Professor Jim O’Connell is a Community Planner at the Boston Office of the Northeast Region of the National Park Service, where he specializes in planning for historic sites and heritage areas, in addition to being a faculty member in the City Planning and Urban Affairs program. His expertise lies in urban history, metropolitan Boston planning […]
On Friday, February 17, BU Metropolitan College’s City Planning and Urban Affairs, Gastronomy, and Criminal Justice students and faculty kicked off the spring semester with a Latin-themed party hosted by the Department of Applied Social Sciences. The afternoon brought together the diverse community of students from the Metropolitan College to enjoy Venezuelan food, Latin […]
Professor Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz’s Boston Urban Symposium class kicked off the spring semester by participating in the Spaghetti Marshmallow Challenge, a team building exercise with the goal of revealing innate personality traits about different team members in a group, as well as highlighting the different roles members undertake and overall group dynamics. The importance of team […]