Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century (Goldsmiths
Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin (Peter Lang, 2022), the first b
Curtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago’s place in the history of soul music is rock sol
Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry
The poet Walt Whitman wrote in his 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass that New York was a “City of the
In Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil (MIT Press, 20
Hong Kong is almost impossible to explain to those not from the city. Too often, the city has had to
Cambodia is home to Angkor, one of the most important archaeological sites of Southeast Asia. Greate
Environmental restoration is a global pursuit and a major political concern. Governments, nonprofits
The continuing crisis in Xinjiang has, thanks to the work of many scholars and reporters, led to gre
In Selling Black Brazil: Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia (University of Texas Pr
In The Spirit of New York: Defining Events in the Empire State's History (2nd Edition; SUNY Press, 2
Housing in the Margins: Negotiating Urban Formalities in Berlin's Allotment Gardens (John Wiley &
In How to Build a Global City: Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination (Cornell
In In Praise of Good Bookstores (Princeton University Press, 2022), Jeff Deutsch, the director of th
Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been called “the most innovative square mile on the
“An atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership,” is how UN Secre
On an otherwise normal weekday in the 1980s, commuters on busy Route 1 in central New Jersey noticed
In The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London (Bloomsbury, 2020), historian Jessic
In the United States, the national debate over public monuments often frames the removal of statutes
