The findings suggest that advancing just transition requires policy mixes, where mitigation measures are explicitly combined with redistributive policies and investments in infrastructure and public services. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“An expansive follow-up to the field-defining Cultivating Food Justice, this edited volume provides an overview of food justice scholar-activism, redefining the field and looking to future theoretical and political futures.” Available now for preorder! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255369...

Psychology of changemaking： “For decades，cities around the world have said they’re too spread out，too cold，too hilly，too car-dependent to make cycling mainstream．Paris proves that narrative wrong．In the end，the French capital didn’t just build bike lanes—it built（the）belief（that change’s possible).”

🎧 NEW: The latest Cities@Tufts episode is here, featuring Tufts University Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning student Ashanee Kottage! Listen to the inspiring talk at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts: www.shareable.net/podcasts/gra...

The CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute hosted a timely and thought-provoking forum to examine the opportunities and challenges of city-owned food retail. Check out this discussion on how cities like NYC can reshape their food systems to promote justice and affordability www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qaE...

Integrating indicators of gender, income, and wealth inequality with data on emissions and resource use, the findings show that increasing concentrations of wealth and income pose real barriers to achieving gender equality, with big environmental consequences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Cities@Tufts Virtual Colloquium exposes a broad base of students, researchers, professionals, organizers, and others who watch our presentations to different urban stories and narratives, ones that challenge the status quo. Check out our 69 videos/Podcasts! www.shareable.net/cities-tufts/

Political, health, and demographic impacts or toolkits on the household scale are under explored. The smaller proportion of complex indicators underscores the need for more sophisticated tools that integrate diverse dimensions or impacts of justice. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The state shows a paradoxical character as it tries to reconcile economic expansion, climate adaptation and development interventions, contributing to changing gender and class structures/relations by reifying heteronormative and capitalistic norms and practices www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Climate risks are now a critical factor in home-buying decisions for many Americans. Yet Zillow has deleted its climate index because of complaints from real estate agents and some homeowners that the rankings are arbitrary, couldn’t be challenged and harmed sales www.theguardian.com/environment/...

An Equity Index illustrates that equitable urban rail-trail development has various components that must work together for trails to be just spaces for the historically excluded. It identifies where equity planning may be improved for existing and future trails. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Incorporating epistemic, restorative, and reparative justice an analytical Infrastructure (in)Justice framework is proposed. The framework further develops the 6 + 1D typology of injustice: Disinvest, Disrespect, Disenfranchise, Dismiss, Distress, and Dispossess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rural women in Uttarakhand are essential in maintaining and adapting ITK in response to climate change, showing the critical role of women’s experiences and traditional knowledge TK in fostering resilient and comprehensive approaches to address climate challenges www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The research applies a knowledge co-creation framework to analyse how local actors serve as intermediaries/translators/brokers/innovators, revealing that knowledge isn't merely transferred re-contextualised through embodied practice, metaphor and social learning www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The storm hit rural Jamaica hardest – people who are poorest/least protected/historically marginalised. The same communities shaped by slavery, colonial extraction, and racialised policies are now on the frontline of climate disaster….we’re not in theory any more www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

This is why I’ve dedicated 27 years of my life (and counting) to this fantastic community of scholars, activists, practitioners, dreamers and doers.. tufts.box.com/s/j2cj6mddx6...

Wow! I guess this is as close as Fox gets to acknowledging the huge potential in city owned grocery stores to alleviate hunger. They do mischievously however say 'city run' which is not true! www.foxnews.com/politics/atl...

By tracing key vocabularies of commoning across diverse contexts, the paper develops a plural understanding of the commons and proposes a tentative framework for connecting different practices without reducing their plurality. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'The Black Forager' posts about finding/cooking wild plants, mushrooms, and seaweed while sharing the historical connection foraging has to African American and Indigenous food traditions. She has 5M followers, and a 2022 James Beard Award for best social media account. now.tufts.edu/2025/11/04/b...

The ‘great carbon divide’ has grown over the past 30 years. Since 1990, the share of emissions of the richest 0.1% has increased by 32%, while the share of the poorest 50% has fallen by 3%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Join Cities@Tufts as we welcome Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani on Wednesday, 10/29 at noon ET! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-cities...

From Hull, Hell and Halifax, and being top of The Guardian’s ‘Crap Map’ to Hull-oh! Great to see my home city being appreciated instead of constantly maligned 😎 www.thehullstory.com/allarticles/...

Proud to have had a role in this Oral History of the Environmental Movement in the UK: 1970 – 2020, with interviews of 100 carefully selected people involved in protests, policies and practical action since the early 1970s www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

My students’ and my Opinion piece in today’s Boston Globe. As post Covid food insecurity is deepened by changes to SNAP, around 40,000 Bostonians will face more challenges. It’s time for cities to get creative. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/21/o...

We offer recommendations for how municipalities may improve practices and reduce racial/ethnic inequalities in access to affordable water. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From Mattapan to the North End, BFFC has opened 13 food forests, with the aim of 30 by 2030—a target shared by the Boston as part of its 2030 Climate Action Plan. More than 525 fruit trees/shrubs, with apples and cherries, alongside pawpaws and serviceberries. insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...

Publicly-owned grocery stores can be structured to prioritize community benefit over profit, enabling lower prices, better food access, and stronger local sourcing, and may operate independently or in partnership with non-profits, cooperatives, or private operators. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

Just got the beautiful cover design of @alisonhopealkon.bsky.social and my companion to our 2011 'Cultivating Food Justice' published by @mitpress.bsky.social It's due out in February next year. Mark your calendars!

Co-production has limits, and can serve to reproduce power structures if emptied of its political, transformatory intent, but we must understand its emancipatory potential as an incremental strategy that has the power to transform urban planning practices. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

This article offers a new framework to classify internal and external food sharing governance elements into 8 categories: structural factors, regulation, resources, discourses, relations between social actors, participation, knowledge, and internal organisation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cities across the US are prioritizing investments in revitalization/walkability/placemaking. What about public restrooms? If they are well-managed/usable, it signals to visitors and residents alike that the surrounding area is safe/dignified and regularly cared for www.planetizen.com/features/136...

Forest transitions are not only ecological but cultural and political processes that negotiate power, identity, and belonging. Urban forest initiatives should prioritise community agency/equity, challenge exclusionary legacies and advance more inclusive frameworks www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We turn to the theory and practice of co-production as one possible intervention into how the relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous placemakers could be conceived and enacted in the urban environment. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Spatial processes play a critical role in creating/shaping/perpetuating inequalities/oppression. We advocate for spatial justice in climate action and offer 8 principles to support a critical perspective on climate change in urban contexts rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Unequal access to renewables, disparate light distribution, and poorly-maintained infrastructure were key concerns. Fears about safety, unreliable energy infrastructure, and risks like fires shaped participants' visions for the future. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My 27th Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (UEP) student Orientation! 70 1st year students aiming to become "Practical Visionaries" - people who dream big, but have their feet firmly on the ground. When I started, we had 1, now we have 4 degrees and we have double the intake!

Take a look at our fantastic Cities@Tufts fall 2025 Virtual Colloquium lineup! First up on September 24, 12-1 Eastern via Zoom, is Dr Monica White (UW Madison). Check back for sign up details for all events.

Our research underscores the potential for parks and reserves to serve as sites of cultural and environmental restoration, enacting ahi kā and reinforcing the vital connection between Māori identity and whenua (land). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Planting trees can cool the air 35% more than installing cool roofs in places where trees can actually be planted. But many of the best places for new trees in Boston aren’t in the neighborhoods that need help. In these neighborhoods, reflective roofs were better. theconversation.com/urban-trees-...

Two Boston streets at 4:30 p.m. recently: Lewis Place, 94 F, Dudley Common, 103 F. Both streets were hot, close together, but the temp on one was far more dangerous to health/well-being. These are islets in the urban heat island. What strategies should we adopt? theconversation.com/inside-an-ur...

Gone is Amtrak’s railfan-in-chief Biden but NextGen Acela promises an American rail renaissance in a moment when federally sponsored trains are fighting for their lives, as Biden’s infrastructure ambitions have fallen to an administration bent on cutting costs. theconversation.com/the-new-next...

This paper identifies “informational justice” as a fourth tenet of Environmental Justice, distinct from distributional, procedural and recognitional forms of justice. It identifies trusted information as foundational although under-acknowledged in the literature. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There is a clear correlation between the number of people of colour living in a neighbourhood and the likelihood of it facing extreme heat during periods of hot weather. This is why the UK government, UK cities should adopt a climate justice-based policy approach. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-eng...

The results show that, for the highest density images shown to participants, there was a statistically significant negative relationship with disgust. This means that people with higher disgust sensitivity found the highest density images significantly less appealing. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Boston’s 2030 Climate Action Plan (CAP) draft is now live. It includes a preliminary list of high-impact climate action strategies and the draft Climate Justice Framework. The next draft - with metrics, partnerships, and implementation pathways - is due Fall 2025. www.boston.gov/departments/...

Indigenous Peoples' exclusion from carbon market decision making is ongoing. Platformed on substantial inequities, marginalisation, and racism, we ask if carbon markets are a new form of colonialism? Are there potential opportunities for Indigenous Peoples? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

From West Oakland to San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunter’s Point neighborhood, the Bay Area has a long history of displacement that has largely been forgotten. The work of a state-wide reparations task-force, as well as local reparations efforts are now shining a light www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How is urban AI altering urban metabolism? Through an Urban Political Ecology lens focusing on energy, water and labour we discuss how the urban metabolisms altered by AI are reproducing uneven dynamics of development leading to different forms of injustice. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I tried Waymo in Tempe, AZ. It works there, from a technical standpoint. A critical difference is that Boston’s streets are challenging. The city lacks a traditional grid system, has many narrow one-way streets, and incorporates heavy pedestrian and cyclist traffic. www.boston.com/news/local-n...