A two-day conference at the University of Pennsylvania, ‘The Shape of the New American City,’ will examine the role of U.S. cities in the past, present and future, outline current trends and problems that threaten urban centers as drivers of the U.S. economy, and propose federal policy changes to address those problems.
‘The Shape of the New American City’ will convene Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24-25, with a full day of lectures and panel discussions planned for Friday. Experts and top academics from across the country will present new research on urban and suburban trends and how they are transforming U.S. cities. A series of panel discussions will address the economic outlook of urban areas, demographic shifts, sprawl and reurbanization, and infrastructure investment.
On Saturday, a panel including Chris Matthews of MSNBC, Howard Fineman of Newsweek and MSNBC, Penn faculty and the editors of The Daily Pennsylvanian will address how the media have helped shape the federal urban political agenda and how the concerns of cities and metropolitan regions–infrastructure, economic development, housing and immigration–have figured into the 2008 presidential campaign.
The conference is being co-hosted by the Penn Institute for Urban Research and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Lectures and panel discussions will occur in the ARCH Crest Room at 36th and Locust Walk. Register for the conference here.
Source: Penn Institute for Urban Research
Writer: John Davidson
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