Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
Hanna Torsh speaks with Alexandra Grey about good governance in linguistically diverse cities.Lingui
In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in
An enduring paradox of urban public health is that many communities around hospitals are economicall
The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children i
In Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul (
Mumbai is generally recognized as an environment of extraordinary religious diversity. The city is k
There is a familiar narrative about American suburbs: after 1945, white residents left cities for le
During the Great Migration, Black Americans sought new lives in midwestern small towns only to confr
Every driver in North America shares one miserable, soul-sucking universal experience—being stuck in
Point Saint-Charles, a historically white working-class neighborhood with a strong Irish and French
The untold story of Chicago's pivotal role as a country and folk music capital.Chicago is revered as
Sabina Andron's book Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City (Routledge, 2024) focuses o
Francis O’Neill (1848–1936) was a Chicago police officer and a folk music collector. Michael O’Malle
From the closing years of the nineteenth century, women received subtle--and not so subtle--messages
Monte Carlo and Las Vegas have become synonymous with casino gambling. Both destinations featured it
The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco (University of Texas
Political Scientists Patricia Strach (The University at Albany, State University of New York) and Ka
Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, members of the NYPD had worked to enfo
In Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room: Domestic Architecture Before and After 1991 (Northern
Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy (Oxford University Press, 2
