Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
Ask anyone outside of Austin what they know about the city and chances are the first thing they'll m
Every year at least 20,000 people go missing in São Paulo, Brazil. Many will be found, sometimes in
Maps are essential tools in finding our way around, but they also tell stories and are great deposit
Among urban designers and municipal officials, the term encroachment is defined as a deviation from
Racial capitalism, invisible but threaded throughout the world, shapes our lives. Focusing on the ex
During the years between the Civil War and World War II, police in New York City struggled with how
Michael O. Johnston sits down with Maitrayee Deka, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of
In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the t
Today’s book is Indigenous DC: Native Peoples and the Nation’s First Capital (Georgetown UP, 2023),
Exploring the role of identitarian politics in the privatization of Newark’s public school system In
Christina Dunbar-Hester, professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for C
Salim Furth (Senior Research Fellow and and Director of the Urbanity project, Mercatus Center) joins
Progress and development have long been important issues in anthropology and social sciences. Based
The Dominican Republic has posted impressive economic growth rates over the past thirty years. Despi
For centuries, the Mosque of Eyüp Sultan has been one of Istanbul’s most important pilgrimage destin
In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, w
A cultural imaginary is a structuring space through which collective understandings of cultural and
Kathrin Eitel's book Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Ph
The Maghrebi Quarter of Jerusalem long sat in the shadow of the Western Wall, the last vestige of th
Moisés Kopper's Architectures of Hope: Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Pu
