DUSP in the Media: July, August 2024
Photo courtesy PBS via Planning Magazine
Bloomberg, How Subway Riders Will Pay for NYC’s Congestion Pricing Halt
DUSP’s Jim Aloisi is tapped for insight in David Zipper’s piece on the impact of the $15 billion shortfall in funding for New York’s MTA due to the forestalling of NYC’s Congestion Pricing. More...
Al Jazeera, Holding Israel to account for destruction of housing in Gaza
Balakrishnan Rajagopal is interviewed on Al Jazeera’s The Bottom Line on domicide, international law and Third World approaches to international law (TWAIL). More...
Boston Globe, Cities are razing homeless camps acrossUS. Advocates want New Bedford to build one.
Balakrishnan Rajagopal offers insights on the challenges of unhoused encampments in John Hilliard’s Boston Globe piece detailing attempts to provide safe and adequate housing in the US. More...
Planning Magazine, 'King Coal' Unearths Appalachia’s Entanglement with Extraction
Ezra Glenn reviews a new PBS documentary that documents the rise and fall of the coal industry in West Virginia, moving beyond a historical lens to focus on the future of the industry, lifestyle, and place. More...
CommonWealth Beacon, Bike lane brouhaha a test of Boston’s resolve
Jim Aloisi writes on the opportunity to move beyond the status quo of autocentric thinking and design to support and nurture additional modes of mobility in Greater Boston through protected and dedicated cycling networks. More...
Big Issue, 'You can't criminalise your way out of homelessness': UN expert warns of politicians attacking rough sleepers
Balakrishnan Rajagopal’s new study finding growing evidence that people experiencing homelessness and poverty are facing criminal penalties for simply sleeping, washing, cooking, eating, begging and working on the street is highlighted in Sam Gelder’s piece. More...
ACSP, Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation on International Planning
DUSP alumna Aarthi Janakiraman (PhD ‘24) is named the winner of the Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation on International Planning which recognizes superior scholarship in a doctoral dissertation completed by a student enrolled in an ACSP-member school. More...
ACSP, Don Schön Award for Excellence in Learning from Practice
DUSP alumna Mariama N'Diaye (MCP ‘24) is named the winner of the Don Schön Award for Excellence in Learning from Practice, recognizing written graduate work demonstrating excellence in the writer’s personal and/or professional learning from practice and in the analysis of that learning. More...
BBC News, "Las plataformas como Airbnb o Booking aumentan la crisis de vivienda, pero las razones que la provocan son otras"
Balakrishnan Rajagopal is interviewed on the BBC World’s coverage of how platforms such as Airbnb are exacerbating the housing crisis. More...