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Apr 24 2025 Past Event Opportunities & Challenges of Climate Action Planning in Indian Cities: A Case of Mumbai City Speakers: Lubaina Rangwala Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Faculty Fellow Emily Hannum

Professor of Sociology and Education and Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences

Climate Change & Resilience

Nov 22 2024 Past Event Statecraft Urbanism: Building Garden City in Shenzhen Speakers: Li Hou Urban Development

Gallery September 12, 2024 2023 Photography Contest: Urban Nature Penn IUR is pleased to announce the winner of its 8th Annual Photography Contest: “Wetland for All” by Amitava Chandra. Climate Change & Resilience

Sep 27 2024 Past Event Planning Healthy Cities in China Speakers: Lan Wang Urban Development

Affiliated PhD Student Adwaita Banerjee

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1

Affiliated PhD Student Tiffany Minh Tran

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Emerging Scholar Bing-yu Chiu

Urban Development

Emerging Scholar Shengxio (Alex) Li

Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Apr 09 2024 Past Event Vibrant Cities: Advancing Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Urban Development Urban Development

Feb 26 2024 Past Event The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad: Book Talk and Discussion Rapid Urbanization

Scholar Tingting Hong

Associate Professor, College of Architecture and Urban-Rural Planning, Fuzhou University.

Climate Change & Resilience

Emerging Scholar Qianyun Ji

Ph.D Student, Urban Planning and Design, Tsinghua University of China

Urban Development

Article May 9, 2023 Transforming China’s National New Areas towards Ecological Civilization Climate Change & Resilience

Article May 8, 2023 Transforming the Asian Motorcycle City? Evaluating the Travel and Urban Development Effects of Mass Rapid Transit in Taipei, Taiwan Climate Change & Resilience Rapid Urbanization

Apr 12 2023 Past Event Renewing Chinese Cities Urban Development

Feb 14 2023 Past Event Decarbonizing Cities with Smart City Technologies in Korea Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Feb 09 2023 Past Event China Urbanizing: Book Talk and Panel Discussion Rapid Urbanization Urban Development

Affiliated PhD Student Tayeba Batool

Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Publication May 26, 2022 Rethinking the Heavy Hand of Flood Prevention in Informal Settlements: An Investigation of Retreat-Related Practices in the Philippines Researchers and decision-makers increasingly favor managed retreat as an adaptation to address urban floods exacerbated by climate impacts. In the informal settlements of the Global South, national governments, development banks, and other knowledge brokers choose relocation over slum upgrading in their retreat-related activities. They disproportionately relocate informal settlers—who lack legal land tenure— despite the fact that the risk profiles of many places is similar to those that the UN and other global bodies recommend in-situ climate-sensitive upgrade projects. Samuel Geldin Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

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