Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
Cairo's synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community un
How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city’s history? How do such e
Will Africa’s increasingly youthful population lead to new democratic and development breakthroughs?
Meet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City's most populous borough through their search f
China’s modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities,
A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that’s been all but forgotten until
In Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (U Pennsylvania Press, 202
A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transfor
Examining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City: Urbanizatio
San Francisco began its American life as a city largely made up of transient men, arriving from afar
In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon
A history of food in the Crescent City that explores race, power, social status, and labor.In Insati
This episode features a conversation with Dr. William Gow on his recently published book, Performing
In Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Dr. Mon
Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates
Las Vegas is a place the American dream made; a city built in the middle of desert visited by millio
In Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City (NUS Press, 2024)
Childhood as lived during the French Third Republic was very different from childhood during the mod
In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Plac
We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that ai
