On Tuesday June 4th, IOC Co-Director Katharine Lusk spoke on a panel co-hosted by the Boston University School of Public Health, Initiative on Cities, AcademyHealth, and de Beaumont Foundation. Titled, “A Conversation About Cities and Health,” the panel, hosted by Sandro Galea, Dean of the School of Public Health, and moderated by Lisa Simpson, the […]
Tori is a rising senior at Boston University majoring in Political Science and minoring in Philosophy. She has previously worked for WaterFront Center in New York, where she worked with children to teach them the importance of environmental conservation. She interned at Environment America, where she worked on a campaign focused on committing college campuses […]
On May 28th, the Initiative on Cities welcomed Lasse Bundgaard, a Visiting Researcher from the Copenhagen Business School and Copenhagen Solutions Lab, to discuss his research on Smart City Solutions and public-private partnerships. He presented the results from his paper with Susana Borras, “Diffusion of Public-Private Innovations: Conditions for Scaling Up Smart City Projects,” which […]
Kevin is currently pursuing a master’s in Urban Affairs with special interest in urban inequalities and capacity building. Before entering the program, he consulted for Banking clients focusing on projects to mitigate risk, eliminate inefficiencies and improve customer experience. Kevin graduated from University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth with a BS in Accounting. He will be a fellow […]
Natalia Chavez is the Communications and Outreach Director at Urbanability, a Boston-based non-profit organization that focuses on empowering underserved communities from an urban planning perspective. She recently worked at the Harvard Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation where she worked on democracy programming and the legislative negotiation project. Previously, Natalia served as a Research […]
PI: Andrea Beltran-Lizarazo, PhD Student; Department of Sociology This project will explore the development of open-air drug markets in Colombia, where actors in the drug trade exert territorial control over central areas within cities. Specifically, Andrea Beltran Lizarazo will study the case of San Bernardo, in downtown Bogota, to understand what mechanisms benefited drug trade […]
PI: Julia Raifman, ScD; Assistant Professor, Health Law, Policy & Management, School of Public Health Co-PI: Michael Ulrich, JD, MPH; Assistant Professor, Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, Health Law, Policy & Management, School of Public Health Mentor: Michael Siegel, MD; Professor, Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health The United States is characterized by inequities that […]
In Spring 2019, the Initiative on Cities issued its fifth Request for Proposals to support early stage academic research endeavors focused on urban challenges and urban populations, both domestic and global. We received applications from 15 schools and departments at BU and we are thrilled to announce we have funded a total of 13 projects […]
PI: Lei Guo, Assistant Professor, Division of Emerging Media Studies, College of Communication Co-PI: Yiyan Zhang, PhD student; Division of Emerging Media Studies, College of Communication City marketing works as a foundation for local residents to understand and identify with municipal policies and is used to alter the perception of a city among outsiders to encourage […]
PI: Erica Walker, MSc, ScD; Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health Co-PI: Richard Primack, PhD; Professor, Department of Biology Sound pollution in urban areas can cause physical and mental health problems which disproportionately affect poor and underserved communities; it can reduce the cultural vitality of outdoor areas; and it can harm wildlife. The investigators […]