Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAmy Helen Bell, "Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 150
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not only of death from the German bombers circli…
1 year, 6 months ago
Kenny Cupers, "The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Episode 1523
The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design (University of Texas Press, 2024) by Dr. Kenny Cupers traces the rise of plan…
1 year, 6 months ago
Oliver Rosales, "Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Episode 117
In Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley (University of Texas Press, 2024), Oliver Rosales uncovers…
1 year, 6 months ago
Stacy Torres, "At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 396
To understand elders' experiences of aging in place, sociologist Stacy Torres spent five years with longtime New York City residents as they coped wi…
1 year, 6 months ago
James T. White and John Punter, "Condoland: The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto's CityPlace" (UBC Press, 2023)
Episode 38
Casting an eye toward the frantic vertical urbanization of Toronto, Condoland: The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto’s CityPlace (UBC, 202…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ptolemy Dean, "Streetscapes: Historic Routes Through English Towns" (Lund Humphries, 2024)
Episode 146
At a time of increased pressure for new urban development, where there is a focus on either object-based architecture or the rolling out of developer…
1 year, 7 months ago
Tom Scott-Smith, "Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Episode 196
Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three of the many unusual places that have housed refugees in the past decad…
1 year, 7 months ago
Veronica Keller and Sabrina Mittermeier, "From Broadway to the Bronx: New York City’s History through Song" (Intellect, 2024)
Episode 259
From Broadway to the Bronx: New York City’s History through Song (Intellect, 2024) tells the history of New York City in song across a variety of dif…
1 year, 7 months ago
Christopher Bell, "Walking East Harlem: A Neighborhood Experience" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Episode 37
They call it Spanish Harlem or sometimes just El Barrio. But for over a century, East Harlem has been a melting pot of many ethnic groups, including …
1 year, 7 months ago
Dennis Romano, "Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 1500
No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites …
1 year, 7 months ago