The Penn Resolution: Educating Urban Designers for Post-Carbon Cities

Peter L. Laurence, Gary Hack and Genie Birch

Penn Design and The Rockefeller Foundation, 2011

In 2008, Peter Laurence served as co-director for the international conference “Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil,” which was hosted at Penn on the 50th anniversary of the 1958 Penn-Rockefeller “Conference on Urban Design Criticism,” an event originally prompted by Jane Jacobs. Set within the history of urban design and that seminal conference, this book, developed with the contributions of conference attendees, is a richly illustrated guide to urban design education for the twenty-first century. The Penn Resolution highlights the challenges posed by changing climate patterns and shifting away from fossil fuels and outlines the skills that both new and practicing urban designers will need to meet these challenges.