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Urban Health

Downtown Stockton, California at night

Urban Problems

Majority of US Mayors Worried about the Racial Wealth Gap in Their Cities

March 22, 2022

Boston public health officials encourage people to leave their tents in a homeless persons’ encampment near the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard in Boston.

Urban Health

How to Address the Legal and Social Justice Challenges Raised by Mass. and Cass Crisis

November 18, 2021

New Podcast

BU Today Launches Question of the Week Podcast

August 25, 2021

People playing and relaxing in a big, open field of green grass in a city park

Health & Wellness

Going Green: Parks Can Help Everyone’s Well-being

June 29, 2021

A man rides a bike past boarded up row houses in the Broadway East neighborhood on October 14, 2020, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Structural Racism

POV: Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Must Curb Structural Racism

May 6, 2021

Two runners jogging along the Boston Esplanade

Urban Health

Pandemic Introduced Americans to Parks and Open Spaces and Trend Will Continue, Say US Mayors

April 7, 2021

A photo of a mother and child walking down the street wearing masks

Urban Health

BU Initiative on Cities: US Mayors Pessimistic about Post COVID Budget Cuts, Long-term Damage

December 3, 2020

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Politics

Why Young People Should Vote

October 14, 2020

Photo of Defund Police Protestors Camp Outside NYC City Hall NEW YORK, NY on June 25, 2020. A multi-racial group of protestors hold various signs calling for the NYPD to be defunded. A group holds a large BLACK LIVES MATTER BANNER in the bottom of the frame.

Voices & Opinion

POV: The America I See Is Not the Same One My White Friends See

July 15, 2020

A photo of workers and volunteers loading up vehicles at a food distribution center in Compton, Calif.

Voices & Opinion

POV: COVID-19 Has Exposed Serious Gaps in the US Social Safety Net

June 18, 2020

Photo of people took to the streets of Boston on May 31, 2020, protesting the murder of George Floyd. Protesters marched through Tufts Medical Center. Some are seen on sidewalks, a line of parked cars is seen, with most protestors in the streets holding signs.

Public Health

SPH Conversation on Race and Policing Draws Nearly 1,000 from BU Community

June 8, 2020

Image from The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), of an electron microscope image showing SARS-CoV-2 (orange)—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells (green) cultured in the lab.

Voices & Opinion

POV: There’s Another Reason to Flatten the Coronavirus Curve, and It’s One You Haven’t Heard Yet

May 4, 2020

Bicyclists and cars travel along comm ave

Urban Health

Mayors Say Their Cities Are Unsafe for Pedestrians, Cyclists—but Cars Still Rule

January 21, 2020

The evening rush hour traffic heads north and south over Boston’s Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge.

Urban Health

Five Questions Raised by “Seeing Red,” the Boston Globe Series on Traffic

December 16, 2019

A man gardens using a wheel-barrel in the Fenway Victory Gardens

Urban Health

Exploring the Power and Politics of Urban Agriculture

July 8, 2019

Exploring the Power and Politics of Urban Agriculture