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Back to SearchOthon Alexandrakis, "Radical Resilience: Athenian Topographies of Precarity and Possibility" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 48
Radical Resilience: Athenian Topographies of Precarity and Possibility (Cornell UP, 2022) relates narratives of Athenians struggling to survive the i…
3 years, 11 months ago
John Joe Schlichtman, "Showroom City: Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Episode 239
A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world
High Point, North Carolina, is known as the “Furniture Capit…
3 years, 11 months ago
Nick Higham, "The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good--A History of London's Water" (Headline, 2022)
Episode 57
No city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn a tap and it gushes out. But it wasn’t always so. For ce…
3 years, 11 months ago
Jody Rosen, "Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle" (Crown, 2022)
Episode 122
The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly at odds with our age of smartphones and ride-sharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live o…
3 years, 11 months ago
Sushmita Pati, "Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 153
We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa? …
3 years, 11 months ago
Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press/Profile Books, 2022)
In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn’t r…
4 years ago
Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 7
Anne Gray Fischer speaks about her path to and through research, including how sex workers informed her analysis of policing and state violence, the …
4 years ago
Susan Hartman, "City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Episode 140
City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town (Beacon Press, 2022) paints an intimate portrait of the n…
4 years ago
Max Holleran, "Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 139
The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world. A gr…
4 years ago
Eli Friedman, "The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 235
Amid a vast influx of rural migrants into urban areas, China has allowed cities wide latitude in providing education and other social services. While…
4 years ago