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Join the us for this book talk and conversation on Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War, a new book by AK Press.Cities around the world are in the midst of a profound transformation as the wealthy price out the remnants of the urban working class, especially people of color. Displacement is neither accidental or inevitable. It happens because a whole range of people and institutions profit handsomely. Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War, focused on the US but informed by global examples, investigates gentrification from the perspective of the people fighting it, members of communities whose survival is

Penn IUR awards Steve Adler, Manuel de Araújo, Eleni Myrivili, and Sheela Patel the 2023 Lawrence C. Nussdorf Urban Leadership Prize.Join the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) for the 18th annual Urban Leadership Forum, with remarks by 2023 Lawrence C. Nussdorf Urban Leadership Prize winners. This year’s awardees include Steve Adler, Former Mayor of Austin; Manuel A. Alculete Lopes de Araújo, Mayor, Municipality of Quelimane, Mozambique; Eleni (Lenio) Myrivili, Global Chief Heat Officer at UN Habitat & Arsht-Rock and the Chief Heat Officer of Athens, Greece; and Sheela Patel, founding director of the Society for the Promotion of

How do we ensure viable, scalable, and sustainable solutions to urban heat island effects in informal settlements of the Global South?The ConversationInformal urban settlements have long drawn on community resources to build and refurbish them. With climate change increasing the heat island effect in cities, they are often at the low end of the scale of scientific and policy priorities. Their informality means that these communities are vulnerable to the vagaries of urban policy urging solutions ranging from resettlement to reconstruction. The speakers in this panel approach the problem from different perspectives – sociology, engineering, and public administration, answering the