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Penn IUR hosted a virtual discussion featuring experts from across the University to celebrate and expand upon the new Audible book by Penn IUR Faculty Fellow Mark Alan Hughes, Livable Cities. Through ten chapters, Livable Cities explores why we seek out cities and how they create the conditions that allow us to meet our fundamental needs as individuals and as a human community. The book also examines some of the most pressing issues cities face today, including racial inequality, pandemics, and climate change.
The event featured an introduction by Penn IUR Co-Director Eugenie Birch and book author Mark Alan Hughes, Professor of Practice, Department of City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design and Faculty Director, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. Following the introduction, two faculty members discussed each chapter. The speaker list was as follows:
The Livability of Cities
- Michael Weisberg, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, School of Arts and Sciences; Senior Faculty Fellow and Director of Post Graduate Programs at Perry World House
- Akira Drake Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, City & Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design
Building Refuge in Cities
- Randy Mason, Professor, Historic Preservation and City & Regional Planning; Faculty Director, Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites, Weitzman School of Design
- David Grazian, Professor, Sociology and Communication; Faculty Director, Urban Studies Program, School of Arts and Sciences
Markets at the Crossroads
- Gilles Duranton, Dean's Chair in Real Estate Professor, The Wharton School
- Erick Guerra, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, City & Regional Planning; Director, Cm2 University Transportation Center, Weitzman School of Design
Freedom the Key to the Cities
- Michael Delli Carpini, Oscar H. Gandy Professor of Communication & Democracy, Annenberg School for Communication
- Mia Bay, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History, School of Arts and Sciences
Livable Cities are Edible Cites
- Domenic Vitiello, Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design
- Karen Glanz, George A. Weiss University Professor, Professor, Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Nursing; Director, UPenn Prevention Research Center
The Wisdom of Cities
- Allison Lassiter, Assistant Professor, City & Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design
- Bethany Wiggin, Associate Professor of German; Founding Director, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, School of Arts and Sciences
Waste Not, Walk Not
- Jennifer Pinto-Martin, Viola MacInnes/Independence Professor of Nursing; Professor of Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine; Executive Director, Center for Public Health Initiatives
- David Barnes, Associate Professor, History and Sociology of Science, School of Arts and Sciences
Paradise Lost and Found
- Karen M'Closkey, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, Weitzman School of Design
- Simon Richter, Class of 1942 Endowed Term Professor of German; Department Chair, Germanic Languages and Literatures, School of Arts and Sciences
The Survival of Livability
- Penn IUR Co-Director Eugenie Birch, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education, City & Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design
- Francesca Ammon, Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design
Following the chapter discussions, Penn IUR Co-Director Susan Wachter moderated a Q&A session among the speakers and fielded questions from the audience.
