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Affiliated PhD Student Samuel Ostroff

Joint Doctoral Candidate in History and South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Urban Development

Emerging Scholar Theodore Lim

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Tech

Climate Change & Resilience

Emerging Scholar Jae Min Lee

Associate Professor, School of Architecture University of Ulsa, Korea

Urban Development

Scholar Albert T. Han

Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1

Emerging Scholar Caroline Cheong

Associate Director, Housing and Neighborhoods, Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University

Urban Development

Faculty Fellow Wendell Pritchett

James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education

Urban Development Housing + 2

Affiliated PhD Student Shashank Saini

Urban Development

Fellow Janice Perlman

President, The Mega-Cities Project, Inc.

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Initiatives March 18, 2014 Urban Ecosystem Services and Decision-Making Penn IUR partners with the Wharton GIS Lab on a research collaborative, the Spatial Integration Laboratory for Urban Systems (SILUS), to study ecological, environmental, and socioeconomic issues involved in urban and regional development. Urban Development

Initiatives March 18, 2014 Rapid Urbanization Penn IUR explores the topic of rapid urbanization—both understanding how cities create and transfer knowledge and identifying policy interventions to support rapidly urbanizing cities. James Kwame Mensah Eugénie L. Birch Susan Wachter Rapid Urbanization

Scholar Anthony Yeh

Chan To Haan Professor in Urban Planning and Design, University of Hong Kong Chair Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design; Director, Geographic Information Systems Research Centre

Urban Development

Scholar Kathleen Wolf

Research Social Scientist, College of the Environment, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington

Fellow Sarah Rosen Wartell

President, Urban Institute

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Scholar Lawrence Vale

Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Associate Dean, MIT School of Architecture and Planning;

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1

Scholar Catherine Tumber

Visiting Scholar, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University

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Faculty Fellow Frederick Steiner

Dean and Paley Professor, Weitzman School of Design Faculty Co-Director, The McHarg Center

Urban Development

Scholar Brent D. Ryan

Vice Provost and Professor of Urban Design and Public Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1

Fellow Michael Replogle

Principal and Owner, Replogle Consulting Founder and Director Emeritus, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1

Scholar Rolf Pendall

Professor, Department of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Urban Development Housing

Fellow Enrique Peñalosa

Independent Consultant Former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia Author of Equality and the City

Urban Development Rapid Urbanization

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