Where: Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road When: Monday, November 20, 2023, 4:00 – 5:30 PM ET Comparative analysis of the politics of community mobilization has a long history in urban studies, revealing much about the role of urban movements in wider transformation processes in different times and places. At the same time, many […]
Date: Thursday, November 2, 2023 Time: 5:30 pm-7:00 pm ET Location: Innovate@BU BUild Lab 730 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston “Wedge issues may be great for making headlines but they do not move us forward. Success is measured by what we accomplish together. Our obligation to the people we serve is too important to place politics and […]
On November 27th, former Lord Mayor of London Fiona Woolf visited the Initiative on Cities to discuss her efforts on sustainability and innovation within London’s electricity industry. From policy interventions to private collaborations, Woolf is motivated to increase energy efficiency and decrease London’s carbon footprint. This event was co-sponsored with the Institute for Sustainable Energy. […]
On November 9th, urban studies professor and theorist Richard Florida visited Boston University to lecture on his recent book, The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It. He explained how his personal experiences and travels gave direction to his research on geographic […]
Can’t attend in person? Join us live for Richard Florida and The New Urban Crisis today at 4:30pm. Florida will lecture on his most recent book, The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It. Best known for his concept of […]
Summer Mental Health Access for Urban Youth This project will investigate if and/or where urban youth access mental health services in summer months in order to identify barriers to mental health access, the quality of summer mental health services, and the association between summer mental health access and the social and emotional profiles of […]
England is in the midst of a major political shift on the municipal level. The creation of metro city governments are ushering in the first wave of directly elected mayors, including Mayor Joe Anderson of Liverpool. This fundamental change in the way cities operate is reviving the importance of local government and changing the power […]
On April 14th, the Initiative on Cities hosted Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for a roundtable discussion on the need for greater federal investment in health research…and addressed students on Student Loan debt…MORE