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Mar 27 2025 Past Event Book Talk: Power, Politics and Territory in the ‘New Northern Ireland’ Speakers: Vincent Reina Elizabeth DeYoung Housing

Jan 23 2025 Past Event The City in the 21st Century: Celebrating the Reflective Practitioner featuring Enrique Peñalosa Londoño Speakers: Enrique Peñalosa Manuel A. Diaz Richard Freeland Judith Rodin Eleanor Sharpe Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1

Affiliated PhD Student Yining Lei

Urban Development Housing

Feb 01 2024 Past Event Post Industrial DIY: Book Talk & Panel Discussion Urban Development

Publication December 12, 2023 COP28 Advances Urban Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change & Resilience

Podcasts February 16, 2023 Special Briefing: State and Local Budgets in Uncertain Times As governors and mayors announce their spending plans for fiscal 2024, the Volcker Alliance and Penn Institute for Urban Research invite you to join our panel of experts for an online Special Briefing on State and Local Budgets in Uncertain Times. Susan Wachter William Glasgall Shelby Kerns Eric Kim Lauren Larson Gabriel Petek State & Local Finance

Gallery January 5, 2023 2022 Photography Contest: Thriving For the seventh year, Penn IUR held a photography contest to capture the experience of cities around the world. The theme in 2022, “Thriving,” drew attention to the resilience of urban places and people in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic Urban Development

Podcasts February 17, 2022 Watch a Special Briefing on New York City: New Mayor, Federal Aid, Challenges to Recovery The Volcker Alliance and Penn Institute for Urban Research co-hosted a Special Briefing on the challenges New York City faces in 2022 and beyond as its new mayor grapples with COVID-19, street crime, and the possibility of fiscal challenges as federal pandemic aid wanes in coming years. William Glasgall Susan Wachter Eugénie L. Birch Kathryn Wylde Richard Ratvich Ray McGuire Ronnie Lowenstein State & Local Finance

Oct 28 2021 Past Event Korea City Renaissance Industry Expo 2021 Climate Change & Resilience

Article September 21, 2020 Geography of Fiscal Distress in America Where is COVID-19 hurting state and local budgets the most? To answer this question, Penn IUR and the Volcker Alliance have mapped data on state and local budgetary distress in the wake of COVID-19. State & Local Finance

Emerging Scholar Zhenkun Gan

Assistant Professor, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Urban Development

Publication April 17, 2020 Agglomeration Economies Are Not Going Away My research focuses on the drivers of urban revitalization, the distribution of amenities among neighborhoods of varying income levels and implications for well-being inequality, and factors driving the discrepancy in nutrition between wealthier and poorer households. Jessie Handbury State & Local Finance Urban Development

Publication April 17, 2020 Cities of the Future Will … ? As I think about how to shape Penn IUR’s Cities and Contagion initiative I propose that we parallel and document the usual three-stage pattern of recovery from disaster. These steps are 1. emergency reactions, 2. short-term relief measures, 3. longer-term responses. Our nation is now in the first and second stages; others are pursuing the other steps. Eugénie L. Birch Urban Development

Fellow Ira Goldstein

Senior Advisor, Policy Solutions Group, Reinvestment Fund

Urban Development Housing + 2

Fellow Sidney Wong

Research Fellow, Penn IUR Visiting Scholar, Penn Architectural Archives

Urban Development State & Local Finance

Affiliated PhD Student Caitlin Gorback

PhD Candidate, Applied Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

State & Local Finance

Faculty Fellow David Gouverneur

Associate Professor of Practice, City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania

Urban Development

Fellow Rose Molokoane

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

Urban Development

Faculty Fellow Francesca Ammon

Associate Professor

Emerging Scholar Mary Rocco

Director of Engaged Scholarship, Community Engagement and Inclusion, Barnard College-Columbia University

Urban Development

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