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Cities@Tufts Lectures

Dec 14, 2021

In this episode of Cities@Tufts Lectures, Vivek Shandas will examine differential climate-induced impacts on urban residents, including those who have been historically marginalized from decision-making processes.

Shandas is a Professor of Climate Adaptation and Founding Director of the Sustaining Urban Places Research...


Nov 23, 2021

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...


Nov 16, 2021

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...


Nov 11, 2021

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...


Nov 2, 2021

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....