Professor Loretta Lees

I won this last year, nominations open for 2026:

A pleasure to be on @madalinamez.bsky.social supervisory team, an excellent PhD 🤩🥳

80 degrees Boston today 😎

Louisville's Anti-Displacement Commission finally gets off the ground The Anti-Displacement Commission will track housing developments that receive city resources to protect residents from gentrification.

Great news!!

Louisville Metro is finally implementing its Anti-Displacement Commission & Assessment Tool!

Well done PUSH Louisville & Jecorey Arthur for keeping pressure on the city, and Louisville Tenants Union for launching the campaign!!

www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

Jim O’Connell talking to my class tonight 😊

Contested meaning of symbolic space in East Asian cities sponsored by @buoncities.bsky.social tonight

Thumping ambition – and demolition: 10 high-rises that changed modern Britain Eyesores and scandalously unsafe? Or utopian housing for the working classes? Here are the stories and scandals behind some of the UK’s most revolutionary homes

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Me too xx

Awarded 🤩🤩🤩🤩

About do @madalinamez.bsky.social phd viva 🤩

Slept inside mosquito net to protect ourselves last night 🤣

Could done without two of these in house last night - like a horror movie as one jumped off door and another crept over grate in fire as pushed screen against it … traumatized

YouTube video by Boston University Initiative on Cities BU Urbanist POV: Shannon Whittaker #bostonuniversity #urban #gentrification

BU Urbanist POV: Meet Shannon Whittaker, a postdoctoral scholar @buciss.bsky.social and @buoncities.bsky.social affiliate whose research intersects gentrification (and urban renewal), race, and health.

📹 youtube.com/shorts/ND2Px...

Fitting

So good to have you Hyun, great discussion

In Athens 26th Sept? Join us for a workshop on Best Practices for Addressing Homelessness Outreach Across Athens, Greece, Manchester U.K., & Santiago, Chile. English translation provided. The event is part of our UKRI Urban Crisis Project and co-sponsored with the Municipality of Athens.

The Berkshires are beautiful 😍

Berkshires for our 30th anniversary - Shaker Village

Yes

Did you see recent paper on fight to get rid of M8

Geography at its best!

Cover of the 2025 Boston University Initiative on Cities Annual Report

🔖🥳 We’re excited to share our 2025 Annual Report!

We deepened our role as an interdisciplinary hub for urbanists, bridging research and practice and expanding connections with partners locally, nationally, and globally.

Read the report: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ok_8...

Goid luck Sue

Presenting our Airbnb research to the City of Boston

Made my Aunts Irish wheaten bread 😊

Waiting for thunderstorm in my storm chaser mode 🤣

If you happen to ever be in #London, dont miss the fantastic hidden gem, the Museum of Homelessness in @finsburyparktmd.bsky.social Park. What an amazing place. It is free - and they serve you coffee, invite you into stories through objects and you will leave wiser & moved
museumofhomelessness.org

I had the honor of winning this last year:

Year 4 started at Boston University - best decision I ever made! 😎