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Research Paper February 7, 2018 More than Window Dressing? Stakeholders and Partnerships in UN Global Agreements on Sustainable Urban Development Eugénie L. Birch Climate Change & Resilience Rapid Urbanization

Research Paper February 7, 2018 Introduction to Penn’s Current Research in Sustainable Urban Development: From Global to Local Eugénie L. Birch William Burke-White Mark Alan Hughes Climate Change & Resilience Rapid Urbanization

Newsletter January 22, 2018 Penn IUR Newsletter, Spring 2018 Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Article January 18, 2018 The $5 Billion Question: Will Cities Win or Lose in the Bid for Amazon's Second Headquarters Urban experts weigh in on whether cities will win or lose from the competition to host Amazon's second headquarters. Angela Glover Blackwell Richard Florida Arthur C. Nelson Frederick Steiner Mark Zandi Urban Development Anchor Institutions

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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

Article November 14, 2017 Monument Lab: Memorializing Philadelphia as a Place of Crisis and Boundless Hope Ken Lum writes about Monument Lab, a public art project in Philadelphia. Ken Lum Urban Development

Article October 18, 2017 Navigating the Unchartered Waters of U.S. Housing Policy: Current Challenges and Solutions Vinent Reina writes about current challenges and solutions related to the current housing market. Vincent Reina Housing

Faculty Fellow Vincent Reina

Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, Associate Dean for Research, Stuart Weitzman School of Design Founder and Faculty Director of the Housing Initiative

Annual Report September 20, 2017 Penn IUR 2016-17 Annual Report: Informing Inclusive Urbanism Urban Development

Article September 20, 2017 The Unbanking of America Lisa Servon writes that the consumer financial-services system is broken. This system, which consists of not only banks, check cashers, and lending circles, but also policymakers, regulators, and credit bureaus, fails to provide Americans with the products, services, and information they need to achieve financial stability. As a result, too many Americans are unable to participate fully in the economy and in civil society. Lisa Servon State & Local Finance

Emerging Scholar Moritz Schularick

Professor of Economics and Economic History, University of Bonn

Newsletter September 5, 2017 Penn IUR Newsletter, Fall 2017 Urban Development

Affiliated PhD Student Xiao "Betty" Wang

PhD Candidate, Business Economics and Public Policy, the Wharton Business School

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Emerging Scholar Ben Hyman

Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

State & Local Finance

Article August 15, 2017 Philadelphia FSRDC: A New Tool for Urban Research The new Philadelphia FSRDC will provide Penn faculty and students with access to non-public, confidential, microdata collected by a growing list of federal statistical agencies, including the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the National Center for Health Statistics and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In addition, researchers can link public or proprietary outside data to the data provided by federal statistical agencies, thus adding additional possibilities for data comparison and analysis. Urban Development

Fellow Rose Molokoane

National Coordinator, South African Federation of the Urban Poor (FEDUP)

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Book July 6, 2017 Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States In Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States, edited by Domenic Vitiello and Thomas J. Sugrue, write that in the past decade, policy makers and scholars across the United States have come to understand that immigrants are driving metropolitan revitalization at least as much and belong at the center of the story. Immigrants have repopulated central city neighborhoods and older suburbs, reopening shuttered storefronts and boosting housing and labor markets, in every region of the United States. Domenic Vitiello Thomas J. Sugrue Urban Development

Research Paper May 23, 2017 2017 ESCI Best Practices Awards Eugénie L. Birch Climate Change & Resilience State & Local Finance

Article May 17, 2017 New Ideas in Urban Research: Research Questions and Findings from Penn IUR’s Emerging Scholars Penn IUR is invested in supporting and encouraging a new generation of urban scholars who are identifying and pursuing key questions related to urbanization. For this month’s issue of Urban Link, we interviewed some of our most recent PhDs to get a feel for the issues that they consider important or that they are currently pursuing in their research. Urban Development

Scholar Arthur Acolin

Associate Professor and Bob Filley Endowed Chair, Runstad Department of Real Estate, College of Built Environments, University of Washington

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