Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
We live in an urban age. It is well-known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environmen
When late eighteenth-century New Spanish viceregal administrators installed public lamps in the stre
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies mat
Though we rarely see them at work, building inspectors have the power to significantly shape our liv
Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling tow
Davarian L. Baldwin is a professor of American studies and founding director of the Smart Cities Lab
What transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it? Th
New York has long been a city where people go to reinvent themselves.And since the dawn of the twent
In Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South (UNC Press, 2022), Viola Franzi
Political Theorist Jennifer Forestal’s new book is a fascinating exploration of contemporary democra
Joe William Trotter, Jr., Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Founder and Director of th
In the early twenty-first century Bolivian social movements made streets, plazas, and highways into
Daniel Armanios, associate professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University,
Jesuit Father Greg Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries in East LA, the world’s largest and mo
Social psychiatry was a mid-twentieth-century approach to mental health that stressed the prevention
On this episode, Martín Garrido Lepe y Beatriz Rodriguez-Satizabal talk with Clemente Penna winner o
Ciara Breathnach's book Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1
In his new book, Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space (MIT Press, 2022), Mathew G
The long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American communit
On July 6, 1998, the last flight took off from Kai Tak International Airport, marking the end of an
