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New Books in Urban Studies

Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books

Episodes

Total: 675

John Krinsky and Maud Simonet, “Who Cleans the Park? Public Works and Urban Governance in New York City” (U Chicago Press, 2017)

2018/4/18

It is possible that you did not know that you need a comprehensive labor market analysis of the New

Alison B. Hirsch, “City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America” (U Minnesota Press, 2014)

2018/4/16

Lawrence Halprin, one of the central figures in twentieth-century American landscape architecture, i

Claudio Sopranzetti, “Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility and Politics in Bangkok” (U California Press, 2017)

2018/3/9

When the army brutally dispersed Red Shirts protestors in Bangkok’s busy commercial district in May

Franklin Obeng-Odoom, “Reconstructing Urban Economics: Towards a Political Economy of the Built Environment” (Zed Books, 2016)

2018/1/31

In this interview, Carlo D’Ippoliti and Andrea Bernardi interview Franklin Obeng-Odoom who teaches u

Jonathan R. Wynn, “Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport” (U of Chicago, 2015)

2018/1/5

A city in its original state is arbitrary and has no meaning. The act of placemaking is a multifacet

Jamin Creed Rowan, “The Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition” (U. Penn Press, 2017)

2017/9/14

Jamin Creed Rowan is an assistant professor of English and American Studies at Brigham Young Univers

Brigitte Le Normand, “Designing Tito’s Capital: Urban Planning, Modernism, and Socialism in Belgrade” (U. Pittsburgh Press, 2014)

2017/7/8

NB: An earlier version of this podcast has been replaced with a new file in which the the technical

“Latino City Part II: An Interview with Llana Barber.”

2017/6/27

In Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 (University of No

Jordan Lacey, “Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design” (Bloomsbury, 2016)

2017/6/15

Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design (Bloomsbury 2016) by Jordan Lacey

“Latino City” Part I: An Interview with Dr. Erualdo Gonzalez

2017/6/1

In Latino City: Urban Planning, Politics, and the Grassroots (Routledge 2017) Dr. Erualdo R. Gonzale

Christopher Mele, “Race and the Politics of Deception: The Making of an American City” (NYU Press, 2017)

2017/5/27

Urban sociologists typically use a few grand narratives to explain the path of the American city thr

Richard E. Ocejo, “Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy” (Princeton UP, 2017)

2017/5/22

Readers will want to grab a cocktail and charcuterie board when they sit down to read Richard E. Oce

Stanley Corkin, “Connecting the Wire: Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore” (U. Texas Press, 2017)

2017/5/16

Critically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced, the HBO series The Wire (200

Daniel Immerwahr, “Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development” (Harvard UP, 2015)

2017/3/17

Modernization dominates development’s historiography. Historians characterize moments in development

Tyina Steptoe, “Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City” (U. California Press, 2015)

2017/3/9

What do you know about Houston, Texas? That Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States?

Veronica Herrera, “Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico” (U. Michigan Press, 2017)

2017/3/6

Veronica Herrera has written Water & Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (Universit

Amy Brown, “A Good Investment? Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School (U. Minnesota Press, 2015)

2017/2/23

There has been much talk in the news recently about funding for public education, the emergence of c