Built Environment

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
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Scholar Qianyun Ji
Ph.D Candidate, Urban Planning and Design, Tsinghua University of China
Urban Development
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Fellow María Alicia Becdach
Architect and Urban Planning Consultant
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2
Publication April 17, 2020 Parks and Trees are Public Health Measures My research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century landscape history and contemporary landscape architecture in the Western World. Early park designers knew that incorporating parks and nature into cities is a public health measure with beneficial psychological and physical effects. Urban Development
Publication April 17, 2020 Urban Transportation Systems Are Essential Transportation connects us to activities, to family, to services and to opportunities. With 95 percent of the U.S. under stay-at-home orders, urban public transportation demand and trip activity has evaporated. Megan Ryerson Urban Development
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Faculty Fellow Zhongjie Lin
Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning
Urban Development Rapid Urbanization
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Faculty Fellow Shane Jensen
Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Wharton
Climate Change & Resilience Rapid Urbanization

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