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The first episode of the fifth Cities@Tufts podcast season is here! 🎧 Check out "Urban Mobility for Human Autonomy" with Peter Norton: shareable.net/cities_tufts/u…

In the past decade, there were more dedicated lectureships created, and broader curriculum development in black history, culture, politics and philosophy in higher education. In the US, the discipline of black history and arts is more established. theguardian.com/education/2024…

41-quarter courses meet the climate change goal: “The Astronomy of Climate Change”, “Gender and Climate Justice”, “Indigenous Approaches to Climate Change” and “Environmentalism in Arts and Media”. Many of the classes overlap with courses that focus on DEI theguardian.com/environment/20…

Annabel Rabiyah's family are from Iraq. Managing engagement for Trustees of Reservations community gardens she said heritage plants at markets have moved neighbors to tears on seeing crops they thought had been lost. “It’s like seeing a long-lost relative” boston.com/real-estate/ga…

“Perhaps most importantly, neoliberalism has proved inadequate to deal with emergent developments like climate change, changes in gender and race relations, and a workplace transformed by the very technologies it catalysed.”blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

Join us & Urban + Environmental Policy + Planning this Wednesday, October 23 at noon ET for the next Cities@Tufts lecture with Charisma Acey on "Urban Environmental Marronage: Connecting Black Ecologies from Coastal Nigeria to the American South." RSVP for the free & virtual event! eventbrite.com/e/urban-enviro…

Today! 12-1pm EST! Register for free at: eventbrite.com/e/urban-enviro… Urban + Environmental Policy + Planning Tufts Office of Sustainability Tufts Alumni The Tufts Daily Tufts University Cities@Tufts

The word ‘hurricane’ comes from Huracán, a Taino/Mayan word denoting the god of wind. The colonial powers, having learned from them, changed how Caribbean people interacted with the land, where they lived and how they recovered from natural hazard events. theconversation.com/colonialisms-l…

It’s easy for land acknowledgments to become another form of optical allyship. They can lack a call to action and next steps and are just empty words. This guide helps you move beyond written land acknowledgment into action. nativegov.org/resources/beyo…

Kudos Urban + Environmental Policy + Planning Tufts Nutrition dual degree alumna Allie Wainer for co-authoring this report which investigates the connection between the food system and the climate crisis and offers strategies for FPCs to integrate climate change into their work. foodpolicynetworks.org/sites/default/…

Join Cities@Tufts this Wednesday, October 30, at noon ET for "Reimagining Urban Planning" with Jose Richard Aviles! The event is free, virtual, and open to all. Sign up: eventbrite.com/e/reimagining-…

Good to see the excellent work of "The Rural Racism Project: Towards an Inclusive Countryside" in the UK. 35 years ago, we raised these questions questions through the Black Environment Network Neil Chakraborti The Leverhulme Trust University of Leicester Rural Racism: Towards An Inclusive Countryside youtube.com/watch?v=EcE40t…

🎧A new Cities@Tufts episode is here! Listen, watch, or read "Urban Environmental Marronage: Connecting Black Ecologies" with Charisma Acey: shareable.net/cities_tufts/u…

Food insecurity is a leading measure of well-being in the US, and SNAP is key to alleviating it. Many food insecure households are ineligible/do not participate in SNAP (570,00 in MA alone). If SNAP were a UBI, food insecurity would be reduced by up to 98% sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Next week: Cities@Tufts will host Ginette Wessel for "Mobilizing Food Vending." Join us on Wednesday, November 13 at noon ET! 🚚 As always, this event is free, virtual, and open to all. Sign up: eventbrite.com/e/mobilizing-f…

Older people, esp. those with disabilities, face mobility exclusion due to physical barriers around public transit. This has been further intensified as existing mobility accessibility initiatives have not involved vulnerable groups such as older people. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

An ethnographic analysis from Oslo, Norway, adds to research on neighbourhood social sustainability/residential preferences. The concepts of cultural security/insecurity may pose a challenge to policymakers’ visions for socially sustainable development. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

✨New: Check out the latest Cities@Tufts podcast episode, "Reimagining Urban Planning" with Jose Richard Aviles from the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley! 🎧Listen, watch, or read here: shareable.net/cities_tufts/r…

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