Tufts University and Shareable.net present Cities@Tufts, a free 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 build seven generation cities; Organizing for Food Sovereignty; From Spatializing Culture to Social Justice and Pu ...
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A student-run podcast group, that looovvesss radio, stories, and happiness.
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A bunch of Jumbos talking about the the campus' favorite new sport
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Decolonizing Climate and Energy Policy with Noel Healy
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Addressing the climate crisis requires more than incremental reforms; it necessitates a transformative approach that dismantles deep-seated inequalities and confronts the historical injustices embedded in global structures. Achieving global climate justice hinges on decolonizing fossil fuel politics and dismantling obstructionist forces at both nat…
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Mobilizing Food Vending with Ginette Wessel
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Throughout US history, street food vending has rarely been considered an improvement to modern society or its capitalist economy. However, beginning in 2008, a new generation of mobile vendors serving high-quality, inventive foods became popular among affluent populations. Ginette Wessel’s new book, Mobilizing Food Vending: Gourmet Food Trucks in t…
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Reimagining Urban Planning with Jose Richard Aviles
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Reimagining Urban Planning is a talk based on the monthly webinar series of the same name hosted by the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley. This talk openly critiques the ways in which Urban Planners have been trained and the impacts it has had in the ways Planners approach the Land, and the People that inhabit the land. This talk will…
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Urban Environmental Marronage: Connecting Black Ecologies with Charisma Acey
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Urban Environmental Marronage: Connecting Black Ecologies from Coastal Nigeria to the American South explores how marginalized communities in coastal Nigeria and the American South draw upon historical practices of marronage to create autonomous spaces and combat environmental degradation within cities. Marronage refers to the practices of enslaved…
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Hacking the Archive: The Quest for More Just Urban Futures with Karilyn Crockett
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Hacking the Archive: The Quest for More Just Urban Futures with Karilyn Crockett explores a Boston-based project that gamifies collective memory-driven social research and local knowledge sharing to anchor the intergenerational creation of future urban plans. Hacking the Archive (HTA) is a coalition of two dozen civic, faith-based and archival inst…
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Urban Mobility for Human Autonomy with Peter Norton
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Measured by distance and speed, today North Americans move more than ever. Movement, however, is but a means to an end; more movement is not in itself beneficial. Movement is a cost of meeting daily needs, and provided these needs are met, less movement is generally advantageous. Nevertheless, since the 1930s traffic engineers have pursued movement…
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Social Cooperative Academy: Why social coops offer potential transformation of care and more
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Cities@Tufts is still on our summer break, but we have a special offering for you this month. For the past eight weeks, Shareable has co-hosted the Social Cooperative Academy with the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center and several other partners. Social cooperatives remain relatively obscure in the United States, despite thriving in various c…
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Architects Without Frontiers: A Journey from Divided Cities to Zones of Fragility with Professor Esther Charlesworth
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Professor Esther Charlesworth’s talk for the Boston Salon on May 1, 2024 focused on her nomadic design journey across the last three decades. In trying to move from just theorizing about disaster architecture to designing and delivering projects for at-risk communities globally, Esther started both Architects Without Frontiers (Australia) and ASF (…
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Consuming the Creative City: Gastrodevelopment in a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy with Eden Kinkaid
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Scholars have recently coined the term “gastrodevelopment” to refer to the leveraging of food culture as a resource and strategy of economic development. Drawing on a case study of Tucson, Arizona – the United States’ first UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy – Kinkaid uses the lens of gastrodevelopment to examine how food culture is transformed int…
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How Local Governments Can Work with Grassroots Initiatives for Sustainability Transitions
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In cities across the world grassroots initiatives organize alternative forms of provisioning, e.g. food sharing networks, energy cooperatives and repair cafés. Some of these are recognized by local governments as engines in sustainability transitions. In this talk, I will discuss different ways that local governments interact with, and use, such gr…
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Reciprocal Relations: The Coevolution Between Planning and Constitutional Rights: The Case of London with Orwa Switat
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Minorities in cities worldwide confront disparities, advocating for rights within a dynamic interplay of urban planning and constitutional legal frameworks. How does the coevolution between planning and legal frameworks shape the status of minorities? This lecture will dissect the coevolution of British constitutional rights and the status of minor…
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Advancing Urban Planning with the Community Capital Compass with Mark Roseland
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Contemporary planning approaches often fall short in addressing the cascading environmental, economic, and social issues planners and their communities face. Planners need comprehensive, forward-thinking approaches that prioritize sustainability, equity, and inclusivity. Mark Roseland’s new book, Toward Sustainable Communities: Solutions for Citize…
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How to Fight a Mega-Jail with Maya Singhal
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In 2017, New York City committed to a plan to close Rikers Island Jail Complex and build four smaller jails around the city in Manhattan’s Chinatown, Downtown Brooklyn, Mott Haven in the Bronx, and Kew Gardens in Queens. The Chinatown jail is planned to be built on the site of the current jail in the neighborhood, but rather than repurposing or rem…
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Here There Be Dragons: Urban Research Methods with Jess Myers
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In this Cities@Tufts episode, Myers discusses her eight years working on the research, design, and production of the urbanism podcast Here There Be Dragons. HTBD starts with residents first and seeks to forefront methods from the social sciences as crucial techniques in the analysis of the built environment. The podcast covers one city per season. …
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Co-Design in Global Development Data Initiatives with Dana R. Thomson
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What is co-design, and what does it look like in global initiatives that produce data about development indicators? Projects that strive for inclusivity might hold well-designed multi-stakeholder engagement workshops throughout a project but still see limited local uptake of their data in the end. Why are multi-stakeholder workshops usually not eno…
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Infrastructure Apartheid to Liberatory Infrastructures with Maya Elizabeth Carrasquillo
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"Infrastructure Apartheid to Liberatory Infrastructures" - this phrase highlights a fundamental shift in our framing of both harms and solutions, respectively, from individual and direct, to systemic and distributed. Dr. Carrasquillo and the Liberatory Infrastructures Labs' aim, as they continue to not only challenge the theoretical framings but al…
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The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Democratizing Power
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Welcome to the second episode of the Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Democratizing Power. This a special series of episodes that we've been sharing over the summer until Cities@Tufts officially resumes for our fourth season in the Fall. Over the course of our lecture series, we’ve talked a lot about the crucial role that community plays i…
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Urban Agriculture, Racial and Economic Equity: Action Research for Food and Social Justice with Kristin Reynolds
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Urban agriculture has a long and diverse history throughout the world. Its health, social, and economic benefits for communities have been the subject of many studies and advocacy efforts seeking recognition of urban food production as a legitimate use of city space and as “real” agriculture. In the US, the past decade has seen policy support for u…
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The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Politics and Policy
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Welcome to the third episode of the Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Democratizing Power. This a special series of episodes that we've been sharing over the summer until Cities@Tufts officially resumes for our fourth season in the Fall. We are living through an historic moment where a number of crises-- climate change, growing economic and…
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The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership
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We have a special series of episodes that we’ll be sharing over the next few months between now and when Cities@Tufts officially resumes for our fourth season in the Fall. Over the course of our lecture series, we’ve talked a lot about the crucial role that community plays in building alternatives to capitalistic models of access, resource distribu…
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Co-designing publics: Radical democracy and transformative urbanisms with Aseem Inam
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Globally, contemporary cities face seemingly insurmountable challenges such as urban inequality, inadequate infrastructure, climate crisis, and increasingly, threats to democracy. In the face of such challenges, the Dr. Aseem Inam introduces the concept of "co-designing publics" by examining what lies at the potent intersection of the public realm …
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Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done with Steve Kadish and Barbara Kellerman
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Distilled into a four-step framework, Results is the much-needed implementation guide for anyone in public service, as well as for leaders and managers in large organizations hamstrung by bureaucracy and politics. With a broad range of examples, Baker, a Republican, and Kadish, a Democrat, show how to move from identifying problems to achieving res…
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Whose diversity? Race, space, and planning with Yasminah Beebeejaun
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European cities have increasingly highlighted diversity as a marker of their progressive status. A growing field of research argues that “super-diverse” neighborhoods exemplify a normalization of ethnic and racial difference as a positive facet of everyday life. However, contemporary manifestations of urban diversity cannot be disentangled easily f…
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Public Space: Paradoxes, Possibilities, and Propositions with Vikas Mehta
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Public spaces are symbolic urban icons. Cities compete with their public spaces, often using them as tools for commodification to attract capital and labor. At the same time, public space is an expansive common social and material realm and the past decades have erased any doubts of the resurgence of public space in its political form. This is a go…
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Communities responding to extreme weather with Reverend Vernon K. Walker
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On Today's show we explore how communities respond to extreme weather with Rev. Vernon K. Walker. Research has shown, over and over, how communities that are more connected fare much better doing periods of acute disaster. The more robust relationships and networks of solidarity that exist within communities, the more likely they are to weather the…
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Countering Displacement through Collective Memory with Andrea Roberts
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In the decades following the Civil War, recently emancipated people created freedom colonies through intentional and tactical design, ensuring refuge from political repression and violence. However, most freedom colonies were founded in ecologically vulnerable landscapes, making them disproportionately susceptible to flooding and other natural disa…
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A Reflection on Cities@Tufts with Julian Agyeman
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In this Cities@Tufts presentation, we turn the microphone around and interview Cities@Tufts colloquium host, Julian Agyeman. Join us as Julian reflects on the origins of the series, highlights some of the most memorable moments, and underscores the importance of Cities@Tufts as a cutting-edge, indispensable resource. In addition to this audio, you …
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Three Models of Reparative Planning: A Comparative Analysis with Rashad Williams
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This week on Cities@Tufts, Rashad Williams presents "Three Models of Reparative Planning: A Comparative Analysis." In this presentation we explore reparative planning. As cities and states continue to experiment with reparations for the historical legacies of slavery and Jim Crow, an enduring question remains: how should subnational, particularly m…
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Planetary Gentrification: Impacts and Futures with Loretta Lees
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This week on Cities@Tufts, Loretta Lees presents "Planetary Gentrification: Impacts and Futures". In this presentation, we explore the phenomenon of planetary gentrification. What is it? Where in the world has it occurred geography and spatially? When did it occur? What have the impacts been? And critically — what might its future look like? In add…
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Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy with Jennie Stephens
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This week on Cities@Tufts, Jennie C. Stephens presents "Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy". In this presentation, we explore why climate policies that are transformative require integrating sacred, humanistic dimensions so that society can move beyond the narrow, patriarchal technocratic lens of c…
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What is planetary gentrification and its tangible effects? Has institutionalized white supremacy led to isolationist attempts at addressing our climate crisis? And could reparative urban planning be the key to addressing distributive, structural injustices? These are just a few of the questions we’ll be exploring on Season 3 of Cities@Tufts. Here’s…
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Gaming the System: Role-playing Spatial and Political Change with Quilian Riano
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This week on Cities@Tufts, Quilian Riano presents "Spatial and Political Change". In this presentation, we explore examples of work that look at how spatial games — defined as processes with loose rules for others to interpret and execute as they see fit — can become design tools to broaden the socio-spatial imagination and conversation. In additio…
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The Energy Equity Project with Kyle Whyte and Justin Schott
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This week on Cities@Tufts, Kyle White and Justin Schott present on The Energy Equity Project. The Energy Equity Project is working to create a framework for measuring equity across energy efficiency and clean energy programs among utilities, state regulatory agencies, and other practitioners, while engaging and centering Black, Brown, and Indigenou…
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Transportation Inequities with Tamika Butler
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This week on Cities@Tufts, Tamika Butler presents "Transportation Inequities: What's Data Got to do With It?" How have white supremacy and structural racism shaped transportation and the built environment throughout the history of the United States? And how does engagement, data, and policy add to these disparities and challenge us all to think abo…
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Punitive and Cooperative Cities with Stacey Sutton
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This week on Cities@Tufts, Stacey Sutton presents: Punitive and Cooperative Cities. The City of Chicago’s automated traffic enforcement fines and fees are disproportionately borne by Black, Latinx, and low-income residents. Simultaneously, Chicago is on the precipice of implementing one of the largest community wealth building initiatives in the co…
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Collective Land Governance for a Changing Climate with Linda Shi
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This week on Cities@Tufts, Lind Shi presents: Collective Land Governance for a Changing Climate. Human civilization is headed towards a collision between rapidly changing conditions of land under climate change and static institutions governing land and property. Contemporary development models are predicated on Western European land ethics, proper…
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Urban heat resilience: Governing an invisible hazard with Sara Meerow
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In this episode of Cities@Tufts Lectures, Sara Meerow synthesizes the current state of extreme heat governance research and practice and outlines a framework for urban heat resilience. Meerow leads the Planning for Urban Resilience Lab at Arizona State University and some of her research group’s current projects focus on planning for extreme heat, …
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Fahrenheit 911: Heat, Cities, and Climate Literacy from the Ground Up with Vivek Shandas
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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 Lab (SUPR Lab) at Portland St…
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From Urban Resilience to Climate Justice with Kian Goh
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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. G…
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The Green City and Social Injustice with Isabelle Anguelovski & James Connolly
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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-…
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Arrested Mobility: Exploring the Impacts of Over-Policing Black Mobility in the U.S. with Charles T. Brown
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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…
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Unequal Protection Revisited: Planning for Environmental Justice, Hazard Vulnerability, and Critical Infrastructure in Communities of Color with Marccus Hendricks
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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 discu…
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Climate action in the Global South: is net zero (sufficiently) inclusive? with Jessica Omukuti
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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…
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The New Rules of (Planning) Engagement: Restructuring Planning Processes to Ensure Inclusive Decision-Making and Equitable Outcomes by Melissa Peters
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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…
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The Commons: Land, Property, Information, and Landscape Agency with Kofi Boone
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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 ge…
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Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification with Pascale Joassart-Marcelli
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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 ex…
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Rethinking the Future of Housing Worldwide: Favelas as a Sustainable Model with Theresa Williamson
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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…
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Intercultural Urbanism: City Planning from the Ancient World to the Modern Day
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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…
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How public libraries are part of the solution to food insecurity
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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 Green…
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The past, present, and future state of cities with Kurt Kohlstedt from 99% Invisible
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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…
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