I’m excited to participate in this upcoming conference on March 29 at Boston College (home of the Jane Jacobs Papers) that considers what Jacobs’ ideas can offer the City of Boston as it prepares for climate change.

Ten years after “Snowmageddon” buried Boston in 2015, I look back at that long couple of months and how winter in the city is changing.

WBUR Cognoscenti, February 6. 2025

See me in Somerville! I'll be speaking at Porter Square Books on October 27 about Climate Change and Cities as part of its Be the Change series.

As more of us adopt an air-conditioned lifestyle in places that once didn’t require it, we face a larger moral question: How can we properly respond to a warming world that we don’t personally experience?

WBUR Cognoscenti, August 27, 2024

Imagining and creating better cities requires seeing cities as nature, not separate from it.

Boston Globe, July 13, 2023

As the Graduate Student Speaker at the University of Massachusetts Graduate Commencement Ceremony on May 27, 2022, I discussed how my research on Boston’s waterfront helped me to connect more to my community, my city, and my natural environment.

I participate in an interdisciplinary panel discussion that explores sea level rise and its implications for coastal areas, including cities like Boston.

John F. Kennedy Library Forum

An interactive tour of one of the most important maps in the history of Boston Harbor's environmental management.

Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center

To save itself from sea level rise, Boston may need to rely on a practice it put in the past: filling the shoreline. That will require thoughtful changes to regulations, I argue in an opinion piece.

WBUR Cognoscenti, June 15, 2021

One of the legacies of Boston’s history of redlining and racial segregation is a large number of vacant lots in neighborhoods with large populations of Black residents, such as parts of Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan.

Boston Harbor is subject to tides as large as 12 feet, and most of its original tidal flats were filled in the late 1800s. As sea level rises, storm surges combined with high tide are putting more and more of downtown Boston at risk of flooding. Journalist Courtney Humphries and Host Steve Curwood discuss.

For much of its history, Boston was a maritime city -- is it still? I explore the question with John Duff.

ArchitectureBoston, March 1, 2018