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Feb 17 2022 Past Event Special Briefing on New York City: New Mayor, Federal Aid, Challenges to Recovery State & Local Finance

Article February 16, 2022 Lassiter Receives NSF Grant Penn IUR Faculty Fellow Allison Lassiter won a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation for a project to improve the nation’s water infrastructure system and adapt to climate change. The CAREER award comes with $500,000 in funding over five years. Allison Lassiter Climate Change & Resilience

Podcasts January 20, 2022 Special Briefing: 2022 Outlook for States and Cities The Volcker Alliance and Penn Institute for Urban Research held a Special Briefing on the 2022 outlook for states and localities. Our panel of experts from government, Washington, and Wall Street included Lucy Dadayan, Senior Research Associate with the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute; Larry Johnson, Commissioner, DeKalb County (Georgia) Board of Commissioners and President, National Association of Counties; Eric Kim, Senior Director, Fitch Ratings Inc.; Torsten Slok, Chief Economist, Apollo Global Management, and Mark Zandi, Chief Economist, Moody’s Analytics. The panelists discussed the path of the US economy, inflation, interest rates, the impact COVID-19 continues to have, and whether state and local governments face a “fiscal cliff” as federal pandemic budget aid wanes. William Glasgall Susan Wachter Mark Zandi Lucy Dadayan Larry Johnson Eric Kim Torsten Slok State & Local Finance

Jan 20 2022 Past Event Special Briefing: 2022 Outlook for States and Cities State & Local Finance

Fellow Anne Bovaird Nevins

Chief of Economic and Community Impact, Accelerator for America

State & Local Finance

Article January 19, 2022 Expert Voices 2022: Reimagining Infrastructure To begin every new year, we publish a special issue of Urban Link for which we ask urban experts to reflect on a question of importance to cities. This year, we asked: How do you think urban infrastructure should be reimagined for the 21st century to build sustainable and equitable cities? Urban Development

Affiliated PhD Student Jay Arzu

Doctoral Candidate, City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design

Urban Development

Podcasts December 16, 2021 Special Briefing on State and City Spending of Federal Infrastructure Funds The Volcker Alliance and Penn Institute for Urban Research hosted a Special Briefing on state and city spending of federal infrastructure funds contained in the recent enacted infrastructure bill as well as the American Rescue Plan Act. William Glasgall Susan Wachter Patrick J. Brett Rebecca Rhynhart Earl Blumenauer David Glick State & Local Finance

Dec 16 2021 Past Event Special Briefing on State and City Spending of Federal Infrastructure Funds State & Local Finance

Article December 15, 2021 Can Cities Lead on Climate? Mauricio Rodas, Visiting Scholar at Penn IUR, Perry World House, and Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, and Former Mayor of Quito and Senior Fellow at the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center; and Penn IUR Managing Director Amy Montgomery share their takeaways from COP26 on the role cities can play in addressing climate change. Climate Change & Resilience

Article December 15, 2021 Monitoring Recovery in Real Time Recovering New York City: A One Year Look Back on the Penn IUR Recovering Cities Project, and a Look Forward towards Recovery, is the report of Penn IUR’s “Recovering Cities Project,” a year-long effort that focused on New York City, the original epicenter of the pandemic in the United States. Urban Development

Article November 17, 2021 Penn IUR's Research for South Korea Penn IUR is working with the Urban Sustainability Laboratory at the Washington-based Wilson Center, a convenor of comparative research with U.S and South Korean scholars and practitioners involving the Housing and Urban Guarantee Corporation (HUG) and the Land and Housing Institute (LHI) of South Korea. Housing Urban Development

Article November 17, 2021 Undergraduate Urban Scholars: Apply Now This coming spring semester’s Penn IUR’s credit-bearing Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium (UURC) is accepting applications from undergraduate students interested in engaging in hands-on urban-focused research under the tutelage of mentors drawn from the faculty and advanced PhD candidates throughout the university. Urban Development Anchor Institutions

Article November 16, 2021 Livable Cities: Our Best Hope Selected annotated highlights from Mark Alan Hughes’s new book Livable Cities, plus Hughes’s reflections on a Penn IUR-sponsored October event that brought together scholars from across the university to share their research as it relates to the themes in Hughes's book. Mark Alan Hughes Climate Change & Resilience

Fellow Nora Fitzpatrick

Chief of Staff, Communications & Outreach Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Oct 27 2021 Past Event Livable Cities

Research Paper October 25, 2021 Recovering New York City: A One Year Look Back on the Penn IUR Recovering Cities Project, and a Look Forward towards Recovery Rapid Urbanization State & Local Finance

Advisory Board Member Doug Hagan

President, Krytar

Anchor Institutions

Article October 20, 2021 Monitoring the Effects of the Pandemic on Metros and Cities Here and There Penn IUR Co-Director Eugénie Birch provides a preview of three new Penn IUR briefs on the pandemic and urban places. Eugénie L. Birch Urban Development

Research Paper October 20, 2021 The COVID-19 Recession: Which Urban Economies Have Performed Better or Worse and Why John Landis State & Local Finance

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