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Book November 14, 2024
Urban Sustainable Development: Governance, Finance, and Politics

Urban Sustainable Development: Governance, Finance, and Politics addresses the critical challenges of promoting sustainable growth in rapidly expanding cities.

Eugénie L. Birch Mauricio Rodas
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1
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Article March 25, 2024 Annual Conference Brings Together City Leaders Held in February 2024, the annual student-run Wharton-Weitzman Future of Cities conference convened more than 100 attendees for a day-long event “to bring together those who want to make cities better.” This year’s theme, Embedded Environments: Making the Invisible Visible, covered several topics including urban leadership, real estate, resilience, mobility, and decarbonization. Penn IUR co-sponsored the event. Urban Development Anchor Institutions
Publication February 14, 2024 Weitzman Students Present Green Infrastructure Plan to Ukrainian Ambassador Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development
Newsletter January 17, 2024 Penn IUR Newsletter, Fall 2023 Urban Development
Article January 8, 2024 Expert Voices 2024 | Remote Work: Its Impact on Cities To begin every new year, we publish a special issue of Urban Link for which we ask urban experts to reflect on a question of importance to cities. This year, we asked: What do you expect will happen to remote work trends in the future? How should cities respond to remote work’s impact on the value of their real estate, tax bases, and more broadly, urban life? Urban Development
Research Paper December 21, 2023 Calculating and Applying the Tract-Based Concentrated Poverty Index A new PIUR working paper by Professor Emeritus of City Planning John Landis entitled, Calculating and Applying the Tract-Based Concentrated Poverty Index, demonstrates the use of a Gini coefficient-like measure able to reliably track concentrated poverty at the local level and to compare its incidence by race and ethnicity. John Landis Urban Development State & Local Finance
Research Paper December 18, 2023 Good and Bad News About Income Inequality in Urban America A new working PennIUR working paper by Professor Emeritus of City Planning John Landis entitled, Good and Bad New about Income Inequality in Urban America, clarifies and updates the local income inequality picture. John Landis Housing State & Local Finance
Publication December 12, 2023 COP28 Advances Urban Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change & Resilience
Article November 13, 2023 SDSN Global Commission for Urban SDG Finance Looks Ahead to COP28 Climate Change & Resilience State & Local Finance
Article November 13, 2023 Fellows in Urban Leadership Fall 2023 Visit to New York Anchor Institutions
Research Paper November 1, 2023 A Comparative Study of International Financial Models to Increase Longterm Rental Housing Supply in South Korea This review is part of the 5th Joint Research initiative between The Wilson Center in Washington D.C. and The Housing And Urban Guarantee Corporation (HUG), a South Korean public company offering housing and rental guarantees to improve housing opportunities and general welfare. Eugénie L. Birch Amanda Lloyd Urban Development Housing
Article October 12, 2023 SDSN Global Commission on Urban SDG Finance Forges its Agenda at NYC Meeting State & Local Finance
Article October 10, 2023 Planning for a Greener Urban Ukraine Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development
Annual Report October 5, 2023 Advancing Urban Transformation: 2022-2023 Penn IUR Annual Report The 2022–2023 annual report for the Penn Institute for Urban Research documents the Institute’s research initiatives, publications, events, and instructional activities over the 2022–2023 academic year. Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development
Article September 27, 2023 Powering the Slum II: Alternative Sources of Energy in Accra’s Informal Settlements Climate Change & Resilience Rapid Urbanization
Article September 11, 2023 Penn IUR Welcomes 2023-24 Fellows in Urban Leadership Penn IUR welcomes its sixth cohort into the Penn IUR Fellows in Urban Leadership program. Anchor Institutions
Research Paper August 16, 2023 An Overview of Affordable Housing in the United States This policy brief provides the national context of housing and especially affordable housing in the early 21st century. We follow Freeman and Schuetz (2017) who defined “affordable housing” broadly to mean any housing that (1) must be rented or sold at below-market prices, or (2) can be occupied only by households below a defined income threshold. The brief gives an overview of the affordable housing system in the U.S. After describing the roles of the private and public sector, we give an overview of some the major approaches to producing affordable housing. A brief example is provided for the various approaches discussed. Lance Freeman Yining Lei Housing State & Local Finance
Research Paper July 10, 2023 Partnerships and Innovation for Accelerating the Implementation of the SDGs in Cities Globally, progress on the SDGs have stalled, and even reversed due to the impacts of COVID-19. The case studies in this report demonstrate how the nimblest of cities are responding quickly to the impacts of urbanization, concentrated poverty, food insecurity, inequality, climate change and disaster risk with new and innovative partnerships and policies. Climate Change & Resilience Rapid Urbanization + 1
Research Paper July 5, 2023 Universities and Affordable Housing: Seven Case Studies Meagan Ehlenz Housing Anchor Institutions
Research Paper June 26, 2023 Ten Ways Covid-19 Changed America’s Cities—Or Maybe Not As with every other aspect of American life, Covid-19 upended how we plan and manage cities. With the national media concentrating on the post-pandemic difficulties still facing cities like New York and San Francisco, the bigger story—that the pace of recovery has varied widely among U.S. cities and metropolitan areas—has largely gone unreported. John Landis Rapid Urbanization State & Local Finance
Publication June 26, 2023 Penn IUR Mourns the Passing of Richard Ravitch Urban Development Anchor Institutions
Publication June 20, 2023 Policy Brief: Can Courts Resolve the Trilemma? State & Local Finance Anchor Institutions
Publication June 20, 2023 Policy Brief: Responding to State and Local Budget Crises State & Local Finance
Publication May 9, 2023 Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium 2023 Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development
Article May 9, 2023 The Connection Between Minimum Lot Sizes and Segregation Housing
Article May 9, 2023 The Dynamics of Urban Development: Evidence from Land Use Reform in New York Housing Urban Development

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