Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAaron Shapiro, "Design, Control, Predict: Logistical Governance in the Smart City" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Episode 182
The “smart” city of today looks little like what experts of yesteryear expected them to. In this book, Aaron Shapiro, Ph.D. takes readers on a behind…
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Patrick Vitale, "Nuclear Suburbs: Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Episode 33
From submarines to the suburbs--the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War During the early Cold War, research facilities became ubiquitous featu…
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Lila Corwin Berman, "The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 219
For years, American Jewish philanthropy has been celebrated as the proudest product of Jewish endeavors in the United States, its virtues extending f…
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Andrew Konove, "Black Market Capital: Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City" (U California Press, 2018)
Episode 2
In Black Market Capital Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City (University of California Press, 2018), Andrew Konove traces the history…
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Felipe Hinojosa, "Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Episode 80
In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement on …
5 years, 2 months ago
Johana Londoño, "Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities" (Duke UP, 2020)
Episode 79
The rapid gentrification of Black and brown neighborhoods in urban areas by predominantly upper-class white and other white-adjacent peoples is large…
5 years, 2 months ago
Timon Screech, "Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Episode 25
In 1800, the Shogun’s chief minister wrote the following about the city of Edo:
"Someone said that if Edo did not have frequent fires, then people wou…
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Emily Callaci, "Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania" (Duke UP, 2017)
Episode 96
Emily Callaci's book Street Archives and City Life. Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania (Duke University Press, 2017) tells the histories …
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Juned Shaikh, "Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Episode 117
What is the history of caste in a city? Indian modernizers assumed that the various processes of modernity, including industrial capitalism, would at…
5 years, 2 months ago
Timothy Beatley, "The Bird-Friendly City: Creating Safe Urban Habitats" (Island Press, 2020)
Episode 26
Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has ta…
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