Eugenie L. Birch

Eugenie L. Birch is an American scholar and city planner specializing in international and domestic planning history and urban revitalization.

Birch is the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education and the Chair of the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania.

She is also the Co-Director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research and co-editor, University of Pennsylvania's City in the 21st Century series.

Birch's civic commitments include serving as chair, board of directors, Municipal Art Society of New York.

Birch received a bachelor's degree in history cum laude from Bryn Mawr College and a Master's and Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Columbia University.