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Article May 9, 2023 Transforming China’s National New Areas towards Ecological Civilization Climate Change & Resilience

Article February 14, 2023 Rooted in Research: Greening Cities for Health, Safety, and Well-Being Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Publication November 29, 2022 How Philly can stay ahead of the curve in addressing climate change Climate Change & Resilience

Publication November 17, 2022 Penn IUR Events Address Extreme Heat and Air Quality Climate Change & Resilience

Article September 19, 2022 Penn IUR Faculty Fellows’ Summer Research Advances Urban Water Management How to sustainably manage urban water? That question took Penn IUR Faculty Fellows to cities like Pittsburgh, where improving water quality and access are critical issues; to the Netherlands, where 93 percent of the population lives in urban areas and all are at risk of rising seas; and to Malawi, where innovative methods of measuring climate adaptation may one day be applied to cities around the world. Climate Change & Resilience

Sep 09 2022 Past Event Kyung-Hwan Kim: Urbanization, Quality of Life, and Affordable Housing Urban Development Rapid Urbanization

Nov 18 2021 Past Event Special Briefing on Climate Change, Federal Aid and State and Local Strategies Climate Change & Resilience

Oct 27 2021 Past Event Livable Cities

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

Article October 20, 2021 Green Mobility in the Galápagos #GalápagosGoesGreen is a policy brief exploring the context, precedents, and possibilities for sustainable mobility on the cities of the Galápagos Islands. Climate Change & Resilience

Sep 23 2021 Past Event Special Briefing on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: Clean Water, Better Broadband, Resilience, and Equity Climate Change & Resilience

Sep 17 2021 Past Event City Form for Sustainable Growth Urban Development

Article August 19, 2021 Urban Innovation Essential to Achieve SDGs A new report suggests ways to support and accelerate the city-level innovation needed to reach the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Jul 23 2021 Past Event Bridging Gaps in Energy Access: Intersections Between Basic Service Provision, Public Health, and Climate Action Climate Change & Resilience

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

Jun 18 2021 Past Event International Waste Chains: Tracing the Supply Chain from Formal Waste Collection to Informal Waste Processing Rapid Urbanization

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

Article November 18, 2020 Monitoring Recovery in Employment in New York City Losses in employment in selected industries in New York City between February 2020, just before the effects of the coronavirus pandemic were first felt in the city, and September 2020. Urban Development

Urban Leadership Awardee Egbert Perry

Chairman & CEO, The Integral Group, LLC

Cover of Life Among Urban Planners

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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