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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 19h

I won this last year, nominations open for 2026:

Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 3d

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

LISER's Department of Urban Development and Mobility @liser-udm.bsky.social · 5d

👏 Congrats to Dr. Madalina MEZAROS who successfully defended her PhD thesis "Property, Policy, & Place: #Housing #Inequality & #Gentrification Dynamics in #Luxembourg"

👩‍🎓 @madalinamez.bsky.social was awarded a #PhD degree in #Geography from @uni.lu

🙏 Kudos to supervisor @douccap.bsky.social & jury!

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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 3d

80 degrees Boston today 😎

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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 5d

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...

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.

www.lpm.org

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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 5d

Jim O’Connell talking to my class tonight 😊

Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 7d

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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

Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 8d

Me too xx

Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 8d

Awarded 🤩🤩🤩🤩

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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 9d

About do @madalinamez.bsky.social phd viva 🤩

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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 10d

Slept inside mosquito net to protect ourselves last night 🤣

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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Initiative on Cities @buoncities.bsky.social · 15d

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...

BU Urbanist POV: Shannon Whittaker #bostonuniversity #urban #gentrification

YouTube video by Boston University Initiative on Cities

youtube.com

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 19d

Fitting

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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 19d

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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 19d

So good to have you Hyun, great discussion

Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social · 19d

Live now in Boston hosted by @buoncities.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to discuss this talk by Dr Youjeong Oh on "Development, Dispossession, and Desires in Jeju" today, 18 Sep. 2025. Link to the event here: www.bu.edu/ioc/events/e...

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 20d

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.

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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 23d

The Berkshires are beautiful 😍

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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 25d

Berkshires for our 30th anniversary - Shaker Village

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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 25d

Yes

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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 27d

Geography at its best!

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Initiative on Cities @buoncities.bsky.social · 27d

🔖🥳 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...

Cover of the 2025 Boston University Initiative on Cities Annual Report

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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 28d

Goid luck Sue

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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · 28d

Presenting our Airbnb research to the City of Boston

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