Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSheetal Chhabria, "Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Episode 101
In the 1870s, as colonial India witnessed some of the worst famines in its history where 6-10 million perished, observers watched in astonishment as …
6 years, 1 month ago
Patrick M. Condon, "Five Rules for Tomorrow’s Cities" (Island Press, 2020)
Episode 49
How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmosp…
6 years, 2 months ago
Caspar Melville, "It's a London Thing: How Rare Groove, Acid House and Jungle Remapped the City" (Manchester UP, 2019)
Episode 163
How does music help us to understand the contemporary city? In It's a London Thing: How Rare Groove, Acid House and Jungle Remapped the City (Manches…
6 years, 2 months ago
Kristian Ly Serena, "Age-Inclusive Public Space" (Hatje Cantz, 2020)
Episode 45
Public spaces tend to over-represent facilities and spatial design for the young and the middle-aged, whereas elderly citizens are all too often negl…
6 years, 2 months ago
Christopher Houston, "Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup D’Etat, and Memory in Turkey" (U California Press, 2020)
Episode 101
Based on extensive field research in Turkey, Istanbul, Christopher Houston's new book Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup D’Etat, an…
6 years, 2 months ago
Jonathan Barnett, "Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale" (Island Press, 2020)
Episode 44
The US population is estimated to grow by more than 110 million people by 2050, and much of this growth will take place where cities and their suburb…
6 years, 2 months ago
Marco Z. Garrido, "The Patchwork City: Class, Space and Politics in Metro Manila" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Episode 136
In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the pr…
6 years, 2 months ago
Diane Jones Allen, "Lost in the Transit Desert: Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form" (Routledge, 2017)
Episode 43
Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit…
6 years, 3 months ago
Josh Seim, "Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering" (U California Press, 2020)
Episode 126
What is the role of the ambulance in the American city? The prevailing narrative provides a rather simple answer: saving and transporting the critica…
6 years, 3 months ago
David Morton, "Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique" (Ohio UP, 2019)
Episode 58
Who built Africa’s cities? Going beyond the colonial archive and the planner’s gaze, David Morton’s Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspirat…
6 years, 3 months ago