Penn IUR Urban Link Issues
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December 2025 Urban Link
Article
December 11, 2025
Article
December 10, 2025
Commissioners Join Leaders at CoMotion GLOBAL 2025 to Advance the Mayors in Motion Initiative
At CoMotion GLOBAL 2025 in Riyadh, Mauricio Rodas and Eugénie L. Birch, representing the Secretariat of the UN SDSN’s Global Commission for Urban SDG Finance, joined more than 100 city leaders, policymakers, and innovators for the launch of Mayors in Motion.
Mauricio Rodas
Eugénie L. Birch
Climate Change & Resilience
Rapid Urbanization
Article
October 29, 2025
Jere R. Behrman on the Impacts of Community Infrastructure on Children’s Learning
Jere R. Behrman is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, a Penn IUR Faculty Fellow, and a Research Associate at Penn’s Population Studies Center (PSC), Population Aging Research Center (PARC), and the Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI).
State & Local Finance
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