Cities and Shocks: Penn Institute for Urban Research 2019–2020 Annual Report

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Penn Institute for Urban Research  2019–2020 Annual Report

Wendell Pritchett

Dawn Bonnell

Provost; Presidential Professor of Law and Education

Vice Provost for Research; Henry Robinson Towne Professor of Engineering and Applied Science

A Message from the Provost and Vice Provost for Research This past year marked a historic moment in our society, altering every facet of life. At Penn IUR, this has meant transitioning all activities to online platforms as well as steering research and programming to address the critical issues facing cities today.

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Penn IUR Emerging Scholars

1min
page 105

Penn IUR Consultative Boards

1min
page 109

Penn IUR Fellows

3min
pages 106-107

In Memoriam: Richard Gelles

1min
pages 94-95

Penn IUR Scholars

5min
pages 102-104

Penn IUR Urban Doctoral Activities

1min
page 89

Penn’s Humanities, Urbanism, and Design (H+U+D) Initiative

3min
pages 90-93

Penn IUR Faculty Fellows and Executive Council

8min
pages 98-101

In Memoriam: Neal Peirce

2min
pages 96-97

Master of Urban Spatial Analytics (MUSA

2min
page 88

Special Briefing on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Fiscal Outlook of State and Local Governments

8min
pages 66-73

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Roundtable

1min
page 65

Flood Risk and the U.S. Housing Market

3min
pages 52-53

How Ideas Stopped an Expressway in Philadelphia

3min
pages 54-55

Reducing Crime by Changing Places: Assessing the Benefits of Abating Vacant and Abandoned Land in Urban Spaces

3min
pages 58-59

Street Commerce: Creating Vibrant Urban Sidewalks

3min
pages 56-57

The Future of the Community Reinvestment Act

2min
page 64

Cities’ Climate Infrastructure Financing: Urgency of Reform

3min
pages 48-49

The Community Reinvestment Act: Does The New Proposal Undermine the Law’s Purpose and Intent?

2min
pages 50-51

Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India

3min
pages 44-45

Penn IUR Photo Contest Finalists

5min
pages 14-21

Informality as a Way of Life

3min
pages 46-47

Briefs and Special Reports

2min
pages 39-40

Urban Link

1min
page 38

A Message from the Provost and Vice Provost for Research

2min
pages 6-7

Social Science Research Network (SSRN

3min
pages 36-37

Urban Practices Lab

3min
pages 12-13
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