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New Books in Urban Studies

Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books

Episodes

Total: 675

In Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City: Designs for Vitality (Bloomsbury, 2022), Frederick K

The Los Angeles shoreline is one of the most iconic natural landscapes in the United States, if not

If ancient Kyoto stands for orderly elegance, then Tokyo, within the world’s most populated metropol

As Andrew M. Gardner explains in The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the U

Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present signi

If you don't recall the 1976 Denver Olympic Games, it's because they never happened. The Mile-High C

Over the past several decades, predominantly White, postindustrial cities in America’s agriculture a

Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creat

What types of coalitions can deliver social justice within sustainability initiatives? And how can w

In the 1920s, before the establishment of the state of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a g

Tara López's Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso (University of Texas Press, 2024), is an immers

Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks to Jennifer Hart, Professor and Chair of the History Depa

Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles nor

Weh Yeoh's Redundant Charities: Escaping the Cycle of Dependence (Koan Press, 2023) presents a trans

It is widely acknowledged that the United States is in the grip of an enduring housing crisis. It is

In Disability Worlds (Duke UP, 2024), Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decade

Renowned Asia expert Michael Auslin is pivoting from Asia instead of towards it: today, he joins Mad

For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters’ fields—a Dickensian end th

Ryan Reft is a historian in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, where he oversees co

The low-wage service industry is one of the fastest-growing employment sectors in the US economy. It