Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History (Bloomsbury, 2021) is a major w
The pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In Pub (
Municipalities around the world have increasingly used inclusionary housing programs to address thei
Chandigarh is the shared capital city of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, built under the le
Social housing - public, non-profit, or co-operative - was once a part of Canada's urban success sto
California’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the “instant city” of San Francisco as a to base e
Housing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is where our hopes and dreams play out, and it lies
Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment.For
Cities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when “urban” and
During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America’s consumer culture was
London, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on th
When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European towns is str
After World War II, a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather th
Detroit has an essential relationship to genre in American literature and popular culture. The conte
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear
The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design (University of Texas Press,
In Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley (Universi
To understand elders' experiences of aging in place, sociologist Stacy Torres spent five years with
Casting an eye toward the frantic vertical urbanization of Toronto, Condoland: The Planning, Design,
At a time of increased pressure for new urban development, where there is a focus on either object-b
