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PENN IUR AND UNIVERSITY ENTER KNOWLEDGE PENNDESIGN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE WORLD BANK AND PENN IUR PUBLISH URBAN DESIGN EDUCATION MANIFESTO

he Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) and TPennDesign recently published The Penn Resolution: Educating Urban Designers for Post-Carbon Cities, a richly illustrated roadmap that frames clear principles to shrink the carbon foot- print of the urban world. Developed by attendees of the “Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil” symposium, held in the fall of 2008 at the University of Pennsylvania, this manifesto highlights changing climate Making Bank: Eugénie Birch (seated, from left to right), Abha Joshi-Ghani, Susan Wachter and Steven Fluharty met to sign the Urbanization Knowledge Partnership project. patterns and diminishing supplies of in- expensive oil, and outlines the skills that both new and practicing urban design- n March 18, 2011, Steven J. Fluharty, Development, to Penn where Joshi-Ghani ers will need to meet these challenges. Senior Vice Provost for Research heard presentations by faculty from several Gary Hack, Dean Emeritus of at the University of Pennsylvania, schools and centers, including Wharton, the PennDesign, and co-editor of The Penn O School of Veterinary Medicine and Penn and Eugénie Birch and Susan Wachter, Co- Resolution, observes, “Now that more Directors of the Penn Institute for Urban IUR. The agreement certified the role that than half the world’s population is living Research, signed a partnership agreement the University of Pennsylvania and Penn in cities, a percentage that will increase with the World Bank Group’s Urban Sector, IUR will play as partners on the Urbanization to two-thirds in the next two decades, if the central agency responsible for the Bank’s Knowledge Partnership project (UrbKP), an we are going to meet the dual challenges urban development and sustainability policy. innovative web-based platform that will pro- of reducing our overreliance on oil and The signing occurred during a visit by Abha vide a global go-to hub to convene policy- CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 Joshi-Ghani, Sector Director for Urban CONTINUED ON PAGE 22 CONTINUED ON PAGE 18 ENERGY RESEARCH MOVES CITY- AND WORLDWIDE INSIDE ith energy technology rapidly better ways to improve energy efficiency in Fall 2011 Events>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2 marching forward around the commercial buildings. Urban Leadership Forum >>>>>>>>>> 3 world, Penn IUR is keeping pace Namely, Penn IUR is the creator of the W Urban Education Conference >>>>>>> 5 with sustainability initiatives across the in- GPIC Knowledge Platform, a forthcoming dustry, including engaging in research, con- website that will act as a repository of policy MUSA Capstones >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 6 ferences and international partnerships. and practice. As part of this project, Penn New Books>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 7 In particular, Penn IUR continues to play IUR researchers conducted a survey of GPIC Faculty News >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 9 an integral role on the Policy, Markets and stakeholders to inform the design the GPIC Profile of Laura Perna> >>>>>>>>>>>> 16 Behavior team of the Greater Philadelphia Knowledge Platform. Not only will visitors Water Symposium >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 19 Innovation Cluster for Energy Efficient be able to learn about existing policies and Buildings (GPIC), a Department of Energy- practices at the federal, state and local level, Ed Blakely Talk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 21 Urban Doctoral Symposium >>>>>>>>> 22 funded innovation hub meant to find new, CONTINUED ON PAGE 18 6/28/11 2:50 PM

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Penn IUR Public Interest Event Mellon Professor of Finance at the Wharton School;Penn Institute forJack Urban Research Dorer, Book Talk: The American Mortgage System: Crisis and Reform Managing Director of Public Finance at Moody’s​"In Philadelphia Investors if you want to lookService; at the extremes, in 2009, 3500 Living Room, Inn at Penn |5:30-7pm and Burrell Ellis, CEO of Dekalb County, Ga. The panel will be https://www.facebook.com/pages/Penn-Institute-for-Urban-Research/166205166761109 The volume’s editors and contributors discuss key elements of moderated by Nora Fitzpatrick, Regional & Community Outreach the mortgage meltdown and solutions to the problems facing Specialist of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. the future of American home ownership. Speakers include Vince Reinhart, Resident Scholar at American Enterprise Institute; Ingrid OCTOBER 19, 2011 Ellen, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at New York Penn Community Event University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Co- UURC Information Session Director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy; Meyerson Hall, G-12 |4:30-5pm and Joseph Tracey, Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor An orientation to Penn IUR’s Undergraduate Urban Research to the President at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Ellen Colloquium (UURC), a spring seminar that exposes sophomores Seidman, Executive Vice President, National Policy and Partnership and juniors to methods used in urban research and offers an op- Development of ShoreBank Corporation, will moderate the discus- portunity for individual faculty-mentored urban research on a topic sion. Cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia or question of the student’s choosing. A student/faculty reception and Penn Press. A book signing and reception will follow. follows the informational session. October 24, 2011 OCTOBER 4, 2011 Penn IUR Public Interest Event Penn IUR Public Interest Event Book Talk: George Galster, Driving Detroit: The Quest for Urban Sustainability Initiatives: Challenges and Opportunities R-E-S-P-E-C-T in the Motor City National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. | 10-11:30am Living Room, Inn at Penn | 5pm How can we create metropolitan areas, cities and neighborhoods Painting a comprehensive portrait of Greater Detroit, a place that better balance economic vitality, social equity and environmen- of intense international interest, George Galster asks, “What tal quality? The Honorable Dr. Raphael Bostic, Assistant Secretary makes Detroit tick?” He examines the character of the place for Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of from multiple layers of principles gleaned from urban planning, Housing and Urban Development, will lead the discussion. This economics, sociology, political science, geography, history, and event is cosponsored by Penn IUR, The Urban Institute, Next psychology. Cosponsored by Penn’s Urban Studies Program and the American City and the National Building Museum. Free and open to Department of History. public; registration is required at www.nbm.org. NOVEMBER 17, 2011 OCTOBER 12, 2011 Penn IUR Public Interest Event Penn IUR Public Interest Event Book Talk: Stephen Graham, Cities Under Siege Sustainable Public Finance Location and Time TBD Inn at Penn | 4:30-6pm Stephen Graham, Professor of Cities and Society at the Global Experts on public pensions, state and local governance, and Urban Research Unit in Newcastle University’s School of urban economics will discuss how government deal with short- Architecture, Planning and Landscape, will discuss his latest book, term budget crises while achieving long-term fiscal responsibility. Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism. Cosponsored by Speakers include Olivia Mitchell, Professor of Insurance and Risk Penn’s Urban Studies program. 2 Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter | Fall 2011 CITY LEADERS HONORED AT SEVENTH ANNUAL URBAN LEADERSHIP FORUM enn IUR’s seventh annual Urban Leadership Forum, “Building the PSustainable Community,” held March 23, honored Raphael Bostic, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Henry Cisneros, Executive Chairman, Cityview, and former Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Jane Golden, Executive Director, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program; and John Timoney, for- mer Miami Chief of Police and author, Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities. At the Forum, the 2011 Urban Leadership awardees explored the connec- tions between environmental, social and economic sustainability, focusing on is- sues of housing affordability, public safety and urban amenities. Bostic spoke about HUD sustainability projects including the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, an innovative interagency agreement among Follow the leaders: This year’s honorees included Raphael Bostic (second from left), Jane the U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Golden, John Timoney and Henry Cisneros, here with Penn IUR Co-Directors Eugénie Birch Development and Transportation, and the (left) and Susan Wachter (right). Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative the changing role of cities in face of global potential to foster a new “golden age.” To do (NRI), an interagency collaboration among urbanization. He noted that while cities in so, they must harness existing resources and HUD, the Department of Education, the the developing world are dealing with in- human capital through strategic methods in Department of Justice, and the Department creased development pressures to accom- community and economic development that of Health and Human Services. Bostic modate rapidly growing populations, cities in attract mixed-income residents, galvanize stressed the need for increased investments the developed world are reacting to differ- anchor institutions, create public/private in connective infrastructure, as it enhances ent issues as they lose population, and suf- partnerships for infrastructure investment, residents’ mobility, thereby promoting the fer from low economic growth and a dearth invent new forms of local and regional gov- long-term viability of cities. of affordable housing and quality schools. ernment, and craft incentives for mixed-use Cisneros offered important insights on Nonetheless, he observed, cities have the development and land trusts. When asked about best practice strategies cities can undertake in promoting sustainabil- Connect with Penn IUR online! ity, Golden drew on her decades-long expe- rience in Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program : penniur.upenn.edu to explain the ability of community-based public art to forge partnerships with grass- roots organizations, city agencies, schools : www.facebook.com/pages/Penn-Institute-for-Urban- and philanthropies to effect positive social Research#!/pages/Penn-Institute-for-Urban-Research change. She argued that her program serves as a national model for community develop- ment, as it taps into communities’ human : www.twitter.com/PennIUR capital, especially community youth, to build capacity and create meaningful places that residents can feel invested in. Her endeavors have been especially important for commu- : www.linkedin.com/groups/Penn-Institute- nity youth. Urban-Research-3919080 Timoney discussed the detrimental social effects of concentrated poverty. He focused on his experiences as police chief in New : www.vimeo.com/penniur York, Philadelphia and Miami in educating officers on how to reach out to minority resi- dents to ease racial tensions and improve po- : www.slideshare.net/pennurbanresearch lice/community relations. Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter | Fall 2011 3 PENN IUR AND PHILLY FED RELEASE NEW BOOK ON THE EFFECT OF PLACE ON NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS AT PANEL DISCUSSION n April 6, Penn IUR hosted a panel in conjunction with the release Oof Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America, ed- ited by Harriet Newburger, Eugénie Birch and Susan Wachter as part of Penn Press’ City in the 21st Century series. Produced in collaboration between Penn IUR and the Community Development Studies and Education Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the book contains papers presented at the March 2008 symposium “Reinventing Older Communities: How Does Place Matter.” The panelists were: Margery Austin Turner, Vice President of Research, Urban Institute; Katherine O’Regan, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU; Fernando Ferreira, Associate Professor of Real Estate, the Wharton School; Janet Pack, Professor of Increasing Life Chances: Jeremy Nowak (from left to right) led the panel, which included Margery Austin Turner, Katherine O’Regan, Andrew Frishkoff, Janet Pack and Fernando Ferreira. Business and Public Policy, the Wharton School; and Andrew Frishkoff, Executive key editor, Harriet Newburger, later champi- portunities, and the importance of recog- Director, Philadelphia Local Initiative oned its role as a resource for both scholars nizing successful places in addition to dis- Support Corporation. and practitioners. tressed places. In summing up, Frishkoff The evening began with introductory re- The panel moderator, Jeremy Nowak, reinforced a common point among the marks by Susan Wachter, Harriet Newburger President, William Penn Foundation, panelists: The movement of people is a and Dede Meyers, Director, Community and former President and CEO, The key determinant of a place’s evolution, and Development Studies and Education Reinvestment Fund, asked the panelists to it is critical to closely consider migration Department of Federal Reserve Bank of consider how their research and the book dynamics. Philadelphia. Wachter, Co-Director of Penn would advance the understanding of “place Following their formal presentations, IUR, focused on the compelling relationship vs. people” strategies and how it will help panelists responded to audience questions, between prosperity and place in America as researchers and practitioners to transcend reiterating issues of social and economic seen in the interactions among residential lo- a directly oppositional approach to those mobility in low-income neighborhoods, the cation, health, education, income, and eco- strategies. The panel responded by detail- need to establish educational policies that nomic and social segregation in U.S. cities. ing the parallels between people-prosperity will engender more opportunities for chil- Myers followed Wachter’s comments with a and place-prosperity, the participation of dren living in distressed communities, and statement of thanks regarding the partner- Hispanic families in the housing market, the importance of focusing on policies that ship between the Federal Reserve Bank of mass migration of population and industry address both human and neighborhood Philadelphia and Penn IUR, while the book’s and the subsequent shift in economic op- aid. SUSTAINABLE PUBLIC FINANCE A Penn IUR Public Interest Event

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4 Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter | Fall 2011 PENN IUR AND THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION HOST URBAN EDUCATION CONFERENCE n May Penn IUR partnered with Penn’s Graduate School of Education to Ihost “Preparing Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Jobs in Metropolitan America: the Policy, Practice, and Research Issues,” a two-day national impact conference de- signed to explore the critical questions fac- ing cities and their ability to educate and train a competitive workforce. More than 160 policymakers, higher education faculty and staff, Ph.D. students, and representa- tives from education advocacy or research organizations attended the meeting at Penn’s Houston Hall. Among the speakers were the Honorable Eduardo Ochoa, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Education; the Honorable Edward Rendell, former Governor of Pennsylvania; Lori Shorr, Chief Education Officer, Office of the Mayor, City of Philadelphia; and Charles Kolb, President of the Committee for Economic Development, Washington, D.C. Job board: Bridget O’Connor (from left), Alan Ruby, Ronald Ferguson, Eric Bradlow and Laura Perna, Professor, Penn Graduate Jan Yoshiwara discussed how we define “success” with regard to the role of education in School of Education and Susan Wachter, preparing students for employment. Co-Director of Penn IUR, organized the conference that was sponsored by tions become stagnant, he said, jobs leave a “menu of possible selves.” Penn’s Pre-Doctoral Training Program the country. Harry Holzer, Professor, Georgetown in Interdisciplinary Methods for Field- Shorr spoke about the workforce is- Public Policy Institute, Georgetown Based Research in Education, with funding sues facing Philadelphia, which, she ar- University, discussed four reasons for the from the U.S. Department of Education’s gued, reflect national trends. She noted that slow to response to the demand for a skilled Institute for Education Sciences. Philadelphia currently has more jobs for ed- labor force: a large education achievement In opening the confer- ucated people than it does gap; limited information about higher ence, Rendell stated that skilled labor to fill those education, especially in minority popula- Congress is asked every Congress is asked every positions. Solving this tions; weak career and technical education year for more work visas to year for more work visas challenge requires “smart systems; and fragmented education and staff computer program- people using money the workforce systems disconnected from em- ming jobs because there to staff computer pro- right way.” In addition, to- ployers. He recommended strategies for are no Americans willing gramming jobs because day’s youths need “knowl- changing these conditions including in- or capable to fill those edgeable, caring” career creasing secondary school graduation rates, jobs. While firmly in sup- there are no Americans mentors to help guide creating active links within the labor market port of immigration to in- willing or capable to and educate them about such as enhancing career counseling, and vigorate the United States, fill those jobs. “Why the values of continued incentivizing institutions to provide more Rendell asked: “Why aren’t education. student support services. our kids able to fill those aren’t our kids able to This sentiment Numerous speakers stressed that edu- jobs? Because the educa- fill those jobs?” Rendell was echoed by Ronald cation is a lifelong process. Penn IUR tion system fails.” Ferguson, Senior Lecturer Faculty Fellow Laura Wolf-Powers, Assistant Secretary asked. “Because the in Education and Public Assistant Professor, Department of City Ochoa agreed: “What’s education system fails.” Policy, Graduate School and Regional Planning at the University of missing in our system are of Education and the Pennsylvania, demonstrated how the con- the incentives to focus Kennedy School, Harvard temporary American city is being trans- on the issues that need to be addressed.” University, who said that children need to formed into a place of highly skilled and However, Ochoa not only blamed the edu- be exposed to adults in a variety of fields to fluid employment possibilities where- ur cation system, but also stated that domestic understand career opportunities that they ban youth need to be educated on poten- business innovation is the key to creating might not otherwise encounter within their tial paths to success beyond their immedi- jobs within the U.S. When working condi- communities, allowing youngsters to create ate locations.

Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter | Fall 2011 5 MUSA CAPSTONES DEMONSTRATE THE POWER OF MAPS ennDesign and Penn IUR honored 11 graduates of the Induced Landslide Risk Assessment System for Northeastern Master of Urban Spatial Analytics program on May 11 in Puerto Rico.” Pthe Fisher Fine Arts Library, where three graduates pre- The graduates — Jesse Lippert, Qingwen Mi, Nina Safavi, sented their capstone projects. Guy Thigpen, Gregory Carlino, Edward Faustin, Miguel Leon, John Landis, MUSA Academic Director and Crossways Michael Mariano, Daniel McGlone, Kathy Tang and Joanne Tu Professor and Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, Purtsezova — like their predecessors, are bound for jobs at the moderated three student capstone project presentations: Joanne U.S. Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Tu Purtsezova’s “Web-Based Spatial Analysis of Neighborhood the City of Philadelphia, the Department of Public Works of Change in Strawberry Mansion,” Guy Thigpen’s “Philadelphia Richmond, Va., Kittelson & Associates, Research for Action, City Planning Commission and Community Viz: Modeling ESRI, the Reinvestment Fund and Bank of America and other Development Scenarios,” and Miguel Leon “Real-Time Rainfall- companies.

Map quest: This ambitious citywide modeling development scenario is one example of MUSA student work for the Philadelphia City Planning Commission.

THE CITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY SERIES 2010-11 AVAILABLE FROM PENN PRESS. FOR MORE INFORMATION, RELEASES GO TO PENNIUR.UPENN.EDU/PUBLICATIONS

6 Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter | Fall 2011 TWO NEW RELEASES EXPLORE CRISES IN REAL ESTATE AND HEALTH he two most recent volumes in Penn Simon Dean of the School of Nursing, and Press’ City in the 21st Century series, Eugénie Birch and Susan Wachter, Penn TThe American Mortgage System: Crisis IUR Co-Directors, is the product of the New Books and Reform and Women’s Health and the World’s International Council on Women’s Health Cities, result from national impact conferenc- Issues’ 18th Congress: Cities and Women’s Coming Soon es sponsored or cosponsored by Penn IURI Health: Global Perspectives held at Penn on timely and significant urban topics. in April 2010. In discussing the impact of The American Mortgage System: Crisis and the global urbanization on women’s well- From Penn IUR Reform, edited by Penn IUR Co-Director being, its contributors focus on such issues Susan M. Wachter and Federal Reserve Bank as personal security, maternal mortality, • Ed Blakely, My Storm: of Philadelphia Economist and Community adolescent health, access to health services, Managing the Recovery of Development Research Advisor Marvin and the physical design of neighborhoods M. Smith, contains papers delivered at the and cities as it affects women’s and girls’ New Orleans in the Wake Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s con- health. Authors include Julio Franck, Dean, of Katrina ference “Re-Inventing Older Communities,” Harvard School of Public Health and for- held in May 2010. The volume’s contribu- mer Minister of Health, Mexico; Sheela • Michael Katz, Why Don’t tors include Michael S. Barr, Professor, Patel, Director, Society for the Promotion American Cities Burn? University of Michigan Law School and of Area Resource Centers, Mumbai, India; former Assistant Secretary for Financial Vivian Pinn, Director, Office of Research • Gary McDonogh and Marina Institutions, U.S. Department of the on Women’s Health, National Institute of Peterson, Editors, Global Treasury; Ingrid Gould Ellen, Professor of Health; Tina Musuya, Executive Director, Downtowns Public Policy and Urban Planning, Wagner Center for Domestic Violence Prevention, Graduate School of Public Service, New Kampala, Uganda; Francisca Mwangangi, York University; and Vincent Reinhart, for- Assistant Lecturer of Nursing, Presbyterian mer Director, Division of Monetary Affairs, University of East Africa; and Shweta Federal Reserve. The authors analyze the Shukla, Head, External Relations, Proctor & 2008 housing market collapse including dis- Gamble, India. See the spring 2012 Penn IUR cussions of the impact of the Community Penn IUR will host a book talk and sign- newsletter for more information Reinvestment Act, the roles played by Fannie ing for The American Mortgage System, featuring Mae and Freddie Mac, and the risks and fail- several of the volume’s authors, on Sept. 21 on these and other great new ures of mortgage securitization. They offer in the Living Room at the Inn at Penn. (See volumes! solutions for sustainable homeownership Upcoming Events, p. 2, for more informa- and financial stability. tion.) A similar event to celebrate Women’s Women’s Health and the World’s Cities, Health and the World’s Cities is planned for Stay up-to-date on all Penn edited by Afaf I. Meleis, Margaret Bond January 2012. IUR and Penn Press publica- tions at penniur.upenn.edu/ publications and at www.upenn.edu/pennpress

Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter | Fall 2011 7 Penn IUR Welcomes Our Newest Faculty Fellows

Alan Kelly Laura Perna Alan M. Kelly, Professor of Pathology, Laura Perna, Professor, Graduate School Department of Pathobiology, and Dean of Education, serves as Vice President, Emeritus, School of Veterinary Medicine, Division J, American Educational Research held the only endowed veterinary dean- Association, and in 2010 was awarded ship in the nation. At the School of the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Veterinary Medicine since 1967, Kelly’s Foundation Award for Distinguished principal research interests are in skeletal Teaching. Her research, supported by muscle development and muscle disease. grants from the U.S. Department of He co-authored Neuromuscular Development Education’s Institute of Education Science and Disease (Raven Press, 1992) and is the author or co-author of and Association for Institutional Research and other sources, fo- 17 book chapters, and 50 papers in refereed journals. In 1962 he cuses on understanding how to promote college access and suc- came to the United States to pursue a Ph.D. in pathology from cess, particularly for groups traditionally underrepresented in high- the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of er education, including racial/ethnic minorities and students from Pennsylvania. Immediately upon graduation, he joined the facul- lower income backgrounds. Perna serves as a member of the tech- ty at the School of Veterinary Medicine. He has served as head nical review group for the GEAR UP follow-up evaluation and the of the Laboratory of Pathology, Chair of the Graduate Group Upward Bound and Student Support Services Innovative Practices of Pathology, Acting Chair and Chair of the Department of Study, the technical review panels for the National Postsecondary Pathobiology. Since 1979 Kelly has held joint appointments at the Student Aid Study, the Beginning Postsecondary Student Survey, School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathology at the and the Baccalaureate and Beyond Study, the external advisory Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate Group committee for the National Council of Higher Education Loan in Comparative Medical Sciences. Kelly serves on several boards, Programs, the research advisory board for the Thurgood Marshall including the ASPCA, the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, Fund, the advisory board for the Pennsylvania State System of the Institute for Human Gene Therapy Advisory Board, and he Higher Education GEAR UP Advisory Committee, the Board of chairs the Genova Oversight Committee at the University of Directors of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, and Lumina Pennsylvania. Foundation for Education’s Research Advisory Committee. In ad- dition, she serves or has served on various editorial boards as well Janet Rothenberg Pack as on the Board of Directors for the Association for the Study of Janet Rothenberg Pack, Professor and Higher Education. Chair, Department of Business and Public Policy, the Wharton School, published Saswati Sarkar Growth and Convergence in Metropolitan America Saswati Sarkar, Associate Professor, (Brookings Institution Press, 2002), and Department of Electrical and Systems edited a second volume, Sunbelt/Frostbelt: Engineering, School of Engineering and Public Policies and Market Forces in Metropolitan Applied Science, received her master’s of Development (Brookings Institution Press, 2005). These volumes re- engineering in electrical communication sult from the joint Wharton-Brookings Institution annual confer- engineering from the Indian Institute of ence initiated by Pack in 2005. While living in Nairobi in the 1970s, Science in 1996 and her Ph.D. in elec- she wrote the housing chapter for the City of Nairobi’s economic trical and computer engineering from development plan. As a member of the Foreign Advisory Board University of Maryland, College Park in 2000. Her research inter- of the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, she is orga- ests are in resource allocation and performance analysis in com- nizing an international conference based on their Comprehensive munication networks. She received the Motorola gold medal for Program for Reducing Inequality and Poverty and Increasing the best masters student in the division of Electrical Sciences at Economic Growth in Israel. She recently joined the Pennsylvania the Indian Institute of Science and a National Science Foundation Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority’s regional economists’ Faculty Early Career Development Award in 2003. She has been group. an associate editor of IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications since 2001, and recently assisted in planning Penn IUR’s smart grids conference “America’s Sustainable Future: How U.S. Cities Are Making Energy Work.”

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Jonathan Barnett Channels New Research Into Philippe Bourgois Receives Book Prize Book Philippe Bourgois, Richard Perry Jonathan Barnett, Professor of Practice, University Professor of Anthropology Department of City and Regional and Family and Community Medicine, Planning, and Director, Urban Design Department of Anthropology, School Program, School of Design, published of Arts and Sciences, and Department City Design: Modernist, Traditional, Green and of Family Medicine and Community Systems Perspectives (Routledge) in February. Practice, Perelman School of Medicine, The book covers the history and contem- received the 2010 Anthony Leeds Urban Anthropology book porary utilization of the four most widely prize from the Society for Urban Anthropology of the American recognized urban design methods. Anthropological Association for his book Righteous Dopefiend. The Leeds Prize, named after a lauded trailblazer in urban anthropol- ogy, is given to a book relevant to the field of urban, national or David Bell Wins Core MBA Core Teaching Award transnational anthropology published in the appropriate year. David Bell, Xinmei Zhang and Yongge Dai Professor of Marketing, Marketing Department, the Wharton School, received Charles Branas Receives Grant for Penn Mobile an MBA Core Teaching Award this year. Technology in Guatemala Additionally, he has two forthcoming ur- The Penn-Guatemala Partnership, led ban-related publications: an article in Journal by Charles Branas, Associate Professor of Marketing Research entitled “Preference of Epidemiology, Perelman School of Minorities and the Internet,” and Medicine, and Director, Cartographic “Customer Acquisition on the Internet,” Modeling Laboratory, received a grant which will be published in Management Science. that will allow the Penn mobile technol- ogy project to provide some Guatemalan Eugénie Birch Addresses Global Audiences hospitals with access to electronic medi- This year, Eugénie Birch, Co-Director, cal information and direct contact with Penn physicians. This new Penn IUR, and Lawrence C. Nussdorf technology will allow doctors and patients at Hospitalito Atitlan, Professor of Urban Research and which is nestled in the rural highlands of Santiago Atitlan, to be Education, Department of City and part of a worldwide medical network. Using smartphone technol- Regional Planning, School of Design, ogy, patients will be able to receive improved care, and doctors will made a variety of appearances at various have a trove of medical resources at their fingertips. Penn Libraries global conferences. At the London meet- started a similar project in Botswana in 2008. ing of the Habitat Partner University Initiative, Birch was elected to the steer- Carolyn Cannuscio Releases Study on Housing ing committee, and for a week in April, and Young People’s Health she was part of the U.S. Delegation to Carolyn Cannuscio, Assistant Professor of the UN-HABITAT Governing Council Family Medicine and Community Health, in Nairobi, Kenya. This June, Birch ad- Perelman School of Medicine, recently dressed the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in released a study on housing and young Tianjin, China. She also shared her expertise on urban issues on people’s health, in which she served as lead domestic soil: She spoke to Detroit News concerning the new mu- researcher. The issue brief was circulated by nicipal initiative called Live Midtown, and was also interviewed on Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program to the Philadelphia’s WPEB 88.1 about Penn IUR’s Urban Dilemmas of mayor’s office, local and state policymakers, Natural Disasters event in early February. and the press, and was included as a resource in the Art House itself. Since its publication, the study has been posted on the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and Center for Public Health Initiatives websites. CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 Ram Cnaan’s Research Covered in The Mercury John DiIulio Sojourns at Harvard This year, Ram Cnaan, Senior Associate John DiIulio, Frederick Fox Leadership Dean for Research and Chair of Doctoral Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Program in Social Welfare, School of Society, Department of Political Science, Social Policy and Practice, had research School of Arts and Sciences, is spending concerning the valuation of places of the academic year as a Visiting Professor worship in a community extensively cov- of Public Policy at Harvard and finishing ered in The Mercury’s article “What’s a a book about how to improve the adminis- Church Worth?” Cnaan and partners’ re- tration of federal programs that benefit the search shows that religious institutions contribute 20 to 30 times urban poor. more value to communities than originally thought. Richard Gelles Releases The Third Lie Dennis Culhane Publishes Work on Richard Gelles, Dean and the Joanne and Homelessness Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare This year, Dennis Culhane, Professor and Family Violence, School of Social and Dana and Andrew Stone Chair in Policy and Practice, recently released The Social Policy, School of Social Policy and Third Lie: Why Government Programs Don’t Practice, and Professor of Psychology, Work and a Blueprint for Change. The book, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman a critique on American social policy, has School of Medicine, published an ar- received rave reviews respected scholars in- ticle with Stephen Metraux and Thomas cluding University of Maryland School of Social Work’s Richard P. Burne in Housing Policy Debate entitled Barth; Neil Gilbert, Chernin Professor of Social Welfare and Co- “A Prevention-Centered Approach to Director of the Center for Child and Youth Policy at UC Berkeley; Homelessness Assistance: A Paradigm Shift.” The article explores and George Washington University’s Amitai Etzioni. the conceptual framework of homelessness prevention techniques in Europe and the United States and provides a theoretical outline Bob Giegengack Writes on Climate Change for shifting to prevention-centered approaches. Bob Giegengack, Professor Emeritus of Geology, Department of Earth and Tom Daniels Guides Planners in GIS Software Environmental Science, School of Arts and Tom Daniels, Professor of City and Sciences, released a book and a chapter in Regional Planning, School of Design, another book this year. He edited Climate has co-authored a new book to help Crises in Human History with A. Bruce planners fully exploit the capabilities of Mainwaring and Claudio Vita-Finzi, and he the GIS-based software CommunityViz. wrote a chapter with Vita-Finzi in Climate The Planners Guide to CommunityViz: Change: Past, Present, and Future. The Essential Tool for a New Generation of Planning (by Doug Walker and Tom Joseph Gyourko Appears in Print, on Radio Daniels, Chicago: APA Planners Press and Joseph Gyourko, Chair and Martin the Orton Family Foundation, 2011) is a Bucksbaum Professor of Real Estate, Real guide to CommunityViz. This forward-looking GIS-based soft- Estate Department, the Wharton School, ware uses 3-D visualization, data analysis and scenario building appeared in the press a number of times to project how today’s plans will shape tomorrow’s communities. this year. In early March, The Economist men- With practical examples and case studies, Walker and Daniels show tioned him in the article, “When the Roof how to get the most from this powerful planning tool. Fell In.” Later that month, NationalJournal. com acknowledged him in an article titled “A Dream Endangered. (Yeah, So?),” and in April, WHYY.org mentioned him in a piece titled “Revisiting the ‘Holy Grail’ of Home Ownership.” In March he served as panelist and modera- tor for a discussion entitled “The Economy and Real Estate” at

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the Pension Real Estate Association’s spring meeting in Boston. Feature Length Film Co-Directed by John In mid-May Gyourko was a panelist at the UBS Conference on Commercial Real Estate Markets in New York, and later that Jackson month at the UCLA Conference on Public Policy Challenges: John Jackson, Richard Perry University Housing, Retirement and Immigration, he spoke at the presenta- Professor of Communication and tion “Can Cheap Credit Explain the Housing Boom.” Anthropology, Annenberg School of Communication, and Department of Ira Harkavy Spreads the Word About Service Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences, co-edited (with Connecticut College’s David Learning and More Kim) an issue of The Annals of the American Ira Harkavy, Founding Director and Academy of Political and Social Science on “Race, Religion, and Late Associate Vice President, Netter Center Democracy,” to be published in September 2011. Additionally, Jackson for Community Partnerships, and Senior co-directed (with Penn’s Deborah A. Thomas) a feature-length eth- Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of nographic film on the history of state violence against Rastafari in Health Economics, received the honor Jamaica. The film, Bad Friday: Rastafari After Coral Gardens, will begin of Distinguished Advocate for Children to screen at film festivals around the world later this year. Jackson is from the Support Center for Child also in the process of editing the anthropology module for Oxford Advocates this year. Additionally, Harkavy University’s new online bibliographical project, Oxford Bibliographies had a number of publications, including Online, which is slated to launch in November 2011 at aboutobo.com. American Journal of Community Psychology, Higher Education and Democracy: Essays Michael Katz Writes on Immigration, Education on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, and Handbook of Engaged Scholarship: The Contemporary Landscape, Vol. I. Harkavy was in- and Somers’ Geneaologies vited to two lectures at Brown University: “Rigor and Relevance: Michael Katz, Walter H. Annenberg What Are the Purposes of Today’s Research University” was pre- Professor of History, Department of sented as a part of the Engaged Scholars Distinguished Speakers History, School of Arts and Sciences, Series; “Engaged Scholarship and University-School-Community received an award for the best article of Partnerships: Strategies for Realizing the Mission of the the year in the Journal of Urban Affairs for American Research University” was presented to Brown’s History “Immigration and the New Metropolitan Department. Harkavy also delivered the introductory address at Geography,” which he wrote this year with Mat Creighton, Daniel the University of Oslo’s Conference on Reimagining Democratic Amsterdam and Merlin Chowkwanyan. Katz wrote two other ar- Societies: A New Era of Personal and Social Responsibility. ticles as well, including “Introduction” to the series “Re-Imagining Education Reform” from Dissent and “On Genealogies of Shaun Harper Delivers Keynote Speech at UT Citizenship by Margaret Somers” in Socio-Economic Review. Austin Janice Madden Receives Award for Leadership Shaun Harper, Assistant Professor of Higher Education Management, Graduate in Regional Science School of Education, delivered a keynote Janice Madden, Robert C. Daniels address at a symposium on the Latino Foundation Term Professor of Urban male educational crisis this June at the Studies, Regional Science, Sociology, and University of Texas-Austin. The event Real Estate, Department of Sociology and focused on the disappearance of Latino Department of Urban Studies, School of male students from the American educa- Arts and Sciences, Department of Real tion system, especially after high school. Estate, the Wharton School, and recipi- ent of the 2010 David Boyce Award for Leadership in Regional Science, is currently serving on the National Research Council’s National Statistics Committee’s Study on Methods for Measuring, Collecting and Analyzing Pay Information from U.S. Employers.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 Randall Mason Wins Award for The Once and of Care: Transitions & Health” at Universidad de Costa Rica de Enfermeria; and “ Update on IOM and Commission Reports” at Future New York Universidad de Costa Rica Escuela de Enfermeria.” Meleis had Randall Mason, Chair, Graduate Program two books and a journal article published this year. The books in Historic Preservation, and Associate were Theoretical Nursing: Development and Progress (5th ed.) and Women’s Professor, Department of City and Health and the World’s Cities, which she co-edited with Eugénie Birch Regional Planning, School of Design, re- and Susan Wachter. Her article is titled “Should DNPs occupy ten- ceived the Antoinette Forrester Downing ure track faculty positions? Rationale against” and can be found in Award for his book The Once and Future The Journal for Nurse Practitioners. New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City. The award was presented by Witold Rybczynski Lectures on New Book the Society of Architectural Historians for Witold Rybczynski, Director, Real Estate the outstanding publication devoted to historical issues in the pres- Design and Development; Martin and ervation field. Additionally, this summer Mason gave an invited Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism, lecture entitled “Regenerating Conservation Theory” in Istanbul at School of Design; Professor of Real the IRCICA Islamic Urban Heritage Summer School. Estate, the Wharton School, lectured on his new book, Makeshift Metropolis, at the Rebecca Maynard Serves as Commissioner for National Building Museum and Politics the National Center for Education Evaluation and Prose in Washington, D.C., and at the Rebecca Maynard, University Trustee University of Miami and Books & Books Professor of Education and Social in Coral Gables, Fla. He also gave papers on the subject at the Policy, Graduate School of Education, University of Washington in Spokane, and the School of Public is on a two-year leave to the Institute of Policy at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. He delivered a Education Sciences, U.S. Department paper on the naming of the federal city at a conference on George of Education, serving as Commissioner Washington at Mount Vernon. He was featured in a documentary for the National Center for Education on Frederick Law Olmsted, which aired on PBS this spring. He Evaluation. In this role, Maynard will took part in a debate sponsored by McGill University and Walrus oversee all federally sponsored program magazine on the new downtown Montreal cultural district. He and evaluations, the regional education laboratories, the What Works Canadian architect Bing Thom took part in a public conversation Clearinghouse, and the ERIC Clearinghouse. at the New York Public Library. He continues to write for Slate on architecture, Wilson Quarterly published a well-received essay on Afaf Meleis Speaks on Global Women’s Health urban density, and his op-ed on the High Line appeared in The New Afaf Meleis, the School of Nursing’s York Times. Rybczynski also received the 2011 Pennsylvania AIA Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing, President’s Award, which recognizes special contributions and/or was invited to be a member of the George particular support of the profession, the business of architecture W. Bush Institute’s Women’s Initiative or the built environment, in Pennsylvania. Policy Advisory Council. On May 5, Meleis organized the Healthy Cities: Healthy SAS Students Select Heather Sharkey for Women event in New York City. This Distinguished Teaching Prize year she delivered five presentations: “On Heather Sharkey, Associate Professor, Globalization and Urbanization and the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Risks to Women and the Girl-Child” at the School of Arts and Sciences, won the Dean’s Lecture in Nursing Leadership at Seattle University College Charles Ludwig Distinguished Teaching of Nursing in Seattle; “Advanced Education and Translational Prize, selected by students of the College Research” at Building Nurse Capacity Through Evidence-Based of Arts and Sciences. Additionally, an Practice 2011: Creating Leaders Through Research (GAPRIN) in edited volume of Sharkey’s American Dhaka, Bangladesh; “A Culture for Scholarship: Substance and Missionaries in the Modern Middle East: Structure” at Universidad de Costa Rica Escuela de Enfermeria in Foundational Encounters, which she co-edit- San Jose, Costa Rica; “Nursing Leadership in Developing Models ed with Mehmet Ali Doğan, was published this year.

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Diana Slaughter-Defoe Produces Documentary the Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation (read the Through affiliation with the Penn Institute publication at issuu.com/pennpraxis/docs/green2015_full). The for Urban Research, Diana Slaughter- report, commissioned by the city, outlines a strategy to create 500 Defoe, Constance E. Glayton Professor acres of new public open space in Philadelphia by 2015 — a key Emerita in Urban Education, Graduate goal of the city’s Greenworks sustainability plan. Green2015 fo- School of Education, launched a proj- cuses on utilizing existing public resources such as school yards, ect that led to the production of Freedom recreation centers and publicly held vacant land to turn hard sur- School, a documentary profiling the faces into green spaces that deliver environmental, public health, Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School recreational, social and economic benefits while providing access to — a summer reading and writing program for children in West high-quality green space to the more than 200,000 Philadelphians Philadelphia. Freedom School is a 2011 Telly Award winner. who do not live within a 10-minute walk of a park. Beyond 2015, the report envisions a citywide network of trails connecting all Tony Smith Published in JARS neighborhoods to the city’s large watershed parks and the region beyond the city limits. The city of Philadelphia is actively imple- Tony Smith, Professor of Systems menting the recommendations of Green2015. Engineering and Regional Science, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Mark Stern’s Work Cited in Miller-McCune Applied Science, recently published an Mark Stern, Professor and Kenneth L.M. article in Journal of Regional Science entitled Pray Chair, Social Policy and Practice, had “An Industrial Agglomeration Approach work cited in Miller-McCune on the de- to Central Place and City Size Regularities.” creasing attendance at art events in the The article, written with Tomoya Mori, is past decade. Stern has classified the sub- about rules governing the relationship between the number and population that regularly attends cultural average population size of cities where a given industry is present. activities as omnivores, and in the article “Dip in Arts Attendance Tied to Decline Brian Spooner Focuses Work on Globalization of the Omnivore,” points out that despite the decrease in attendance, the “quest for Brian Spooner, Professor of Anthropology, a more personal, flexible and protean approach to cultural engage- School of Arts and Sciences, is working ment appears very much alive,” and attributes the decline to a more with Mauro Guillen and Steve Sammut “varied and flexible” typical American life. on the comparative study of global cit- ies. The Lauder Institute, where Spooner serves as Co-Director, is mapping Penn’s Thomas Sugrue Elected Member of American teaching and research capabilities in the Academy of Arts and Sciences area of global cities. They have established Thomas Sugrue, David Boies Professor a postdoc on the comparative study of global cities, which has of History and Sociology, Department been awarded for the coming year to Shahana Chattaraj, who is of History, School of Arts and Sciences, completing her Ph.D. at Princeton. This project is partially funded was named President-Elect of the Urban by the Provost’s Global Initiatives Fund. History Association and was elected a member of the American Academy of Harris Steinberg and PennPraxis Complete Arts and Sciences. He has given dozens of Green2015 for Philadelphia lectures this year, most notably the Catlin Memorial Lecture in Urban Planning at Harris M. Steinberg, FAIA, Executive the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. Director of PennPraxis, the applied re- search arm of the School of Design, was promoted to Adjunct Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning. PennPraxis recently completed “Green2015: An Action Plan for the First 500 Acres” for CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 Eileen Sullivan-Marx to Receive 2011 Marie Dana Tomlin Honored for GIS Work Hippensteel Lingeman Award Dana Tomlin, Professor of Landscape Eileen Sullivan-Marx, Professor of Architecture, School of Design, and Scholarly Practice, Associate Dean for Co-Director, Cartographic Modeling Practice & Community Affairs, and Laboratory, was recently inducted into Shearer Endowed Term Chair for Healthy the GIS Hall of Fame by the Urban Community Practices, School of Nursing, and Regional Information Systems has been selected as the 2011 International Association. His 2010 article “Propagating Award recipient of the Marie Hippensteel Radial Waves of Travel Cost in a Grid” Lingeman Award for Excellence in has been selected as one of the most Nursing Practice. She will be honored at significant submissions of the past 25 years by the International the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International’s Journal of Geographic Information Science. Tomlin recently complet- 41st Biennial Convention this fall in Grapevine, Texas. ed an article on raster-based GIS entitled “Mapping What Isn’t Quite There,” which will appear in an upcoming issue of Perspecta, the Yale architectural journal. He has also completed a National Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presents Master Plan for Science Foundation project with Azavea, Inc. regarding the use the Central Delaware of video-game technology (graphics processing units) to make Marilyn Jordan Taylor, Dean and Paley certain GIS operations run much faster than previously possible. Professor, School of Design, presented Recent lectures on “GeoDesign” have included a keynote address opening remarks with Philadelphia Mayor at a conference on digital landscape architecture in Germany at a Michael Nutter at the final presenta- presentation to a regional GIS users conference in New England. tion of the “Master Plan for the Central Tomlin is currently working with Azavea and the Stroud Water Delaware: Transforming Philadelphia’s Research Center on an NSF-sponsored project to develop a com- Waterfront” on June 13. The plan, which munity-based “WikiWatershed” website for hydrological education is for 6 miles of waterfront between I-95 and research on the Schuylkill River Watershed. He is also about and the Delaware River and between to complete a book entitled GIS and Cartographic Modeling, to be Allegheny Avenue to the north and Oregon Avenue to the south, published by ESRI Press. makes land use, zoning, economic, development and transporta- tion recommendations. Domenic Vitiello Conducts Food Systems Research Anne Teitelman Develops New Educational Domenic Vitiello, Assistant Professor of Program for Adolescent Girls City and Regional Planning, School of This year Anne Teitelman, Assistant Design, is currently working on three mul- Professor of Nursing, Family and tiyear research projects including a USDA- Community Health, School of Nursing, funded evaluation and program develop- will be inducted as a fellow in the American ment for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Academy of Nursing. Teitelman has de- Society’s Growers Alliance, which is devel- veloped a new educational program that oping a network of 59 growers at 29 sites targets girls ages 14 to 19, so that they may around Philadelphia. Additionally, Vitiello build empathy, self-respect and mutual is conducting a USDA-funded evaluation respect in their relationships. Stand Up research and program development for the Women’s Community Together, an evidence-based intervention Revitalization Project’s Food for All diversified healthy food retail designed by Teitelman and her team at the School of Nursing, strategy in North Philadelphia with the Food Trust and SHARE. has been funded by the National Institutes of Health to undergo Finally, he is starting a national study of the links between local an evaluation through a randomized clinical trial. The curriculum, agriculture and regional food relief systems in the U.S. The study guided by health behavior and gender theory, is built from focus is funded by Penn’s Center for Public Health Initiatives. groups and individual interviews with adolescent girls. It extrapo- lates the attitudes, norms, beliefs and contextual factors from this data and shapes them into a comprehensive educational tool.

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Vukan Vuchic Receives International Honor Rachel Weinberger Publishes Book, Auto Vukan R. Vuchic, Emeritus UPS Motives Foundation Professor of Transportation, Rachel Weinberger, Assistant Professor ESE, School of Engineering and Applied of City and Regional Planning, School Science, and Professor of City and of Design, recently returned from the Regional Planning, School of Design, was Transportation Systems Summit in awarded an honorary Ph.D. degree — Bogotá, Colombia, where she was in- honoris causa — from the Conservatoire vited to discuss “Putting Parking on the National des Arts et Metiers (CNAM) Sustainability Agenda.” Weinberger’s University in Paris at a special award book Auto Motives was published this year ceremony on March 10. CNAM was founded in 1794 following and is available on Amazon and from the publisher, Emerald. consultation of the French government with Benjamin Franklin, Additionally, she was featured in the short film Moving Beyond the then U.S. Ambassador to France. Vuchic was the fifth recipient of Automobile: Parking Reform (available at www.streetfilms.org/mba- CNAM’s honoris causa degree in its history. In addition, respond- parking-reform) and was on WNYC, New York City’s NPR affili- ing to a special invitation from the French Assembly (Parliament), ate, discussing the parking fiasco at Yankee Stadium. Congressman James Oberstar, former Chair of U.S. House of Representatives for Public Works and Transportation, and Vuchic made special presentations about the conditions and programs Richard Wesley Teaches Sustainability in for passenger railway systems in the United States to the French Scandinavia Assembly’s Committee on Transportation on March 8. Vuchic Richard Wesley, Adjunct Associate was also sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Speaker and Professor of Architecture and Specialist Grant to attend the release and signing of the Russian Undergraduate Chair of Architecture, translation of his book Transportation for Livable Cities on March 16. School of Design, taught in the new He wrote a special chapter for this Russian edition of the book. Sustainability in Scandinavia Summer Program (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) Susan Wachter Appointed to the Real Estate this June, alongside David Leatherbarrow and Ali Malkawi. The PennDesign pro- Council of the World Economic Forum gram functioned in collaboration with Per Susan Wachter, Penn IUR Co-Director and Olaf Fjeld from Norway’s Oslo School of Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Architecture, Erik Stenberg of the Royal Institute of Technology Management, the Wharton School, and in Stockholm, and Ann Beim of the Royal Danish Academy in Professor of Real Estate, Finance and City Copenhagen. Lectures and case studies were presented in all three and Regional Planning, School of Design, locations over a four-week period. was selected to be a member of the Real Estate Council of the World Economic Forum. Her work on housing bubbles Laura Wolf-Powers Speaks at Two Conferences continues, most recently in an article to on CBAs and Education be published in the Yale Regulatory Journal, Laura Wolf-Powers, Assistant Professor cited in The New York Times, the Financial of City and Regional Planning, School of Times and The Economist, and she appeared on CNBC, NPR and Design, participated in the sixth annual CNN discussing current housing market trends. In April she gave Lincoln Land Institute Conference, where the keynote address at an IMF conference in Seoul, Korea, on she discussed a paper on community ben- real estate and financial crises. Also, Neighborhood and Life Chances, efits agreements (CBAs) and how commu- co-edited with Harriet Newburger and Eugénie Birch, and Global nities profit from job generation, afford- Urbanization, co-edited with Eugénie Birch, volumes published by able housing, community retention and/ Penn Press in the City in the 21st Century series, appeared this or recreational facilities promised in their spring. CBA. Wolf-Powers also participated in the Penn IUR/Graduate School of Education conference “Preparing Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Jobs.”

Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter | Fall 2011 15 FACULTY SPOTLIGHT: LAURA PERNA aura Perna has been on the faculty in ence achieved this goal. the Graduate School of Education Lsince the summer of 2005. Prior to What turned out to be the most valu- coming to Penn, she was on the faculty at able aspect of the conference? the University of Maryland College Park. It brought together so many different Perna’s research focuses on understanding voices and perspectives. Over the two-day how to promote college access and success, conference, a productive dialogue occurred particularly for groups traditionally under- not only among the invited presenters but represented in higher education, including also among and with the many attendees. racial/ethnic minorities and students from Attendees included students, faculty and lower-income backgrounds. staff at Penn and other local colleges and universities, as well as representatives from What brought you to Penn and what state and local government agencies, non- keeps you here? profit research and advocacy organizations, There are many features that brought and local businesses. me to Penn and keep me here. One is how easy it is to work with terrific students and A topic discussed at a peripheral level faculty across the university. I greatly enjoy at the conference was whether stan- having many productive relationships with dard higher education should be an as- fine and best measure workforce readiness. colleagues within and outside of my home piration for a majority of city youth, or We also need to know more about why par- school (the Graduate School of Education). whether other types of education are a ticular interventions may work for particu- A second feature is the many opportunities more affordable or realistic alternative. lar groups of individuals. Despite the gaps I have to try to connect my research to prac- What do you think? in knowledge, however, the book also has a tice. I especially enjoy the connections I’ve A number of the presentations touched number of useful insights for practitioners made both within Penn and within the city on the often-debated question: What is the and public policymakers. of Philadelphia more generally to folks who “right” amount of education? Clearly not all are trying to make a difference on issues I individuals will complete a college degree. What are the next steps after the book? care deeply about. What is critical is that all individuals — re- I’m looking forward to future opportuni- gardless of race/ethnicity, family income or ties to collaborate on related issues with the In May of this year you organized where they happen to live — have the prepa- Penn Institute for Urban Research. While “Preparing Today’s Students for ration required to continue to learn beyond this conference and book shed light on how Tomorrow’s Jobs in Metropolitan high school. We also need a system that does to improve college and career readiness in America: The Policy, Research, and not “track” students into particular predeter- metropolitan America, these efforts alone Methodological Issues.” What were mined postsecondary options but instead en- will not solve the many important challenges your hopes for the outcome of the sures that all students have the information that limit opportunity for urban youth and conference? and opportunity to choose to attend college adults. While much recent attention has focused (and then be academically ready to succeed if on the need to increase the educational at- they select this option). What does your partnership with Penn tainment of the U.S. population, less atten- IUR bring to your work in this area? tion has focused on what types of education There is a book coming out as a result I’ve been delighted by my partnership and skills today’s students, especially those in of the conference. What are some of with Penn IUR. This collaboration clearly metropolitan America, require to be ready the key findings of the book? enhanced the breadth and scope of perspec- for the jobs of tomorrow. In particular, There are several key findings. One is tives that were represented among confer- there has been little systematic consideration that improving readiness for college and ence presenters and attendees. The issues given to how to define and measure work- careers is essential to ensuring the fu- that we discussed in the conference and force readiness, the role of different edu- ture international competitiveness of the book are especially important to urban areas. cational sectors in providing the necessary United States, the readiness of workers The nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas education and training, or the most effec- to perform tomorrow’s jobs, and the eco- are not only home to about two-thirds of the tive institutional programs and public poli- nomic and social well-being of individuals. nation’s population but also growing at a cies for stimulating educational preparation Understanding how to improve readiness is faster rate than the rest of the nation. These for work. With financial support from the also important given the changing demo- large metropolitan areas are also on the front U.S. Department of Education’s Institute graphic characteristics of the population lines of several other national trends, includ- for Education Sciences, this conference was (e.g., rapidly growing Hispanic population) ing the racial/ethnic diversification of the designed to advance the discourse and state and increasing constraints on the availability population. Addressing the national mis- of knowledge on these issues. With presen- of public resources. A second finding is that match between educational qualifications of tations from state and local government of- we need more, and higher-quality, research. workers and jobs is complicated by persis- ficials, business leaders, practitioners, faculty There is much that we don’t yet know about tently low levels of educational attainment in and researchers, I believe that this confer- this topic, including how to consistently de- many metropolitan areas.

16 Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter | Fall 2011 PENN IUR, PENNDESIGN PUBLISH MANIFESTO FOR URBAN DESIGN EDUCATION ry urban design problems and solutions by development of sustainable development illustrating exemplary projects from around codes to the adoption of vertical farms. Go the world, accompanied by quotations from to penniur.upenn.edu/research/initiatives/ Chi c i  e  es  i iishi leading urban designers and urban design re-imagining-cities/working-papers-2008 to s ies of iexesive oi eie s o educators. With its integration of text and view the papers. To download a free copy of esi o ci ies i ic y iffee wys. imagery, the book aims to spark new ideas, The Penn Resolution, go to penniur.upenn.edu/ Reci eey se  co e issios THE approaches and connections. research/initiatives/re-imagining-cities/the- is ecessy o i i  o w i, ess T N E HE P sevee we he eve s  isi se eve s, Supplementing The Penn Resolution are sev- penn-resolution. You can also purchase a  fce he he s of ec io of foo eral working papers presented at the sympo- bound copy from Amazon (www.amazon.

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Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter | Fall 2011 17 THROUGH KNOWLEDGE PLATFORMS AND PENN IUR HOSTS WEBSITES, PENN IUR PAVES AN ENERGY PATH SMART GRID CONFERENCE

Philly future: Mayor Michael Nutter Building blocks: In February President Barack Obama and Energy Secretary Steven Chu met addressed Penn IUR’s urban microgrids with Jim Freihaut (right), GPIC Director for Technology and Operations, to learn about the work conference at Houston Hall in June. happening at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 IUR will work with researchers in the ESCI enn IUR’s work on GPIC led but they will be able to interact and network Action Network to coordinate data gather- to a partnership with Viridity with other parties interested in energy ef- ing for the review of best practices among Energy — a company that allows APEC economies regarding four areas: P ficiency; they will have access to the public consumers to save money by partici- reports and documents generated by GPIC; transport, energy-efficient buildings, smart pating in wholesale energy markets — they will find tools for determining the mar- grids and green jobs. They will look at gov- and Philadelphia’s Center City District ket impact of energy-efficient building im- ernment policies, financing tools, monitoring to organize “America’s Sustainable provements; and they will mechanisms, performance Future: How U.S. Cities Are Making be able to read case studies review, scaling-up poten- Energy Work,” a June 14-15 confer- of retrofits that have al- Penn IUR will work with tials, job creation oppor- ence that explored the ways that urban ready taken place, and have researchers in the ESCI tunities, industrial innova- downtowns can use microgrid solu- proven the market feasibil- tion, citizen participation, tions to solve 21st-century energy chal- ity of such projects. In the Action Network to coor- and multilateral collabora- lenges. The conference kicked off with coming months, Penn IUR dinate data gathering tion and operations. a public lecture at the Academy of will complete the construc- In June, Penn IUR Co- Natural Sciences, where Federal Energy tion of a beta site for the for the review of best Director Eugénie Birch Regulatory Commission Chairman Jon knowledge platform, and practices among APEC presented U.S. work in Wellinghoff spoke about how the smart will prepare to build the full economies regarding these areas at APEC’s grid can play a vital role in our country’s site for launch in year two Low-Carbon Model energy future. of GPIC. transport, energy-effi- Towns Forum in Tianjin, The subsequent conference explored In a related initiative to cient buildings, smart China, and in September facets of sustainability through three engage in worldwide sus- she will speak on green different panels, as well as a number of tainability research, Penn grids and green jobs. transport at the Joint keynote speakers, while 100 registered IUR has teamed up with Transportation & Energy participants — smart energy leaders the Taiwan Institute of Ministerial Conference in and business owners from around the Economic Research (TIER) to build a knowl- San Francisco. In October, Penn IUR will city and country — engaged in a day’s edge-sharing platform (KSP) for energy and help TIER plan the ESCI-KSP Forum and worth of lectures and discussion on the sustainability initiatives, to be used across the Conference in Taiwan. And in collaboration future of energy. Paul Levy, President Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) with TIER, the APEC Energy Working and CEO of the Center City District, countries. To build this knowledge-shar- Group and other APEC units, Penn IUR and Audrey Zibelman, President and ing platform as part of the Energy Smart will take primary responsibility for design- CEO of Viridity Energy, began by de- Communities Initiative (ESCI), launched last ing and populating the ESCI-KSP website scribing a new microgrid energy con- fall by President Barack Obama and former — the “ESCI Knowledge Sharing servation and development zone under Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Penn Platform.” CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

18 Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter | Fall 2011 PENN IUR SPONSORS PANEL AT PENNDESIGN’S “IN UNDERGRADUATES THE TERRAIN OF WATER” CONFERENCE s part of Penn’s school-wide and lessons that could inform and trans- TACKLE WORLDWIDE 2010-11 Year of Water theme, form the design project? These questions URBAN RESEARCH APennDesign held a two-day sympo- served as a foundation for the discussions, sium this April entitled “In the Terrain of exhibit and lectures. From March 28 to April Water,” where landscape architects, artists, 4 the School of Design hosted “Imaging/ ISSUES pring 2011 ushered in a new round urban planners, architects and design stu- Imagining,” a gallery exhibit coordinated of participants from the annual dents gathered to discuss water, our ubiq- with “In the Terrain of Water” that featured Undergraduate Urban Research uitous life source. The event, sponsored works by Paul Cret, Jacques Gréber, Louis S Colloquium (UURC), an innovative re- by Penn IUR, OLIN, James Corner Field Kahn, Ian McHarg, James Corner, Laurie search program that pairs faculty con- Operations, Center for the Advanced Study Olin and Lawrence Halprin, among other ducting urban-focused scholarship with of India and PennDesign Black Student designers. The exhibit offered viewers the undergraduates who have an interest in Alliance, was organized around a series of chance to explore the relationships among developing research skills. conversations, exhibits and workshops that the pieces on display and current issues, chal- This year’s seminar featured nine pushed attendees to consider water beyond a lenges and hopes regarding water. student projects spanning four depart- design opportunity or an environmental chal- Symposium attendees continued this in- ments and seven faculty members from lenge. “In the Terrain of Water” was directed vestigation during panels addressing activism five departments, and the projects- ad by PennDesign’s Associate Professor and and advocacy, structure and infrastructure, dressed a variety of significant urban is- Associate Chair of Landscape Architecture, and imaging and imagining, where speakers sues, including food and water security, Anuradha Mathur, and speakers includ- examined the myriad paradoxes and com- public health in India, social history and ed Singapore’s Executive Director of the plexities of water. Throughout the sympo- spatial mapping of anchor institutions, Centre for Liveable Cities, Teng Chye Khoo; sium, the speakers and audience maintained a homelessness and community devel- UNESCO consultant Peitro Laureano; film- discourse concerning the design field’s ability opment corporations in Philadelphia, maker Peter Hutton; architect and Founding to conceptualize, construct and communicate African-American Muslim identity, and Director of New Orleans URBANBuild, Ila a new language with respect to water, while civic engagement and public schools Berman; landscape architects Anne Whiston acknowledging its role as an honored part of in Philadelphia. Undergraduate par- Spirn, Elizabeth Mossop and Tilman Latz; daily life throughout the ages. ticipants Jamie Etkind, Emily Goshey, and many others. This Year of Water event was one of sev- Willa Granger, Rebecca Havivi, Aaron In an introductory description of the eral that Penn IUR either sponsored or host- Lewis, Sindhuri Nandhakumakr, symposium, Mathur and her landscape ar- ed. Other events in 2010-11 included the Sugandha Singh, Nicole Thomas and chitecture partner Dilip da Cunha asked two three-part seminar series “Water and the Taryn Williams utilized various research critical questions: Is this time of water and City,” the Clean Water America Alliance’s methods including archival and library watery imagination a moment to reinvent Urban Water Sustainability Leadership research, mapping, participant-obser- our relationship with water? And in seeing Conference and the Mayors’ Institute on vation, in-person and online interviews, water somewhere rather than everywhere, City Design, which focused on urban water photography and program evaluation to have we missed the opportunities, practices issues. explore the urban challenges in their se- lected research topics. CONFERENCE EXPLORES URBAN MICROGRIDS Several students continued their re- CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE to realize these innovations, with panelists search over the subsequent summer and formation in downtown Philadelphia. At Michael Smith (Charlotte Center City traveled to various cities and countries lunch, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter Partners), Matthew Summy (Illinois Science around the world. In past years, students discussed energy initiatives underway city- and Technology Coalition), Doug Laub have drawn from their projects, as well wide, and introduced Mark Alan Hughes, (Denver’s Living City Block), Brewster as from their mentors and UURC in- Distinguished Senior Fellow of PennDesign McCracken (Austin’s Pecan Street Project) structor, when applying for scholarships and leader of GPIC’s Policy, Markets and and moderator Katherine Gajewski and grants. Moreover, some students Behavior team. (Philadelphia Mayor’s Office of have produced such outstanding work Three panel discussions filled out the day. Sustainability). Finally, “Supporting that mentors are advocating publication The first, “Smart Grids and Microgrids,” ex- Microgrids With Federal and State Policy” of their UURC papers. plored the nuts and bolts of implementing discussed the governmental levers that can This year’s mentors included Brian those types of energy solutions, with panel- help microgrid implementation, with panel- Spooner (anthropology), Fariha Khan ists David Velazquez (PEPCO), Mark Hura ists Bracken Hendricks (Center for American (Asian American studies), George (GE), Susan Covino (PJM Interconnection), Progress), Wayne Gardner (Pennsylvania Thomas (architecture), Mary Summers Mike Gordon (Northern Westchester Energy Public Utility Commission), Colin Meehan (political science), Eugénie Birch (city Action Consortium), Joe Desmond (Ice (Environmental Defense Fund), Sara C. and regional planning), Felipe Gorostiza Energy) and moderator Laurie Actman Bronin (University of Connecticut School (city planning) and Philippe Bourgois (Viridity Energy). The second panel, of Law), Stockton Williams (U.S. Department (anthropology). “Public/Private Partnerships,” examined the of Energy) and moderator Susan Wachter different models that brought about alliances (Penn IUR). Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter | Fall 2011 19 GAMES AND THE CITY SEMINAR SERIES

Each year, the Penn Provost’s office spon- sors a series of events around a theme chosen by faculty, staff and students. The 2011-2012 academic year is devoted to an exploration of games in all their manifesta- tions. All year long, Penn will continue with interdisciplinary conferences, symposia, exhibits, performances and more, all pro- duced on campus by our schools, depart- ments, resource centers, and partners.

“Games and the City” will explore the many ways that games play a crucial role in urban life. In December, the latest installment of the Penn Institute for Urban Research Roundtable on Anchor Institutions will look at the crucial role sports stadiums play in cities, and in early 2012, “Sports and the Image of the City” will examine how teams are economically tied to their cities. Go to penniur.upenn.edu for details, registration and more.

20 Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter | Fall 2011 NOLA PLANNER ED BLAKELY TALKS NATURAL DISASTERS n Feb. 2, 2011, the Penn Institute for Urban Research hosted “Urban ODilemmas of Natural Disasters,” a panel discussion with Ed Blakely, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Sydney and former Executive Director of Recovery Management for the City of New Orleans, as part of Center for Public Health Initiatives’ “Crisis as Catalyst” seminar series. The event focused on the immense and increasingly relevant chal- lenges of postdisaster reconstruction, as well as potential strategies to proactively prepare cities for future impacts of climate change. The presentation featured discus- sants Andrew Miller, Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC); and Penn IUR Co-Directors Eugénie Birch and Big, not so Easy: Susan Wachter (from left), Andrew Miller and Ed Blakely discussed what Susan Wachter. Considering the severe flood- happens when disaster strikes cities like New Orleans. ing and damage in Queensland, Australia, in settlements around the world face when lo- processes for urban areas, especially before December 2010, the conversation was par- cated within floodplains, as well as the stag- extensive reconstruction is performed fol- ticularly timely. gering disruption that natural disasters have lowing a natural disaster. Blakely also dis- Drawing on his experience working in on social, economic, civic and ecological cussed the increasing importance of an urban post-Katrina New Orleans, Blakely high- infrastructures. The discussion stressed the development model focused on delivering lighted the common challenges that human need for more effective “risk assessment” “entire safe communities,” complete with decentralized and sustainable infrastructures rather than individually “safe buildings,” not- ing that features such as density, mixed use development and permeable urban landcov- er were no longer simply concerns of good planning and architectural paradigms, but is- sues of critical human safety. Following Blakely’s presentation, Wachter moderated a discussion with Miller, Blakely and the audience, touching on broader issues of climate change adaptation, and crucially on the immense challenge of how to encour- age and implement real-world policy action to address the impending realities of rising sea levels, flooding and other natural disas- ters in urban areas. Miller, who is also the founder of the Center for Urban Wachter talks home mortgage finance: On June 24 Penn IUR Co-Director Susan Environmental Research and Education at Wachter was on the National Housing Conference (NHC) Policy Summit panel called UMBC, spoke directly to this point, high- “The Future of Home Mortgage Finance.” The summit convened NHC members, housing lighting the fact that finding design and engi- leaders and experts from around the country to debate how to reform America’s neering solutions to these challenges, while housing finance system. Panelists and moderators included thought leaders from necessary, “is not nearly as complicated as private development, banks, academia and nonprofits. Among them were (from left) understanding how policymakers are going Nicolas Retsinas, Professor, Harvard Business School; Lawrence J. White, Robert to get around to addressing these issues.” Kavesh Professor of Economics at NYU Stern School; David Stevens (second from right), The discussion ended on a positive note, President and CEO of Mortgage Bankers Association; and Susan Wachter, Richard B. with a call for the many University of Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate and Finance at the Wharton School. Also presenting were Bart Lloyd, Manager of Acquisitions for Pennsylvania urban planning, architecture Preservation of Affordable Housing; Willy Walker, Chairman, President and CEO of Walker and policy students in attendance to collabo- & Dunlop; Diana Reid, Executive Vice President of PNC Real Estate; Brian Montgomery, rate in delivering innovative solutions to Partner and Co-Founder of the Collingwood Group; and Ted Chandler, Chief Operating these complex challenges as they move for- Officer of AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust. (Credit: National Housing Conference) ward with their careers.

Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter | Fall 2011 21 URBAN DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATES THIS YEAR’S PH.D.S WITH RECEPTION AND PRESENTATIONS he Eighth Annual Urban Doctoral discovered that in fact, it was not. Instead, ning and management strategies of high- Symposium, held on May 11 at the rates of pediatric health utilization have tech industrial development zones in China. TInn at Penn, highlighted the work more to do with the overlapping challenges Having studied a cross section of cases, of six scholars from the schools of Arts affecting all urban women, whether of high including Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou and and Sciences, Social Policy and Practice, or low health literacy. Shenzhen, Liang emphasized the importance Design and Education. At the lunchtime Amanda Johnson led an impassioned of strategies that are both sustainable and presentation and discussion cosponsored talk exploring the connections among arts, tailored to local resources and conditions. by the Department of Urban Studies, Peter Christopher Soto led the audience into Clericuzio, Rosemary Frasso, Amanda the realm of education and psychology by Johnson, Christopher Soto and Lia Howard Due to different policy exploring the qualities that make teachers ef- offered up their research for family, friends choices, doctoral graduate fective and engaging — from students’ per- and advisers, and participated in a discussion spectives. He concluded that students most about the role of scholarly investigation in Lia Howard said, education is want to learn from teachers who are flexible cities past and present. not the great equalizer that and adaptable with respect to social accep- The event kicked off with an enlighten- tance and curriculum but tough on expec- ing discussion by Peter Clericuzio on the im- Horace Mann and his followers tations. Additionally, it was important that pact of art nouveau architecture on Nancy, intended for it to be. teachers effectively control facial expressions France’s growth, especially in the central and bodily movements to both filter social business district. Said Clericuzio, “Art nou- evaluations, and that they express achieve- veau served as the repository of citizens’ creativity, economic development, and ur- ment emotions as well. pride in their history and present, and their ban and regional planning. Johnson’s lead- Finally, Lia Howard delivered a political agitation for a desired future.” ing question was whether arts-anchored science perspective on education through Rosemary Frasso took the stage to dis- redevelopment districts constituted viable her exploration of compulsory school atten- cuss whether low maternal health literacy policy. The answer: yes. However, successful dance age policies. Howard noted the differ- — that is, the ability for mothers to under- art districts are the product of mobilization, ent cultures that exist in states where federal- stand and obtain basic health information with the most dynamic districts often faring ism was differentially expressed. Due to and services — was a barrier of concern for best. different policy choices, she said, education pediatric healthcare utilization. Using both Continuing in the vein of city planning, is not the great equalizer that Horace Mann quantitative and qualitative methods, Frasso Sisi Liang presented on the impact of plan- and his followers intended for it to be. ‘URBANIZATION KNOWLEDGE PARTNERSHIP’ WITH UNIVERSITY AND PENN IUR SETS URBAN STRATEGY FOR THE WORLD BANK CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ing forward to the opportunity to coor- comes through their exposure to a wide makers, public and private sector practitio- dinate and showcase the wide variety of range of data, knowledge and networks. ners, and research institutions around the research emanating from all 12 schools at Since initiating the partnership, Penn world to address the critical challenges of the University of Pennsylvania.” IUR has participated in UrbKP launch rapid urbanization. The Urbanization Knowledge events, including the Private Sector Forum With the agreement, Penn IUR and the Partnership, which officially launched July on Sustainability and Cities, held in June at University of Pennsylvania join a small 1, 2011, will involve a series of knowledge the World Bank headquarters in group of premier academic and research exchanges among practitioners, policymak- Washington, D.C. Moving forward, Penn institutions including the Indian Institute ers, academics, and knowledge brokers IUR Co-Directors Birch and Wachter and for Human Settlements, the Cities (such as the World Bank) around the world other Penn IUR Faculty Fellows will pres- Alliance and the McKinsey & Company centered on economic development, so- ent groundbreaking urban research during a Global Institute as core members of the cial inclusion and mobility, environmental globally webcast event at the World Bank. Urbanization Knowledge Partnership. sustainability or governance. Partners will In addition, the Penn IUR team will host a Concluding the signing ceremony, take the lead in suggesting topics for the dialogue about the Urbanization Knowledge Fluharty noted: “The University of exchanges to be conducted via cutting- Partnership project at the “Changing Cities: Pennsylvania is very excited about the op- edge technology and online audio-visual Linking Global Knowledge to Local portunities that the partnership will pres- meeting tools. Ultimately, the Urbanization Action” Seminar coconvened with the ent moving forward.” Birch and Wachter Knowledge Partnership project aims to East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, added that Penn IUR “not only is proud help establish cutting-edge urban strategies Sept. 26-28, 2011. For more information on to partner with the World Bank in the within the World Bank, and to improve the the Urbanization Knowledge Partnership development, launch and future success ability of local and national governments and to join the conversation, go to www. of this unique project, but also is look- to foster positive urban development out- urbanknowledge.org.

22 Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter | Fall 2011 GLOBAL URBANIZATION CHALLENGES EXPLORED IN NEW BOOK AND TALK AT THE INN AT PENN everal of the authors included in Penn Press and Penn IUR’s new re- Slease Global Urbanization gathered for a March 2 event at the Inn at Penn, where they discussed the ways that the book begins to formulate a global urban agenda for the next half-century. The panelists for the talk included Robert Buckley, Managing Director of the Rockefeller Foundation; John Landis, Crossways Professor and Chair of City and Regional Planning at PennDesign; Stephen Malpezzi, Lorin and Marjorie Tiefenthaler Distinguished Chair of Real Estate at the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin; and Eugénie Birch and Susan Wachter, Co-Directors of the Penn Institute for Urban Research, and co-editors of the book. Global Urbanization features a collection of essays reflecting on the fact that in 2007, for the first time in history, more than half Think Global: Susan Wachter (from left), Eugénie Birch, John Landis, Stephen Malpezzi and of the world’s population lived in urban ar- Robert Buckley weighed the coming hurdles we face as the world urbanizes rapidly. eas. As urbanization becomes one of the most critical issues of the 21st century, the need to address such issues as socially in- Furthermore, 73 percent of the world’s pop- glomeration economies in countries such as clusive economic growth, environmental ulation resides in the Global South, where China, congestion and related impediments sustainability and resilient infrastructure for urban populations are increasing at a rapid to infrastructure development in India, and disaster management has never been greater. rate. Almost half of the world’s population lack of transparency and corruption in many Birch introduced the discussion with a is in Asia. And so, Birch said, understand- African countries. Understanding how these series of alarming statistics. Not only does ing the nature of this growth, especially in issues will affect the growth of cities will be- more than half the world’s population live terms of social inclusion, infrastructure and come increasingly important in the coming in urban areas, but by 2050, that number environmental viability in the face of such years. will approach 70 percent. These urbanites rapid population change, is Steven Malpezzi added represent 70 percent of the world’s GDP. of paramount importance. We have to understand to the discussion by speak- John Landis spoke ing about the various scales about urban growth mod- the nature of global of urban growth and de- els, posing questions on urbanization, especially velopment. He argued that where urbanization will a city does not necessarily occur, and what patterns in terms of social inclu- need agglomeration, and it will take on. While ur- sion, infrastructure and that as long as there are ban growth models can economies of scale, cities steer the direction of ur- environmental viability can exist. Malpezzi’s re- ban growth and analyze in the face of such rapid search focuses on the need the patterns of growth, population change. for urban analysis data to Landis said they are not al- improve collection meth- ways applied toward good ods across all urban scales, urban decision-making. For example, urban and to effectively distribute the data to en- decisions are fiscally driven in China, po- sure efficient policy development. litically driven in India and plan/regulatory/ Robert Buckley spoke about the histori- market-driven in the U.S. Though such tools cal context of cities and why they are critical as GIS are widely used in Asia, it is unclear to understanding urbanization. The how beneficial they are in the Global South, Rockefeller Foundation is involved in vari- where transactions occur mainly in the in- ous global philanthropic measures, including formal sector. The research question Landis the Green Revolution and healthcare sys- posed is how urban growth models can be- tems in China. In coming years, the come useful in the informal sector. Other Foundation will continue to address issues emerging issues include the lack of ag- surrounding global urbanization. Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter | Fall 2011 23 About Penn IUR Penn IUR Directors & Staff Contact Information Comprehensive in scope and integra- Eugénie L. Birch Co-Director; G-12 Meyerson Hall tive in practice, the Penn Institute for Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor 210 South 34th Street Urban Research (Penn IUR) is dedicated of Urban Research and Education, University of Pennsylvania to fostering understanding of cities and Department of City & Regional Philadelphia, PA 19104-6311 developing new knowledge vital to chart- Planning, School of Design phone 215.573.8386 ing the course of local, national and in- Susan M. Wachter Co-Director; fax 215.898.5731 ternational urbanization. Drawing on the Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial [email protected] University’s unique strengths, Penn IUR Management; Professor of Real Estate penniur.upenn.edu addresses the many challenges, opportu- and Finance, The Wharton School nities and creative possibilities of urban Amy Montgomery Associate Director www.facebook.com/pages/Penn- life and has a special focus on develop- Chau Lam Program Coordinator Institute-for-Urban-Research#!/pages/ ing knowledge in two critical areas: the Jeffrey Barg Project Manager, Penn-Institute-for-Urban-Research sustainable 21st-century city and anchor Newsletter Editor www.twitter.com/PennIUR institutions in urban development. Alexander Keating Project Manager www.linkedin.com/groups/Penn- Cara Griffin Editor and Publications Institute-Urban-Research-3919080 Manager www.vimeo.com/penniur Andrew Shinn Communcations Manager www.slideshare.net/pennurbanresearch Penn IUR Executive Committee Chair: Vincent Price Provost Richard J. Gelles Dean & Joanne and Shiriki Kumanyika Professor of Rebecca Bushnell Dean & Professor Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare Epidemiology, School of Medicine of English, School of Arts and Sciences and Family, School of Social Policy and Janice Madden Robert C. Daniels Jeffrey Cooper Vice President, Practice Foundation Term Professor of Urban Government and Community Affairs Michael Gibbons Deputy Dean & I.W. Studies, Regional Science, Sociology and Dennis Culhane Professor of Social Burnham II Professor of Investment Real Estate Policy and Practice, School of Social Banking, The Wharton School Afaf Meleis Margaret Bond Simon Policy and Practice Joseph Gyourko Martin Bucksbaum Dean of Nursing, School of Nursing John DiIulio Professor of Political Professor of Real Estate and Finance; Andrew Porter Dean & George and Science, Political Science Department, Director, Zell/Lurie Real Estate Diane Weiss Professor of Education, School of Arts and Sciences Center at Wharton; Chair, Real Estate Graduate School of Education Steven J. Fluharty Senior Vice Provost Department, The Wharton School Marilyn Jordan Taylor Dean & Paley for Research Michael Katz Walter H. Annenberg Professor, School of Design Michael Fitts Dean & Bernard G. Segal Professor of History, School of Arts David Thornburgh Executive Director, Professor of Law, School of Law and Sciences Fels Institute of Government Penn IUR Advisory Board Chair: Egbert Perry Chairman & J. Robert Hillier Founder & Principal, Richman Group, Inc. CEO, The Integral Group, LLC J. Robert Hillier Alice M. Rivlin Senior Fellow, The Mark Bulmash President & CEO, John T. Livingston Chief Executive, Brookings Institution Bulmash Real Estate Advisors, LLC Construction Services/AECOM and Mark Rosenberg Principal, MHR Fund Susan B. Casdin Hassenfeld Center, President, Tishman Construction Management LLC New York University Kelly Kennedy Mack President, Alan Schnitzer Vice Chairman & Chief Manuel A. Diaz Former Mayor, City of Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group Legal Officer, The Travelers Companies, Miami, Florida Marc H. Morial President & CEO, Inc. Paul Farmer Executive Director & National Urban League Michael Tabb Managing Principal, Red CEO, American Planning Association Lawrence C. Nussdorf President & Rock Global Michael Glosserman Managing COO, Clark Enterprises, Inc. John Timoney Former Chief of Police, Partner, The JBG Companies Philip Pilevsky President & CEO, City of Miami, Florida Andrew Halvorsen Private investor Philips International Virginia Hepner President, GHL, LLC Richard P. Richman Chairman, The

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