Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
The so-called Urban Crisis of the 1970s continues to loom large in narratives of US urban politics a
We know quite a bit about the physical signatures of urban “modernity” foisted upon Paris by Baron H
Folklorist David J. Puglia is an assistant professor at the City University of New York and in his l
The production and removal of garbage, as a key element of the daily infrastructure of urban life, i
In his new book, City Life: The New Urban Australia (NewSouth Publishing, 2018), Seamus O’Hanlon, an
2018 has been a great year for books about sub-national government in the United States. The year en
I don’t mean to make a scene, but please open your eyes and look around. There are complex scenes ev
Why is housing so expensive in so many cities, and what can be done about it? Join us as we speak wi
Joseph Ben Prestel talks with us about Emotional Cities: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo
Beginning in the mid-1800s, Paris experienced an unprecedented growth in the development of parks, s
Urban politics scholars have long studied what makes cities interesting. Rarely, however, have these
In cities ravaged by years of bloodshed and warfare, how did black populations, many formerly enslav
In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills: Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles (Rutgers Unive
Is modern capitalism too far advanced in the U.S. to create common property regimes? Are there model
The built environment around us seems almost natural, as in beyond our control to alter or shape. In
Stories about the suburbs often focus on conservatism. But, as Lily Geismer shows in her fascinating
Seoul, as any listener who has visited will recognize, can be a pretty overwhelming place. This is w
Researching and writing about infrastructure is a tall task. Infrastructure’s vastness, complexity,
Melanie Kiechle‘s Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America (Univer
What does it mean to say that a city can “die”? As Brian Tochterman shows in this compelling intelle
