Infrastructure

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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
Article January 25, 2017 Expert Voices 2017: America's Urban Infrastructure In his inauguration speech, President Trump characterized America's infrastructure as having “fallen into disrepair and decay” and promised to “build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways.” Similarly, over the course of the presidential campaign, Trump vowed to develop "the next generation" of American infrastructure and "send new skyscrapers soaring." We asked more than a dozen urban experts: In your view, what should the United States do about urban infrastructure? Eugénie L. Birch Angela Glover Blackwell Paul C. Brophy Gilles Duranton Erick Guerra John Landis Howard Neukrug Megan Ryerson Saskia Sassen Frederick Steiner Sarah Rosen Wartell Susan Wachter Richard Voith Mark Zandi Urban Development
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Emerging Scholar Patricio Zambrano
Urban and Technology Strategist, Palantir Technologies
Urban Development
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Fellow Aromar Revi
Co-Chair of Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IHHS)
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2
Fellow Angela Glover Blackwell
Professor of Practice, and Chief Vision Officer Democracy Policy Initiative, The Goldman School, University of California, Berkeley Founder in Residence, PolicyLink
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Emerging Scholar Xiaoxia (Summer) Dong
Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Urban Development
Article March 8, 2016 Urban Universities and Innovation In this issue of Urban Link, we explore the relationship between urban anchor institutions—in particular higher education institutions— and innovation. Anchor Institutions
Emerging Scholar Daniel Suh
Data Scientist, Consumer Data Analytics Team, Nike
Urban Development
Article March 19, 2015 Feeding Urban Communities: A Look at Disparities in Food Access and Nutritional Consumption Penn IUR Emerging Scholar Jesse Handbury writes about how large nutritional disparities exist across different socioeconomic groups in the United States. Jessie Handbury Anchor Institutions
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Fellow Janice Perlman
President, The Mega-Cities Project, Inc.
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2
Initiatives March 18, 2014 Energy Smart Communities Initiative (ESCI) of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) In partnership with the Taiwan Institute for Economic Research (TIER), Penn IUR worked to develop and maintain a knowledge-sharing platform (KSP) for the Energy Smart Communities Initiative (ESCI) of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Energy Working Group (EWG). Eugénie L. Birch Albert T. Han Joseph Su Climate Change & Resilience
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Faculty Fellow Frederick Steiner
Dean and Paley Professor, Weitzman School of Design Faculty Co-Director, The McHarg Center
Urban Development
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Fellow Michael Replogle
Principal and Owner, Replogle Consulting Founder and Director Emeritus, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
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
Fellow Sheela Patel
Founder and Director, Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC)
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 3
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Fellow Andrew F. Haughwout
Deputy Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Urban Development Housing + 1
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Scholar Harris M. Steinberg
Executive Director, Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation, Drexel University
Urban Development
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Faculty Fellow Gilles Duranton
Dean's Chair in Real Estate Professor, Real Estate, The Wharton School
Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 3

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