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Initiative on Cities

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🏙️🚶🚋🚎🚲 Interdisciplinary Center for Urban Research & Learning @bostonu.bsky.social. Work in, on, and with cities locally to globally. Led by Director @lorettaclees.bsky.social. 🔗 https://www.bu.edu/ioc/

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Japonica Brown-Saracino@jbrownsaracino.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm very much looking forward to this event at Boston University on February 4th! Thanks to the Initiative on Cities for organizing! bsky.app/profile/buon...

Initiative on Cities@buoncities.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Join us for the launch of our Gentrification & Urban Displacement Lab (GUDL), featuring a discussion with @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social on her new book "The Death & Life of Gentrification!" 🕒 February 4, 2026, 3:00 – 5:00 PM 📍 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 🔗 bu.edu/ioc/ideas-to-action

Join the Boston University Initiative on Cities for the launch of the Gentrification & Urban Displacement Lab (GUDL) – a new hub bringing together faculty, students, practitioners, and community partners committed to understanding urban change, culture, and inequality. At the center of the launch is a discussion of Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino’s important new book, The Death and Life of Gentrification. Brown-Saracino explores how the term “gentrification” has evolved far beyond Ruth Glass’s original meaning – shifting from a description of neighborhood change to a socially charged metaphor for cultural appropriation, upscaling, and the loss of authenticity. Drawing on film, literature, journalism, and art, the book illuminates how gentrification has become a lens through which we understand transformations in everyday life and popular culture. Brown-Saracino will be joined by Karilyn Crockett (MIT), Lawrence Vale (MIT), and Stephanie Ternullo (Harvard University) for a conversation on the book. Following the discussion, the program will feature lightning talks showcasing recent BU research on gentrification and displacement, as well as next steps for GUDL. Learn more and register on our website at bu.edu/ioc/ideas-to-action
Initiative on Cities@buoncities.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🧋 🍵 Boba’s been popping off lately in Boston, especially in the Chinatown area. We ventured out for sweet drinks and to examine the impacts—and signs of commercial gentrification (boba-ification)—as consumers and businesses shift toward new products and tastes. 🔗 youtube.com/shorts/1WpPb...

🧋 🍵 Boba’s been popping off in Boston with signs of commercial gentrification (boba-ification)

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Dr. Kathryn Atherton@k8eatherton.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🌳 Big news! My paper “Disruption of the oak tree microbiome with urbanization” is now out in Nature Cities! 🏙️🌿 Cities are full of life we don’t see, including microbes that live in and on trees. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Disruption of the oak tree microbiome with urbanization - Nature Cities

Urbanization disrupts oak tree microbiomes by reducing beneficial fungi and increasing plant and human pathogens across leaves, roots and soils, with consequences for tree health, urban climate mitiga...

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