Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
Bruce Harvey is a historian and photographer based in Syracuse, NY, who works at the intersection of
In this episode we challenge the ideas about invisibility of Asian Americans in the urban Midwest by
Sarah Kenny Growing up and going out: Youth culture, commerce and leisure space in post-war Britain
Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York's Blac
How housing policy failed the people it was designed to help -- and how to fix it As the US struggle
Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2025) by Dr.
In Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons (Beacon Press, 2025), u
In Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies (Duke UP, 2025), Michelle H. S. Ho t
Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai (Stanford UP, 2020) by Todd Reisz is a critical histori
One small town, two "thousand-year floods" in the span of two years: how does a community become res
Moving between shower drains, aqueducts, rain gardens, and even kitchen sinks, Replumbing the City:
How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According
Built on the shifting grounds of post-Yugoslav transformation, Staging the Promises examines how the
Since the late 1990s, the multiplex in India has emerged as a dominant site of media exhibition, alm
Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location (Cornell University Press, 2025) explores the effo
Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore int
In this episode, Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, and Craig Borowiak talk about th
After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. As the w
The city was one of the central and defining features of the world of the Greek and Roman Mediterran
For last 100 years, the neighborhood of Harlem in New York City has stood as the capital of Black Am
