Professor Loretta Lees

As Massachusetts’ megaprojects executive director, Luisa Paiewonsky (MET’96) is leading long-range efforts to reconfigure the Massachusetts Turnpike near BU and to replace the two bridges linking Cape Cod to the mainland.

As Massachusetts’ megaprojects executive director, Luisa Paiewonsky (MET’96) is leading long-range efforts to reconfigure the Massachusetts Turnpike near BU and to replace the two bridges linking Cape Cod to the mainland.

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You need to push at US universities too that geography is the only longtime trans/inter disciplinary discipline - US universities are only waking up to the need for this but tenure gets in the way and needs to be rethought.

Thank you @weather.bsky.social for having me on to talk about North: The Future of Post-Climate America (Oxford University Press, December 2025). Check-out clip here: www.keenanclimate.com/north-book

Ken Kolb named to cohort of inaugural ASA Policy Outreach Fellows Ken Kolb is part of a 10-member inaugural team tasked with strengthening connections between the American Sociological Association and legislative offices, think tanks and policymakers who craft publi...

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Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’ The head of Google’s DeepMind says artificial intelligence could usher in an era of ‘incredible productivity’ and ‘radical abundance’. But who will it benefit? And why does he wish the tech giants had...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’ Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the ‘largest giveaways in UK history’

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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"HOPE VI, Colonization, and the Production of Difference" by James Curtis Fraser, Ashley Brown Burns, Joshua Theodore Bazuin, and Deirdre Áine Oakley, UAR 49(4), 2012.
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Canadian Wildfire Smoke Makes Minneapolis And Chicago Among World’s Worst Polluted Cities Air quality alerts have been issued across most of the Midwest, and hundreds of wildfires are burning across Canada.

Air quality alerts have been issued across most of the Midwest, and hundreds of wildfires are burning across Canada.

UAA Publishing Fellows Program (deadline=8/18/25) The Scholar Development Editors (SDEs) of the Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA), which is sponsored by the Urban Affairs Association (UAA), will host the UAA Publishing Fellows Program from August 2025 t...

📚Apply for the UAA Publishing Fellows Program (application deadline=8/18/25) urbanaffairsassociation.org/2025/07/29/u...

Consider also how few professional women feel they have any safe margin to allow for mistakes or mediocrity in their work (both risks of AI-generated output). Especially in male-dominated fields, women can’t afford to use a machine that shits the bed even 5% of the time

How ‘before gentrification’ (from Charles Booth's poverty maps) fed into gentrification on Portland Road, Kensington. Source: Diagram courtesy of the BBC. An aerial photograph illustrating average property prices on Portland Road in 2012 alongside Charles Booth's poverty map of the same street in 1898.

#OpenAccess in Transactions:

'A gentrification stage-model for London? Through the "looking Glass" of Kensington' by @lorettaclees.bsky.social & @shardarozena.bsky.social

This paper looks at the different stages of gentrification in London, using Kensington as a lens.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Pre-Order Today...North: The Future of Post-Climate America...Oxford University Press (2025) @norththebook.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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‘Cult of convenience’: how Tokyo’s retro shotengai arcades are falling victim to gentrification Across Japan covered shopping arcades are in a losing battle against property developers, depopulation and consumer culture

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published Mainstream mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention It was, at first glance, just another scientific paper, one of the millions published every year, and destined to receive little to no attention outside the arcane field of biological signalling in stem cells destined to become sperm. But soon after the paper was published online, in the journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, it found a global audience. Not all of the readers came for the science. Continue reading...

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published

Day 3 Orkney islands, beautiful 😎

Sanday today

Orkneys for few days, Ring of Brodgar today

The Mediterranean Sea is experiencing a record-smashing heat wave Water temperatures have surged above 85 degrees in the Mediterranean Sea, where records have been broken every day for weeks.

A prolonged, record-smashing marine heat wave is scorching the Mediterranean, where water temperatures have hit levels unprecedented for the early summer.

We're excited to be a founding member of the freshly launched Global Alliance on Sustainable Urban Societies!

The Alliance is formed around a shared vision of interdisciplinary and human-centred urban research.

Learn more: news.smu.edu.sg/news/2025/07...

So enjoying this event 😁

Global Alliance signed: @buoncities.bsky.social w/ SMU Urban Institute, School of Cities Toronto, Melbourne Center for Cities & LSE Geography and Environment

Sadiq - could learn from Boston - done some good things

Renovating Modernism. Less is More: The demolition of the Heygate Estate Monday, 30 June 2025 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm It is now over ten years since the Heygate Estate in Southwark was demolished. A panel of experts will discuss what we have learnt from this.

On a panel at this tonight: isokongallery.org/blogs/events...

Heatwaves in June made 10 times more likely due to climate change As our climate warms, the number of June days reaching 28C plus is increasing.

www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
And what do they expect, in 12 years it’s going to be averaging mid forties. The government does nothing. It keeps me awake at night thinking what future the kids have. 😔

Extreme heat grips southern Europe as temperatures surpass 100 degrees Portugal is expected to see highs of up to 109 degrees Fahrenheit. Parts of Spain, France, Italy and Greece are also bracing for extreme heat.

Across Portugal, Spain and France, some areas could exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the coming days, the result of a hot-air mass that recently brought record-breaking heat and humidity to the eastern United States, and another from Africa.

Leaving my home town of Manchester, lovely few days of meetings with @ctemenos.bsky.social Kevin Ward, Paola Jiron etc