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Steve Cochrane

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Chief APAC Economist, Moody’s Analytics

Areas of Interest

    About

    Steven G. Cochrane, Chief APAC Economist for Moody’s Analytics, leads the firm’s Asia economic analysis, forecasting and research. Based in Singapore, Steve leads a team of economists involved in research and consulting projects focused on near-term economic risks to Asia-Pacific economies, including: the potential impact of tariffs; exposure to international capital flows and interest rate shifts; and rising debt loads of households, corporations, and governments. An analyst with Moody’s Analytics since 1993, Cochrane has been featured on Wall Street Radio, the PBS NewsHour, and CNBC.

    Selected Publications

    Cochrane, Steve and Sophia Koropeckyj, Aaron Smith, and Sean Ellis. 2013. Central Cities and Metropolitan Areas: Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Employment as Drivers of Growth. In Revitalizing American Cities, eds. Susan M. Wachter and Kimberly Zeuli, eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

    Cochrane, Steve. 1997. Emerging Opportunities in Sonoma County: The Five Year Forecast. Sonoma County Economic Development Board.

    Cochrane, Steve. 2005. Economic Outlook: U.S. and North Dakota. North Dakota Governor’s Office.

    Faculty Fellow

    Thomas Daniels

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    Professor; Director of Land Use and Environmental Planning Concentration

    About

    Tom Daniels is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Director of the Land Use and Environmental Planning Concentration in the Department of City and Regional Planning in the School of Design. His main areas of interest are farmland preservation, growth management, and the connection between land use and water quality. Daniels often serves as a consultant to state and local governments and land trusts. He lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where for nine years he managed the county’s nationally recognized farmland preservation program. Daniels’ has taught at SUNY-Albany, Kansas State University, and Iowa State University and has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the American Planning Association. In 2002 he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

    Selected Publications

    Daniels, Thomas and John Keene. The Law of Agricultural Land Preservation in the United States. American Bar Association, 2018.

    Daniels, Thomas. 2014. The Environmental Planning Handbook, 2nd edition. APA Planners Press, 2014.

    Daniels, Thomas and Doug Walker. 2011. The Planners Guide to CommunityViz. APA Planners Press.

    Daniels, Tom. 2010. “Integrating Forest Carbon Sequestration Into a Cap-and-Trade Program to Reduce Net CO2 Emissions.” Journal of the American Planning Association 76(4).

    Daniels, Tom. 2009. “A Trail Across Time: American Environmental Planning from City Beautiful to Sustainability.” Journal of the American Planning Association 75(2).

    Daniels, Tom. 1999. When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe. Washington, DC: Island Press.

    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.

    Fellow

    Derek Douglas

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    Vice President for Civic Engagement and External Affairs, University of Chicago

    Areas of Interest

      About

      Derek Douglas is Vice President for Civic Engagement and External Affairs at the University of Chicago. Douglas leads the University's local, national, and international urban development and civic engagement efforts. He also spearheads the University's efforts to work in partnership with the surrounding South Side neighborhoods, city, region, nation, and globe to advance urban economic development, enhance the quality of life for residents, and enrich the work of University faculty and students through research, education, and direct engagement. Previously, Douglas served as Special Assistant to President Barack Obama on the White House Domestic Policy Council (DPC) where he served as the principal architect of President Obama’s agenda to strengthen our nation’s cities and metropolitan regions.

      Faculty Fellow

      Gilles Duranton

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      Dean's Chair in Real Estate Professor

      About

      Gilles Duranton is Professor of Real Estate in the Real Estate Department at The Wharton School. His research focuses on urban and regional development, transportation, and local public finance. Prior to joining the Real Estate Department in 2012, Duranton taught at the University of Toronto for seven years, and the London School of Economics for nine years. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Urban Economics, and is an editorial board member for several other journals. He is also affiliated with the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, the Spatial Economics Research Centre at the London School of Economics, and the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis. He currently serves as the Chair of the Real Estate department at The Wharton School.

      Selected Publications

      Duranton, Gilles. 2016. “Determinants of city growth in Colombia.” Papers in Regional Science 95(1): 101-132.

      Duranton, Gilles. 2016. “Agglomeration effects in Colombia.” Journal of Regional Science 56(2): 210-238.

      Duranton, Gilles. 2015. “Roads and Trade in Colombia.” Economics of Transportation 4(1): 16-36.

      Duranton, Gilles. 2015. “Growing through cities in developing countries.” World Bank Research Observer 30(1): 39-73.

      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

      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.

      Penn IUR Scholar

      Matthew Freedman

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      Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine

      Areas of Interest

        About

        Matthew Freedman is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests lie at the intersection of labor economics, public finance, and urban economics. His current work examines how federal, state, and local housing and economic development programs affect neighborhoods. His research also explores segregation within cities and the local labor, capital, and housing market dynamics that give rise to differential patterns of inequality across metropolitan areas. Freedman was previously an Associate Professor of Economics at Cornell University and has held visiting positions at the Wharton School and Princeton University. Freedman’s research has been published in leading economics and urban studies journals including the Economic Journal, the Journal of Urban Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Human Resources, and the Journal of Economic Geography.

        Selected Publications

        Freedman, Matthew, N. Baum-Snow and R. Pavan. Forthcoming. Why Has Urban Inequality Increased? American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

        Freedman, Matthew, E. Owens and S. Bohn. Forthcoming. Immigration, Employment Opportunities, and Criminal Behavior. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

        Freedman, Matthew. 2017. Persistence in Industrial Policy Impacts: Evidence from Depression-Era Mississippi. Journal of Urban Economics, 102: 34-51.

        Freedman, Matthew. 2013. “Targeted Business Incentives and Local Labor Markets.” Journal of Human Resources 48(2): 311-344.

        Freedman, Matthew. 2012. “Teaching New Markets Old Tricks: The Effects of Subsidized Investment on Low-Income Neighborhoods.” Journal of Public Economics 96(11-12): 1000-1014.

        Freedman, Matthew and Renata Kosova. 2012. “Agglomeration, Product Heterogeneity, and Firm Entry.” Journal of Economic Geography.” 12(3): 601-626.

        Fellow

        David Gest

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        Partner, Ballard Spahr

        Areas of Interest

          About

          David Gest is a real estate attorney and Partner at Ballard Spahr. He has worked with city planners, architects, landscape architects, and environmental consultants on major real estate development projects. Gest has also worked with city agencies and community groups on zoning and historic preservation matters. Gest is a member of the American Planning Association and the American Bar Association. His focus areas include zoning and land use. 

          Fellow

          Laurie Goodman

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          Institute Fellow, Housing Finance Policy Center

          Founder of the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute

          Areas of Interest

            About

            Laurie Goodman is a vice president at the Urban Institute and codirector of its Housing Finance Policy Center, which provides policymakers with data-driven analyses of housing finance policy issues that they can depend on for relevance, accuracy, and independence. Goodman spent 30 years as an analyst and research department manager on Wall Street. From 2008 to 2013, she was a senior managing director at Amherst Securities Group LP, a boutique broker-dealer specializing in securitized products, where her strategy effort became known for its analysis of housing policy issues. From 1993 to 2008, Goodman was head of global fixed income research and manager of US securitized products research at UBS and predecessor firms, which were ranked first by Institutional Investor for 11 years. Before that, she held research and portfolio management positions at several Wall Street firms. She began her career as a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Goodman was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Hall of Fame in 2009.

            Goodman serves on the board of directors of MFA Financial, Arch Capital Group Ltd., and DBRS Inc. and is an adviser to Amherst Capital Management. She has published more than 200 journal articles and has coauthored and coedited five books. Goodman has a BA in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and an AM and PhD in economics from Stanford University.

            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.

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