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Affiliated PhD Student Adwaita Banerjee

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1

Emerging Scholar Boqian Xu

Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Emerging Scholar Chris Quattro

Assistant Professor of Geography and Planning, Appalachian State University

Urban Development

News July 8, 2024 Pennsylvania Legalized Speed Cameras. You Won’t Believe What Happened Next. Penn IUR Faculty Fellow Erick Guerra spoke with Next City about pedestrian safety. Urban Development

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

Feb 01 2024 Past Event Post Industrial DIY: Book Talk & Panel Discussion Urban Development

Scholar Qianyun Ji

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

Urban Development

Affiliated PhD Student Rachel Bondra

Fellow in the Initiative in the History of the Built Environment Doctoral Student in City and Regional Planning

Urban Development

Affiliated PhD Student Benjamin (Benji) Smith

PhD Candidate in Wharton's Applied Economics Program

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1

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

Podcasts March 30, 2023 Special Briefing: Revitalizing Downtowns by Turning Offices Into Homes With working from home persisting even as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, the Volcker Alliance and Penn Institute for Urban Research hosted an online Special Briefing on Revitalizing Downtowns by Turning Offices Into Homes. Attracting more people back to center cities to live as well as work is the key to increasing street life, bolstering commerce, and preventing further losses in municipal property and sales tax revenues. William Glasgall Susan Wachter Maria Torres-Springer Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh Amy Cotter Heather Long State & Local Finance

Article February 14, 2023 Rooted in Research: Greening Cities for Health, Safety, and Well-Being Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

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

Podcasts January 19, 2023 The Future of Downtowns The Volcker Alliance and Penn Institute for Urban Research hosted an online Special Briefing on the Future of Downtowns.Our panel of experts included Howard Cure, director of municipal bond research, Evercore Wealth Management; Steven J. Davis, senior fellow, Hoover Institution, and professor of business and economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Tracy Hadden Loh, fellow, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking, Brookings Metro; Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore professor of real estate and professor of finance, Columbia University's Graduate School of Business; and Romy Varghese, politics editor, Bloomberg News. William Glasgall Susan Wachter Tracy Hadden Loh Howard Cure Steven J. Davis Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh Romy Varghese State & Local Finance

Podcasts November 17, 2022 Special Briefing: Big Cities, Big Challenges The Volcker Alliance and Penn Institute for Urban Research hosted an online Special Briefing: Big Cities, Big Challenges. The discussion focused on addressing inflation that has yet to be controlled and recession fears for big cities while federal COVID-19 budgetary aid will soon expire. Susan Wachter William Glasgall Greg David Shirley Franklin Heather Gillers Farhad Omeyr State & Local Finance

Affiliated PhD Student Tayeba Batool

Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Faculty Fellow Jamaal Green

Assistant Professor, City & Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design

Urban Development

Fellow Inga Saffron

Architecture Critic, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Urban Development

Scholar Reid Ewing

Distinguished Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah

Urban Development

Fellow María Alicia Becdach

Architect and Urban Planning Consultant

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

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