Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
Emphasising the social, critical and situated dimensions of the urban, this comprehensive Research H
This episode we have a single longform interview with a media scholar of note–The New School’s Shann
What was popular entertainment like for everyday Arab societies in Middle Eastern cities during the
If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia (Temp
Britain is a nation of gardeners; the suburban garden, with its roses and privet hedges, is widely a
Capitalism is not only an economic system but also a system of production and allocation of hope. In
Over the last two decades in Beirut, graffiti makers have engaged in a fierce “war of colors,” seeki
Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and—because many have nev
In Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City (Three Hills, 2024), Adam J. Criblez trac
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is everywhere in the New York metropolitan area. Found
Chinatown has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the city's most sust
In Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City (U Michigan Press, 20
Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Julie Peakman inv
Dr. Susan Partovi first experienced poverty medicine volunteering at a dump site in Tijuana during h
Once described as "that metropolis of dress and debauchery" by the Scottish poet David Mallet, Paris
Has any American mayor ever made a greater stamp on the public consciousness than the Little Flower,
Bruce O'Neill's Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) gets
The neighborhoods we live in impact our lives in so many ways: they determine who we know, what reso
Why and how local coffee bars in Italy--those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces--have
What does living “precariously” mean in Casablanca? In 2014 it meant being labeled tcharmil (seeming
