Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchConstant’s “New Babylon": An Interview with Jérémie McGowan
Episode 28
“New Babylon” is an architectural and urban planning project designed by the Dutch artist Constant Nieuwenhuys between 1959 and 1974 in response to c…
3 years ago
The History of the American Shopping Mall and Its Cultures
Episode 50
Writer and design critic Alexandra Lange talks about her book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Shopping Mall (Bloombury, 2023), wit…
3 years ago
David A. Banks, "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 297
The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America (U California Press, 2023) is the first book to explore how our cities gentrify by…
3 years ago
Vicky Johnson-Dahl, "Buffalo in 50 Maps" (Belt, 2023)
Episode 95
The third entry in Belt's urban cartography series, Buffalo in 50 Maps (2023) offers a truly unique view of the City of Good Neighbors, from the East…
3 years ago
Leela Fernandes, "Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Episode 157
Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. …
3 years ago
Gabriel Schwake, "Dwelling on the Green Line" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 220
Today I talked to Gabriel Schwake about his book Dwelling on the Green Line (Cambridge UP, 2022).
Concealed within the walls of settlements along the …
3 years ago
Marielle Risse, "Houseways in Southern Oman" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 66
Houseways in Southern Oman (Routledge, 2022) explores how houses are created, maintained and conceptualized in southern Oman. Based on long-term rese…
3 years ago
Daniel E. Agbiboa, "They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 295
Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) co…
3 years ago
Malini Ranganathan et al., "Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 193
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City (Cornell UP, 2023) illuminates how corruption is fundamental to global sto…
3 years ago
Andrew Snyder, "Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro" (Wesleyan UP, 2022)
Episode 21
Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro (Wesleyan University Press, 2022) tells the story of neofanfarrismo, a…
3 years ago