Author: Patricia Cahill

2018 Urban Research Award: Ancient Teotihuacan and Modern Mexico City

Community Archeology on the Urban Periphery: The Tlajinga District at the Nexus of Ancient Teotihuacan and Modern Mexico City Associate Professor David Carballo, who holds a joint appointment in Anthropology and Latin American Studies, will pioneer a new initiative of community-based archaeology at Teotihuacan, Mexico. Teotihuacan is an ancient Mesoamerican city and UNESCO World Heritage […]

2018 Urban Research Award: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment

Sociology Assistant Professor Jessica Simes seeks to bridge the gap in sociological research between the political and economic causes of the prison boom and the neighborhood-level impacts of mass incarceration to help explain a phenomenon found in small cities and suburbs: a disproportionately high rate of imprisonment, compared to larger cities. For example, in 1973, […]

2018 Urban Research Award: Justice in Urban Climate Mitigation

Earth & Environment Associate Professor Anne Short seeks to examine climate action plans in 24 cities across the United States to determine if and how they integrate environmental justice into their goals. Professor Short undertakes this project in order to add to empirical evidence—of which there is little—examining justice in the context of urban climate […]

Initiative on Cities Releases New Report on City Networks

On April 23, 2018 in New York City, the Boston University Initiative on Cities, with support from Citi Community Development and The Rockefeller Foundation,  released “Cities Joining Ranks—Policy Networks on the Rise”. This newest report, which draws on data from the 2017 Menino Survey of Mayors as well as new research, offers the first systematic […]

Conflict and Cleavages in US Cities

On Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 Peter Bucchianeri, a Ph.D Candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School, joined the Initiative on Cities to share research in progress on Conflict and Cleavages Under Democratic One-Party Rule. If two debating sides normally shape how policy is being made, what happens when one of those sides is absent? How does […]

Boston Area Research Initiative Conference Today

Join us live today as we partner with the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) to host their Spring Conference, Confronting Inequality and Economic Mobility: Data-Driven Lessons From Boston, For Boston on Friday, April 27, 2018. Select portions of the day will be live-streamed. All sessions will be recorded and available on BARI’s conference web page […]

Initiative Releases New Report: Cities Joining Ranks

The Boston University Initiative on Cities, with support from Citi and The Rockefeller Foundation, is proud to release “Cities Joining Ranks—Policy Networks on the Rise”. Catch up with our AP press release. Peruse our Key Findings: Cities Joining Ranks Key Findings Read our full report: Cities Joining Ranks Final Report Watch the launch of the […]