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Urban Studies
Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
October 12, 2026
Seniorland
Despite the abundance of retirement communities in the US, none compare to The Villages in Central Florida. Home to nearly 150,000 residents and spann…
September 30, 2026
The Quake That Drained the Desert
On May 3, 1887, an earthquake struck near the U.S.-Mexico border. Forty-three people died in Bavispe, Mexico; sixty miles north in Arizona, buildings …
September 29, 2026
The Last of the Ellis Island Jews
Joel Dinerstein's The Last of the Ellis Island Jews (SUNY Press, 2026) is a tragicomic memoir of a dysfunctional, working-class Brooklyn Jewish family…
September 24, 2026
Key to the City
For those concerned with how city hall can shape the look and feel of a neighborhood, the mere mention of zoning may invite denunciation of zoning pra…
September 21, 2026
Property Values
As affordability crises once limited to coastal cities have spread across the broader United States, the history of home and land ownership has never …
September 19, 2026
Brokers of Power
The twenty-first century has seen major transformations in the US electricity sector—but while the use of coal power wanes and the need for renewable …
September 18, 2026
Through the Roof
Housing is the defining issue of our time, driving a persistent affordability crisis, financial instability, and economic inequality. Alexander Reisen…
September 17, 2026
For Customers Only
Americans have nowhere to go. Nationwide, countless public spaces lack one crucial thing: bathrooms, never mind ones that are safe and functional. Yet…
September 15, 2026
Empire and Nation in the City
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Mehmet Çelik about his new book, Empire and Nation in the City: Rusçuk from Ottoman Rule to Bulgarian Statehood, pu…
September 15, 2026
Belfastmen
Professor Tom Hulme's second book reconstructs the erotic and romantic lives of queer men in Belfast across roughly seventy years, from the recriminal…
September 13, 2026
Be Water
During the eventful summer of 2019 in Hong Kong, the Be Water Revolution formed to resist the proposed extradition of fugitives to mainland China’s co…
September 12, 2026
Urban Borderlands
Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century was bustling with the rise of industrialization, but the growing labor force that propelled it, mostly cons…
September 12, 2026
Building Postcarbon Futures
What would a postcarbon future look like? What would it take to build and maintain a more just, regenerative world? How would it feel to live—and to t…
September 11, 2026
Dwelling on Earth
In Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home (Norton, 2026), the architect and urban planner Stefan Al asks–– where is a good …
September 8, 2026
Nary a Horse Left Standing
In Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern City (MIT Press, 2026), Dr. Lee …
September 1, 2026
Your Fellow Americans
Have you ever swapped stories on a porch with Amish snowbirds in Florida? Searched for reindeer with the Siberian Yupik in Alaska? Been a guest on a h…
September 1, 2026
Edinburgh
Romanticism made Scotland famous. It critically shaped the course of Scottish culture, while impacting on cultures elsewhere and inaugurating the coun…
September 1, 2026
Battle in the Margins
While Lexington and Concord claim significance as the sites of the American Revolution’s opening battles, New York City’s geography, population densit…
August 29, 2026
Savage
Savage: The Making of Modern Dogs in British Hong Kong (Cornell University Press, 2026) explores the dark side of colonial modernity through canin…
August 26, 2026
Speech and the City
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Yaron Matras about his new book Speech and the City. In this timely …