Initiative on Cities
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Interdisciplinary center for urban research & learning @BU_Tweets. Work in, on & with cities locally to globally. Led by Director @LorettaCLees
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Jonathan Berk
Supporting a new generation of walkable neighborhoods with housing abundance, active public realms, & thriving small business ecosystems. Building @remainplaces
Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪
Director of the Initiative on Cities, Boston University. Lives Boston/London. 2 amazing daughters & lovely nephew. #firstgen
Katharine Lusk
Public Servant | Former: Research Director, Civic Entrepreneur, Strategist to Fortune 500s | Launched @BUonCities @theBWWC #CityHalltoGo #MeninoSurvey
Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭
@BostonSchools mom, @MBTA commuter & Mayor of the City of Boston. She/her.
Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪 Initiative on Cities Fantastic images. Here is the area in the mid-1960s (In Raymond Vernon, 1966 [1962]). Great to see you in NY.
![@LorettaCLees @BUonCities Fantastic images. Here is the area in the mid-1960s (In Raymond Vernon, 1966 [1962]). Great to see you in NY.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMpXoruXwAA_MDr.jpg "Philip Lawton (@PhilLawton) on Twitter photo 2024-05-03 10:07:49 @LorettaCLees @BUonCities Fantastic images. Here is the area in the mid-1960s (In Raymond Vernon, 1966 [1962]). Great to see you in NY.")
Fascinating Initiative on Cities seminar by Timothy Weaver 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸 discussing book he is working on 🤩
Enjoyed last nights #BostonUrbanSalon talk - need get back into working on architecture - urbanists from left to right: Tufts, RMIT, Harvard and BU in the photo Initiative on Cities
#Boston recently announced a plan to address the youth #mentalhealth crisis. In this opinion piece, Danielle Mulligan (@BUonCities) & Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba (@BUSPH_HLPM) discuss the impact of housing and extreme heat on mental health.
Learn more in CommonWealth Beacon: buff.ly/3Wet4HT
Thank you to my Urban Affairs Association #family for a glorious weekend & conference! Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪 New Left Urbanist Prentiss Dantzler Michael Leo Owens (🍋 Grower & Chief Squeezer) Diane Wong Timothy Weaver 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸
Join Boston Urban Salon, Urban + Environmental Policy + Planning, Cities@Tufts for a presentation by Esther Charlesworth on 'Architects Without Frontiers: A Journey from Divided Cities to Zones of Fragility.'
⏰ May 1, 2024, 5 PM ET
📍 Sophia Gordon Hall, Room 100 | 15 Talbot Ave, Medford, MA 02155
Initiative on Cities new Urban H Index work on Health (mental health in cities) and Housing from our awesome team 🤩👏👀 Yay Stephanie and Danielle commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/diagno…
Excited to be working at the intersection of housing, heat, and mental health with the
Initiative on Cities and Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪 as part of our UrbanH Index
Check out my new (and first!) OpEd, co-authored by Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, which highlights the need to stabilize housing and mitigate extreme heat if we want to address the growing youth mental health crisis in our cities
commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/diagno…
Congratulations to our incredible CISS director, Dr. Deborah Carr! Boston University Sociology BU Arts & Sciences
NEW ARTICLE! Deconstructing and resisting #coastal #displacement : A research agenda - Kristen Ounanian (Dr. Kristen Ounanian) & Matthew Howells (@Howells94Matt), 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03… Centre for Blue Governance @AAU_Tech MarSocSci #marsocsci