Downtowns

Publication April 17, 2020 COVID-19's Effects on Urban Centers COVID-19 is a threat to urban centers, both in the short- and longer-run. Most immediately, the virus is doing serious economic damage to the most urbanized areas around the world. Mark Zandi Urban Development
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Faculty Fellow Zhongjie Lin
Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning
Urban Development Rapid Urbanization
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Fellow Ira Goldstein
Senior Advisor, Policy Solutions, Reinvestment Fund
Urban Development Housing + 2
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Emerging Scholar Sisi Liang
Associate Professor, Tsinghua University of China Vice Dean, School of Architecture
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development
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Book January 15, 2018 Mayor: The Best Job in Politics Reflecting on his two terms from 2008 to 2016, Nutter offers insights into building coalitions, governing pragmatically, and improving city life through effective public service. Michael A. Nutter Urban Development
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Scholar Arthur Acolin
Associate Professor and Bob Filley Endowed Chair, Runstad Department of Real Estate, College of Built Environments, University of Washington
Urban Development Rapid Urbanization + 1
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Scholar Albert T. Han
Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1
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Faculty Fellow Wendell Pritchett
James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education
Urban Development Housing + 2
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Fellow Sarah Rosen Wartell
President, Urban Institute
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2
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Scholar Brent D. Ryan
Vice Provost and Professor of Urban Design and Public Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1
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Scholar Marina Peterson
Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development
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Fellow Enrique Peñalosa
Independent Consultant Former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia Author of Equality and the City
Urban Development Rapid Urbanization
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Scholar Dowell Myers
Professor, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California Director, Population Dynamics Research Group
Urban Development Housing
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Fellow Paul Levy
Boardchair, Center City District
Urban Development
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Scholar Carolyn Chernoff
Cultural Worker
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Book March 17, 2012 The City After Abandonment A number of U.S. cities, former manufacturing centers of the Northeast and Midwest, have suffered such dramatic losses in population and employment. June Manning Thomas Margaret Dewar Urban Development Rapid Urbanization
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Book December 4, 2011 Global Downtowns Global Downtowns reconsiders one of the defining features of urban life—the energy and exuberance that characterize downtown areas—within a framework of contemporary globalization and change. Marina Peterson Gary McDonough Rapid Urbanization

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