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New Books in Urban Studies

Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books

Episodes

Total: 675

What happens when market-oriented policy reforms butt heads with a single-party state’s strictly mai

Early American colonialism is often distinguished by an urban and rural divide. Urban development wa

In this episode, we talk with Stephen Hamnett about Planning Singapore: The Experimental City(Routle

Elizabeth Herbin-Triant is the author of Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legisla

Discussions of China’s 21st-century ‘rise’ often focus on the country’s dazzling megacities and the

In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, w

Stefan Al, PhD, is a native of the Netherlands, a low-lying county that would not exist without floo

The 2018 election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil has brought the issues of police v

Dr. Anna Rose Alexander’s City on Fire: Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Me

Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generat

Whether in space colonies or through geo-engineering, the looming disaster of climate change inspire

In Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico (Universit

What kind of time do we endure on our daily commutes? What kind of space do we occupy? What new sort

Relative wealth has given suburban African Americans employment opportunities and political resource

Christof Spieler, PE, LEED AP, is a Vice President and Director of Planning at Huitt-Zollars and a l

Are market cities better than people cities? Does the satisfaction that residents take in their city

Candis Watts Smith and Christina Greer are the editors of Black Politics in Transition: Immigration,

Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy (Oxford University Press, 2

The law does things, writes David Ray Papke, and it says things, and if we are talking about poor Am

The study of Islam is often focused on subjects involved in legal debates or ritual practice. But ou