"Penn: Current Research on Sustainable Urban Development" is a collection of 11 research papers on key urban topics, authored by faculty, associated researchers and fellows from three centers at the University of Pennsylvania.
"Penn: Current Research on Sustainable Urban Development" is a collection of 11 research papers on key urban topics, authored by faculty, associated researchers, and fellows from three centers at Penn: the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR), the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy (KCEP), and Perry World House (PWH). The papers were prepared as part of Penn’s effort to bring its urban expertise to this year’s World Urban Forum (WUF9), the world’s premier conference on urban issues, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from February 7-13, 2018.
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