Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSeth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Episode 9
Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy (Oxford University Press, 2018), offers a holistic treatment of the developm…
7 years, 3 months ago
David Ray Papke, "Containment and Condemnation: Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor" (Michigan State UP, 2019)
Episode 74
The law does things, writes David Ray Papke, and it says things, and if we are talking about poor Americans, especially those living in big cities, w…
7 years, 4 months ago
Justine Howe, “Suburban Islam” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Episode 142
The study of Islam is often focused on subjects involved in legal debates or ritual practice. But our understanding of Muslims should also be informe…
7 years, 4 months ago
Nathan Holmes, "Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination" (SUNY Press, 2018)
Episode 73
The so-called Urban Crisis of the 1970s continues to loom large in narratives of US urban politics and history, but what can we learn about the perio…
7 years, 4 months ago
Sun-Young Park, "Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)
Episode 15
We know quite a bit about the physical signatures of urban “modernity” foisted upon Paris by Baron Haussmann in the late nineteenth century — the bro…
7 years, 4 months ago
David J. Puglia, "Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore 'Hon': The Folk in the City" (Lexington Books, 2018)
Episode 19
Folklorist David J. Puglia is an assistant professor at the City University of New York and in his latest book - Tradition, Urban Identity, and the B…
7 years, 4 months ago
Rosalind Fredericks, "Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal" (Duke UP, 2018)
Episode 28
The production and removal of garbage, as a key element of the daily infrastructure of urban life, is deeply embedded in social, moral, and political…
7 years, 4 months ago
Seamus O’Hanlon, "City Life: The New Urban Australia" (NewSouth Publishing, 2018)
Episode 43
In his new book, City Life: The New Urban Australia (NewSouth Publishing, 2018), Seamus O’Hanlon, an Associate Professor at Monash University, explor…
7 years, 6 months ago
Jessica Trounstine, "Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 319
2018 has been a great year for books about sub-national government in the United States. The year ends with another to add to the list. Jessica Troun…
7 years, 6 months ago
D.A. Silver and T.N. Clark, "Scenescapes: How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Episode 93
I don’t mean to make a scene, but please open your eyes and look around. There are complex scenes everywhere and we have all served witness to them. …
7 years, 6 months ago