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SUMMARY:Overbuilt: Book Talk and Conversation with Erick Guerra
DESCRIPTION:The book explores how outdated policies\, flawed funding systems\, and misguided metrics led to the overbuilding of the U.S. roadway network\n\n\nJoin the Department of City & Regional Planning and the Penn Institute for Urban Research for this talk on Professor Erick Guerra‘s new book\, Overbuilt. The book explores how outdated policies\, flawed funding systems\, and misguided metrics led to the overbuilding of the U.S. roadway network. Guerra examines the lasting consequences of this overbuilding and outlines how policymakers can “unbuild” to create a more sustainable and effective transportation future. \nAbout the Book \nOf the approximately inflation-adjusted $2.5 trillion spent on highways from the Highway Trust Fund since its inception in 1956\, about 60 percent has been spent since completing the last bit of the originally planned Interstate System in 1992. About 75 percent has been spent since the system was supposed to have been completed in 1969. State and local governments have spent trillions more on capital road investments and repairs over the same period. \nThough fewer homes and businesses are destroyed\, highway planners have added 75% more lane miles of urban interstate and 55 percent more secondary highways and arterials today than there were in 1992. Few Americans have a sense of how much the government spends on roadways or how\, why\, or where roads get built. The better informed generally understand that the federal government and states raise dedicated transportation funds through a gas tax. And these funds are primarily spent to build\, widen\, upgrade\, and maintain major highways and arterials. \nErick Guerra\, Ph.D.\, is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Associate Dean for Research at the Weitzman School at the University of Pennsylvania\, where he teaches courses in transportation planning and quantitative planning methods. His research focuses on relationships between land use\, transportation systems\, and travel behavior with an emphasis on rapidly motorizing cities\, public health outcomes\, and transportation technologies. \nYou’ll be able to purchase a copy of Overbuilt at the event from the Penn Bookstore. Please note that they do not accept cash.  \nIf you require any accessibility accommodation\, such as live captioning\, audio description\, or a sign language interpreter\, please email news@design.upenn.edu. Please note\, we require at least five (5) business days’ notice. \n \n\n\nNOTICE OF PHOTOGRAPHY\, FILMING\, OR RECORDING \nAT WEITZMAN \nOn any day\, the Weitzman School of Design may have a photographer or videographer in the building\, or \notherwise be recording or transmitting audio and/or video. These photos\, videos\, and audio recordings or \ntransmissions may be used in Weitzman School publications and promotional materials\, on our website\, or \nbe distributed by the School to other public websites. \nThe photographer or videographer will be noticeable\, and/or there will be a notice indicating that audio \nand/or video will be recorded in or transmitted from that area. You may choose to absent yourself from \nany area that is being filmed\, photographed\, or recorded. \nPlease note that any photographs\, videos\, and recordings belong to the Weitzman School and that no one \nwill receive any payment or other compensation for an appearance in any video\, photograph\, or recording. \nYour choice to remain in the area implies your consent to the use\, copyright\, publication\, republication\, \ndistribution\, display\, and performance of the photographs\, videos\, recordings\, and transmissions in \nWeitzman School of Design-approved materials.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/overbuilt-book-talk-and-conversation-with-erick-guerra/
LOCATION:Meyerson Hall – Upper Gallery\, 210 South 34th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:The City in the 21st Century: Celebrating the Reflective Practitioner
DESCRIPTION:Join the Penn IUR and Penn Press in welcoming Enrique Peñalosa Londoño\, former mayor of Bogotá\, Colombia\, to campus on January 23 .\n\n\n“An advanced city is not one where the poor own a car\,” writes Enrique Peñalosa “but one where the rich use public transport.” Former mayor of Bogotá\, Colombia\, Penalosa sees city design as projects that define human happiness\, dignity\, and equality. He worked to achieve that goal during his two terms (1998-2001 and 2016-2019) when he implemented the Transmilenio bike system and the city’s mass transit and bus rapid transit (BRT) systems\, along with several other infrastructure projects including hospitals and public schools. \nJoin the Penn Institute for Urban Research and Penn Press in welcoming Peñalosa to campus on January 23 at 12:00pm for a talk on his book\, Equality and the City: Urban Innovations for All Citizens. The book talk will be followed by with a panel discussion of reflective practitioners—urban leaders reflecting on and sharing their experiences. Panelists will include: \n· Judith Rodin\, former president of the University of Pennsylvania and author of The University and Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets \n· Manny Diaz\, former mayor of Miami and author of Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood\, One City at a Time \n· Richard Freeland\, former president of Northeastern\, and author of Transforming the Urban University: Northeastern\, 1996-2006. \n· Eleanor Sharpe\, urban planner and former Executive Director of Philadelphia City Planning Commission \nThis event celebrates Penn IUR’s 20th anniversary and its City in the 21st Century book series published with Penn Press. This interdisciplinary series of books addresses both topical and long-range issues confronting the world’s cities\, from disaster response to cultural coexistence\, from civic engagement to urban revitalization. Learn more here. \nLunch included.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/the-city-in-the-21st-century-celebrating-the-reflective-practitioner/
LOCATION:Kleinman Center for Energy Policy\, Fisher Fine Arts Library\, 220 S. 34th St.\, Kleinman Forum\, 4th Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Vibrant Cities: Advancing Green\, Resilient\, and Inclusive Urban Development
DESCRIPTION:Join Penn IUR for a panel discussing the World Bank paper\, Vibrant Cities – On the Bedrock of Stability\, Prosperity\, and Sustainability.\n\n\nHow will the world’s developing cities become vibrant—capable of meeting the climate\, social\, and economic challenges of tomorrow? Vibrant cities offer firms and households high expectations for good returns on investments\, for a sustainable and resilient future\, and for dynamic and inclusive growth. Cities thrive not only by increasing incomes and wealth for a select few but by improving common welfare through the equitable provision of basic services and opportunities. To do this\, tomorrow’s vibrant cities will be: resilient and low carbon\, inclusive\, and productive. \nJoin Penn IUR for a panel and discussion focused on the recent World Bank paper\, Vibrant Cities – On the Bedrock of Stability\, Prosperity\, and Sustainability. Expert panelists will include co-authors of the report\, Forhad J. Shilpi\, Senior Economist in Development Economics at the World Bank; and Somik Lall\, Staff Director of the World Bank’s 2024 World Development Report; in discussion with Omar Masoud\, Chief Executive Officer of The Urban Unit for Government of Pakistan\, and Guy Michaels\, Associate Professor of Economics at London School of Economics. The panel will moderated by Gilles Duranton\, Dean’s Chair in Real Estate Professor School at the Wharton School and Penn IUR Faculty Fellow.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/vibrant-cities-advancing-green-resilient-and-inclusive-urban-development/
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SUMMARY:Powering the Slum: Exploring Alternatives Forms of Energy for Informal Sett
DESCRIPTION:Join Penn IUR for a conversation exploring efforts to introduce renewable energy to informal settlements in Accra\, Ghana.\n\n\nOn Wednesday March 13th at 9:00am\, join the Penn Institute for Urban Research for a conversation exploring efforts to introduce renewable energy to informal settlements in Accra\, Ghana. Presented by Penn IUR Fellow James Kwame Mensah in conversation with Penn IUR Co-Director Eugénie Birch\, this event builds on the new policy digest published by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. \nGhana’s electrical system is not only highly reliant on fossil fuels (66 percent of the total) but also does not meet demand due to rapid population growth\, especially in the country’s urban informal settlements. This widespread lack of affordable and reliable energy severely limits informal settlers’ capacity to leap out of poverty and live safe\, healthy\, and productive lives. How can the energy generation mix be diversified to yield the most affordable\, reliable\, and sustainable energy in informal settlements? \nThis event is part of University of Pennsylvania’s Energy Week. For more information on Energy Week events go here.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/powering-the-slum-exploring-alternatives-forms-of-energy-for-informal-sett/
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SUMMARY:Post Industrial DIY: Book Talk & Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Penn IUR and the Ian L. McHarg Center invite you to a book talk and panel discussion on Post Industrial DIY: Recovering American Belt Icons.\n\n\nA pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary iron mill at the edge of Pittsburgh. A campus of concrete grain elevators in Buffalo. Two monumental train stations\, one in Buffalo\, the other in Detroit. These once-noble sites have since fallen from their towering grace. As local elected leaders did everything they could to destroy what was left of these places\, citizens saw beauty and utility in these industrial ruins and felt compelled to act. \nThe Penn Institute for Urban Research and the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism & Ecology invite you to a book talk and panel discussion on Post Industrial DIY: Recovering American Belt Icons\, which chronicles grassroots efforts to recover\, rebuild\, and enjoy these architecturally iconic but economically obsolete places in the American Rust Belt. \nJoin the author Daniel Campo\, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning at Morgan State University and Weitzman alumnus in discussion with Eugénie Birch\, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research & Education; Co-Director\, Penn Institute for Urban Research; Catherine Seavitt\, Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture; and Fritz Steiner\, Dean and Paley Professor.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/post-industrial-diy-book-talk-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Kleinman Center for Energy Policy\, Fisher Fine Arts Library\, 220 S. 34th St.\, Kleinman Forum\, 4th Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Raising Public Awareness on Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:As global warming continues to intensify\, ecologically sensitive urban places are particularly prone to its consequences.\n\n\nAs global warming continues to intensify\, ecologically sensitive urban places are particularly prone to its consequences. Focusing on the world-renowned Galapagos Islands\, a place experiencing meteoric growth in land- and sea-based tourism (up from 18\,000 in 1980 to 271\,000 in 2019) as an example\, the speakers\, a student/professor team engaged in Penn IUR’s  Galapagos Goes Green Project\, will underscore their efforts  to increase public awareness about the conflict between local desires to maximize visitors and resulting induced negative effects (e.g.\, uncontrolled urban growth\, increased use of fossil fuels\, ongoing threat to biodiversity) as a means to guide public and private decision-making about many dimensions of  the islands’ economy. They will screen a short\, animated video\, What Would it Take to Make Galapagos Tourist Resilient? and explain the underlying research.  Discussants will assess team’s communications approach evaluating its intended reach and impact.\n \nCo-sponsored by the Penn Institute for Urban Research and the Perry World House\, the speakers are:  Simon Richter\, Class of 1942 Endowed Term Professor of Germanic Studies\, School of Arts & Sciences and Joshua Mosley\, Professor of Fine Arts\, Weitzman School of Design. Discussants include Kelly Kennedy\, Research Coordinator and Lab Manager of the Galápagos Education and Research Alliance. Eugenie L. Birch\, co-Director\, Penn Institute for Urban Research will moderate the session.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/raising-public-awareness-on-climate-change/
LOCATION:Perry World House\, 3803 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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