Current Project Director of The Welcome Project and UEP alum, Warren Goldstein-Gelb, has created a new podcast called B-Change, highlighting emerging leaders in social change.… Read More »Warren Goldstein-Gelb’s Theory of Social Change
Last Thursday (March 21, 2019), five UEP students in the Data Science for Urban Sustainability (UEP294-8) course and Professor Shan Jiang boarded an early train… Read More »UEP in the Field: A Whirlwind Trip to NYC Department of Parks and Recreation
Jaroslav Koutsky and Zhou Kai, two Fulbright scholars from the Czech Republic and China respectively, are working on research for Tufts UEP for the academic… Read More »Two Fulbright Scholars Take On Tufts
Note: This post originally appeared on UEP Senior Lecturer and Director of Community Practice Penn Loh’s personal blog. How does community participation influence community development… Read More »Tufts UEP and Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Awarded 2-year Federal Community Action Research Grant
Bridgette Wallace, MPP ’11, is a public health worker – turned urban planner – turned social entrepreneur. Like a genre-defying musical act, her work crosses borders and breaks boundaries throughout Boston and the Commonwealth. Her most recent project, G | Code House, has been featured in Boston Magazine,… Read More »Bridgette Wallace Refuses to Define Her Reach
[Post written by Zoë Ackerman with generous insights from her team members, Alice Maggio, David Morgan and Nicole Huang. Originally posted on the personal blog… Read More »Preparing Soil, Planting Seeds: Community Land Trusts for Urban Farms
Re-posted with permission, this article is a collaboration of Barcelona Laboratory for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ) lab members Isabelle Anguelovski (a thesis reader for… Read More »Excerpt: Global Cities Like Barcelona and Boston Reveal Health Risks of Gentrification
Since 2002, UEP has offered a mid-career Master of Public Policy degree program for seasoned practitioners with at least 7 years of relevant experience. Each… Read More »Introducing our 2018 Mid-Career MPP Cohort
Note: this article is based on Allison’s 2018 master’s thesis for the Tufts University Department of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning: Extending Community Control over… Read More »Owning Main Street: Three Finance Innovations for Community Control of Development
Note: this post was originally featured on the personal blog of Penn Loh, UEP’s Senior Lecturer and Director of Community Practice. Teaching Democracy is a train-the-trainers program… Read More »Teaching Democracy: Popular Education Training 2018