Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHank Dittmar, "DIY City: The Collective Power of Small Actions" (Island Press, 2020)
Episode 52
Some utopian plans have shaped our cities —from England’s New Towns and Garden Cities to the Haussmann plan for Paris and the L’Enfant plan for Washi…
5 years, 10 months ago
LaDale Winling, "Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century" (U Penn Press, 2018)
Episode 777
Universities have become state-like entities, possessing their own hospitals, police forces, and real estate companies. To become such behemoths, hig…
5 years, 10 months ago
Alex Sayf Cummings, "Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Episode 771
Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina’s low-wage eco…
5 years, 10 months ago
Gabriel Dattatreyan, "The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip-Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi" (Duke UP, 2020)
Episode 3
In his book The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip-Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi (Duke University Press, 2020), Gabriel Dattatreyan departs …
5 years, 10 months ago
Jan Doering, "Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 156
With such high levels of residential segregation along racial lines in the United States, gentrifying neighborhoods present fascinating opportunities…
5 years, 11 months ago
Thaisa Way, "River Cities, City Rivers" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2018)
Episode 57
Today I talked to Thaisa Way, editor of River Cities, City Rivers (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2018).
Cities have been built along…
5 years, 11 months ago
Joy White, "Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City" (Repeater Books, 2020)
Episode 173
How are black lives lived in the contemporary city?
In Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City, Dr Joy White, a sociologist and ethnographer …
6 years ago
Paige Glotzer, "How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Episode 739
Paige Glotzer is the author of How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960, published by Columbia…
6 years ago
Govind Gopakumar, "Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 250
Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the…
6 years, 1 month ago
Richard Williams "Why Cities Look the Way They Do" (Polity, 2019)
Episode 166
How should we understand our cities? In Why Cities Look the Way They Do (Polity, 2019), Richard Williams, Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures i…
6 years, 1 month ago