Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
In Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations o
Chicago is home to one of the largest, most politically active Palestinian immigrant communities in
Despite the intense processes of deindustrialisation around the world, the working class continues t
What is a ‘drink map’? It may sound like a pub guide, yet it actually refers to a type of late ninet
How is India tackling its persistent wage management problems? And, are new infrastructural solution
Sociologist Neil M. Gong explains why mental health treatment in Los Angeles rarely succeeds, for th
Everyday Life in the Spectacular City is a groundbreaking urban ethnography that reveals how middle-
Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economi
In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech
How do art schools influence music? In No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Pu
This instalment of the Object Lessons series focuses on the Swimming Pool (Bloomsbury, 2024). The bo
The Spatiality and Temporality of Urban Violence: Histories, Rhythms and Ruptures (Manchester UP, 20
Originally published in 2019, Benjamin Pauli’s book, Flint Fights Back offers lasting insights into
Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Ch
Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Julie Peakman inv
Aboveground, Manhattan’s Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Sid
The basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore afford
Today, being authentic has become an aspiration and an imperative. The notion of authenticity shapes
In the middle decades of the twentieth century in New York City, Dubrow’s cafeterias in the Flatbush
Boston is today one of the world's greatest cities, first in higher education, hospitals, life scien
