Penn IUR News A PENN INSTITUTE FOR URBAN RESEARCH PUBLICATION SPRING 2020 | NO. 31 CONVENING CONVENING The Future of the Community Penn Delegation Promotes Financing Reinvestment Act Resilient Cities at COP25 In December 2019, Penn IUR joined a university- wide delegation to COP25, the 25th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties held in Madrid, Spain. The eight-member delegation, led by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy (KCEP) at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, included representatives from KCEP, Penn IUR, Perry World House (PWH), Penn Law, and the Weitzman School. The UNFCCC granted Penn’s delegates COP25 observer status, which provided them with access to the majority of conference sessions. “It was encouraging to swim in a sea of people who are dedicating their livelihoods to addressing climate change,” said Amy Montgomery, Penn IUR Managing Director. “But the presentations, conversations, and Senator Sherrod Brown (OH) addresses the panelists and guests in attendance at "The Future of the Community negotiations demonstrated the mind-boggling Reinvestment Act," held in Washington, D.C., in October 2019. distance we have to go if we are going to address the enormity of the climate crisis.” On October 29, Penn IUR and Rulemaking (ANPR) seeking (FDIC), and Federal Reserve the Wharton Public Policy comment on proposed changes to Board) have parted ways, a On December 10, the delegation hosted a Initiative held a symposium at CRA rules (see www.regulations. situation that could result in two panel discussion with mayors, policymakers, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center in gov/document?D=FDIC-2020- sets of regulations, with some and leading scholars from around the world on Washington, D.C., on the Future 0002-0001). Under question banks overseen by agencies how cities can plan and pay for infrastructure of the Community Reinvestment are the impacts of the proposed that did adopt rule changes and that strengthens cities threatened by climate Act (CRA). The convening, changes on the intended others overseen by an agency change. Participants pointed to ways of attended by more than 100 mission of the law: to combat that did not. The symposium, Congressional staffers, industry redlining and discrimination which built on Penn IUR’s leveraging the unique strengths cities have in experts, and policymakers, in mortgage markets. For the previous work on the topic in the fight against climate change: from adopting was timely as the Office of the first time, the three banking partnership with the Federal climate action plans, to building green Comptroller of the Currency regulators responsible for the Reserve Bank of Philadelphia infrastructure, to transitioning to cleaner (OCC) issued on January 9, 2020, law’s enforcement (OCC, Federal and the Federal Reserve Board energy and greener economies. They also an Advance Notice of Proposed Deposit Insurance Corporation (CONTINUED ON P. 18) (CONTINUED ON P. 19) CONTENTS: 2 UPCOMING EVENTS 7 NEW RELEASE IN C21 SERIES 14 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE 3 FACULTY SPOTLIGHT 8 FACULTY FELLOWS UPDATES AND HEALTH SYMPOSIUM 4 HOUSING POLICY DEBATE 11 MUSA MASTER CLASS 15 REMEMBERING NEAL PEIRCE 5 CITIES AND THE IPCC 12 HOTSPOT CITIES 16 GALSTER BOOK TALK 6 RICHARD FLORIDA ON CITIES 13 H+U+D PROGRAM UPDATE 2 PENN INSTITUTE FOR URBAN RESEARCH URBAN NEWS SPRING 2020 | NO. 31 Upcoming Events VISIT PENNIUR.UPENN.EDU/EVENTS FOR DETAILS AND TO REGISTER. JANUARY 30, 2020 JANUARY 31, 2020 MARCH 5, 2020 BUILDING A HYPERCONNECTED CITY SECOND ANNUAL JEREMY NOWAK COMMUNITY WEALTH BUILDING: WORLD FORUM, PERRY WORLD HOUSE MEMORIAL LECTURE: CAN THE AN EQUALITY AGENDA 8:30 A.M. – 12:30 P.M. NEW LOCALISM ADVANCE SHARED KLEINMAN FORUM, FISHER FINE ARTS PROSPERITY? LIBRARY, 4TH FLOOR Penn IUR and Econsult Solutions, Inc. (ESI) are KLEINMAN FORUM, FISHER FINE ARTS 1:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. hosting an interactive discussion on findings LIBRARY, 4TH FLOOR from a year-long global assessment of smart city Penn IUR is hosting a special lecture by Marc 12:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. solutions. Presenters and panelists will explore Morial, President, National Urban League, on how cities can go beyond current smart solutions Penn IUR and the Reinvestment Fund are hosting building wealth in minority communities. A Penn to become "hyperconnected" hubs generating large the second annual Jeremy Nowak Memorial graduate (C’80), Morial served as a Louisiana economic, social, and environmental benefits by Lecture, a series which aims to highlight Nowak’s State Senator from 1992 to 1994 and as Mayor linking key elements of their urban landscape—from enduring work to integrate public, private, and of New Orleans from 1994 to 2002, during which transportation to public health and security—to non-profit expertise to achieve collective urban time he oversaw reductions in crime rates and government to business and residents. This half-day prosperity, giving students and professionals the reinvestment in historic neighborhoods. Through program will feature presentations by Dr. Richard opportunity to hear from experts on topics that his “Empowerment Agenda,” Morial has worked Voith, President and Principal, ESI, and Dr. Daniel manifest the connections between the academic to reenergize the National Urban League’s diverse Miles, Vice President and Associate Principal, ESI. and the applied aspects of urban development. constituencies, building on the strength of its 110- Following the presentations, Eugénie L. Birch, Speakers will include Anne Fadullon, Director, year legacy to increase its profile both locally and Co-Director, Penn IUR, will moderate a discussion Department of Planning and Development, City nationally. He serves the League’s 90 affiliates with William Baver, Vice President Smart World of Philadelphia; Ira Goldstein, President of Policy in 300 communities across the United States Team, NTT Data; Martin O’Malley, Former Mayor Solutions, Reinvestment Fund; Bruce Katz, Co- to elevate the standard of living in historically of the City of Baltimore and Former Governor of Founder and Director, Nowak Metro Finance Lab; underserved urban communities. Maryland; Piyush Pandey, Managing Director, Cyber Brian Murray, Co-Founder and Principal, Shift Risk Services, Deloitte; and Joseph Viscuso, Senior Capital; and Rob Stephany, Director, Community Vice President and Director of Strategic Growth, and Economic Development, Heinz Endowments. Pennoni. This event celebrates Penn’s “Year of Data.” Lunch will be provided. Urban Link The Urban Link e-newsletter is a monthly online publication featuring expert commentary and scholarship from Penn IUR Faculty Fellows and other affiliates. To bring Penn IUR's latest initiatives, publications, and events to your inbox, visit www.penniur.upenn.edu and add your email address to subscribe. SPRING 2020 | NO. 31 PENN INSTITUTE FOR URBAN RESEARCH URBAN NEWS 3 Faculty Spotlight: Eugenia South EUGENIA (GINA) SOUTH is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. Her research focuses on how neighborhood context affects health and safety in urban environments, with a particular interest in urban nature. Her studies evaluating the impact of vacant lot greening on violent crime, perceptions of safety, physiologic stress, and mental health have been published in JAMA Network Open, PNAS, and AJPH, and have been featured in national and international media outlets including NPR, NBC News, TIME, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Dr. South received her MD from Washington University School of Medicine in 2008 and her MSHP from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, during which time she was also a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. YOU HAVE A MEDICAL DEGREE FROM nothing to address what caused him to be recreate) have a profound impact on our WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. WHAT DREW shot in the first place. Taking care of this boy health—even more, I would say, than the YOU TO MEDICINE? DID YOU ALWAYS crystalized for me that I wanted to use my individual biological and genetic factors that WANT TO PRACTICE MEDICINE? career to address the upstream, root causes may predispose us to disease. I have taken of poor health. this broad concept and focused in particular I am the first physician in my family. I knew on the physical environment around where when I took high school biology that I was YOU BECAME A ROBERT WOOD we live. fascinated by the body and how it works. I JOHNSON CLINICAL SCHOLAR AT was fortunate to have people around me PENN AFTER EARNING YOUR MEDICAL I focus a lot on blighted spaces, like vacant lots who recognized that interest and pointed DEGREE. TELL US HOW YOU MADE THAT and abandoned buildings: places and spaces that me in the direction of medicine. My parents DECISION AND HOW IT INFORMED YOUR have fallen into disrepair, that are full of trash, actually asked their primary care physician if FUTURE WORK? overgrown with unwanted vegetation, and that I could shadow him, so I was able to shadow may harbor unsafe activities—we'll often find a physician when I was young. He gave me Taking care of individual patients is very condoms or needles and we think that people a job as a medical assistant in high school important, and I still do that in the emergency probably hide weapons in these spaces. These and early college, which gave me further department, but I wanted to have a broader, uncared-for spaces become nodes of poor exposure. I loved it. I loved thinking about population-level impact. The Robert Wood health. In a city like Philadelphia, these spaces the biology and I loved interacting with Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (RWJ), are pretty ubiquitous and especially common people and helping people feel better. which is now called the National Clinician in low-resource and minority neighborhoods. Scholars Program, is an amazing training These spaces are the result of a complicated YOUR PATH-BREAKING WORK IS program: it trains physicians and nurses to web of structural economic and political forces, ABOUT HOW NEIGHBORHOOD apply their clinical knowledge to population- and impact the most vulnerable among us.