Eugenie L. Birch

Co-Director for the Penn Institute for Urban Research and Professor and Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning

Eugenie L. Birch  FAICP, RTPI (hon), is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research, Chair of the Graduate Group of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, 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 book is: Urban and Regional Planning Reader (Routledge, 2009). Others include Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster, Lessons from Katrina ( Penn Press, 2006) and Growing Greener Cities (Penn Press, 2008), co-edited with Susan Wachter. Forthcoming work includes: Local Planning, Principles and Practice (ICMA, 2009) co-edited with Gary Hack, Paul Sedway and Mitchell Silver; special Centennial Issue, Journal of the American Planning Association (Spring, 2009) edited with Christopher Silver 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. Professor Birch has served as 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 boards of the Municipal Art Society of New York and Scenic Hudson, Inc.

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