Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
Houseways in Southern Oman (Routledge, 2022) explores how houses are created, maintained and concept
Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-orie
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City (Cornell UP, 2023) illumi
Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro (Wesleyan University
Who is responsible for ensuring access to clean potable water? In an urbanizing planet beset by clim
The story of how Black and Brown parents, students and members of low-income communities of color or
In Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption (Cornell UP, 2023), Michael T. Friedm
In Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU Press, 2023), author J. T
July 1967. After the arrest, beating, and imprisonment of cab driver John Smith by local police, the
Cat Button and Gerald Taylor Aiken's Over Researched Places: Towards a Critical and Reflexive Approa
The myth of the frontier West found its home in America's late twentieth century suburbs, argues Uni
Over the last several decades, life in Lahore has been undergoing profound transformations, from rap
Michael Truscello, author of Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure,
How is urban India changing? And how do communities inhabit and transform India’s new cities and urb
Grave (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Allison C. Meier takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have tran
In the past two decades, the consumption of beauty services and cosmetic surgery in Turkey has devel
In Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City (Duke UP, 2022), John Klaess tells the
Cheryl Narumi Naruse talks about the transformation of Singapore over the past decades into a site o
Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a handful of Americans are tragical
In April 1968, following the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., a wave of uprisings swept across Amer
