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Back to SearchAlexander Christie-Miller, "To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
Episode 254
Walking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country…
2 years, 3 months ago
Terry Williams, "Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 177
Aboveground, Manhattan’s Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disu…
2 years, 3 months ago
Julie Peakman, "Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis" (Reaktion, 2024)
Episode 39
Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Julie Peakman investigates the sex lives of women from 1680 to 183…
2 years, 3 months ago
Steve Ferzacca, "Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore" (NUS Press, 2021)
Episode 7
The basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore affords opportunities to a group of amateur and semi-pr…
2 years, 4 months ago
Alessandro Gerosa, "The Hipster Economy: Taste and Authenticity in Late Modern Capitalism (UCL Press, 2024)
Episode 341
Today, being authentic has become an aspiration and an imperative. The notion of authenticity shapes the consumption habits of individuals in the mos…
2 years, 4 months ago
Marcia Bricker Halperin, "Kibbitz and Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow's Cafeteria" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 251
In the middle decades of the twentieth century in New York City, Dubrow’s cafeterias in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn and the garment district of …
2 years, 4 months ago
Daniel Dain, "A History of Boston" (Peter E. Randall, 2023)
Episode 1419
Boston is today one of the world's greatest cities, first in higher education, hospitals, life science companies, and sports teams. It was the home o…
2 years, 4 months ago
What Does It Mean to Govern a Multilingual Society Well?
Episode 8
Hanna Torsh speaks with Alexandra Grey about good governance in linguistically diverse cities.
Linguistic diversity is often seen through a deficit le…
2 years, 4 months ago
Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 340
An enduring paradox of urban public health is that many communities around hospitals are economically distressed and, counterintuitively, medically u…
2 years, 4 months ago
Laurence Ralph, "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him" (Grand Central Publishing, 2023)
Episode 285
In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was ni…
2 years, 4 months ago