Events

Join Penn IUR and partners to learn about the challenges facing cities today, build upon your skill sets or converse with some of the pre-eminent minds in urban research.
Explore our event series:
Special Briefing Series Urban Leadership Forum Nowak Memorial Lecture City Form & Sustainable Growth Forum on Urban Informality Master of Urban Spatial Analytics (MUSA)

Upcoming Book Talk with the Department of Criminology

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20th Anniversary Hybrid
April 10, 2025
Book Talk | Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence with Jens Ludwig

Join the Penn Institute for Urban Research for a book talk and thought-provoking discussion with Jens Ludwig, Crime Lab Pritzker Director at the University of Chicago and author of Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence (University of Chicago Press, 2025).

John MacDonald Jens Ludwig
Urban Development
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Past Events

Mar 27 2025 Past Event Book Talk: Power, Politics and Territory in the ‘New Northern Ireland’ Speakers:  Vincent Reina Elizabeth DeYoung
Mar 18 2025 Past Event Defying Displacement: Book Talk and Conversation with Andrew Lee Speakers:  Andrew Lee Akira Drake Rodriguez
Mar 18 2025 Past Event Special Briefing: The Future of Mass Transportation under Trump and the GOP Speakers:  Kurt Forsgren David Greising Randy Iwasaki Leslie Richards Polly Trottenberg Eugénie L. Birch William Glasgall
Feb 28 2025 Past Event Wharton – Weitzman Future of Cities Conference
Feb 27 2025 Past Event PhD Lunch & Lightning Talks
Feb 20 2025 Past Event Special Briefing: The New Administration’s First Month Speakers:  Mark Zandi Carolyn Bourdeaux Jeffrey Holland Eric Kim Vikram Rai Torsten Slok William Glasgall Susan Wachter
Jan 23 2025 Past Event The City in the 21st Century: Celebrating the Reflective Practitioner featuring Enrique Peñalosa Londoño Speakers:  Enrique Peñalosa Manuel A. Diaz Richard Freeland Judith Rodin Eleanor Sharpe
Dec 05 2024 Past Event Special Briefing: The Road Ahead for the Economy, States, and Localities as Donald Trump and the GOP Take Charge Speakers:  Torsten Slok Annie Linskey Carolyn Bourdeaux Eric Kazatsky Teryn Zmuda
Nov 22 2024 Past Event Statecraft Urbanism: Building Garden City in Shenzhen Speakers:  Li Hou
Nov 20 2024 Past Event GIS Day Keynote: Exploring Cities through the Lens of Urban Analytics Speakers:  Andrew Crooks
Nov 11 2024 Past Event Carbon Capture and Cities Speakers:  Thomas Daniels Masoud Akbarzadeh Dorit Aviv Jennifer Wilcox Sanya Carley William W. Braham
Oct 24 2024 Past Event Special Briefing: America’s Growth Regions Speakers:  Kim Norton Robert Buschman Eric Kim Tom Schuette
Oct 22 2024 Past Event 2025 Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium Information Session Speakers:  Yining Lei Travis Lloyd Decaminada
Oct 15 2024 Past Event Financing Resilient Cities for the Future Speakers:  Mauricio Rodas Eugénie L. Birch Jaime Pumarejo Heins Nathaniel Echeverria Gulnara Roll
Sep 27 2024 Past Event Planning Healthy Cities in China Speakers:  Lan Wang

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