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|  Eugenie L. Birch is a Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research, Chair of the Graduate Group of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania School of Design. She is also co-director, Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) and co-editor, City in the 21st Century series, University of Pennsylvania Press. Her most recent books are: Urban and Regional Planning Reader (Routledge 2009) and Local Planning, Principles and Practice (ICMA 2009) co-edited with Gary Hack, Paul Sedway and Mitchell Silver. Other publications include Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster, Lessons from Katrina (Penn Press 2006), Growing Greener Cities (Penn Press, 2008), co-edited with Susan Wachter; “State of the New American City,” Special Issue, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (626 November 2009), co-edited with Susan Wachter and “Centennial Issue,” Journal of the American Planning Association (75:2 April 2009): 2009) co- edited with Christopher Silver. Forthcoming are: Neighborhoods and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America (Penn Press 2010) edited with Harriet Newberger and Susan Wachter) and Global Urbanization, (Penn Press 2011) (edited with Susan Wachter) and Hopeful Signs: Urban Revitalization, 1970-2000 (Island Press). In 2005, The Brookings Institution published Who Lives Downtown. Her articles have appeared the Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Journal of Urban History, Journal of Planning History and Planning Magazine.
Prof Birch has held many leadership positions. They include: chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania; chair, Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College/CUNY; President, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning; President, Society of American City and Regional Planning History; co-editor, Journal of the American Planning Association and chair, Planning Accreditation Board. She has been a Commissioner, New York City Planning Commission, a member of the jury to select the designers of the World Trade Center site. She is currently a member of the board of directors of the Municipal Art Society of New York, Scenic Hudson, Inc. and the International Downtown Association.
Contact information
Email: elbirch@upenn.edu
Address: 127 Meyerson Hall Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: (cell) +917-412 7911 | | | |
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Nicholas You is an architect and economist by training. After working in design in Europe in the 1970s he participated in managing housing and urban development projects in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He joined UN-HABITAT in 1982 to help establish municipal training and leadership development programmes worldwide, with a particular focus on service delivery, financial management, and environmental planning and management.
In 1994 he joined the Secretariat for the Habitat II Conference which resulted in 1996 in the Habitat Agenda - the global plan of action for sustainable human settlement development. As a follow-up to the Conference, he established the Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme, a global network of advocacy and capacity-building institutions dedicated to the transfer of lessons learned from peer-reviewed best practices in improving the living environment. After running the programme for ten years, he was appointed in 2005 as the Special Advisor for Strategic Planning for UN-HABITAT. In 2007 he was appointed as Senior Policy Advisor to lead the development of a major strategic and institutional management plan and helped kick-start its implementation throughout 2008. In January 2009, he was asked by the United Nations to spearhead a Global Campaign on “Better Cities, Better Life”.
He is the author/editor of five books and numerous articles on housing, urban management and sustainable development. From 2000 to 2007 he was a visiting professor at the University Federico II in Naples. In 2004 he was commissioned by the Universal Forum on Cultures (Barcelona) to serve as the curator and chief designer of a major exhibition entitled the “Best Practices City and Water Exhibit” - a flagship exhibit of the 141-day Forum. He also initiated, in 2004, the “Messengers of Truth Project” that uses the power of urban art forms and music to bring together performing artists, community leaders, the music and entertainment industries to empower disenfranchised urban youth to improve their own livelihoods. |
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