Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education, department of city & regional planning, PennDesign
The workshop will feature policymakers, practitioners and scholars in a set of panels and moderated conversations on interpretations of authority, The New Urban Agenda. January 17, 2018: In advance of the WUF, the three centers will host a one-day workshop at the Perry World House on The New Urban Agenda: How Stakeholders are Defining and Driving Implementation. They have a special focus on governance, energy, urban migration and integration, and planning and land use. The 10 papers, which will be presented on January 17, explore topics central to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. Penn IUR, Perry World House and the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy announced the following timeline of events related to WUF:ĭecember 2017: Penn IUR, Perry World House and the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy commissioned PENN: Current Research on Sustainable Urban Development. By joining forces to present at this year’s WUF, the centers aim to bring Penn-based scholarship that addresses pressing sustainable urbanization issues to leading policymakers and practitioners across the globe. Through these efforts, the three centers aim to showcase their research as well as the research of established and emerging Penn scholars affiliated with the centers.
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The three centers-the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR), the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, and Perry World House-are publishing a white paper series in advance of the February event, staging a large exhibition of Penn research at the week-long event and sending a delegation of nearly a dozen researchers, students and staff members to Kuala Lumpur to participate. Three research centers at Penn are working together to bring Penn’s expertise on urban issues to this year’s World Urban Forum (WUF), the world’s premier conference on urban issues, to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from February 7-13.
Marian Anderson became one of the important personalities in the then ongoing struggle for many of the black artists for overcoming racial prejudices during the mid twentieth-century in the United States of America.Three Centers at Penn: Joining Forces to Tackle Urban Issues at World Urban Forum She did several recordings that were a reflection of her broad performance talents ranging from concert literature to traditional American songs, to opera and spirituals. However, Marian did perform opera arias within her recitals and concerts. Her first preference had always to perform in recitals and concerts only. Though she was offered various roles with many of the major European opera companies but Marian declined all of them as she was not a trained actor. A major portion of her singing career was devoted in giving performances in recital in important music venues and in concerts as well as with well known orchestras throughout Europe and the United States of America. It was a magnanimous gesture shown by the members of Marian’s church congregation who raised funds, which enabled her to attend a music school for about a year. However, her family was not well off and did not have enough means to pay for her formal vocal training. Marian was born in Philadelphia and started displaying her extraordinary vocal talent from the time she was a child.
She earned the distinction of becoming the first African American singer who performed with the New York Metropolitan Opera. Marian Anderson is regarded as one of the best contraltos of the twentieth-century.