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New Books in Urban Studies

Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books

Episodes

Total: 675

William Cavert, “The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

2016/8/29

Air pollution may seem to be a problem uniquely of the modern age, but in fact it is one that has be

D. Asher Ghertner, “Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi” (Oxford UP, 2015)

2016/8/11

D. Asher Ghertner explores why the ways things look are fundamental for Delhi’s transformation into

Lisa Bjorkman, “Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai” (Duke UP, 2015)

2016/8/2

Mumbai is in many ways the paradigmatic city of India’s celebrated economic upturn, but the city’s t

John Mollenkopf and Manuel Pastor, eds. “Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration” (Cornell UP, 2016)

2016/7/27

John Mollenkopf and Manuel Pastor are the editors of Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and C

Nicole Rudolph, “At Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort” (Berghahn Books, 2015)

2016/5/17

Nicole Rudolph‘s At Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort (Berghahn B

Malcolm James, “Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Transformations in a Global City” (Palgrave, 2015)

2016/5/16

How is youth culture changing in a globalised city? In Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Trans

Peter L. Laurence, “Becoming Jane Jacobs” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)

2016/4/30

Peter L. Laurence is an associate professor of urban design, history and theory at Clemson Universit

Emma Jackson, “Young Homeless People and Urban Space: Fixed in Mobility” (Routledge, 2015)

2016/4/8

What is the experience of young homeless people? What does this experience tell us about space, plac

Cindy R. Lobel, “Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)

2016/2/6

New York City’s growth, from colonial outpost to the center of the gastronomic world is artfully cra

Miao Li, “Citizenship Education and Migrant Youth in China: Pathways to the Urban Underclass” (Routledge, 2015)

2016/2/3

Dr. Miao Li, assistant professor, Department of Sociology and School of Philosophy and Social Develo

Oli Mould, “Urban Subversion and the Creative City” (Routledge, 2015)

2016/1/21

Every city seems to be ‘creative’, whether because it has a creative brand, a creative quarter or is

James Farrer and Andrew D. Field, “Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)

2015/12/30

James Farrer and Andrew D. Field bring their respective areas of sociological and historical experti

Robert Stoker, et al., “Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)

2015/11/23

Robert Stoker is the co-author (with Clarence Stone, John Betancur, Susan Clarke, Marilyn Dantico, M

Sanjay Srivastava, “Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon” (Oxford UP, 2015)

2015/10/2

Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon (Oxford University

Alejandro Velasco, “Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela” (U of California Press, 2015)

2015/6/28

In the mid-1950s, Venezuela’s military government razed a massive slum settlement in the heart of Ca

Stephen Goldsmith and Susan Crawford, “The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance” (Jossey-Bass, 2014)

2015/1/1

Without a doubt, the paramount duty of a municipality, of any size, is the delivery services to its

Cathy L. Schneider, “Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)

2014/12/8

Cathy L. Schneider is the author of Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York