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Emerging Scholar

Albert T. Han

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Assistant Professor, Urban Planning, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

About

Albert Tonghoon Han is currently an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow with the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design. His research focuses on studying how growth management, land use planning, and environmental policies affect the natural environment in metropolitan areas in the North America and other fast-growing cities around the world. He is also interested in studying how planning efforts based on market-based approaches can mitigate the impacts of climate change, particularly in regards to improving building energy efficiency in cities. Albert received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from University of Pennsylvania in 2015. Prior to Penn, he worked on various global environmental projects at the Korea Environment Institute from 2011 to 2012. He obtained his master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Iowa in 2011 with specialization in environmental planning and spatial analysis. His devotion to studying land use and environmental planning originated from his background in Life Science and Biotechnology from Korea University where he received his bachelor’s degree in 2009.

Affiliated PhD Student

Sa Min Han

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Doctoral Student, City and Regional Planning, University of Pennslyvania

About

Sa Min Han is a doctoral student in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a BA degree in Landscape Architecture from the Seoul National University and a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her arrival, she worked as a certificated landscape architect and urban planner at Samsung C&T in Korea for 8 years. She also interned at AECOM in Hong Kong. Ms. Han’s research interest lies in resilient and sustainable planning. She eagerly hopes to study mapping process related to vulnerability indexes and regional assessment, for use when engaging in site prioritization and preparations for natural hazards caused by climate change. Her goal is to support policymakers, planners, and urban designers hoping to better understand how coastal cities should respond to natural hazards caused by climate change and to help them to establish appropriate policies for mitigation and adaptation.

 

Selected Publications

Korea Water Resources Corporation. “Application and Management Plans for the Flood Control Plains in Korea” (2007)

PennDesign Urban Planning Studio. “Alternative Futures for the New Jersey Shore: Climate Change Adaptation & Natural Hazard Mitigation Strategies”, IFLA World Congress (2014)

11st ULI / Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, honorable mention (2013)

 

Penn IUR Scholar

Matthew Kahn

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Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences, University of South California

Areas of Interest

    About

    Matthew Kahn is a Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences at University of South California. Kahn is also Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and serves as a non-resident scholar at the Urbanization Project at the NYU Stern School of Business. Kahn’s research largely focuses on environmental, urban, real estate, and energy economics. Kahn has published more than 90 papers and several books.

    Selected Publications

    Kahn, Matthew. 2016. Blue Skies Over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China joint with Siqi Zheng. Princeton University Press.

    Kahn, Matthew. 2010. Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future. New York: Basic Books.

    Costa, Dora L. and Matthew E. Kahn. 2008. Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

    Kahn, Matthew. 2006. Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.

    Fellow

    Carolyn Kousky

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    Associate Vice President for Economics and Policy at Environmental Defense Fund

    School/Department

    Areas of Interest

      About

      Carolyn Kousky is Associate Vice President for Economics and Policy at Environmental Defense Fund. Dr. Kousky’s research examines multiple aspects of disaster insurance markets, disaster finance, climate risk management, and policy approaches for increasing resilience. She has published numerous articles, reports, and book chapters on the economics and policy of climate risk and disaster insurance markets, and is routinely cited in media outlets including NPR, The New York Times, and The Financial Times, among many others. She is the recipient of the 2013 Tartufari International Prize from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. She is the vice-chair of the California Climate Insurance Working Group, a university fellow at Resources for the Future, a non-resident scholar at the Insurance Information Institute, and a member of the Roundtable on Risk and Resilience of Extreme Events at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She has a BS in Earth Systems from Stanford University and a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University.

      Selected Publications

      Kousky, C., M. Palim, and Y. Pan (2020). Flood Damage and Mortgage Credit Risk: A Case Study of Hurricane Harvey. Journal of Housing Research.

      Kousky, C. (2018). “Financing Flood Losses: A Discussion of the National Flood Insurance Program” Risk Management and Insurance Review. 21(1): 11-32.

      Kousky, Carolyn (2017).  “Revised Risk Assessments and the Insurance Industry.” In: Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents and Financial Crises.  Cambridge University Press: 55-81.

      Kousky, C., P. Raschky, and E. Michel-Kerjan (2018). “Does Federal Disaster Assistance Crowd Out Flood Insurance?” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 87: 150-164.

      Kousky, C., and  Shabman, L. (2017).  “Federal Funding for Flood Risk Reduction in the US: Pre-or Post-Disaster?”  Water Economics and Policy, 3(01), 1771001.

      Kousky, C., B. Lingle, and L. Shabman (2017). “The Pricing of Flood Insurance.” Journal of Extreme Events. 04, 1750001

      Faculty Fellow

      Allison Lassiter

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      Assistant Professor

      About

      Dr. Allison Lassiter examines opportunities to use landscape infrastructure and emerging technologies to build resilience and increase adaptive capacity in cities. Her research focuses on urban water management. She is working on evidence-based green infrastructure policy; adapting municipal water to rising seas; and smart water. She teaches courses on sustainable cities, smart cities, and water policy. She received a BS in Computational Biology from Cornell, Masters in City Planning from MIT, and PhD in Environmental Planning from UC Berkeley. Prior to joining the faculty at Penn, she was a research fellow in Economics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, working with the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities.

      Selected Publications

      Sustainable Water: Challenges and Solutions from California. Editor. University of California Press. 2015.

      Emerging Scholar

      Jae Min Lee

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      Associate Professor, School of Architecture University of Ulsa, Korea

      About

      Jae Min Lee is a former doctoral student in City and Regional Planning at PennDesign and is now an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Ulsa, Korea. Trained as an urban designer in international and domestic contexts, Jae Min seeks to challenge the “placelessness” of modern urban design practice around the world. His research focuses on defining the healthy and sustainable urban form and helping architects and planners to design places that actively incorporates local and climatic contexts using urban simulations. Jae Min has worked on a range of city building projects as an urban design associate at both Chicago and New York offices at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill LLP. He is a member of American Institute of Certified Planner and has also collaborated on several community projects with Open Lands, a Chicago-based land preservation organization.

      Affiliated PhD Student

      Robert Levinthal

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      Doctoral Candidate, City and Regional Planning

      About

      Rob Levinthal is a doctoral student in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are in large-scale Nature-based Solutions and how they are designed, planned, implemented, and perceived by disparate stakeholders. Rob is a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning master's program, where his work was recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects and by the Landscape Architecture Foundation as a 2020 National Olmsted Scholar Finalist. A Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (13 - 15') from Senegal, West Africa, Rob served as an Agroforestry Extension Agent in the small village of Drame Sadiabou. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Studies, and research grants have enabled him to work and travel from the Sahara Desert to the Arctic Circle.

      Selected Publications

      Levinthal, R. (Forthcoming) “The Green Around the Wall.” LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture. Green Issue. Spring 2022.

      Emerging Scholar

      Theodore Lim

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      Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Tech

      About

      Theodore Lim is an assistant professor in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech. He has over ten years of experience in environmental planning-related fields, including academic and industry positions in environmental data science in agricultural technology, civil engineering design and sustainable masterplanning, and urban public health. Dr. Lim's research on urban hydrology, distributed stormwater management practices, and green infrastructure program implementation in cities has been published in top-ranked, peer-reviewed journals. His research interests also include green infrastructure planning at the regional scale, land development impacts on the hydrological cycle, and applications of data science in urban and environmental planning. Dr. Lim received his PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017.

      Selected Publications

      T.C. Lim and C. Welty. “Assessing variability and uncertainty in green infrastructure planning using a high-resolution surface-subsurface hydrological model and site-monitored flow data” Frontiers of the Built Environment, (2018)

      T.C. Lim. “Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods by Adopting Green Infrastructure: The Case of Washington DC” Urban Planning International (2018)

      T.C. Lim. “An empirical study of spatial-temporal growth patterns of a voluntary residential green infrastructure program”. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (2017)

      T.C. Lim and C. Welty “Effects of spatial configuration of imperviousness and green infrastructure networks on hydrologic response in a residential sewershed” Water Resources Research (2017)

      Faculty Fellow

      Zhongjie Lin

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      Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning

      About

      Dr. Zhongjie Lin is a scholar and practitioner of urbanism. He studies and teaches urban design, ecological urbanism, utopianism, and Asian architecture and urbanism. He has authored or co-authored several books including Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan, Urban Design in the Global Perspective, The Making of a Chinese Model New Town, and most recently Vertical Urbanism: Designing Compact Cities in China. He is working on a new book entitled Constructing Utopias: China’s Emerging New Town Movement, to be published by the Princeton University Press.

      Dr. Lin’s research work has earned him the honors including a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2012 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. He also received research grants and awards from many national and international foundations such as the Social Science Research Council, the Graham Foundation, the Architectural Research Centers Consortium, the Asian Cultural Council, the Japan Foundation, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, and the National Science Foundation of China.

      Before he joined the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Dr. Lin was Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he served as Director of Master of Urban Design Program since 2014. He is also a co-founder of Futurepolis, an awarding-winning international design firm. He holds a Ph.D. in Architectural History and Theory from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Architecture from Tongji University.

      Emerging Scholar

      Amy Lynch

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      Associate Professor, Temple University

      About

      Amy Lynch recently graduated from a doctoral program in City and Regional Planning at PennDesign and now is an Associate Professor in the Department of Publis Health at Temple University. Her research interests include ecosystem services, site-and-landscape scale green infrastructure planning, and sustainable urban development. Lynch studied the effect of land use and environmental planning practices on natural resources, and how these connections can be applied to assist sustainability efforts in less developed countries during her doctoral program. In 2011, Lynch received the C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, which funded her dissertation on the sustention of green infrastructure over time. Lynch is currently working with the Penn Institute for Urban Research and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to establish a core grouping of indicators to measure sustainable urban development at a municipal level. Lynch earned her Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Technology from North Carolina State University, and her Masters of Environmental Management at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Science and her PhD in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania.

      Selected Publications

      Birch, Eugenie L. and Amy Lynch (2012). Measuring US Sustainable Urban Development. In Linda Starke (Ed.), State of the World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity. Washington, DC: Island Press

      Lynch, Amy J., Stuart Andreason, Theodore Eisenman, John Robinson, Kenneth Steif and Eugenie L. Birch (2011). “Sustainable Development Indicators for the United States,” Penn IUR White Paper Series on Sustainable Urban Development, September.

      Fellow

      Eleni “Lenio” Myrivili

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      Global Chief Heat Officer, UN Habitat

      About

      Eleni “Lenio” Myrivili is Global Chief Heat Officer to UN Habitat and the Arsht Rock Resilience Center, building heat resilience in cities around the world. Myrivili is senior advisor for urban heat and a senior fellow at the Arsht-Rock Center at the Atlantic Council. She is also a member of the EU Mission Board for Adaptation at the European Commission. Myrivili served as elected Deputy Mayor for the City of Athens as well as Athens’ Chief Resilience Officer and as Athens’ Chief Heat Officer. She also co-chaired the Resilience Cities Network Steering Committee. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University and was a tenured professor for over a decade. 

      Faculty Fellow

      Howard Neukrug

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      Professor of Practice

      About

      Howard Neukrug P.E., is Professor of Practice in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science in the School of Arts and Sciences. Neukrug is the former Commissioner and CEO of Philadelphia Water, where he was responsible for all aspects of utility operations, environmental compliance, engineering, financing, budgeting, capital and strategic planning, customer service, human resources, and legal and policy decisions for its drinking water/wastewater/stormwater system serving 2.3 million people. At Penn, he is establishing a Water Center and teaching courses on the water industry and the role of water in urban sustainability and resiliency. He is also a Principal with CASE Environmental, LLC, where he provides consulting services to cities and utilities in urban planning, systems design, sustainability, organization development, strategic planning and trends and innovations in the global water industry. 

      Selected Publications

      Neukrug, Howard, Bill Diamond, L.D. McMullen, Eva Nieminski, Philip Singer, and R. Rhodes Trussell. 2000. “Roundtable: Deemphasizing contaminant-by-contaminant regulation.” Journal of the American Water Works Association 92(3).

      Neukrug, Howard. 2000. “21st Century Treatment and Distribution.” Journal of the American Water Works Association 92(2): 54-55.

      Neukrug, Howard M., Gary A Burlingame, William Wankoff, and Michael J Pickel. 1995. “Water-quality regs: Staying ahead.” Civil Engineering 65(1). 

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