“Gentrification and Public Heritage in Rome: The Potential and Ambiguities of the ‘Right to Buy’ Policy as a Strategy to Stay Put” in Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal City
Dr. Sandra Annunziata was invited by the editors of this book to deliver a presentation on 23 November 2018 as part of a lecture series, and later transform the presentation into a chapter for this collective book. Tragically, on 4 January 2019, Sandra passed away leaving a baby daughter Elena and partner Francesco. As a tribute to her memory, her intellectual contribution, as well as to the warmth, engagement and enthusiasm that she brought to the lecture series in Gothenburg, we transcribed her wonderful lecture while her friend and colleague Professor Loretta Lees edited it.
Faculty Friday: Adil Najam
Faculty Friday is a series highlighting members of the Initiative on Cities (IOC) Faculty Advisory Board by exploring their work on campus and in the city. This week, we are highlighting Adil Najam, Inaugural Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Professor of International Relations and Earth and Environment. Professor Najam […]
Incoming IOC Faculty Director Loretta Lees honored with membership in Academia Europaea
Incoming IOC Faculty Director Loretta Lees has been honored with a membership in Academia Europaea. Academia Europaea is a European, non-governmental association acting as an academy. Membership in the academy demonstrates “sustained academic excellence,” with an invitation-only peer-review selection process. The academy includes 72 Nobel Prize Laureates among its members. Congratulations Professor Lees!
IOC-affiliated Faculty honored at 2022 Community and Urban Sociology Awards
The Boston University Initiative on Cities is proud to report that two of our affiliated faculty have been honored at the 2022 Community and Urban Sociology Awards. Community and Urban Sociology is a section of the American Sociological Association. Assistant Professor Jessica Simes won the Robert E. Park Book Award for Punishing Places: The Geography […]
Historical Research and Development of Six Walking Tours in Chelsea
By Amelia Murray-Cooper In Professor Bruce J. Schulman’s History of Boston: Community and Conflict (CAS HI 190) course, students developed six historic walking tours for the City of Chelsea that covered a broad range of topics, including Post-1965 Immigration, Business and Industry, Public Transit, The Fires of 1908 and 1973, Urban Renewal, and Food History. […]
Best Practices Research on Health Equity Initiatives in Worcester
By Amelia Murray-Cooper Lecturer Kaytlin Eldred collaborated with the MetroBridge Program in her spring 2022 course Cultural Humility, Racial Justice, and Health in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SAR HS 349). Undergraduate students supported the Coalition for a Healthy Greater Worcester by performing research and providing recommendations for how to improve the […]
Analysis of Parking Programs and Policies in Providence
By Amelia Murray-Cooper In Associate Professor and MetroBridge Faculty Director David Glick’s 2022 Local Policy Analysis Lab course undergraduate students performed an analysis of Providence’s residential parking permit program and researched how other cities’ policies and programs compare. They explored inequities in car ownership and usage, community participation in overnight parking programs, incentives to reduce […]
MetroBridge Program Awarded Two-Year Grant by Davis Educational Foundation
The Initiative on Cities’ MetroBridge experiential learning program has been awarded a two-year grant for $25,000 from the Davis Educational Foundation to support urban, place-based experiential learning at Boston University. The Davis Educational Foundation was established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after Mr. Davis’ retirement as chairman of Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc. MetroBridge is a university-wide […]
Public Interest Technology: State of the Field
The still nascent field of public interest technology is growing at a rapid clip in higher education. This report sheds light on the priorities of Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) members, and opportunities for future growth. The report draws on both an in-depth member survey and a broad scan of related activities, academic programs and research initiatives underway at 43 academic institutions that made up the membership of PIT-UN as of the summer of 2021.
New Report on Growth of Public Interest Technology Initiatives at PIT-UN Member Institutions
Field of Public Interest Technology is Growing Despite Funding and Institutional Challenges Boston University and New America Release Report on Growth of Public Interest Technology Initiatives at Members of Public Interest Technology University Network The still nascent field of public interest technology is growing at a rapid clip in higher education. Institutions need to build […]