Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRichard McGahey, "Unequal Cities: Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 146
Cities are central to prosperity: they are hubs of innovation and growth. However, the economic vitality of wealthy cities is marred by persistent an…
3 years, 3 months ago
Dave Colangelo, "The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media" (Amsterdam UP, 2019)
Episode 81
The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media (Amsterdam UP, 2019) describes, historicizes, theorizes, and creatively depl…
3 years, 4 months ago
What a City Is for: Remaking the Politics of Displacement
Episode 2
Matt Hern began to examine urban displacement when he first encountered an empty lot in the northeast sector of Portland, OR. This corner was the sit…
3 years, 4 months ago
Gary Alan Fine, "Fair Share: Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of Resistance" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 275
If you’ve ever been to a protest or been involved in a movement for social change, you have likely experienced a local culture, one with slogans, jar…
3 years, 4 months ago
Mitchell Schwarzer, "Hella Town: Oakland's History of Development and Disruption" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 122
Oakland grew up on the shadow of the dynamo of the nineteenth century West, always the "other" city on San Francisco Bay.
But as Mitchell Schwarzer, …
3 years, 4 months ago
Digging for Answers: The Archaeology of Jerusalem and the Politics of Archaeology
Episode 41
Katharina Galor, an archaeology professor at the at the Program in Judaic Studies at Brown University who has done a lot of excavation in Israel, is …
3 years, 4 months ago
Joseph Plaster, "Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 48
In Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin (Duke UP, 2023), Joseph Plaster explores the informal support network…
3 years, 4 months ago
Fabio Duarte and Ricardo Alvarez, "Urban Play: Make-Believe, Technology, and Space" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 273
Why technology is most transformative when it is playful, and innovative spatial design happens only when designers are both tinkerers and dreamers.
I…
3 years, 4 months ago
Malcolm Harris, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" (Little, Brown, 2023)
Episode 141
Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesiz…
3 years, 4 months ago
Ijlal Naqvi, "Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 271
Pakistan would desperately like to produce enough electricity, but it usually doesn't. Despite prioritization by successive governments, targeted ref…
3 years, 4 months ago