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Seung Ah Byun

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Director of the Chester County Water Resources Authority

About

With 20 years of experience, Dr. Byun is a Director of the Chester County Water Resources Authority. Prior to this, Seung Ah, was a  Water Resource Engineer with the Delaware River Basin Commission and a Senior Planner for Water Resources with the Brandywine Conservancy’s Municipal Assistance Program. Her responsibilities involve developing and managing innovative stormwater management practices, green stormwater infrastructure tools, and source water protection projects at the watershed and site levels. She also provides technical expertise to municipalities on compliance with state and federal water quality regulations such as MS4 permits and TMDL requirements. Seung Ah received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design’s Department of City and Regional Planning. She has also served as a water resources engineer at CDM Smith, primarily consulting to the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Watersheds and CSO Program.

Dr. Byun obtained a master’s degree in environmental engineering from Drexel University and a bachelor’s of science in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Seung Ah is a licensed Professional Engineer and is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Selected Publications

Byun, Seung Ah. James T. Smullen, Mark Maimone, Robert E. Dickinson, and Christopher S. Crockett. (2003) “Overcoming Obstacles for the Application of SWMM to Large-scale Watersheds.” Practical Modeling of Urban Water Systems, Monograph 11. Edited by James, William. CHI, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Fellow

Chandan Deuskar

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Urban Development Specialist, The World Bank

About

Chandan Deuskar is an Urban Development Specialist at The World Bank. His book Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics was published by Penn Press in 2022.  Previously, he received his PhD in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. His dissertation, titled “Planning and the Politics of Informal Urbanization,” used quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the impact of informal local politics on urban planning and on spatial patterns of urban growth in developing democracies. At Penn he also co-developed and co-taught an undergraduate urban studies course on global urbanization for two semesters. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked for five years as an urban development consultant at the World Bank, working in several countries across the East Asia and Pacific region and elsewhere. He holds a Master’s degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in architecture from Columbia University.

Selected Publications

Deuskar, C. (2019). Informal Urbanisation and Clientelism: Measuring the Global Relationship. Urban Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019878334

Deuskar, C. Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics. Penn Press, 2022. https://www.pennpress.org/9781512823066/urban-planning-in-a-world-of-informal-politics/ 

Deuskar, C. (2019). Clientelism and Planning in the Informal Settlements of Developing Democracies. Journal of Planning Literature, 34(4), 395–407. https://doi.org/10.1177/0885412219842520  

Roberts, M., Blankespoor, B., Deuskar, C., & Stewart, B. P. (2017). Urbanization and Development: Is Latin America and the Caribbean Different from the Rest of the World? (No. WPS8019; Policy Research Working Paper Series). World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/164251490903580662/Urbanization-and-development-is-Latin-America-and-the-Caribbean-different-from-the-rest-of-the-world

World Bank (2015). East Asia’s Changing Urban Landscape: Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growthhttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/21159  

Sanyal, B., & Deuskar, C. (2012). A Better Way to Grow?: Town Planning Schemes as a Hybrid Land Readjustment Process in Ahmedabad, India. In G. K. Ingram & Y.-H. Hong (Eds.), Value Capture and Land Policies: Value Capture and Land Policies (pp. 149–182). Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Faculty Fellow

Susan Wachter

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Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance

Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research

About

Susan Wachter is the Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. From 1998 to 2001, she served as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the senior urban policy official and Principal Advisor to the Secretary. During her tenure at HUD, Wachter’s office was responsible for the New Markets Tax Credit, the major legislative initiative for urban revitalization, with the goal of attracting private capital into low-income communities. At The Wharton School, she was Chairperson of the Real Estate Department and Professor of Real Estate and Finance from July 1997 until her 1998 appointment to HUD. At Penn, she co-founded and currently is Co-Director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research. She also founded and currently serves as Director of Wharton’s Geographical Information Systems Lab. She was the editor of Real Estate Economics from 1997 to 1999 and currently serves on the editorial boards of several real estate journals. Wachter is the author of more than 200 scholarly publications and the recipient of several awards for teaching excellence at The Wharton School. Her forthcoming edited volume, Fair Housing, will be published by Penn Press. Previous volumes include Shared Prosperity in America’s Communities and Neighborhoods and Life Chances. Wachter has served on multiple for-profit and not-for-profit boards and currently serves on the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee of Fannie Mae and the Office of Financial Research Advisory Committee of the U.S. Treasury. She frequently comments on national media and testifies to Congress on U.S. housing policy.

Selected Publications

Acolin, Arthur, Xudong An, Raphael Bostic, and Susan M. Wachter. 2017. “Homeownership and Nontraditional and Subprime Mortgages.” Housing Policy Debate 27(3): 393-418.

Wachter, Susan M., Arthur Acolin, and Scott Bernstein. 2017. “Opportunity, Housing Access, and Infrastructure.” Housing Policy Debate 27(3): 468-471.

Wachter, Susan M. and Patricia Mccoy. 2017. “Representations and Warranties: Why They Did Not Stop the Crisis.” In Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy, edited by Lee Fennell and Benjamin Keys. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Wachter, Susan M. and Joseph Tracy, eds. 2016. Principles of Housing Finance Reform. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Wachter, Susan M., ed. 2016. Public Pensions and City Solvency. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Acolin, Arthur, Laurie S. Goodman, and Susan Wachter. 2016. “A Renter or Homeowner Nation?” Cityscape 18(2): 145-158.

Acolin, Arthur, Jesse Bricker, Paul S. Calem, and Susan Wachter. 2016. “Borrowing Constraints and Homeownership.” American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 106(5): 625-629.

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