Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪 (@lorettaclees) 's Twitter Profile
Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪

@lorettaclees

Director of the Initiative on Cities, Boston University. Lives Boston/London. 2 amazing daughters & lovely nephew. #firstgen

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Only In Boston (@onlyinbos) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Waymo, the self-driving car company operating in cities like Austin and SF, arrived in Boston this month to start mapping streets—paving the way for future driverless rides.

Initiative on Cities (@buoncities) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're proud to announce the 2025 recipients of our 11th request for proposals for the Early Stage Urban Research Awards. These seed grants support early-stage academic research focused on urban challenges and urban populations across various disciplines and scopes. 🧵⬇️

We're proud to announce the 2025 recipients of our 11th request for proposals for the Early Stage Urban Research Awards. 

These seed grants support early-stage academic research focused on urban challenges and urban populations across various disciplines and scopes.

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Richard Yeboah (@ricyeboah) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🎉🚨PUBLICATION DAY🚨🎉 FROM HACKNEY, WITH LOVE: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GENTRIFICATION IS OUT TODAY! This is a memoir for Hackney's communities both old and new, exploring the impact of gentrification over the last few decades You can purchase the book here:

🎉🚨PUBLICATION DAY🚨🎉

FROM HACKNEY, WITH LOVE: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GENTRIFICATION IS OUT TODAY! 

This is a memoir for Hackney's communities both old and new, exploring the impact of gentrification over the last few decades 

You can purchase the book here:
The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Downtown Boston could see a lot more skyscrapers if new zoning guidelines for the region’s core business district are approved. trib.al/ss0Q5dY

Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪 (@lorettaclees) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Treat social housing as critical infrastructure to unlock billions, says Peabody boss | Social housing | The Guardian theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

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Storrow Drive takes its name from James Storrow, who championed the creation of the Charles River Basin and the preservation of its banks as public parkland — but never supported building a parkway along the river. His widow, Helen Storrow, actively opposed it. 🖤

Storrow Drive takes its name from James Storrow, who championed the creation of the Charles River Basin and the preservation of its banks as public parkland — but never supported building a parkway along the river. 

His widow, Helen Storrow, actively opposed it.

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HE Archive (@he_archive) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To mark World Bicycle Day, today's image from the Historic England Archive shows a young cyclist on the Heygate Estate, Elephant and Castle, London, in 1981. You can enjoy lots more bicycle-related Archive records👇 historicengland.org.uk/images-books/p… #WorldBicycleDay #Archives

To mark World Bicycle Day, today's image from the Historic England Archive shows a young cyclist on the Heygate Estate, Elephant and Castle, London, in 1981.

You can enjoy lots more bicycle-related Archive records👇
historicengland.org.uk/images-books/p…

#WorldBicycleDay
#Archives
LSE Geography & Environment (@lsegeography) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📅 Join us Fri 20 June for a talk by Prof Loretta Lees @Prof. Loretta Lees 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇪 on an innovative Anti-Displacement Tool tackling housing inequity in Louisville, Kentucky. LSE Sociology Hyun Bang Shin 신현방 Register for your free ticket 🎫 zurl.co/UWjp3

Estate Watch (@estatewatch_ldn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Yeading Lane estate in Ealing; one of over 100 housing estates earmarked for demolition: estatewatch.london/estates/yeadin…

The Yeading Lane estate in Ealing; one of over 100 housing estates earmarked for demolition: estatewatch.london/estates/yeadin…
Only In Boston (@onlyinbos) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Boston is the first major Northeastern city to launch a pilot program offering free sunscreen dispensers in public parks. 💛

Boston is the first major Northeastern city to launch a pilot program offering free sunscreen dispensers in public parks.

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Peter Apps (@peteapps) 's Twitter Profile Photo

London boroughs have one officer for every 7,500 rental homes - leaving enforcement deserts where “nothing will happen” if tenants complain about poor quality housing. Research by me for The Londoner the-londoner.co.uk/why-is-londons…