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PENN INSTITUTE for URBAN RESEARCH NEWSFall 2011 | No. 14 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 MORE WAYS THAN EVER TO CONNECT WITH PENN IUR ONLINE enn IUR is now on your favorite social media platforms: P(www.facebook.com/pages/Penn-Facebook research news, events and publications, Institute-for-Urban-Research#!/pages/ subscribe to the social media feeds. 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