Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlva Gotby, "Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing" (Verso, 2025)
Episode 201
Housing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is where our hopes and dreams play out, and it lies at the heart of our lives. This is where we rest…
1 year, 5 months ago
Benjamin H. Bradlow, "Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 400
Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment.
For the first time in history, most people live in c…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jennie Lightweis-Goff, "Captive City: Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Episode 340
Cities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when “urban” and “rural” indicate tastes rather than places. Citie…
1 year, 5 months ago
Shannon Mattern, "A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 38
Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies …
1 year, 5 months ago
Patrick T. Reardon, "The Loop: The 'L' Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago" (Southern Illinois UP, 2020)
Episode 48
Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city’s downtown. But how much do the…
1 year, 5 months ago
Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 54
During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America’s consumer culture was centralized in New York to an extent unparallele…
1 year, 5 months ago
Oskar Jensen, "Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London" (The Experiment, 2024)
Episode 152
London, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable ac…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ágnes Györke and Tamás Juhász, "Urban Culture and the Modern City: Hungarian Case Studies" (Leuven UP, 2024)
Episode 40
When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European towns is striking. Cities such as Vienna, Budapest, Prague, a…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ben Highmore, "Playgrounds: The Experimental Years" (Reaktion, 2024)
Episode 503
After World War II, a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather than slides, swings, and roundabouts, these new pla…
1 year, 6 months ago
Vincent Haddad, "The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023" (Lever Press, 2024)
Episode 205
Detroit has an essential relationship to genre in American literature and popular culture. The contemporary formations of the suburban sitcom, the po…
1 year, 6 months ago