Penn IUR News A PENN INSTITUTE FOR URBAN RESEARCH PUBLICATION SPRING 2019 | NO. 29 CONVENING CONVENING Jeremy Nowak Memorial Lecture John Legend C’99 Moderates Panel The Citizen and the City: Creative Urban Solutions on Opportunity for All Zones and Inclusive On October 3, 2018, Penn IUR hosted a memorial lecture for Development path-breaking social innovator On November 8, award-winning musician and Jeremy Nowak, entitled “The Citizen and the City: Creative activist John Legend moderated a panel co-hosted Urban Solutions for All.” The by Penn IUR, discussing the new Opportunity event was a reflection and Zone tax incentive established by Congress in conversation about Nowak’s the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The incentive enduring work. As founder of encourages investment and development in low- the Reinvestment Fund, Nowak income communities, designated by state governors pioneered the framework of as “opportunity zones,” by allowing investors to “new localism,” coordinated defer or eliminate taxes on capital gains associated Philadelphia's Neighborhood with those investments. Transformation Initiative, and championed the financing The event, “Opportunity Zones and Inclusive of community development Community Development,” was held in Penn Law’s as a solution for struggling Fitts Auditorium and was hosted jointly by Penn neighborhoods. Integrating Law’s Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration public, private, and non-profit expertise to create shared of Justice, Penn IUR, and Enterprise Community social and financial good, his Partners, Inc. work serves as a precedent and template for achieving collective Jeremy Nowak, Penn IUR Fellow and Founder, Reinvestment Fund Legend, an alumnus of Penn’s College of Arts and urban prosperity. Sciences, moderated the panel of distinguished market development in a way the capacity of cities to deliver speakers, which included Margaret Anadu, Managing that is equitable,” said Smith. these resources effectively and Patricia Smith, President and Director at Goldman Sachs; Louis Dubin, Partner at “[Nowak’s] arc of thinking was to equitably.” CEO, The Funders' Network Redbrick LMD; John Lettieri, President and CEO for Smart Growth and Livable create a sustainable change. You In addition to Patricia Smith, of the Economic Innovation Group; Terri Ludwig, Communities, spoke about need organized communities— the event’s speakers included CEO of Enterprise Community Partners; Michael Nowak’s work and his emphasis remember, he started out as Ira Goldstein, President, Policy Nutter, former Mayor of Philadelphia and current on the role of government an organizer of people. You Solutions, The Reinvestment David N. Dinkins Professor of Professional Practice as part of the solution for needed organized capital, where Fund, and Governor Edward improving cities. "[Nowak] often you are bringing the money in Urban and Public Affairs at Columbia University; Rendell. Across their respective talked about this concept of to bear in a way that makes and Jim Sorenson, Chairman of the Sorenson fields, all three have advanced smart subsidy, which I think at sense in communities. And you Impact Foundation. John Hollway, Associate Dean inclusivity; they spoke of their its essence meant: use public need political leadership. He and Executive Director of the Quattrone Center, work with Jeremy Nowak resources, which are very really built his career working introduced the panel. (CONTINUED ON P. 12) towards this mission. scarce, to stimulate and activate with mayors and organizing CONTENTS: 2 UPCOMING EVENTS 5 SANCTUARY CITIES 11 UURC 3 FACULTY SPOTLIGHT 6 SMART CITY EXCHANGE 12 INCLUSIVE CITY PROJECT 4 FLOOD RISK 7 MUSA MASTER CLASS 4 PLAC CONFERENCE 8 FACULTY FELLOWS UPDATES 2 PENN INSTITUTE FOR URBAN RESEARCH URBAN NEWS SPRING 2019 | NO. 29 Upcoming Events VISIT PENNIUR.UPENN.EDU/EVENTS FOR DETAILS AND TO REGISTER. APRIL 11, 2019 APRIL 22, 2019 APRIL 24, 2019 OPPORTUNITY ZONES: TRANSFORMING MUSA WORKSHOP: ELECTION ANALYTICS WHY CITIES? ROUNDTABLE ON AMERICA’S DISINVESTED COMMUNITIES KLEINMAN FORUM, FISHER FINE ARTS INFORMALITY AS A WAY OF LIFE: FOR A BETTER FUTURE FOR ALL LIBRARY, 4TH FLOOR CHALLENGES TO SUSTAINABLE URBAN KLEINMAN FORUM, FISHER FINE ARTS 12:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. DEVELOPMENT LIBRARY, 4TH FLOOR WORLD FORUM, PERRY WORLD HOUSE In 2016, 200 million people visited election 1:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. 9:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. aggregator and forecasting websites. Despite Through concerted efforts to ensure transparency the proliferation of data, election forecasting Today, cities of the Global South are experiencing and community engagement, the new Opportunity remains a challenge, one that is exacerbated by annual growth rates sometimes exceeding three Zone tax incentive has the potential to transform gerrymandering and unrepresentative districts. or four percent. In the next three decades, they are disinvested urban neighborhoods and provide expected to absorb an additional 2.2 billion people. Last year, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court greater opportunities for local residents and The accelerating urbanization of these places is overturned the Pennsylvania Congressional Map, business owners. As the first Opportunity Zone following a pattern not unlike what sociologist citing one of the most gerrymandered maps in the developments break ground, we will look to some Louis Wirth observed in Chicago in the first two country. Former Attorney General, Eric Holder, promising examples in Newark, NJ, Philadelphia, decades of the 20th century, except for one key even went as far as to call Gerrymandering a threat PA, and Baltimore, MD, to explore aspects of the difference: today’s expanding metropolises are to Democracy. In 2018, District Builder rolled out a program that are working as intended as well as coinciding with the proliferation of informality in all suite of digital tools that allows you to create your unforseen challenges that have arisen since the aspects of life. own election map. Over 1,200 mappers created legislation became active. 2,600 maps using District Builder. This roundtable will look to align current research Speakers will include practitioners working to and initiatives being undertaken to guide the Join MUSA for an afternoon of election analytics. deliver socially driven projects as well as academics course of the coming decade and beyond. We Chris Satullo, former WHYY News Director and and practitioners familiar with both the benefits will consider how the varied interpretations of current Draw the Lines Project Manager will and possible pitfalls of the Opportunity Zones informality (e.g. a form of marginalization from discuss gerrymandering and the District Builder incentive. Key topics considered will include how formal society, a semi-integration into formal tool. To follow, Demographer Jonathan Tannen, the Opportunity Zones incentive can be utilized society, or a rational form of survival within founder of Philadelphia election analytics site most effectively to promote social inclusion and state-sanctioned institutional arrangements) are Sixty-Six Wards will give an interactive tutorial on economic development and how outcomes should shaping the efforts to pursue sustainable urban predicting elections in R. be measured to incentivize accountability and development over the next three decades, as community engagement. expressed in global to local responses. We will also analyze different methods for measuring urban informality and examine how national to neighborhood decision-makers are incorporating informality in their policies and programs. A street scene in Accra, Ghana. Photo by Eugénie Birch. SPRING 2019 | NO. 29 PENN INSTITUTE FOR URBAN RESEARCH URBAN NEWS 3 Faculty Spotlight: Camille Zubrinsky Charles CAMILLE ZUBRINSKY CHARLES is a Penn IUR Faculty Fellow and Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, in the Departments of Sociology and Africana Studies and in the Graduate School of Education. She is also a faculty affiliate in the Population Studies Center, the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education, and the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has served as the Director of the Center for Africana Studies since 2009 and was founding chair of the Department of Africana Studies in 2012-2013. TODAY, ONE OF THE FOREMOST CHALLENGES YOU ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON A BOOK To me, the most important finding is the negative TO OUR NATION IS OVERCOMING RACIAL FOCUSED ON BLACK RACIAL IDENTITY IN THE and persisting impact of the experience of childhood INEQUALITY. YOU ARE A LEADING UNITED STATES, TENTATIVELY TITLED, THE segregation that is experienced by both Black and RESEARCHER ON THIS AND SPECIFICALLY ON NEW BLACK: RACE-CONSCIOUS OR POST- Latino/a students. It impacts their preparation for RACIAL RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION, RACIAL RACIAL? CAN YOU TELL US A BIT MORE ABOUT college and their college experience—academically, ATTITUDES AND INTERGROUP RELATIONS, THIS PROJECT? financially, and socio-emotionally. This is a negative ELITE HIGHER EDUCATION, AND RACIAL impact that the vast majority of white and Asian IDENTITY. WHAT ARE THE OVERARCHING This is a project that examines what my co- students in our data don’t even come close to, and QUESTIONS THAT YOU ARE TRYING TO authors and I are dubbing “the new Black elite.” that many of us are hard-pressed to even imagine. ANSWER IN YOUR RESEARCH? WHAT DO YOU They are a very diverse group demographically HOPE THESE ANSWERS CAN TEACH US? and, consequently, they have a diverse set of WHAT FUTURE WORK DO YOU ANTICIPATE attitudes, perceptions, and experiences. They GROWING OUT OF THIS RESEARCH? The overarching questions in my research are, “What share a credential (as graduates from elite are the causes/sources of racial inequality in the institutions of higher education) that puts them A couple of us [who have worked on this research] United States?” and “What are the consequences in an elite subset of the Black population. We would like to do a follow up with these respondents of racial inequality in the United States?” In the wanted to explore and document this diversity— now that they’re out in the world of work.