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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
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
Moderator
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
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.
speaker
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.
speaker
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.
speaker
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.
speaker
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.