UEP Alum Cara Foster Karim Paints the Brown House
UEP alum (MA ’15) and local artist Cara Foster Karim is wrapping up work on an oil painting of UEP’s HQ – the “Brown House” at 97… Read More »UEP Alum Cara Foster Karim Paints the Brown House
UEP alum (MA ’15) and local artist Cara Foster Karim is wrapping up work on an oil painting of UEP’s HQ – the “Brown House” at 97… Read More »UEP Alum Cara Foster Karim Paints the Brown House
Hot off the press! Professor Hollander has a new book out this week– An Ordinary City: Planning for Growth and Decline in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The book… Read More »New Book by UEP Professor Justin B. Hollander, “An Ordinary City”
Community and university launching a Co-Research/Co-Education (CORE) partnership Tufts University and the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) have launched an innovative, community-based collaboration for teaching… Read More »UEP Enters 3-Year Partnership with Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
On Wednesday, September 20th, Grassroots International hosted a reading and panel discussion with authors of a new book from Food First, entitled Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons in the United States. Held at the Tufts Health Sciences Campus, the event was co-sponsored in part by the Tufts Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy (UEP) program, Friedman Justice League, and Friedman Student Council. Current UEP/AFE dual degree student Kathleen Nay reflects on what she learned.
Read More »On the Present, Past, and the Struggle for Land Justice
Tufts University was recently ranked by Planetizen as the No. 1 Planning Program without a PhD and among the Top 25 overall urban planning programs… Read More »UEP Ranked Among Top Planning Programs in Planetizen
The following post was written by UEP student Tom Nash. Sunshine Week, a nationally celebrated government transparency event held around James Madison’s birthday, usually serves… Read More »Sunshine Week offers lessons in government transparency
Many an Uber driver may say she or he enjoys the flexibility and the freedom of not having to punch in hours. They can work… Read More »Uber drivers beware! How pay structure can be hazardous to your health
The federal government is failing the poor, said John Barros, and this is a time to rethink what is happening on the local level. “We… Read More »BARROS: As social safety nets erode, local entities need to step up
The following piece was submitted by Tufts undergraduate student Sika Gadzanku. At its core, Climate Justice is a social justice and human rights issue. Climate Justice is… Read More »Climate change cannot be separated from social justice, panel says
It has been more urgent than ever for cities to step up and be a voice for its people in the face of the current… Read More »Boston is a place for everyone, says council president Michelle Wu