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Article September 23, 2021 Urban Informality Research Insights A seminar series highlighting research on urban informality offers academics and practitioners an opportunity to exchange knowledge and together delve into topics such as informality in settlements, services, livelihoods, water supply and waste, and transportation. Urban Development
Research Paper July 13, 2021 5th Guangzhou Award Report on Local Implementation of SDGs Climate Change & Resilience Housing + 1
Advisory Board Member Kenneth M. Tanenbaum
Vice Chairman, Kilmer Van Nostrand Co. Limited
Urban Development
Advisory Board Member Paul Farmer
Former Executive Director & CEO, American Planning Association
Urban Development
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Book September 16, 2020 Life Among Urban Planners: Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City A collection of ethnographic case studies of urban planners and their practices Jennifer Mack Michael Herzfeld Urban Development
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Fellow María Alicia Becdach
Architect and Urban Planning Consultant
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2
Emerging Scholar Zhenkun Gan
Assistant Professor, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Urban Development
Publication May 18, 2020 Commuting and Innovation: Are Closer Inventors More Productive? My dissertation, which is composed of three papers, looks at how geography and housing markets affect economic outcomes at the individual, firm, and industry levels, both within and across regions. Urban Development
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Fellow John Paul Farmer
Chief Innovation Officer and President, WeLink Cities
Urban Development Anchor Institutions
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
Article February 3, 2020 Inga Saffron Meets with Penn IUR Fellows in Urban Leadership Urban Development
Research Paper October 25, 2019 Reducing Crime by Changing Places: Assessing the Benefits of Abating Vacant and Abandoned Land in Urban Spaces John MacDonald Urban Development
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Emerging Scholar Desen Lin
Assistant Professor of Finance, California State University, Fullerton Managing Editor, SSRN Urban Research eJournal, Penn Institute for Urban Research
Urban Development Housing + 1
Article January 16, 2019 Expert Voices 2019: Why Cities? We asked more than a dozen urban experts “why cities?” In particular, we asked them to reflect on any or all of the following questions: Cities throughout the world are growing in population and expanding in size—why is this? What are the most critical forces that are driving the new importance of urban centrality? How do they differ across the globe? How will urbanization impact inclusivity and sustainability? What are the common forces in global urbanization trends? How long will these trends last? Urban Development
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Faculty Fellow Allison Lassiter
Assistant Professor
Climate Change & Resilience
Research Paper November 1, 2018 Flood Risk and the U.S. Housing Market Carolyn Kousky Susan Wachter Michael LaCour-Little Housing State & Local Finance
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Book October 22, 2018 Smarter Growth: Activism and Environmental Policy in Metropolitan Washington John H. Spiers argues that metropolitan Washington, D.C. laid the foundations for a smart growth movement that blossomed in the late twentieth century John H. Spiers Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development
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Faculty Fellow Simon Richter
Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of German, Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies, School of Arts and Sciences Chair, Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies
Climate Change & Resilience
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Faculty Fellow David Gouverneur
Associate Professor of Practice, City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania
Urban Development

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