Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
Underlying every great city is a rich and vibrant culture that shapes the texture of life within. In
In The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco (University of C
A pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary iron mill at the edge of Pittsburgh. A campus o
Environmental organising in Beijing emerged in an unlikely place in the 2000s: new gated residential
Food is increasingly a subject of interest in social sciences: how we cook, consume, and share food
What do Tulsa, Santa Fe, and New Orleans have in common? When viewed from the perspective of Indigen
How did medieval people think about the environments in which they lived? In a world shaped by God,
Chhaya Kolavalli's book Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in
Transparency is a mantra of our day. It is key to the Western understanding of a liberal society. We
Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowled
Shortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize, Kat Mustatea's Voidopolis (MIT Press, 2023) is a hybrid digita
Lidia Katia C. Manzo's book Gentrification and Diversity: Rebranding Milan's Chinatown (Springer, 20
The town/countryside split has always been a feature of democratic Western politics and has impacted
In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large pa
German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad (Cornell UP, 2023) reveals
Danger Sound Klaxon!:The Horn That Changed History (University of Virginia Press, 2023) reveals the
In the third episode of our Global Policing series, Elizabeth and John spoke back in 2020 with anthr
In the wake of the Good Friday Agreement, the redevelopment of the former Girdwood Army Barracks in
In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never
Deepening inequalities and wider processes of demographic, economic, and social change are altering
