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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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Publication April 26, 2024 Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest Underground moves beneath Romania’s capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended urban life beneath city sidewalks. Bruce O'Neill
Publication April 22, 2024 Sixth Annual Jeremy Nowak Memorial Lecture Highlights Key Role of Community Development Financial Institutions The Sixth Annual Jeremy Nowak Memorial Lecture, a collaboration between the Reinvestment Fund and the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR), brought together a panel of Community Development Financial Institutions leaders to explore their pivotal role in fostering economic opportunities for all.
Publication April 19, 2024 Penn IUR Celebrates Resilience with 2024 Urban Leadership Prize The Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) honored three pathbreaking urban leaders from around the globe at the 19th Annual Urban Leadership Forum on April 5: • Jaime Alberto Pumarejo Heins, former Mayor, City of Barranquilla, Colombia; • Andrew Melnik, former International Projects Manager, City of Bucha, Region of Kyiv, Ukraine; and • Lauren Sorkin, Executive Director, Resilient Cities Network.
Publication April 18, 2024 Mr. Terrell Goes to Washington: Penn IUR Undergraduate Fellow Visits DC Timethius Terrell (C’24), shares his experience traveling to Washington, D.C. for a daylong trip to meet policymakers and urban policy experts as part of the Penn IUR Fellows in Urban Leadership program.
Publication April 17, 2024 2024 Lawrence C. Nussdorf Student Award Winners Honored at Penn IUR 19th Annual Urban Leadership Forum Three University of Pennsylvania undergraduate students claimed the 2024 Lawrence C. Nussdorf Student Award, presented by the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) at the 19th Annual Urban Leadership Forum April 5: Joey Jung, Marielle Kang, and Khalid Mohieldin. Eugénie L. Birch Susan Wachter
Publication April 5, 2024 Penn IUR Newsletter, Spring 2024
Publication 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.
Publication February 14, 2024 Weitzman Students Present Green Infrastructure Plan to Ukrainian Ambassador
Publication January 17, 2024 Penn IUR Newsletter, Fall 2023
Publication 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?
Publication 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
Publication 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
Publication December 12, 2023 COP28 Advances Urban Climate Change Adaptation
Publication November 13, 2023 SDSN Global Commission for Urban SDG Finance Looks Ahead to COP28
Publication November 13, 2023 Fellows in Urban Leadership Fall 2023 Visit to New York
Publication 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
Publication October 12, 2023 SDSN Global Commission on Urban SDG Finance Forges its Agenda at NYC Meeting
Publication October 10, 2023 Planning for a Greener Urban Ukraine
Publication 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.
Master Plans and Encroachments
Publication October 1, 2023 Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad Master Plans and Encroachments examines informality in the high-modernist city of Islamabad as a strategic conformity to official schemes and regulations rather than as a deviation from them.  Faiza Moatasim
Publication September 27, 2023 Powering the Slum II: Alternative Sources of Energy in Accra’s Informal Settlements
Publication 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.
Publication 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
Publication 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.
Publication July 5, 2023 Universities and Affordable Housing: Seven Case Studies Meagan Ehlenz

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