Lead authors of the Menino Survey of Mayors and Assistant Professors of Political Science Katherine Levine Einstein and David Glick‘s article, Cities in American Federalism: Evidence on State–Local Government Conflict from a Survey of Mayors, was published in the acclaimed Publius: The Journal of Federalism. Their article, using data from the Menino Survey of Mayors research project, explores variations in […]
Protecting Our Urban Water Sources: Developing a Solar Energy-Activated Nitrate Reduction Catalyst Associate Professor Linda Doerrer from the Department of Chemistry with Ph.D. candidate Jessica Elinburg were awarded an IOC Early Stage Urban Research Award to advance their vision of creating a sunlight-activated nitrate reduction electrocatalyst for urban water purification. Click here to learn more […]
Protecting Our Urban Water Sources: Developing a Solar Energy-Activated Nitrate Reduction Catalyst Associate Professor Linda Doerrer from the Department of Chemistry with Ph.D. candidate Jessica Elinburg were awarded an IOC Early Stage Urban Research Award to advance their vision of creating a sunlight-activated nitrate reduction electrocatalyst for urban water purification. Doerrer and her lab will […]
We’re proud to share that this summer, we’ll be funding three IOC Summer Fellows in the City of Boston’s Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics; the City of Providence’s Mayor’s Innovation Department; and in New Economy Manchester in the City of Manchester, England. Click here to find out more about our three outstanding fellows!
The IOC is pleased to announce a second paper published by the Boston University team of researchers exploring youth participatory budgeting. Their analysis is part of a broader study examining the scope, structure and functioning of 24 youth councils in the Boston-metro area. Among their findings, authors concluded that youth-led participatory budgeting has potential for […]
The Initiative on Cities is delighted to share The Work Permit Initiative for Syrian Refugees in Jordan: Implications for Policy and Practice, a research and policy report by Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies Masters Candidate Vicky Kelberer. In conjunction with the Boston Consortium on Arab Region Studies and the United Nations High Commissioner […]
Boston University has played a critical role in contributing to two of Boston’s signature climate initiatives: Climate Ready Boston and the Boston Climate Action Plan. The Boston University Initiative on Cities, the Institute for Sustainable Energy, the Pardee Center, and sustainability@BU co-hosted a discussion of these contributions on Wednesday February 22nd. Event recap coming soon.
According to UN-Habitat, Latin America is the most urbanized region in the world. Over 75% of its population lived in cities at the turn of the 21st century and that figure is expected to rise to almost 85% by 2030. Event recap coming soon.
Authors of the 2014, 2015 and 2016 Menino Survey of Mayors, Boston University Political Science Assistant Professors Katherine Levine Einstein and David Glick, recently published research from their interviews with over 70 American mayors in the acclaimed journal, Urban Affairs Review. Their article, Mayors, Partisanship, and Redistribution: Evidence Directly from U.S. Mayors, explores the relationship […]
Authors of the 2014, 2015 and 2016 Menino Survey of Mayors, Boston University Political Science Assistant Professors Katherine Levine Einstein and David Glick, recently published research from their interviews with over 70 American mayors in the acclaimed journal, Urban Affairs Review. Their article, Mayors, Partisanship, and Redistribution: Evidence Directly from U.S. Mayors, explores the relationship […]