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Come reimagine with us! “Rural Reimagined: A Grand Challenge for Appalachia” 2025 Appalachian Studies Association Conference Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee March 20-22, 2025 Photographs by Sabrina Greene-Rusk. One-fourth of the counties that comprise Appalachia are classified as rural—neither part of nor adjacent to a metropolitan area. The 48th annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference will explore the theme “Rural Reimagined” by celebrating the creative uses of technology, science, and the arts with the greatest potential to transform life in and proximate to the region’s rural communities. #appstudies2025 #Ruralreimagined #appalachianstudies #appalachia #appalachian #appstudies #asa #Asainaction 

Come reimagine with us! “Rural Reimagined: A Grand Challenge for Appalachia” 2025 Appalachian Studies Association Conference Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee March 20-22, 2025 Photographs by Sabrina Greene-Rusk. One-fourth of the counties that comprise Appalachia are classified as rural—neither part of nor adjacent to a metropolitan area. The 48th annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference will explore the theme “Rural Reimagined” by celebrating the creative uses of technology, science, and the arts with the greatest potential to transform life in and proximate to the region’s rural communities. #appstudies2025 #Ruralreimagined #appalachianstudies #appalachia #appalachian #appstudies #asa #Asainaction 

Come reimagine with us! “Rural Reimagined: A Grand Challenge for Appalachia” 2025 Appalachian Studies Association Conference Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee March 20-22, 2025 Photographs by Sabrina Greene-Rusk. One-fourth of the counties that comprise Appalachia are classified as rural—neither part of nor adjacent to a metropolitan area. The 48th annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference will explore the theme “Rural Reimagined” by celebrating the creative uses of technology, science, and the arts with the greatest potential to transform life in and proximate to the region’s rural communities. #appstudies2025 #Ruralreimagined #appalachianstudies #appalachia #appalachian #appstudies #asa #Asainaction 

How do you introduce yourself? I came across Daniel Priestley’s framework for self-introductions—Name. Same. Fame. Aim. Game—and here’s my take: ✅ Name: I’m Keun Park, an urban forestry professor at UBC. ✅ Same: “Dr. Urban Park.” Think of my work as designing parks for people and the environment. I study how urban nature shapes cities and enhances well-being and equity. ✅ Aim: At under_lab (Urban Nature Design Research Lab), my team of four PhD students and an incoming master’s student explores urban green/blue space accessibility, human-nature interactions, and health equity—all with the goal of turning research into real-world impact. ✅ Game: My long-term vision is to ensure urban parks are seen not just as green spaces but as critical infrastructure for public health, social equity, and climate resilience. In the next five years, I’ll continue publishing papers and hope to write a book on this very topic. ✅ Fame: Curious about our work? Visit our lab’s website to see what we’ve been working on together! https://lnkd.in/emSf3kg5 Now, your turn—how would you introduce yourself?

I've been following the seminal work of Luis Bettencourt in complexity science and the urban environment closely since the publication of 'The Kind of Problem a City Is' in 2013 and more recently the work he did with his colleagues at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, University of Chicago, which included the Million Neighborhoods Initiative. In 2021 he published the book 'Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems', providing a novel approach to studying cities as complex adaptive systems. Subsequently, he developed a course that follows the book and includes themes such as worldwide urbanization and the challenge of sustainability, economics and sociology, cities as complex networks and what they predict, variation and statistics of urban quantities, cities in history and the origins of settlements, the structure and dynamics of systems of cities and the emergence of institutions and their functional roles in connected, interdependent societies. Needless to say, I'm very excited to share Luis' message that all course materials (slides, readings, code, data) for Introduction to Urban Science are now freely available on Github:  https://lnkd.in/dbzAcNCZ #cities #urban #complexity #complexadaptivesystems #sustainability #resilience

🔥At Unfolding Aliveness, we are always interested in discovering new ideas, projects, research that illuminate how more-than-human worlds contribute to our mutual co-becoming. 🌳The Critical Forest Studies Collaboratory: Forests as relational practice 💙Sharing this fantastic call for those of you (like us!) who are interested in the potential for sound to deepen our relationships with forests, trees, plants, soils and more. • Forests as sentient, interspecies learning communities (vegetal/animal/fungal/mineral) • Forests as places of intergenerational knowledge creation, languaging, and storying • Forests as places where different worlds, natures, cultures, politics, and sciences meet • Forests as places of urban and regional regeneration, decay, repair, and reimagining • Forests as sites of collective memory, trauma, history-making, and healing • Forests as ecologies of sensation, technicity, temporality, and speculation 👀👂 Check out the beautiful, interdisciplinary artwork, research, communities in this link: https://lnkd.in/gjk43gYQ ⁉️Consider submitting your own sound art, research, collaborations! Douwe-Jan Schrale Silke Schmid Matthew Bejtlich Charlotte Hankin #unfoldingaliveness #regenerative #education #soundecology #sustainability #multispecies #thriving #flourishing #regenerativeeducation #soundstories #planetaryhealth #ecologicaljustice #aliveness #unfolding #soundart #climatechange #justice 

🪴 😶🌫️ 📏 In our latest #BUandBoston, we sat down with Arden Radford, a BU Earth and Environment & Environment and BU URBAN PhD candidate studying air quality in cities. Describing the study of air quality as studying the ingredients of an “atmospheric blended-up soup,” Arden looks at not only the obvious sources of major air pollution but also those that are small individually that add up to season the previously mentioned air soup. Her interest in studying the air in cities is shaped by her upbringing in Texas and Hong Kong and her undergraduate studies in Astronomy and Quantitative Economics. She sees air as a social and policy issue affecting those without the choice to choose the soup they consume. To learn more about Arden and her research, read her #BUandBoston feature on our website: https://lnkd.in/d9AmiVZa

Important topic that Franziska Görmar and I explored in a joint article on Industrial forever? Narratives, place identity, and the development path of the city of Zeitz, Germany. Read #openaccess https://lnkd.in/dyRT3rUf

#RustikPoster  🌍 Discover the progress of the Osona Living Lab in Sant Miquel de Balenyà! This experiment is shaping future urban planning by using GIS analysis and participatory tools to develop a quality of life index. Key findings highlight the need for revitalizing local commerce and creating safer spaces. Challenges and learnings are guiding next steps, including drafting a social report for urban renewal projects. 📅 Stay tuned for the publication of the survey results in 2025! #OsonaLivingLab #UrbanPlanning #QualityOfLife #CommunityEngagement  Euromontana | Countryside and Community Research Institute | FEUGA. Fundación Empresa Universidad Gallega | Ersilia Foundation | Mcrit | European Policies Research Centre | University of Eastern Finland | University of Ljubljana | University of Belgrade | Pohjois-Karjalan maakuntaliitto | University of Strathclyde | University of Gloucestershire | Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach | CREA Ricerca | Maptionnaire | Institut für Ländliche Strukturforschung (IfLS)

What is urban densification? Rather than understanding it as a technocratic exercise and/or a target to achieve urban sustainability, I'd like to conceptualize it as a set of social relations that are connected to territories, property regimes and planning regulations or what Henri Lefebvre called "abstract space". I've written a paper about this theoretical approach and underlined that with a lot of empirical material from the Alpenrheintal/Alpine Rhine Valley! My hope is that this approach helps us to better understand how real estate markets in different contexts work in the fuzzy space between public and private spheres. The paper just got published in the journal "Urban Geography" and I'd like to thank Lindsay Blair Howe and Samuel Mössner for their support during the development of this paper. Furthermore, the research promotion fund of the Universität Liechtenstein made all this research possible in the first place! Check it out: https://lnkd.in/dbJrPK9e