Robert Yaro, Emeritus Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and speaks to SoMAS at the Oceans, Sustainability, and Atmospheres Colloquium on Friday February 19, 2021 on the topic "North Atlantic Rail and the related Hartford 400 project: A new proposed super rail system for the northeast." Hosted by Malcolm Bowman.
Robert D. Yaro was Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design from 2002-2020. His teaching and research focus on land use, urban development and infrastructure planning and sustainability for megaregions and metropolitan areas. In 2004 he identified the emergence of 11 megaregions across the United States, and since then has led seminars and studios on planning for emerging megaregions in the US, Spain, the United Kingdom, China, Singapore and Morocco.
He is also President Emeritus of the Regional Plan Association. He led RPA from 1990 until his retirement as President and CEO in December 2014. Headquartered in Manhattan, RPA is America's oldest and most distinguished independent metropolitan research and advocacy group. He also co-chairs the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Storm Surge Working Group, which is advancing a proposed system of both off-shore and perimeter storm surge barriers to protect the nation’s largest urban region from future storm surges.
