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PENN INSTITUTE for URBAN RESEARCH NEWS Winter 2009 | No. 9 The Green Issue URBAN DESIGNERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD DISCUSS CITIES AFTER OIL rom November 7-8, 2008, The aim was to refocus urban Rockefeller Foundation, charged Frederick S. Pardee Center for Penn IUR and PennDe- design discourse and rethink ur- the participants to “organize the Study of the Longer-Range f sign, with support from ban design education in light of cityscapes around people and Future and Professor of Interna- The Rockefeller Foundation, current conditions. While the communities, not just cars and tional Relations and Geography convened a two-day symposium, symposium was definitively for- roads, as oil becomes increas- and the Environment, and David “Re-Imagining Cities: Urban ward-looking, it also commemo- ingly scarce and costly, and as Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Design After the Age of Oil,” rated the 50th anniversary of the the global climate crisis worsens. Professor of Environmental on the Penn campus. An inter- Penn-Rockefeller “Conference Together, we must plan and build Studies and Politics, followed national group of scholars and on Urban Design Criticism,” a an energy- and environmental- with a discussion that framed practitioners from many design groundbreaking event, whose ly-sustainable urban future that the problem of environmental fields, journalists and policy- participants included Jane Ja- promotes equitable economic change. Later, breakout sessions makers discussed how energy cobs, Louis Kahn, Kevin Lynch, growth and supports dynamism, focused on topics from megare- and environmental concerns Ian McHarg, Lewis Mumford, density, and diversity.” gions to product design. Peter promise to change lives at every and I.M. Pei, that helped shape Head, Global Leader of Planning scale—from individual build- urban design in the 20th century. Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer and Project Director of Eco-City ings to the systems that deliver for The New Yorker and author Master Planning at Arup, pre- essential services and networks In Friday’s opening plenary, of Field Notes from a Catastro- viewed the firm’s innovative in- that connect cities and regions. Judith Rodin, President, The phe, Adil Najam, Director of the continued on page 4

Urban design educators from around the world discuss the future of urban design education. Left to Right: Rodrigo Pérez de Arce (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile), An accompanying exhibition was powered by a mobile solar generator and featured Ding Wowo (Nanjing University, China), Marilyn Jordan Taylor (PennDesign), Taner over 40 sustainable projects from around the world. More than 500 visitors viewed the Oc (The University of Nottingham), Sudeshna Chatterjee (School of Planning exhibition, which opened during the symposium in the Lower Gallery of Meyerson Hall. and Design, New Dehli, India), and Douglas Kelbaugh (University of Michigan) Visiting Professor and Penn IUR Fellow Paul Brophy Heads Team to Brief New HUD Secretary enn’s Institute for Ur- Designate. Joined by Rachel Partnerships who heads the and Eugenie Birch, Lawrence ban Research is playing Godsil, Eleanor Bontecou Pro- Task Force on Anchor Institu- C. Nussdorf Professor of Ur- P a role in helping to brief fessor of Law, Seton Hall Uni- tions as Drivers of Neighbor- ban Research who is serving incoming HUD Secretary-Des- versity, Brophy is heading a hood Economic Development; on the anchors group. Brophy ignate Shaun Donovan. Un- group of 50 experts who are Wendell Pritchett, Professor and Godsil and their associates der the leadership of Paul C. focusing on re-positioning the of Law, who heads the Task are working on a fast schedule, Brophy, a Penn City Planning agency to meet today’s needs. Force on Strengthening Amer- anticipating completion of the alumnus and a Visiting Lectur- ica’s Neighborhoods; Susan report by mid January. Short- er at the Department, Penn IUR The initiative involves sev- Wachter, Richard Worley Pro- ly thereafter, Penn IUR will has organized ten task forces eral Penn faculty, including Ira fessor of Finance (and former schedule an event in the Penn that are preparing recommen- Harkavy, Founding Director, HUD Assistant Secretary) on IUR Public Interest Series to dations to the HUD Secretary Netter Center for Community the housing finance task force; discuss the results. Penn IUR HOSTS NATIONAL CONFERENCE: tHE SHAPE OF THE NEW AMERICAN CITY cholars and policy makers Andrew Haughwout from the discussed the complex re- Federal Reserve, Saskia Sassen Slations between economic from the London School of Eco- shifts, demographic patterns, and nomics, Robert Cervero from the the spatial arrangement of Ameri- University of California, Berke- can cities at “The Shape of the ley, John Landis, Susan Wachter, New American City”—a confer- and Genie Birch from the Univer- ence Penn IUR hosted on October sity of Pennsylvania, Douglas S. 24-25 to highlight the latest social Massey of Princeton University, science research on the nation’s and Ingrid Gould Ellen and Rae cities and suburbs. The confer- Zimmerman from New York Uni- ence was co-sponsored by the versity. The speakers addressed American Academy of Political four key issues: employment and and Social Science and its pro- international economic competi- ceedings will provide the basis tiveness, immigration and urban for a special volume of The An- demographics, sprawl and re-ur- nals of the American Academy of banization, and infrastructure and The conference concluded in front of a packed audience with a discussion on the role Political and Social Science on service delivery. of media in shaping urban policy. From Left to Right: Ashwin Shandilya and David Lei the forces which are transforming (both editors for The Daily Pennsylvanian), Howard Fineman (Newsweek), Chris Mat- thews (MSNBC), and Susan Wachter and Genie Birch (Penn IUR Co-Directors) the American city. The presentations emphasized both the centrality of the nation’s immigration, or from the aging Chris Matthews,” and Howard The conference opened on Friday cities to its overall socioeconomic baby-boom population—likely Fineman, a senior Washington with remarks from Camille Cates health as well as the vulnerability to affect the nation’s cities? How correspondent and columnist for Barnett, the Managing Direc- and instability of our urban envi- cities can be made both prosper- Newsweek, were joined by two tor for the City of Philadelphia. ronments. Cities are the engines ous and inclusive? How might student journalists, David Lei, Barnett spoke about the budget of metropolitan growth in the U.S. transportation systems mitigate editor-in-chief of The Daily Penn- struggles cities face, particularly economy, responsible for 85% of sprawl? What changes are needed sylvanian, and Ashwin Shandilya, in light of recent financial turmoil the national GDP. This crucial to ensure a safe and functional who currently serves as the editor and increasing demands on vital economic role, however, is threat- infrastructure or reliable service for The Daily Pennsylvanian’s services. Barnett was followed ened by the demographic, envi- delivery? editorial page. Before a capacity by Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques ronmental and political challeng- crowd of conference-goers, stu- Barzun Professor of History and es the panelists explored. How Saturday’s session brought to- dents, and Penn parents, the panel the Social Sciences at Colum- does the perception of the preva- gether expert and student jour- offered their insights about the bia University. Jackson offered lence of urban crime affect the nalists to discuss the role of the role of urban issues in the 2008 a candid discussion of race and size of a city’s population? How media in shaping urban policy presidential campaign. urban areas. Panelists were drawn can successful forms of density be and the place of urban policy in from a range of key academic and encouraged? How are large-scale national politics. Chris Matthews, For the full program, video and audio podcasts, and event photographs, visit policy institutions. They included demographic fluctuations—from host of MSNBC’s “Hardball with www.upenn.edu/penniur/newcity.

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2 Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter / Winter 2009 PETER HENDEE BROWN’S AMERICA’S BROOKINGS PUBLISHES FACULTY WATERFRONT REVIVAL APPEARS IN CITY IN FORUM RESEARCH ON IMMIGRATION n November 13, and the creation of a conference THE 21ST CENTURY SERIES Michael Katz, Walter focusing on issues of integrating his fall, Penn Press re- their influence by evolving from o H. Annenberg Professor immigrants in the 21st century leased the most recent single-purpose cargo-handling of History and a Research city. Penn IUR is providing T addition to The City in operations into diversified busi- Associate in the Population support for these further efforts. the 21st Century book series, ness organizations focused on Studies Center at the University developed in coordination with waterfront revitalization. This of Pennsylvania, and Domenic In addition to the Faculty Forum Penn IUR. Peter Hendee Brown’s history of institutional develop- Vitiello, Assistant Professor of on “Immigration, Race and America’s Waterfront Revival ex- ment raises important questions City and Regional Planning, Urban Inequality,” Penn IUR is amines the role of the nation’s about how public authorities released a report of their recent also sponsoring Faculty Forums industrial-era port authorities in change as institutions when they research to a packed auditorium which are investigating “Urban shaping the cities of today. Brown diversify into new functional ar- at the Philadelphia Free Library. Change under Globalization tracks the way four important port eas. Brown’s study draws on a Katz and Vitiello’s research, in Cross-Cultural Perspective” authorities—in Tampa, San Fran- wide range of sources—financial developed through a Penn IUR and “African-American cisco, San Diego, and the Dela- documents, business and land use Faculty Forum on “Immigration, Males Transcending Urban ware River—managed to adapt to plans, media accounts, and inter- Race and Urban Inequality,” Disadvantage.” The first, ever-changing economic trends, views—to deliver significant new examines the challenges and organized by Maruo Guillen, technological developments, and findings on the opportunities and opportunities associated with Dr. Felix Zandman Professor the pressures of a globalized econ- challenges public authorities face Philadelphia area’s re-emergence in International Management, omy. Brown shows how these port when they engage in new func- as a destination for immigrants. Professor of Management and authorities were able to maintain tions. The paper which developed out Sociology, and Director of of this study (Audrey Singer and Joseph H. Lauder Institute for David Park are the report’s lead Management & International authors), “Recent Immigration Studies, and Brian Spooner, to Philadelphia: Regional Professor of Anthropology, is Change and Response,” has been generating comparative analysis published by The Brookings of cities in the developing world. Institution’s Metropolitan Policy The second forum, convened Program. by Shaun R. Harper, Assistant Professor in the Graduate Professors Katz and Vitiello and School of Education, and other members of the Faculty John L. Jackson, Jr., Richard Forum on “Immigration, Race Perry University Associate and Urban Inequality” have begun Professor of Communications pursuing three of the report’s and Anthropology, is compiling recommendations: the creation research into the conditions of a central data clearing house that enable the success of on immigration, the formation of African-American men in urban a metro council on immigration, environments. Redevelopment on the Camden, New Jersey waterfront, as discussed in Brown’s book. PENN IUR INAUGURATES PHILADELPHIA 360º LECTURE SERIES enn IUR recently kicked economic redevelopment. The other large-scale, long-term local large nonprofit institutions forge off its Philadelphia 360º proceedings were moderated interests. In her presentation, Co- connections with other large cor- p lecture series with a dis- by Ira Harkavy, Associate Vice letta raised important questions porations in order to encourage cussion between Carol Coletta, President and Founding Director about the future of anchors in an economic growth? What strate- President and CEO of CEOs for of the Barbara and Edward Netter increasingly globalized world. gies are available for orchestrat- Cities, and Henry S. Webber, Center for Community Partner- “Are they,” she asked, “really as ing cooperation among smaller Executive Vice Chancellor for ships at the University of Penn- sticky, really as anchored as they anchor institutions? Administration at Washington sylvania. The event provided seem?” How should anchor insti- University in St. Louis, at the the audience a chance to hear a tutions be valued? Is it possible The three remaining events in Philadelphia Center for Architec- set of compelling remarks about to have too many anchors? After- the Philadelphia 360º series will ture. Supported by a grant from what Harkavy described as “the ward, Harkavy and the audience be held in February, March, and the William Penn Foundation, most important issue” in cities posed a series of perceptive ques- April at the AIA Philadelphia their discussion was the first of today. Webber spoke about the tions. If cities are becoming more Center for Architecture (1218 a series that will convene pan- increasing importance of what he dependent on their anchors, what Arch Street). Specific dates and els and public discussions on called “sticky institutions” to cit- might that tell us about the future further details will be made avail- topics related to Philadelphia’s ies that are increasingly without of cities in general? How can able on the Penn IUR website. Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter / Winter 2009 3 URBAN DESIGNERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD DISCUSS CITIES AFTER OIL continued from page 1 and James Higgins, Regional Friday ended with a plenary ses- details. ternational work during lunch. Manager of ESRI, provoked sion moderated by Inga Saffron, Richard Wurman, Chairman of many audience responses with architectural critic, Philadelphia Press coverage for the sympo- 19.20.21 and Founder of TED, their multimedia presentations. Inquirer. Participants included sium included real-time cov- Andrew Revkin, author of the erage by seven bloggers from New York Times blog, Dot Earth, around the nation with their posts and Witold Rybszynski, Martin hosted by The Next American & Margy Meyerson Professor City (www.upenn.edu/penniur/ of Urbanism and an architecture afteroil/coverage). The bloggers critic for Slate.com. They de- were Lloyd Alter from Treehug- bated the media’s influence over ger, Ryan Avent from Grist, Nate the public’s perception of urban Berg from Planetizen, Andrew design possibilities. Blum from Wired, Randall Crane from Urban Planning Research, On Saturday, the conference par- Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson from ticipants focused on urban design Metropolis, and Diana Lind from education. The first session, a The Next American City. In ad- panel of deans and practitioners, dition to the blogger coverage, concluded that the scale of the Neal Peirce from citiwire.net, 21st century’s environmental and Alex Steffen from worldchang- After voting on how best to accommodate future population growth, PennDesign alum- energy issues demands not only ing.com, Tom Walsh from plan- nae Morgan Martinson (PennDesign, MArch 08) and Tonya Markiewicz (PennDesign, new linkages among the vari- philly.com, and Witold Rybc- MArch 08) discuss the choices presented to them - A. Infilling urban brownfields with high densities; B. Infilling suburban brownfields with low densities; or C. Building new ous design disciplines but also zynski from Slate have posted cities on green fields. There were 2 additional interactive voting tables in the exhibition. strengthened connections with reports. In the next few months, such other disciplines as ecology, Fritz Steiner, Dean, School of Ar- biology, economics, and public chitecture, University of Texas, policy. The attendees then broke will publish a report in the Jour- into working groups to outline a nal of the American Associate manifesto on urban design edu- of Landscape Architecture, and cation that was refined and dis- PennDesign’s Gary Hack, David tributed widely after the confer- Leatherbarrow and Genie Birch ence. The manifesto, “Educating will write one for the Journal of Urban Designers for Post Carbon Urban Design. Penn Press will Cities,” is now on the Penn IUR publish key elements of the sym- website (www.upenn.edu/penn- posium in a forthcoming book, iur/afteroil) along with podcasts Degrees of Change: Re-Imagin- and videos of the sessions. ing Cities After Oil, part of the City in the 21st Century series. An exhibition, “Re-Imagining Cities,” curated by Maritza Mer- In a surprise to symposium or- Penn IUR co-Directors Susan Wachter and Eugenie Birch visit with Robert Socolow, cado, MCP ’08, with assistance ganizer, Gary Hack, the mem- Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and co-Director, The Carbon Mitigation Initiative, Princeton University after his opening dinner address for the from Yadiel Rivera-Diaz, MLA/ bers of the organizing committee conference speakers. MArch ’09, was a special fea- dedicated the meeting to him at ture of the symposium. It opened the speakers’ dinner prior to the with a gala party in the Lower opening of the symposium and Gallery, Meyerson Hall on No- exhibition. During his twelve vember 7th. It pursued three years as Dean, PennDesign and themes—“adapt,” “advance,” Paley Professor, Hack led the and “aspire”—through more school to national prominence. than 40 exemplary projects from The symposium, exhibition, and around the world. Illuminated by the manifesto on urban design a solar generator and featuring a education would not have been Smart Car from PhillyCarShare possible without his leadership parked outside, film clips, and and imagination. interactive voting stations, the exhibition attracted more than Please visit the symposium website, www. upenn.edu/penniur/afteroil for more in- 500 visitors during its 3-day du- formation on the manifesto, future exhi- ration. Later this year, the exhibi- bition locations, links to audio and video Darren Walker, Vice President of Foundation Initiatives for the Rockefeller Foundation, podcasts, and event photographs. welcomes speakers and special guests at a dinner at the University if Pennsylvania tion will travel to other locations. Museum Check the Penn IUR website for 4 Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter / Winter 2009 LEADERS SHARE PLANS FOR CITY-WIDE SUSTAINABILITY FOUNDER’S DAY recent event in the Penn New York City). Their conversa- IUR Public Interest se- tion addressed the economic and ries, “Leading Cities to social challenges to implementing SYPenn’sMPOSIUM Faculty Senate invites all TO members ADDRESS of the University A community to celebrate Ben Franklin’s 303rd Birthday at a Sustainability: A Conversation multifaceted, city-wide sustain- with National and Local Lead- ability initiatives. Panelists shared PENN’SFounder’s SUSTAINABILITDay Symposium Y ers,” brought together a number their strategies for engaging indi- A Conversationof the most forward-thinking city viduals and communities, mobiliz- with Scholarsofficials to discuss city-wide sus- ing private sector investment, and from Acrosstainability. the The panelists included coordinating multiple, simultane- Seeking Sustainability University Marty Blum (Mayor of Santa Bar- ous sustainability efforts. Amy Gutmannbara, California and Co-Chair of Penn Confronts the Local and President Global Challenge Moderatorthe U.S. Conference of Mayors’ The event, co-hosted with the SherrillSustainable L. Adams Development Task- Pennsylvania Horticultural Soci- Faculty Senate Chair Openingforce), Remarks George S. Hawkins (Di- ety and moderated by PHS’s Ex-

PANELISTSrector,: Department of the Envi- ecutive Vice President, J. Blaine ronment, Washington DC), Karis Bonham, Jr., celebrated the launch Gary Bernstein Physics Hiebert,& Astronomy (Manager, Sustainability of one of Penn IUR’s newest pub- EugenieGroup, L. Birch City of Vancouver), Mark lications, Growing Greener Cit- City and AlanRegional Hughes Planning (Director of Sustain- ies: Urban Sustainability in the William W. Braham Architectureability, City of Philadelphia), and Twenty-First Century. That book Ariella Rosenberg Maron (Deputy was recently honored as a notable Robert Giegengack Earth & EnvironmentalDirector, Mayor’s Office of Long- book of 2008 by the well-regarded ScienceTerm Planning & Sustainability, urban planning blog Planetizen. Eric W. Orts Legal Studies and Business Ethics & Management

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For more information, visit www.upenn.edu/faculty_ senate/announcements Karis Hiebert, Manager of Sustainability for the City of Vancouver, discussed Southeast False Creek (red outline) which is the site of the 2010 Olympic Village. SEFC will feature a district heating system based on sewage heat recovery and will serve as an example of sustainable development for Vancouver. Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter / Winter 2009 5 PENN IUR FACULTY FELLOW SPOTLIGHT – WENDELL PRITCHETT a long time to get things done—and did you pick Weaver and what have have a complicated relationship to that was true if you were building a you learned from him? cities in this country. I think we’re single house or an office building. The way I usually describe it is that in a period where we’re moving to a There are so many different parties he picked me. I wanted to write a new appreciation of cities and away involved in the development pro- book on the history of cities and from our older dislike, but I do think cess and so many different rules, race relations, on the intertwining that ambivalence is part of the dif- some of which made sense but of the history of cities and the his- ficulty in getting traction on these some of which were just relics that tory of race relations. And he just questions. There’s another issue had never been changed. So a lot of kept coming up. I got interested that we have, which is a deep skep- the discussion was around stream- in him but also in what his story ticism about planning, about the lining the government to help make had to say about the larger ques- role of planning, about government decisions faster about what kinds of tion of race relations and the his- making those decisions—whether endell Pritchett is Pro- things we wanted to get built. One tory of American cities. What has it should, whether it even can. Now fessor of Law at the of the many things the mayor came been really rewarding about the seems to be a period in which we w University of Pennsyl- up is to have a Deputy Mayor for book is that we find ourselves at a are moving toward broader appre- vania. He recently held positions as Planning and Development, who point where we are really talking ciation for planning, but we have Deputy Chief of Staff and Director oversees the Planning Department, about both those things again. The been in a time in which there was a of Policy for the City of Philadel- the Department of Licenses and In- things that we’re talking about right lot of opposition to that. phia, working with Mayor Michael spections, and a lot of other agen- now—regionalism, comprehensive Nutter and senior staff to implement cies involved in the development planning, promoting integration, Where do you see this renewed in- administration policies. His new process. He is the final stop, and he at least economic integration—are terest in cities and city planning book, Robert Clifton Weaver and the with is the one responsible for mak- things we’ve been talking about for heading? American City: The Life and Times ing them all work together. a century now. The benefit we have now is that of an Urban Reformer (University we’ve slowly—not completely, but of Chicago Press, 2008), examines What policy questions are you most During the presidential campaign, at least partially—figured out some the life of the first African-Ameri- interested in right now? when I served as chair of Senator of the social issues. When a black can cabinet secretary and the first My view—this is my view, not the Obama’s Urban Policy Task Force, family moves into a neighborhood, head of the Department of Housing mayor’s—is that we have a lot of we suggested to the campaign that they are not always welcomed, but and Urban Development. housing in Philadelphia. We were they propose to have a White House people are certainly being better built for 2 million people and we Office of Urban Affairs, which they treated today than before. I think You have degrees in both law and only have 1.4 million people. We accepted. One of the interesting iro- we’re recognizing that investing in history and have taught both. How have a lot of housing. So housing nies is that when HUD was created cities is a good thing. We’ve also have you switched between the two isn’t the issue—to me. The issue in 1965, a bunch of conservatives, reached the limits of suburban ex- fields? is that we have a lot of poor people democrats, and republicans were pansion and see that we can’t be I don’t really think about it that who can’t afford decent housing. opposed to it. They thought that we building more housing further and way. I think I’ve always been in- So if you can only pay 200 dollars a didn’t need another governmental further out. The benefit now is that terested in cities. I decided to go month in rent, you can find a house. organization. But because many of if we have some good policies, we to law school because I wanted to It’s probably got mice and it’s cer- the opponents did understand the also have the market forces moving understand more about cities and tainly got lead paint, but you can need to coordinate urban policy, in favor of more dense urban areas urban development. I felt academia find a house. Unlike in New York they proposed a White House Of- at the same time. If there’s anything provided a jumping off point to do where you can’t even find a place fice of Urban Affairs as an alter- I take away from my research and a lot of things in urban development to live, here you can. So it’s not a native to HUD. The main person from working in the mayor’s office, and urban politics. I use academia shelter issue. It’s an income issue. promoting this in 1965 was a young it’s that government plays a pretty as my home base from which to do To me—and I say this coming out congressman from Illinois named small role in this. Private invest- lots of things involving cities. So I of the housing development field— Donald Rumsfeld. This was his ment is the only way we are going don’t really think of it as moving it’s important to build new housing, idea. But last year, when we told the to see significant positive change. back and forth. I am still doing the but we have a lot of housing in the campaign about the idea, we didn’t The government can direct and ca- same collection of things, just doing city and we really need to figure out tell them that Rumsfeld had actually jole and provide incentives, but, if them from a different home. how to improve people’s income proposed this forty years before. the private market doesn’t want to so they can afford decent housing. do it, it’s pretty hard for the govern- You’ve worked closely with Mayor That’s a more complicated issue And he’s kept his mouth shut? ment to have success. So one of the Michael Nutter. Can you talk about than just building more housing. So far [laughing]. I don’t think things we have going for us now your involvement with that admin- The housing issue is related to a lot he’s talking to many people right is that the private market seems to istration’s urban redevelopment ef- of other issues, to education and to now. It’s ironic, but it does show have realized that there are positive forts? job training. that these ideas keep coming back things in cities, that cities are worth During the campaign, one of the around. investing in. If we can craft some things that became immediately Your new book addresses Robert policies that help build on that mo- clear was that the fragmented nature Clifton Weaver’s role as the first Af- Why is our conversation about cit- mentum, then we can make prog- of government was really impeding rican-American Secretary of Hous- ies so cyclical? ress that was impossible in earlier development, that it took developers ing and Urban Development. How I think part of it is that we really decades. 6 Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter / Winter 2009 Mccain and obama SURROGATE SPRING 2009 UNDERGRADUATE DEBATE ON URBAN POLICY URBAN RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM AWARDEES ANNOUNCED Eight research teams made up of one faculty mentor and one student will be participating in Penn IUR’s 2009 Undergraduate Ur- ban Research Colloquium (UURC). The course is a semester-long, credit-bearing seminar that takes place every spring and invites the participation of faculty from across the 12 schools to under- take research on a wide range of urban issues. Students from each of the University’s undergraduate schools (Arts and Sciences, En- gineering and Applied Science, Nursing and Wharton) are eligible to participate. Faculty mentors work with students utilizing real- world research methods on real-world research problems. Each Michael P. Moreland, McCain Surrogate Paul C. Brophy, Obama Surrogate team will receive a $2,000 grant award to support their investiga- n October 6, Penn IUR ter of City Planning degree from tion. The Spring 2009 participants and projects include: and The Next American Penn. The campaign representa- City hosted a presidential tives debated the merits of their Philippe Bourgois (Richard Perry University Professor of Anthro- O surrogate debate in which the Mc- candidate’s urban policies in a pology and Family and Community Medicine, Department of An- Cain campaign was represented discussion moderated by Penn thropology, School of Arts & Sciences) and George Karandinos by Michael P. Moreland, an As- IUR co-director Genie Birch and (College ’09): Income Generating Strategies of Three Social Net- sistant Professor of Law at Vil- Andrew Altman, Deputy Mayor works of Puerto Rican Youth lanova University School of Law for Planning and Development and former Associate Director for for the City of Philadelphia. Bro- Richard Pepino (Adjunct Professor, Department of Environmental Domestic Policy under President phy argued that Obama would Studies, School of Arts & Sciences) and Jana Ariel Hirsch (Col- George W. Bush and the Obama make cities central in his domes- lege ’10): Heavy Metal Contaminants in Urban Community Gar- campaign was represented by Paul tic health and infrastructure poli- dens C. Brophy, Penn Visiting Profes- cies while Moreland argued that sor of City Planning, Nonresident reduced government waste would Eric Schneider (Associate Director of Academic Affairs, School Senior Fellow at The Brookings ease the financial burdens on the of Arts and Sciences; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Institution, and holder of a Mas- nation’s urban areas. History) and Alison Marcus (College ’11): American Necropolis: The History of Homicide and Homicide as History PUBLICATION ON SCHOLARLY COMMONS Heather Sharkey (Assistant Professor, Department of Near East- ern Languages and Civilizations, School of Arts & Sciences) and SHOWS OFF NEW MAP TECHNOLoGY Cameron Hu (College ’09): Fever Dreams of the Modern -Urban new collection to be pub- ing necessary to bring some of this Products and Spatial Politics on the Arabian Gulf lished on ScholarlyCom- research into more widely accessi- A mons@Penn, a freely ble forums. To that end, professors Harris Steinberg (President, PennPraxis; Adjunct Assistant Pro- accessible archive of university Dana Tomlin (Design), Dennis fessor, Department of City & Regional Planning, School of De- research, highlights the use of new Culhane (Social Policy and Prac- sign,) and Gabriella Blake (College ’10): The Role of Public Par- mapping technologies for studying tice), and Susan Kinnevy (Social ticipation and Civic Engagement in the Creation of Public Art in social problems in urban areas. The Policy and Practice), have co-edit- Philadelphia publication, titled PhillyDotMap, ed a collection that grows directly grew out of a Faculty Forum proj- out of the original Penn IUR Fac- Mary Summers (Senior Fellow, Fox Leadership Program; Lec- ect Penn IUR sponsored in 2005. ulty Forum. PhillyDotMap exem- turer, Department of Political Science, School of Arts & Sciences) “Modeling Urban Environmental plifies the leading edge of research and Sheyla Medina (College ’10): Lea Lunch and Recess Initia- Impacts on Health, Development into the relationship between peo- tive and Behavior” brought together ple and places in urban settings, a broad array of faculty—from using new technology to map the Mary Summers (Senior Fellow, Fox Leadership Program; Lec- Penn’s Schools of Medicine, De- geographies of crime, urban heat turer, Department of Political Science, School of Arts & Sciences) sign, Education, and Social Policy islands, political advocacy, and and Elise Miller (College ’10): Efficacy of Student Volunteers with and Practice—interested in using even the snacks children buy on Internet Access to Assist Clients with Enrollment in Public Ben- their expertise in spatial research their way home from school. The efits Programs at City Health Clinics methods, such as geographic in- fine scale of this environmental formation system (GIS) technol- and demographic data makes it Domenic Vitiello (Assistant Professor, Department of City & Re- ogy, to study the impact of urban possible to understand complex gional Planning, School of Design) and Ben Dubow (College ’10): environments on public health and health and social conditions in Community Development in Arab and Muslim Philadelphia child development. In 2006, Penn great detail and develop more suc- IUR donated the additional fund- cessful intervention strategies. Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter / Winter 2009 7 Upcoming Events January 28, 2009 Penn IUR Public Interest Series March 18, 2009 Penn IUR Public Interest Series “Robert Clifton Weaver and the American “Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle City,” Wendell E. Pritchett, UPenn for Civil Rights in the North,” Thomas J. Sugrue, UPenn February 4, 2009 Penn IUR Urban Doctoral Student Convening April 3-4, 2009 Unspoken Borders Conference: Ecologies of February 2009 Philadelphia 360° Lecture Series Inequality

February 2009 Penn IUR Public Interest Series April 28, 2009 5th Annual Urban Leadership Forum “Capacity Building in the Global South,” Paul Smoke, NYU April 2009 Philadelphia 360° Lecture Series

March 2009 Philadelphia 360° Lecture Series May 15, 2009 Penn Urban Doctoral Symposium

June 4-5, 2009 Penn IUR Expert Event Penn IUR Roundtable on Anchor Institutions

About Penn IUR Penn IUR Directors Comprehensive in scope and integrative in practice, the Penn Insti- Eugénie L. Birch Co-Director; Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of tute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) is dedicated to fostering under- Urban Research and Education; Professor, Department of City & standing of cities and developing new knowledge vital to charting Regional Planning, School of Design the course of local, national and international urbanization. Draw- Susan M. Wachter Co-Director; Richard B. Worley Professor of ing on the University’s unique strengths, Penn IUR addresses the Financial Management; Professor of Real Estate and Finance, The many challenges, opportunities and creative possibilities of urban Wharton School life and has a special focus on developing knowledge in two criti- Amy Montgomery Associate Director cal areas: the sustainable 21st century city and anchor institutions Newsletter Editors: Maritza E. Mercado and Daniel Stout in urban development. G-12 Meyerson Hall phone 215.573.8386 Executive Committee 210 South 34th Street fax 215.898.5731 Chair: Ronald J. Daniels Provost and Professor of Law University of Pennsylvania [email protected] Rebecca Bushnell Dean and Professor of English, School of Arts and Philadelphia, PA 19104-6311 www.upenn.edu/penniur Sciences Jeffrey Cooper Vice President, Government and Community Affairs Dennis Culhane Professor of Social Policy and Practice, School of Advisory Board Social Policy and Practice Chair: Egbert Perry Chairman & CEO, The Integral Group, LLC John Dilulio Professor of Political Science, Political Science Mark Bulmash Senior Vice President, East Coast Development, Department, School of Arts and Sciences Forest City Enterprises Michael Fitts Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law, School Susan B. Casdin Hassenfeld Center, New York University of Law Manuel A. Diaz Mayor, City of Miami, FL Richard J. Gelles Dean and Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Paul Farmer Executive Director & CEO, American Planning Child Welfare and Family, School of Social Policy & Practice Association Michael Gibbons Deputy Dean and I.W. Burnham II Professor of Harold Ford Jr. Chair, Democratic Leadership Council Investment Banking, The Wharton School Alicia Glen Managing Director, Urban Investment Group, Goldman, Joseph Gyourko Martin Bucksbaum Professor of Real Estate and Sachs & Company Finance; Director, Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton; Chair, Michael Glosserman Managing Partner, The JBG Companies Real Estate Department, The Wharton School Andrew Halvorsen, Beneficial Corporation Michael Katz Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, School of Virginia Hepner President, GHL, LLC Arts and Sciences John T. Livingston President & CEO, Tishman Urban Development Shiriki Kumanyika Professor of Epidemiology, School of Medicine Corporation Janice Madden Professor of Regional Science, Sociology, Urban Kelly Kennedy Mack President, Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group Studies, and Real Estate, School of Arts and Sciences; Director of Marc H. Morial President & CEO, National Urban League Women’s Studies, Alice Paul Center for Research on Women and Lawrence C. Nussdorf, President & COO, Clark Enterprises, Inc. Gender Philip Pilevsky President & CEO, Philips International Afaf Meleis Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing, School of Richard P. Richman Chairman, The Richman Group, Inc. Nursing Alice M. Rivlin Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Andrew Porter Dean and George and Diane Weiss Professor of Mark Rosenberg Principal, MHR Fund Management LLC Education, Graduate School of Education Michael Tabb Managing Principal, Red Rock Global Marilyn Jordan Taylor Dean, School of Design John Timoney Chief of Police, Police Department, City of Miami, FL David Thornburgh Executive Director, Fels Institute of Government 8 Penn Institute for Urban Research Newsletter / Winter 2009