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Penn IUR Scholar

Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores

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Associate Professor, Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Sociology, Rutgers University

About

Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores is Associate Professor of Sociology and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. She was previously the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow on Race, Crime, and Justice at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City. Dinzey-Flores has a number of research interests including urban and community sociology, urban planning, race and ethnicity, space and place, qualitative and quantitative methods, social policy, and Latin America and Caribbean Studies. Dinzey-Flores has published articles on public housing policy and design in Puerto Rico, race and class segregation and inequality in Puerto Rico, reggaetón music and culture as an urban phenomenon, and what it means to acknowledge Latinos in the urban intellectual history of the United States. Her recent book, Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013) looks at questions of race and class inequality as they are recreated and contained in the physical built environment.

 

Selected Publications

Dinzey-Flores, Zaire Zenit. 2013. Locked In, Locked Out. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

 

Emerging Scholar

Xiaoxia Dong

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Research Associate and Lecturer, City and Regional Planning

About

Xiaoxia Dong is a Research Associate and Lecturer at the department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research interest lies in transportation and infrastructure planning. In particular, he is eager to explore how the potential of new transportation technologies and services such as driverless cars and ride-hailing can be maximized to create accessible and sustainable urban environment. Having witnessed the success and failure of many of these emerging technologies and services in China, he also hopes to incorporate an international perspective into his research. His goal is to enable policy makers to make informed decisions when facilitating urban development with respect to new transportation technologies and services. Xiaoxia has a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. He worked as a transportation planner at Fehr and Peers where he participated in multimodal planning, traffic impact studies, master planning, and statistical analyses. He also interned at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Beijing after college where he learned the current sustainability related policies and practices in China.

Selected Publications

Dong, Xiaoxia. 2014 “A High Speed Future.” Panorama. University of Pennsylvania, School of Design.

Dong, Xiaoxia. 2011 “Wisdom of the Businessmen of Chicago” (In Chinese). Peking University Business Review. Peking University.

Penn IUR Scholar

Meagan Ehlenz

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Associate Professor, School of Geography and Urban Planning, Arizona State University

About

Meagan Ehlenz is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University’s School of Geography and Urban Planning. Her major fields of study include urban revitalization and community development, with specializations in the role of anchor institutions in urban places and mechanisms for building community wealth. Prior to joining ASU’s faculty, Ehlenz was a Research Associate at the Penn Institute for Urban Research. In this capacity, she developed a set of case studies for Penn IUR’s Anchor Institution Roundtable (PRAI), The Power of Eds & Meds: Urban Universities Investing in Neighborhood Revitalization and Innovation. She was also a Lincoln Institute of Land Policy C. Lowell Harriss dissertation fellow. Previously, Ehlenz worked as a planning consultant in Southeastern Wisconsin and as a senior planner for the City of Milwaukee’s Department of City Development. She holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, a Master in Urban Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a Bachelor in Environmental Design from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Selected Publications

Ehlenz, Meagan M. “Neighborhood Revitalization and the Anchor Institution: Assessing the Impact of the University of Pennsylvania’s West Philadelphia Initiatives on University City.” Urban Affairs Review (forthcoming).

Ehlenz, Meagan M. and Eugénie L. Birch with Brian Agness.  The Power of Eds and Meds: Urban Universities Investing in Neighborhood Revitalization & Innovation. Philadelphia: Penn Institute for Urban Research, 2014.

Ehlenz, Meagan M. “Managing the Land Access Paradox in the Urbanising World.” Critical Housing Analysis 1, no. 1 (2014). 

Ehlenz, Meagan M. Community Land Trusts and Limited Equity Cooperatives: A Marriage of Affordable Homeownership Models? Working Paper. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2014.

Ehlenz, Meagan M. Review of New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy by Edward G. Goetz (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013). Journal of Urban Affairs 36, no. 3 (2014): 540-541.

Fellow

Brian English

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Founder and Owner, Origin Studio

About

Brian English is the Founder and Owner at Origin Studio and an urban planner that works at the intersections of sustainability, technology and economics.

Brian is the Director of Program Innovation for Global Communities (formerly CHF International), an international development organization in Washington DC. For the past 10 years, Brian has managed inter-disciplinary teams on urban development projects in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. From 2009-2011, Brian was Country Director for CHF International in India and directed a $6 million program called SCALE-UP funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to reduce urban poverty. After Hurricane Ivan in 2004, Brian managed community revitalization programs in the Eastern Caribbean for the Unites States Agency for International Development. Brian has consulted on a broad range of development projects including special economic zones, innovations clusters, and city master plans.

Brian’s work has been featured in New York Times, Scientific American, Business Week and Harvard Business Review. Brian was an Aspen Scholar at the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival and presented at a TEDx on Forces of Change in June, 2012. In 2014, Brian was selected as a Resident Fellow by Rockefeller Foundation at their Bellagio Center in Italy.

Penn IUR Scholar

Reid Ewing

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Distinguished Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah

About

Reid Ewing, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah, Distinguished Research Chair for Resilient Places, and associate editor of Cities. He holds master’s degrees in Engineering and City Planning from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Transportation Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ewing’s 12 books include Pedestrian and Transit Oriented Design, co-published by the Urban Land Institute and American Planning Association; Growing Cooler: Evidence of Urban Development and Climate Change, published by the Urban Land Institute; and Best Development Practices, listed by the American Planning Association (APA) as one of the 100 “essential” books in planning over the past 100 years. His 100-plus peer reviewed articles include “Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Physical Activity, Obesity, and Morbidity,” the most widely cited academic paper in the Social Sciences as of late 2005, according to Essential Science Indicators; and “Travel and the Built Environment: A Meta-Analysis,” given the Best Article of 2010 Award by the American Planning Association and the second most widely cited article in JAPA’s 80-year history. A recent citation analysis by Virginia Tech found that Ewing, with 26,300 citations, is the 6th most highly cited among 1,100 planning academics in the U.S. and Canada.

Fellow

Anne Fadullon

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Founder and Principal Partner, MAKE Advisory Services, LLC (MAKE)

About

Anne Fadullon serves as the Founder and Principal Partner of MAKE Advisory Services, LLC (MAKE), where she provides consulting services focusing on capacity building and mentoring, with specialties in affordable housing and community development. Prior to founding MAKE, Anne served as the inaugural Deputy Mayor for the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) for the City of Philadelphia. In this position she was responsible for leading the Department in its efforts to align expertise and service delivery across a broad range of responsibilities to further the progression of the built environment and to ensure Philadelphia is a great place to invest, live, work and play. In this role, Anne was tasked with creating a new unified Department from six formerly separate and distinct agencies. In addition to these city entities, her purview also included solidifying the relationship with the Department’s sister agency, the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation (PHDC), a 501(c)(3) tasked with implementing many of the City’s housing programs. During her tenure, Anne successfully merged PHDC, the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (PRA) and the Philadelphia Land Bank (PLB), resulting in all staff working for PHDC with management agreements with PRA and PLB. This consolidation ensured the ability to work across entities to ease service delivery to Philadelphia residents and businesses. To ensure coordination amongst the Divisions of DPD, PHDC and the public, Anne served as the Chair of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, the Board of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority and the Board of the Philadelphia Land Bank. These consolidation and coordination efforts resulted in billions of dollars of both market and affordable development and securing affordable housing for tens of thousands of families.

Prior to her appointment as Deputy Mayor in January of 2016, Anne served as Director of Real Estate and Investment at the Dale Corporation. During her tenure at Dale, she oversaw several in-house development projects including Low Income Housing Tax Credit projects, mixed-income and mixed-use projects, and large-scale commercial projects. She also provided consulting services to third party developers, as well as supporting Dale’s General Contracting Division by serving as a liaison with government officials, agencies and other key stakeholders. Further, during her tenure at Dale, Anne served as the first ever female President of the Building Industry Association (BIA), which represents the City’s residential building industry. During her presidency the membership of the BIA grew exponentially and the organization became known for its willingness to roll up it sleeves and work side by side with agencies and government representatives to develop solutions to industry issues, rather than simply bringing a list of complaints.

Prior to joining Dale Corporation in April 2000, Anne served as the Director of Planning and Development for the City of Cocoa, Florida. This experience allowed Anne to become well-versed in how to deal with rapid growth in a diverse community. From 1992 to 1997, Anne worked at the then Office of Housing and Community Development and the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, cutting her teeth in the affordable housing and community development fields. This combination of public and private sector experience combined with both market-rate and affordable development success, gives Anne a well-rounded perspective on how to implement viable strategies for successful urban communities.

Anne has a Master’s in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Urban Studies from Lehigh University. She lives in Germantown with her wife and can be found solving all the world’s problems by hiking long distances in the Wissahickon Park.

Faculty Fellow

Billy Fleming

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Wilks Family Director, Ian L. McHarg Center

About

Billy is the Wilks Family Director at the Ian L. McHarg Center with a background in urban design and policy development. He graduated with a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Arkansas where also served as the Student Government President during his final year – the first design student to do so in the University’s 140-year history. Upon graduation, he was presented with the Senior Citation Award, which honors the top undergraduate man and woman across the entire campus. Billy then practiced as a landscape architect in the Middle East, specializing in the development of afforestation strategies in water-scarce environments before returning to graduate school at the University of Texas. While there, he served as a research assistant to Dean Fritz Steiner and was presented with the award for the top master’s thesis within the UT School of Architecture. After graduation, Billy worked in the White House Domestic Policy Council during the first term of President Obama’s Administration and his portfolio included the Sustainable Communities Initiative and the America’s Great Outdoors Initiative (National Parks Service). His dissertation work is focused on the nature of climate change adaptation in coastal cities and it is informed greatly by his work and academic experience.

Selected Publications

B. Fleming. 2015. Towards a Megaregional Future: Analysing Progress, Assessing Priorities in the US Megaregion Project. In J. Harrison and M. Hoyler (Eds.), Megaregions: Globalization’s New Urban Form?, (pp. 200-229). London: Edward Elgar Publishing.

B. Fleming. 2015. “Can We Rebuild by Design?“LA+, 1(1): 104-111.

B. Fleming. 2015. “Book Review: Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans.” Journal of the American Planning Association, 84(2): 158-159.

B. Fleming. 2015 (in-press). “Double-Book Review: The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong & The Social Roots of Risk: Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience.” Journal of the American Planning Association, 84(4).

B. Fleming 2016 (in-press). “Lost in Translation: The Authorship Structure and Argumentation of Resilience.” Landscape Journal, 35(1).

Emerging Scholar

Samuel Geldin

About

Sam Geldin is a Postdoctoral Research at the Penn Institute for Urban Research. He got his PhD from the Department of City and Regional Planning with interests in climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and urban governance in the Global South. He is particularly passionate about enhancing subnational climate action efforts through policy, planning, and comparative urban studies. Sam previously supported two transnational climate action networks, policy formulation in the California Governor’s Office of Planning, and a research initiative facilitated by the UNFCCC Secretariat. He holds an MSc in Environmental Science from Yale, where his master’s thesis investigated the diffusion of adaptation practices through city networks in Indonesia. He also holds a BS in Environmental Science and a BA in Geography from UCLA.

Faculty Fellow

Jamaal Green

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Assistant Professor

About

Jamaal Green is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a PhD in Urban Studies from Portland State University. His research covers an array of areas, but are linked by the use of varied spatial analytic methods and a concern for addressing social inequity structured by the built environment. Recent research of his includes a commentary on adopting data science methods in economic development research and the application of a spatial predictive model to the problem of child maltreatment in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Green is an active member of the American Collegiate Schools of Planning, American Planning Association and the American Association of Geographers. 

Fellow

Alan Greenberger

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Vice President of Real Estate and Facilities, Drexel University

Distinguished Teaching Professor

About

Alan Greenberger is Vice President of Real Estate and Facilities at Drexel University. He was the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Director of Commerce for the City of Philadelphia from 2009 through 2015 under the administration of former mayor Michael Nutter. He also served as Executive Director and then Chairman of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission during that period. Prior to that, he was in private practice as an architect and planner with MGA Partners and its predecessor, Mitchell/Giurgola Architects, firms that gained national and international stature for design excellence.

In his dual role in city government, Mr. Greenberger oversaw the integration of long-range strategic planning with implementation of both business and real estate development goals. Under his leadership, the City of Philadelphia rewrote the Philadelphia Zoning Code and initiated a five-year long comprehensive plan for the city, entitled Philadelphia 2035. Both initiatives are the first of their kind for the city in over 50 years and are the recipient of the American Planning Association’s National Best Practice Award for City Planning in 2013. Mr. Greenberger's office also launched multiple programs to attract and support a burgeoning entrepreneurial community, called StartUpPHL, and was successful in attracting new technology and venture capital firms to Philadelphia, in addition to expanding business opportunities for small, minority and women-owned businesses throughout the city. 

During his 34 years in private practice, he was the principal designer on numerous award-winning architectural, urban design and planning projects. Among his notable projects are the Salvation Army Kroc Corps Community Center in Philadelphia, the renovation of Lehigh University's historic Linderman Library, the Department of State's National Foreign Affairs Training Center, and the Master Plan for the Centennial District in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park.

Faculty Fellow

Erick Guerra

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Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning

Director, Cm2 University Transportation Center

About

Erick Guerra is Associate Professor and Director of Cm2 University Transportation Center in the Weitzman School of Design, where he teaches courses in transportation planning and quantitative planning methods. His research focuses on the relationship between land use, transportation systems, and travel behavior with an emphasis on rapidly motorizing cities, public health outcomes, and transportation technologies. He has published recent articles on land use and transportation in Mexico and Indonesia, public transport policy, land use and traffic safety, and contemporary planning for self-driving vehicles.

As a practicing researcher and consultant, Guerra has completed projects on accessibility and transportation affordability for the Brookings Institution, the World Bank, the OECD, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California Berkeley, a Master’s in Urban Planning from Harvard University, and a BA in Fine Arts and French from the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon from 2002 to 2004.

Selected Publications

Dong, Xiaoxia, Matt DiScenna, and Erick Guerra. 2017. “Transit User Perception of Driverless Buses.” Transportation May: 1–16.

Landis, John, Erick Guerra, and David Hsu. 2017. “Intersecting National Climate Change Policy with Local Development Trends, Travel Patterns, and Building Forms.” Journal of Planning Education and Research.

Guerra, Erick and Adam Millard-Ball. 2017. “Getting around a license-plate ban: Behavioral responses to Mexico City’s driving restriction.” Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 55: 113-126.

Guerra, Erick. 2017. “Electric vehicles, air pollution, and the motorcycle city: A stated preference survey of consumers’ willingness to adopt electric motorcycles in Solo, Indonesia.” Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. 

Guerra, Erick. 2017. “Does Where You Live Affect How Much You Spend on Transit? The Link between Urban Form and Household Transit Expenditures in Mexico City.” The Journal of Transport and Land Use 10(1): 1–24.

Faculty Fellow

Joseph Gyourko

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Martin Bucksbaum Professor of Real Estate, Fiance, Business Economic & Public Policy

Director, Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center

About

Joe Gyourko is the Martin Bucksbaum Professor of Real Estate, Fiance, Business Economic & Public Policy and the Director at Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as the Nancy Nasher and David Haemiseggar Director of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton. Professor Gyourko’s research interests include real estate finance and investments, urban economics, and housing markets, in the United States and China. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and served as Co-Director of the special NBER Project on Housing Markets and the Financial Crisis. Professor Gyourko served as co-editor of the Journal of Urban Economics, is a past Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and Director of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA), and consults to various private firms on real estate investment and policy matters. He received his B.A. from Duke University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Selected Publications

Gyourko, Joseph and Edward Glaeser. Forthcoming. “The Economics of Housing Supply.” Journal of Economic Perspectives.

Wu, Jing, Joseph Gyourko, and Yongheng Deng. 2016. “Evaluating the Risk of Chinese Housing Markets: What We Know and What We Need to Know.” China Economic Review 39: 91-114.

Gyourko, Joseph and Raven Molloy. 2015. “Regulation and Housing Supply.” In Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Vol 5A, edited by Gilles Duranton, J. Vernon Henderson, and William Strange. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier.

Gyourko, Joseph, Chris Mayer, and Todd Sinai. 2013. “Superstar Cities.” American Economic Journal-Economic Policy 5(4): 167-199.

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