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Article February 18, 2021 Tracking the Recovery of Restaurants in U.S. Cities Using Cell Phone Data Penn IUR examines monthly visits to restuarants in selected urban counties per 1,000 residents in 2020, tracked using cell phone mobility data.

Article December 11, 2020 Perspectives on Fair Housing: An Overview Fair housing is central to the moral and economic foundation and future of American society. The Fair Housing Act—passed more than 50 years ago—prohibited discrimination in the sale, rent, and financing of housing based on race, religion, and national origin. But, while necessary, the Act alone is insufficient to stop discrimination and undo the decades of discriminatory land, housing, and other policies that have ingrained racial inequality into the nation’s housing markets. Vincent Reina Housing

Article November 24, 2020 We Won’t Say Good-Bye … Lawrence C. Nussdorf, Founding Member, Penn IUR Advisory Board, Will Be with Us Forever Penn IUR founding Advisory Board member Lawrence C. Nussdorf, remembered. Eugénie L. Birch Susan Wachter

Scholar Lewis Dijkstra

Head, Economic Analysis Sector of the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy, European Commission

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

Affiliated PhD Student Charles Starks

Doctoral Candidate, City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design

Urban Development

Scholar Reid Ewing

Distinguished Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah

Urban Development

Fellow María Alicia Becdach

Architect and Urban Planning Consultant

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Scholar Sai Balakrishnan

Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley

Rapid Urbanization

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

Publication May 18, 2020 Planning and the Politics of Informal Urbanization Over a billion people worldwide live in informal settlements (or “slums”), according to the United Nations. Informal urbanization persists partly because of informal politics. My dissertation examines the relationships between informal politics, urban planning, and informal urban growth. Chandan Deuskar Rapid Urbanization

Publication April 17, 2020 Parks and Trees are Public Health Measures My research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century landscape history and contemporary landscape architecture in the Western World. Early park designers knew that incorporating parks and nature into cities is a public health measure with beneficial psychological and physical effects. 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

Faculty Fellow Zhongjie Lin

Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning

Urban Development Rapid Urbanization

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Emerging Scholar Joshua Davidson

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Oberlin College

Article February 3, 2020 Inga Saffron Meets with Penn IUR Fellows in Urban Leadership Urban Development

Publication January 28, 2020 Leveraging Diversity for Thriving Cities In 2019, nearly 1 million migrants were arrested along the United States-Mexico border.

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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Book August 23, 2019 Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change Urban Development

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