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Research Paper October 20, 2021 #GalápagosGoesGreen: Galápagos Green Mobility Strategy Eugénie L. Birch Climate Change & Resilience State & Local Finance

Annual Report October 19, 2021 Penn IUR 2020-21 Annual Report: Expanding Our Reach in Challenging Times The 2020–2021 annual report for the Penn Institute for Urban Research, documenting the Institute’s research initiatives, publications, events, and instructional activities over the 2020–21 academic year. Anchor Institutions

Article September 23, 2021 Shaping Sustainable Urban Growth A recent World Bank report, Pancakes to Pyramids: City Form to Support Sustainable Growth, analyzes city development to identify the spatial extent of cities, the drivers of urban growth and ways to influence those drivers to create more productive and sustainable cities. Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Newsletter September 1, 2021 Penn IUR Newsletter, Fall 2021 Climate Change & Resilience Anchor Institutions

Article August 19, 2021 Students Shaping the Future of Cities The second annual Wharton Future of Cities Conference, organized by Wharton MBA students on the theme of “Urbanization Implications,” featured seven cross-disciplinary panels that wrestled with opportunities for rebuilding and restructuring urban systems in the wake of COVID-19. Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Article August 19, 2021 Federal Response to Pandemic Challenges for State and Local Governments In a series of online Special Briefings convened by Penn IUR together with the Volcker Alliance, federal, state, and local budget experts assessed the opportunities and challenges posed by these initiatives to beleaguered state and local governments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Urban Development Anchor Institutions

Jul 15 2021 Past Event Special Briefing on the Biden Infrastructure Plan: Resilience, Equity, and Federal Investment

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

Research Paper June 16, 2021 September 2020 U20 Summit White Papers and Reports Penn IUR, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, and Perry World House serve as knowledge partners for the U20 Engagement Group to the G20. For the U20 Summit (September 2020), they produced the white papers and reports that fed into the U20 Communique delivered to the G20. Mark Alan Hughes Eugénie L. Birch Mauricio Rodas Climate Change & Resilience State & Local Finance

May 20 2021 Past Event Special Briefing: The $2.3 Trillion American Jobs Plan and State and Local Infrastructure Needs State & Local Finance

Article May 19, 2021 Innovations in Instruction: Anchor Institution Seminar The Humanities+Urbanism+Design (H+U+D) Initiative, on which Penn IUR is a partner, cultivates collaboration among students and community institutions through its Anchor Institution Seminar, a mixed undergraduate-graduate course that each spring examines the activities of a Philadelphia institution that reflects and serves the city’s diverse population. Anchor Institutions

Article May 19, 2021 Equitable Recovery and CDFIs Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) are poised to dramatically expand their role in supporting underserved communities as the nation rebounds from the COVID-19 crisis. State & Local Finance Urban Development

Article May 19, 2021 Chasing Recovery: Governance, Accumulation, and Mobility in Philadelphia’s Drug Treatment Network Urban Development

Article May 19, 2021 Essays in Urban and Real Estate Economics State & Local Finance

Article May 19, 2021 Socioeconomic Neighborhood Change in Local Historic Districts of Large American Cities, 1970-2010: A Mixed Methods Approach Urban Development

Article May 19, 2021 New Ideas in Urban Research 2021 For the May 2021 issue of Urban Link, we asked Spring 2021 doctoral degree recipients to share key findings from their dissertations and identify novel policy recommendations for the urban research and policy communities. We thank them for their efforts, celebrate their achievements, and wish them luck in their careers! Urban Development

Article April 22, 2021 Access to Electricity in Informal Settlements: The Case of Accra, Ghana “Powering the Slum: Meeting SDG 7 in Ghana’s Informal Settlements” reports on a 2019-20 study, sponsored by Penn’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy (KCEP), by a research team composed of local researchers and headed by Penn IUR Fellow James Mensah, Chief Resilience Officer, Accra Metropolitan Assembly and lecturer, University of Ghana, and Penn IUR Co-Director Eugénie Birch. Eugénie L. Birch James Kwame Mensah Urban Development

Article April 22, 2021 State Budgeting, the COVID-19 Recession, and What Comes Next State finances weathered the Covid-19 pandemic better than some officials had feared, thanks to budget reforms and an increase in reserves during the economic rebound from the Great Recession, fiscal experts said at a Special Briefing hosted by Penn IUR and the Volcker Alliance. State & Local Finance Urban Development

Article April 21, 2021 With Recovery, A Look Back at Cities and COVID-19 Research In May 2020, Penn IUR launched the Cities and COVID-19 Resource Library to track developments, consolidate the research around the impact of the pandemic on cities, and provide a central repository of databases and organizations’ collections related to cities and COVID-19. Urban Development

Apr 20 2021 Past Event Third Annual Jeremy Nowak Lecture: Equitable Recovery and CDFIs Urban Development State & Local Finance

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