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People Janet Currie

Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University Co-Director, Center for Health and Wellbeing

Climate Change & Resilience Housing

Scholar Tingting Hong

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

Climate Change & Resilience

Article September 19, 2022 Penn IUR Faculty Fellows’ Summer Research Advances Urban Water Management How to sustainably manage urban water? That question took Penn IUR Faculty Fellows to cities like Pittsburgh, where improving water quality and access are critical issues; to the Netherlands, where 93 percent of the population lives in urban areas and all are at risk of rising seas; and to Malawi, where innovative methods of measuring climate adaptation may one day be applied to cities around the world. Climate Change & Resilience

Article February 22, 2022 Forthcoming Books in the City in the 21st Century Series The City in the 21st Century series is looking forward to adding its 50th book. We are proud of this achievement and looking forward to what’s next. Read on for a preview of what’s to come in this cross-disciplinary series edited by Penn IUR Co-Directors Eugénie Birch and Susan Wachter and published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Urban Development

Oct 28 2021 Past Event Korea City Renaissance Industry Expo 2021 Climate Change & Resilience

Podcasts July 15, 2021 Special Briefing on COVID-19, the American Rescue Plan, and 2022 State and Local Budgets The Volcker Alliance and Penn Institute for Urban Research hosted an online Special Briefing on how state and local governments are planning to use the $350 billion in direct aid contained in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act as they finish fiscal 2021 and ready budgets for FY 2022. Our expert panel discussed the impact on budgets of the act’s assistance to individuals and families, educational institutions, and health care and mass-transportation systems. Panelists included National Association of State Budget Officers executive director Shelby Kerns; Wayne County (Michigan) chief financial officer Hughey Newsome; Rochester (Minnesota) mayor Kim Norton; and Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi. William Glasgall Susan Wachter Mark Zandi Shelby Kerns Hughey Newsome Kim Norton State & Local Finance

Research Paper July 13, 2021 5th Guangzhou Award Report on Local Implementation of SDGs Climate Change & Resilience Housing + 1

Podcasts December 10, 2020 Special Briefing on Working with the Cares Act and What May Come Next The Volcker Alliance and Penn Institute for Urban Research cohosted an online Special Briefing featuring an expert panel discussing the lessons states and localities have learned from the Cares Act passed earlier this year and what may be in store in the fight against COVID-19 and its fiscal fallout as 2021 approaches. William Glasgall Susan Wachter Carolyn Bordeaux Julie Demuth Mark Funkhouser Fitzroy Lee Brandon McComas Richard Ratvich State & Local Finance

Podcasts June 25, 2020 Special Briefing on COVID-19: Unemployment, and State and Local Fiscal Consequences The Volcker Alliance and Penn Institute for Urban Research cohosted an online Special Briefing with Timothy J. Bartik, senior economist, Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; Marcia Van Wagner, vice president-senior credit officer, Public Finance Group, States Team, Moody's Investor Service; and Matt Fabian, partner, Municipal Market Analytics. William Glasgall Timothy J. Bartik Susan Wachter Matt Fabian Marcia Van Wagner State & Local Finance

Publication April 17, 2020 Moving from Uncertainty in a Rapidly Evolving Healthcare Crisis I like to distinguish between two kinds of risk, risk to which we can assign a probability, and risk for which we don’t have enough information to assign a probability. Urban Development

Publication April 17, 2020 CURA: Shipping a COVID-19 Innovative Solution COVID-19 hit Ecuador in early March. Critical-care hospitals were rapidly overcrowded and the death toll was staggering; the spine-chilling situation pushed me to think of ways to help. Mauricio Rodas Urban Development

Publication January 28, 2020 We Are Not Ready for Climate Change There is a whole new history in the making: How will cities address the overwhelming surge in the recognition of climate change? Saskia Sassen Climate Change & Resilience

Fellow Carolyn Kousky

Associate Vice President, Economics and Policy Analysis, Environmental Defense Fund

State & Local Finance

Research Paper March 13, 2018 U.S-Japan Grassroots Exchange Program, 2017 Urban Development

Emerging Scholar Samuel Geldin

Climate Change & Resilience

Fellow Aromar Revi

Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) Co-Chair, UN SDSN

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Faculty Fellow Howard Neukrug

Professor of Practice, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania

Climate Change & Resilience

Fellow Joseph Su

Chief, Department of National Spatial Planning and Development, Taiwan National Development Council

Urban Development

Fellow Sameh Wahba

Regional Director for Sustainable Development, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank

Climate Change & Resilience Anchor Institutions

Scholar Lawrence Vale

Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Associate Dean, MIT School of Architecture and Planning;

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1

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