Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
India’s urban slums exhibit dramatic variation in their access to basic public goods and services—pa
Stephanie Newell, Professor of English at Yale University, came to this project, which explores the
Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon (Universit
In the thoroughly researched, lucidly narrated new book Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Alo
As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City
In this episode, I speak with Federico R. Waitoller about his book, Excluded by Choice: Urban Studen
Joseph S. Cialdella's Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit (Uni
Some utopian plans have shaped our cities —from England’s New Towns and Garden Cities to the Haussma
Universities have become state-like entities, possessing their own hospitals, police forces, and rea
Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitiou
In his book The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip-Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi (Duke Univ
With such high levels of residential segregation along racial lines in the United States, gentrifyin
Today I talked to Thaisa Way, editor of River Cities, City Rivers (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library a
How are black lives lived in the contemporary city?In Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner Ci
Paige Glotzer is the author of How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclu
Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a r
How should we understand our cities? In Why Cities Look the Way They Do (Polity, 2019), Richard Will
In the 1870s, as colonial India witnessed some of the worst famines in its history where 6-10 millio
How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue
How does music help us to understand the contemporary city? In It's a London Thing: How Rare Groove,
