Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
Americans have a paradoxical relationship with cities, Steven Conn argues in his new book,Americans
Staci Zavattaro is the author of the new book Cities for Sale: Municipalities as Public Relations an
More and more of the world is living in cities, yet we rarely stop to examine how our spaces are org
Most of us have been to strip malls–lines of shops fronted by acres of parking–and most of us have b
What does the everyday experience of Muslim minorities look like? We have often heard about what Mus
During the interwar period (1918-1937), the city began to take its modern shape in Japan. At the sam
Gregory Heller is the author of Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphi
Jini Kim Watson‘s book links literature, architecture, urban studies, film, and economic history int
Anyone who has visited downtown Chicago will remember seeing the dazzling round towers of Bertrand G
“To think of Shanghai is to think of its nightlife: the two are synonymous.” From here, Andrew Field
When I began my graduate history, virtually all my fellow apprentice historians of eastern Europe we
If you’ve ever lived in New York City, you know exactly what a “pre-war building” is. First and fore
When I arrived at college in the early 1980s, drugs were cool, music was cool, and drug-music was es
This week we have Professor Colin Gordon of the University of Iowa on the show talking about his new
Today we feature an interview with Kevin Mumford about his new book Newark: A History of Race, Right
