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Back to SearchSerin D. Houston, "Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Episode 41
In Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), the geographer Serin Houston complicates Seattle’s libe…
6 years, 7 months ago
Thaisa Way, "The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Episode 27
Today I talked to Thaisa Way about her new books The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design (University…
6 years, 7 months ago
Christina Jiménez, "Making an Urban Public: Popular Claims to the City in Mexico, 1879-1932" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
Episode 62
Making an Urban Public: Popular Claims to the City in Mexico, 1879-1932 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019) by Christina Jiménez is a social histo…
6 years, 8 months ago
Erik Harms, "Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon" (U California Press, 2016)
Episode 56
What happens when market-oriented policy reforms butt heads with a single-party state’s strictly maintained limits on political freedoms? That questi…
6 years, 8 months ago
Paul Musselwhite, "Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth: The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Episode 27
Early American colonialism is often distinguished by an urban and rural divide. Urban development was a sign of imperial progress. British writers fr…
6 years, 8 months ago
Stephen Hamnett, "Planning Singapore: The Experimental City" (Routledge, 2019)
Episode 24
In this episode, we talk with Stephen Hamnett about Planning Singapore: The Experimental City(Routledge, 2019), a book he edited with Belinda Yuen.
Tw…
6 years, 8 months ago
Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, "Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Episode 600
Elizabeth Herbin-Triant is the author of Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods, published by Columbia …
6 years, 9 months ago
Kyle A. Jaros, "China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 292
Discussions of China’s 21st-century ‘rise’ often focus on the country’s dazzling megacities and the dizzying pace of urbanization which has propelled…
6 years, 9 months ago
Douglas K. Miller, "Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2019)
Episode 86
In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100…
6 years, 10 months ago
Stefan Al, "Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: Green and Gray Strategies" (Island Press, 2018)
Episode 17
Stefan Al, PhD, is a native of the Netherlands, a low-lying county that would not exist without flood protection, is an architect, urban designer, an…
6 years, 10 months ago