Cities@Tufts Lectures

In this week's lecture, Kian Goh speaks about her new book "Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice" (MIT Press 2021). She examines the politics around climate change response strategies in three cities and the mobilization of grassroots activists to fight the perceived injustices and oversights of these plans. Goh explores initiatives such as Rebuild By Design...

Urban greening interventions can create a new set of inequalities for socially vulnerable residents while also failing to eliminate other environmental risks and impacts. In this presentation, Anguelovski and Connolly introduce their new book, "The Green City and Social Injustice," which examines the recent urban environmental trajectory of twenty-one cities in Europe and North America over a 20 y...

The collective racialized forces of over-policing (i.e., policy, planning, law enforcement/policing, and polity) Black physical mobility in the US has led to adverse social, political, economic, and health outcomes that are intergenerational and widespread. This presentation surgically examines the ways in which our approaches to research, planning, policy, and design can and must be reimagined to...

The impact of hazard exposures such as stormwater runoff is rarely evenly felt across a community. Neighborhoods of color, particularly of low-wealth, will often face worse stormwater problems especially in the era of climate change with more frequent and intense stormwater runoff. In this Cities@Tufts open lecture, Dr. Marccus Hendricks will discuss the equity and environmental justice issues rel...

Following the Paris Agreement goals of limiting temperature increase to 2 degrees by 2050 through reduction and balancing of emissions, net zero has recently become a framing concept for global climate action. Different actors, including governments, businesses and civil society have started adopting net zero as a framing concept for climate action. In this Cities@Tufts open lecture, Jessica Omuku...

This presentation will discuss concrete examples of how planners can critically examine land use policy and public engagement tools to ensure inclusive decision-making and equitable outcomes. The talk will highlight case studies from Cambridge, MA, including the recently passed Affordable Housing Overlay and the City's Community Engagement Team, as ways to change the rules of engagement for a more...

This presentation presents the idea of "The Commons" as a framework that could alter ways in which equitable practices landscape architecture and environmental planning, especially with Black communities. In addition to this audio, you can watch the video and read the full transcript of their conversation on  Shareable.net , and while you're there get caught up on past lectures. Cities@Tufts  Lect...

This talk will focus primarily on Pascale's new book ( The $16 Taco ) and her ongoing research on food and gentrification in San Diego and other cities.  In addition to this audio, you can watch the video and read the full transcript of their conversation on Shareable.net , and while you're there get caught up on past lectures. Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our com...

Informal settlements, such as Rio de Janeiro's favelas, are not new and they're not rare. Today, one in three people in cities lives in an informal settlement and 85 percent of all housing worldwide is built illegally. By 2050, nearly a third of humanity will live in urban informal settlements. How can we value informal settlements around the world and integrate them on their own terms into our ur...

Intercultural Urbanism is an approach to city building that is sensitive to cultural and subcultural differences in how people make and use built space.  This episode features a lecture recorded in the fall of 2020 from professor Dean Saitta who explores the history of City Planning from the Ancient World to the Modern Day. Find out more information about Dr. Saitta and his book, "Intercultural Ur...

According to the USDA's latest Household Food Insecurity in the United States report, more than 35 million people in the United States experienced hunger in the year 2019. And that number may have even shot up much higher to 42 million people last year during the pandemic.  For today's episode, we partnered with Let's Move in Libraries and UNC Greensboro's School of Education on a special roundtab...

Cities contain an infinite number of stories, case studies, and tangents that we could never do justice on a podcast series, let alone a single episode.  But today, we'll begin to scratch the surface with a conversation between Kurt Kohlstedt, co-author of The 99% Invisible City and a producer of the 99% Invisible podcast and Lily Linke, the creator of the Foot Notes podcast and a recent Tufts urb...

Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our communities and the opportunities to design for greater equity and justice with professor Julian Agyeman and host Tom Llewellyn .  Collective Governance, an Enabling State, Pooling Economies, Experimentalism, and Technological Justice: these are the five design principles of The Co‐Cities Protocol.  Together, they set up the necess...

Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our communities and the opportunities to design for greater equity and justice with professor Julian Agyeman and host Tom Llewellyn .  While most of us would assume that trees have always been an integral part of our Urban landscapes, that simply isn't the case.  As it turns out, there is a long, controversial, history surrounding tree...

Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our communities and the opportunities to design for greater equity and justice with professor Julian Agyeman and host Tom Llewellyn .  Both tensions and insights emerge when design and environmental labor studies are drawn together.  While design has long been closely allied with fulfilling the needs of capital, Damian White argues tha...

Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our communities and the opportunities to design for greater equity and justice with professor Julian Agyeman and host Tom Llewellyn .  If a doughnut isn't the first thing that pops into your head when you think about saving the planet and fixing the economy, you wouldn't be the only one. But, as it turns out, a doughnut might be just w...

Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our communities and the opportunities to design for greater equity and justice with professor Julian Agyeman and host Tom Llewellyn .  This week, we're excited to hear from professor Setha Low who traces her journey from the ethnographic study of the Latin American plaza and the development of the theory of spatializing culture to beco...

Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our communities and the opportunities to design for greater equity and justice with professor Julian Agyeman and host Tom Llewellyn. While you may want to stretch your legs so to speak after months of lockdown, keeping some new, pandemic-inspired aspects of local life and even deepening them collectively will be needed to combat system...

Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our communities and the opportunities to design for greater equity and justice with professor Julian Agyeman and host Tom Llewellyn. This week we're fortunate to have Greg Watson on the show who tells the collective history of organizing for food sovereignty in and around the City of Boston.  With over 40 years to cover in just 40 minu...

We're collectively experiencing an epochal moment when humanity and the earth face unprecedented existential challenges. How can we value what matters for the common good and transcend dominant city-making paradigms in this context? A sacred civics invites us to recognize the spiritual and sacred dimensions in people and cities and to imagine reshaping our settlements as life-centered places, wher...

Today, we are beyond delighted to welcome Isabelle Anguelovski to be our first speaker of this series. She's the founder and director of the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability ( www. BCNUEJ.org ). Isabelle has links to the Boston area. She did her Ph. D. in Urban Studies and Planning at MIT before returning to Europe in 2011 with a Marie Curie International Incoming F...

Tufts University and Shareable.net present Cities@Tufts , a special eight-session series exploring community innovations in urban planning. The live discussions are moderated by professor Julian Agyeman and the podcast is hosted by Shareable's Tom Llewellyn . The sessions will focus on topics such as Environmental justice vs White Supremacy in the 21st century; Sacred Civics: What would it mean to...