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Join our team! Seeking a full-time Program Manager & Administrator
Have a passion for urban issues? Looking to join a dynamic team who catalyzes research on, in, and with cities? Apply Read more
Rip Off or Reasonable? Cities & Corporate Financial Incentives
Businesses are potentially more mobile today than ever before and have a wide range of options on where to locate. Read more
Faculty Friday: Stephanie Curenton
Faculty Friday highlights a member of the IOC Faculty Advisory Board by exploring their work at Boston University and examining their Read more
Keeping A Good Thing Going: Sustaining Economic Growth in Our Cities
On Wednesday, October 2nd, the Initiative on Cities welcomed Alan Harding, the Chief Economic Adviser to the Mayor of Metropolitan Manchester, Read more
Women’s Political Empowerment A Century After the 19th Amendment: Reflections by Women Mayors
On Tuesday, September 17th, the Initiative on Cities invited three Massachusetts mayors, Mayor Ruthanne Fuller of Newton, Mayor Donna Holaday Read more
New! Working Paper Series & Faculty Affiliate Program
The Initiative on Cities is pleased to announce two new opportunities for the BU community launching this Fall 2019: IOC Read more
The Sounds of Boston and Beyond: the Sonic Dimension of Cities
On Tuesday, September 10th, the Initiative on Cities hosted The Sounds of Boston and Beyond, a seminar that explored the Read more
BU Today Feature: “Vanguards in Urban Planning: Transforming Vancouver, Toronto, and Minneapolis”
"Minneapolis’ requirement that multifamily housing be permitted in all residential areas struck an overdue blow against racism in housing policy—and Read more
Professor Tony Janetos, 1954-2019
It is with great sorrow that we learned that Professor Tony Janetos passed away on August 6th after battling pancreatic Read more
Speaker John Bercow Visits BU Initiative on Cities
On May 29, 2019 the Boston University Initiative on Cities was honored to receive a visit from the Speaker of the Read more
A Conversation about Cities and Health
On Tuesday June 4th, IOC Co-Director Katharine Lusk spoke on a panel co-hosted by the Boston University School of Public Read more
Summer Fellow Interview: Tori Amy Douglas
Tori is a rising senior at Boston University majoring in Political Science and minoring in Philosophy. She has previously worked Read more
Just Released: Mayors and the Health of Cities
Today the Boston University Initiative on Cities, with support from Citi and The Rockefeller Foundation, launched Mayors and the Health Read more
Diffusion of Public-Private Innovations: Conditions for Scaling Up Smart City Projects
On May 28th, the Initiative on Cities welcomed Lasse Bundgaard, a Visiting Researcher from the Copenhagen Business School and Copenhagen Read more
Summer Fellow Interview: Kevin Flakes
Kevin is currently pursuing a master’s in Urban Affairs with special interest in urban inequalities and capacity building. Before entering Read more
Summer Fellow Interview: Natalia Chavez
Natalia Chavez is the Communications and Outreach Director at Urbanability, a Boston-based non-profit organization that focuses on empowering underserved communities Read more
2019 Urban Research Award: Understanding Open-Air Drug Markets Configuration
PI: Andrea Beltran-Lizarazo, PhD Student; Department of Sociology This project will explore the development of open-air drug markets in Colombia, Read more
2019 Urban Research Award: Urban Policing and Racial Health Inequities
PI: Julia Raifman, ScD; Assistant Professor, Health Law, Policy & Management, School of Public Health Co-PI: Michael Ulrich, JD, MPH; Assistant Read more
2019 Early Stage Urban Research Award Recipients
In Spring 2019, the Initiative on Cities issued its fifth Request for Proposals to support early stage academic research endeavors Read more
2019 Urban Research Award: Constructing City Images through Local Media: An Intermedia Agenda-Setting Analysis of Big Media Data
PI: Lei Guo, Assistant Professor, Division of Emerging Media Studies, College of Communication Co-PI: Yiyan Zhang, PhD student; Division of Emerging Read more