Bernknopf’s research focuses on the demonstration of the relevance to society of natural science information including earth observation and the translation of that information into a form compatible with decision-making processes. He is currently associated with the Science Impact Laboratory for Policy and Economics at the University of New Mexico and the Wharton Geospatial Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of expertise include Natural Science Information and Policy.

    Selected Publications

    Labiosa, William, Paul Hearn, David Strong, Richard Bernknopf, Dianna Hogan, Leonard Pearlstine. 2010. The South Florida Ecosystem Portfolio Model: A Web-Enabled Multicriteria Land Use Planning Decision Support System. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS): 1-10.

    Bernknopf, Richard L., Sharyl J. M. Rabinovici, Nathan J. Wood, Laura B. Dinitz. 2006. The Influence of Hazard Models on GIS-based Regional Risk Assessments and Mitigation Policies. International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management. 6(4/5/6): 369-387.

    Bernknopf, R., T. Smith, A. Wein. 2006. The Effect of Spatially Correlated Failures on Natural Hazard Damage Assessments. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting: abstract #GC43A-04.

    Penn IUR Scholar

    Catherine Brinkley

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    Associate Professor, Department of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis

    Areas of Interest

      About

      Katie Brinkley is an Assistant Professor, Department of Human Ecology, University of California. Brinkley completed her Ph.D. in Regional Planning at PennDesign in December 2013 and recently finished her last clinical year in the VMD program at the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School. Brinkley’s Ph.D. in Regional Planning and Master’s degree in Virology, along with her current work as a Veterinary student, inform her research in ecosystem management; this research concentrates particularly on the prevention of animal-to-human disease and sustainable resource planning. Her research interests include public health, the rural-urban interface, animal agriculture, and food security. Brinkley’s dissertation uses GIS and spatial analytics to explore urban development morphologies as they impact the agricultural sector, regional economies and food distribution. She has worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to assess food access and waste management in low-income nations and is a former Fulbright Fellow.

      Selected Publications

      Brinkley, C. (2012). “Evaluating the Benefits of Peri-Urban Agriculture.” Journal of Planning 

      Literature. 27(3): 259-269.

      Brinkley, C. (2013). “Avenues into Food Planning: a Review of Scholarly Food System Research.” International Journal of Planning Studies. 18(2): 243-266.

      Brinkley, Catherine, Eugenie Birch, and Alexander Keating. (2013) “Feeding cities: Charting a research and practice agenda toward food security.” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development.

      Brinkley, C. forthcoming. “Decoupled: successful planning policies in countries that have reduced per capita GHG emissions with continued economic growth,” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy.

      Affiliated PhD Student

      Ryan Gross

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      PhD Candidate, Statistics and Data Science Department, Wharton School

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      Areas of Interest

        About

        Ryan is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at The Wharton School. His research involves spatiotemporal modeling of the urban environment, with a focus on Bayesian methodology. He is currently working with causal inference methods to determine the impact of vacant lot greening on outcomes such as crime rates and real estate value in the city of Philadelphia. Prior to graduate school, Ryan graduated from Rutgers University - New Brunswick, where he studied mathematics, statistics, and economics and was a member of the Men’s Cross Country and Track and Field teams. 

        Selected Publications

        Humphrey, C., Gross, R., Small, D. S., & Jensen, S. T. (2023). Using Predictability to Improve Matching of Urban Locations in Philadelphia. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 17(3), 2659–2679.

        Emerging Scholar

        Albert T. Han

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        Assistant Professor, Urban Planning, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

        About

        Albert Tonghoon Han is currently an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow with the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design. His research focuses on studying how growth management, land use planning, and environmental policies affect the natural environment in metropolitan areas in the North America and other fast-growing cities around the world. He is also interested in studying how planning efforts based on market-based approaches can mitigate the impacts of climate change, particularly in regards to improving building energy efficiency in cities. Albert received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from University of Pennsylvania in 2015. Prior to Penn, he worked on various global environmental projects at the Korea Environment Institute from 2011 to 2012. He obtained his master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Iowa in 2011 with specialization in environmental planning and spatial analysis. His devotion to studying land use and environmental planning originated from his background in Life Science and Biotechnology from Korea University where he received his bachelor’s degree in 2009.

        Faculty Fellow

        Amy Hillier

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        Associate Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice

        About

        Amy Hillier (she/her/hers) is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Policy & Practice. She currently teaches introductory-level GIS (mapping) courses for SP2 and Urban Studies program and chairs the MSW racism course sequence. Her doctoral and post-doctoral research focused on historical mortgage redlining. For more than a decade, her research focused on links between the built environment and public health. During that time, her primary faculty position was with the Department of City & Regional Planning in the Weitzman School of Design. She moved to SP2 in 2017 in order to pursue new research interests relating to LGBTQ communities, particularly trans youth. She is the founding director of the LGBTQ Certificate.

        Dr. Hillier received a BA in History from Middlebury College and her MSW and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Born and raised in a small town in seacoast New Hampshire, she now loves city living and lives with her family in West Philadelphia. When she is not teaching or doing research, you can find her cooking and playing sports with her children or making buttons and other crafts.

        Selected Publications

        Hillier, A, Smith, TE, Whiteman, ED, Chrisinger, B. 2017. “Discrete choice model of food store trips using National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS).” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 14(10): 1133.

        Hillier, Amy and Benjamin Chrisinger. 2017. “The Reality of Urban Food Deserts and What Low-Income Food Shoppers Need.” In Social Policy and Social Justice, edited by John L Jackson, Jr. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

        Lapham, Sandra C, Deborah A Cohen, Bing Han, Stephanie Williamson, Kelly R Evenson, Thomas L McKenzie, Amy Hillier, and Phillip Ward. 2016. “How important is perception of safety to park use? A four-city survey.” Urban Studies 53(12).

        Cannuscio, CC, A Hillier, A Karpyn, and K Glanz. 2014. “The social dynamics of healthy food shopping and store choice in an urban environment.” Social Science and Medicine 122.

        Mayer, Victoria L, Amy Hillier, Marcus A Bachhuber, Judith A Long. 2014. “Food Insecurity, Neighborhood Food Access, and Food Assistance in Philadelphia.” Journal of Urban Health 91(6).

        Faculty Fellow

        Shane Jensen

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        Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Wharton

        School/Department

        Areas of Interest

          About

          Shane T. Jensen is a Professor of Statistics in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been teaching since completing his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2004. Dr. Jensen has published over eighty academic papers in statistical methodology for a variety of applied areas, including biology, sports and social science. His current research interests include methodology for high-dimensional data, models for sports performance and urban analytics: the quantitative study of cities. In particular, he is interested in creating empirical measures of vibrancy and evaluating the association between the built environment and safety or health of urban neighborhoods.

          Selected Publications

          Humphrey, C., Jensen, S.T., Small, D. and Thurston, R. (2019). “Analysis of urban vibrancy and safety in Philadelphia.” Accepted for publication in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. arXiv:1702.07909

          Balocchi, C. and Jensen, S.T. (2019). “Spatial modeling of trends in crime over time in Philadelphia.” Accepted for publication in the Annals of Applied Statistics. arXiv:1901.08117

          Faculty Fellow

          John Landis

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          Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning

          About

          John Landis is Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as the Department Chair of City and Regional Planning 2009 to 2017. Prior to arriving at Penn in 2007, he was on the planning faculties of the University of California-Berkeley (1987–2007), Georgia Tech (1985–1986), and the University of Rhode Island (1983–1984). Professor Landis serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Planning Association, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, and Housing Policy Debate. His research interests span a variety of urban development topics; his recent research and publications focus on gentrification and neighborhood change, affordable housing, sprawl and growth management, metropolitan economic resilience, and smart cities technologies. Professor Landis currently serves as Penn’s team leader on the joint University of Texas/University of Pennsylvania Transportation Center on Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions.

          Selected Publications

          Landis, John, Erick Guerra, and David Hsu. 2017. “Intersecting residential and transportation CO2 emissions: Metropolitan climate change programs in the Age of Trump.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 1-21.

          Landis, John. 2017. “The end of sprawl? Not so fast.” Housing Policy Debate 27(5): 659-697. 

          Landis, John. 2016. “Tracking and explaining neighborhood socioeconomic change in U.S. metropolitan areas between 1990 and 2010.” Housing Policy Debate 26(1): 2-52.

          Faculty Fellow

          Frederick Steiner

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          Dean and Paley Professor, School of Design

          Co-Executive Director, The McHarg Center

          School/Department

          Areas of Interest

            About

            Frederick Steiner is Dean and Paley Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Previously, he served for 15 years as Dean of the School of Architecture and Henry M. Rockwell Chair in Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin. He has also taught at Arizona State University, Washington State University, the University of Colorado at Denver, and Tsinghua University. Dean Steiner was a Fulbright-Hays scholar at Wageningen University and a Rome Prize Fellow in Historic Preservation at the American Academy in Rome, where was 2013-2014William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence. He is a Fellow of both the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. Dean Steiner earned a Master of Community Planning and a B.S. in Design from the University of Cincinnati, and his Ph.D. and M.A. in city and regional planning and a Master of Regional Planning from PennDesign.

            Selected Publications

            Steiner, Frederick. 2018. Making Plans: How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment. Austin: University of Texas Press.

            Steiner, Frederick, George Thompson, and Armando Carbonell. 2016. Nature and Cities. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

            Palazzo, Danilo  and Frederick Steiner. 2011. Urban Ecological Design. Washington, DC: Island Press.

            Steiner, Frederick. 2011. Design for a Vulnerable Planet. Austin: University of Texas Press.

            Steiner, Frederick. 2008. The Living Landscape, Second Edition: An Ecological Approach to Landscape Planning. Washington, DC: Island Press.

            Steiner, Frederick and Kent Butler. 2006. Planning and Urban Design Standards. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. 

            Penn IUR Scholar

            Anthony Yeh

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            Chair, Professor, and Head of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Director of the Geographic Information Systems Research Centre, Deputy Convener of the Contemporary China Studies Strategic Research Area, The University of Hong Kong

            About

            Anthony Yeh is Chair, Professor, and Head of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Director of the Geographic Information Systems Research Centre, and Deputy Convener of the Contemporary China Studies Strategic Research Area at the University of Hong Kong. He was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003 and Fellow of The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World in 2010. He has been the Secretary-General of the Asian Planning Schools Association (APSA) since 1993.  Yeh’s fields of interest include land use planning, urban renewal, new towns, geographic information systems, and urban planning and development in Hong Kong, China, and South East Asia. He has done fieldwork in Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines as well as in Hong Kong and China.

            Selected Publications

            Yeh, Anthony and Fiona F. Yang, eds. 2013. Producer Services in China: Economic and Urban Development. London: Routledge.

            Yang, Fiona F. and Anthony Yeh. 2013. Spatial Development of Producer Services in the Chinese Urban System. Environment and Planning A, 45(1): 159-179.

            Yeh, Anthony. 2011. Hong Kong: The Turning of the Dragon Head. In Planning Asian Cities – Risks and Resilience, 180-200, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes, eds. London: Routledge.

            Hong Yi, Fiona F. Yang, and Anthony Yeh. 2011. Intraurban Location of Producer Services in Guangzhou, China. Environment and Planning A, 43(1): 28-47.

            Yeh, Anthony and Jiang Xu, eds. 2011. China’s Pan-Pearl River Delta: Regional Cooperation and Development. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

            Yuen , Belinda and Anthony Yeh, eds. 2011. High-Rise Living in Asian Cities. Dordrecht: Springer.

            Xu, Jiang and Anthony Yeh, eds. 2011. Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions: An International Comparative Perspective. London: Routledge

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