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Panel Kleinman Center Event

Urban Transportation and Energy Consumption: What is the Role of Urban Planning?

Friday, February 19, 2016 | 5:00PM - 7:00PM

Event Details

Speakers

  • Bob Cervero Professor and Chair of Urban and City Planning, University of California, Berkeley
  • Matt Turner Professor of Economics, Brown University
  • Gilles Duranton Chair, Real Estate Department, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
  • Erick Guerra Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania

Moderators

  • Eugenie Birch Professor of Urban Research and Education, Weitzman School of Design

Location

Kleinman Center for Energy Policy Forum
220 S. 34th Street
Fisher Fine Arts Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Sponsors

Event Summary

Matt Turner and Robert Cervero will present an overview of some of the major issues in planning and energy consumption: the relationship between urban form and vehicle travel, the role of housing and transit-oriented development, low-waste and energy efficient developments, and the use of fossil fuels in cities.  Their presentations will be followed by a discussion on the role of urban planning in urban transportation and energy consumption.

There will be a light reception preceeding the panel, beginning at 3:30 pm, and a networking reception afterwards.

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Robert Cervero

Professor and Chair of Urban and City Planning, University of California, Berkeley

Robert Cervero works in the area of sustainable transportation policy and planning, focusing on the nexus between urban transportation and land-use systems. Professor Cervero has and continues to serve as an advisor and consultant on numerous transportation and urban planning projects worldwide.

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Gilles Duranton

Real Estate Department Chair, Wharton

Gilles Duranton is professor of real estate and holds the Dean’s Chair in Real Estate. His current work focuses land use and urban growth in emerging cities, the measurement of urban transportation and congestion, land development, and the geography of innovation and technology.

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Erick Guerra

Associate Dean for Research, Weitzman School

Erick Guerra is Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor in City and Regional Planning in the Weitzman School of Design.

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Matt Turner

Professor of Economics, Brown University

Matthew Turner joined the PSTC and Brown University in 2014. He is broadly interested in environmental and urban economics and his research focuses on the economics of land use and transportation.

moderator

Eugenie Birch

Lawrence C. Nussdorf Chair of Urban Research and Education

Eugénie L. Birch is co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Chair of Urban Research and Education, and chair of the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning.