Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMatthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press, 2022)
Episode 98
Jerusalem’s Old City is normally understood to be split into four quarters: the Jewish Quarter, the Armenian Quarter, the Christian Quarter, and the …
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Leslie Kern, "Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies" (Verso, 2022)
Episode 310
What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or of…
3 years, 9 months ago
Anthony Christian Ocampo, "Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 40
Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons (NYU Press, 2022) coul…
3 years, 9 months ago
Merlin Chowkwanyun, "All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 169
Health care is political. It entails fierce battles over the allocation of resources, arguments over the imposition of regulations, and the mediation…
3 years, 9 months ago
Greg Woolf, "The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 10
The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century …
3 years, 10 months ago
Christina E. Crawford, "Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 77
Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union (Cornell UP, 2022) is the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architec…
3 years, 10 months ago
Nicky Falkof, "Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Episode 241
Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa (Manchester University Press, 2022) looks at the pervasive culture of fear in South Afri…
3 years, 10 months ago
Paris Marx, "Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation" (Verso, 2022)
Episode 1254
In Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Verso, 2022), Paris Marx identifies two convergent forces in t…
3 years, 10 months ago
Julia Walker, "Berlin Contemporary: Architecture and Politics After 1990" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 135
For years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the ci…
3 years, 10 months ago
Carl H. Nightingale, "Earthopolis: A Biography of Our Urban Planet" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 3
This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good an…
3 years, 10 months ago