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Urban Studies
Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
March 17, 2026
Edinburgh
From prehistory to the present day, the story of Edinburgh is packed with incident and drama. As Scotland’s capital since 1437, the city has witnessed…
March 16, 2026
Climate Change and the Future of Boston
Like many of the world’s iconic coastal cities, Boston faces potentially severe impacts from climate change. Depending on global emissions, Boston cou…
March 14, 2026
Rural Versus Urban
How the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarization Why have Americans living in different places come to experience politics as a battle between …
March 12, 2026
Imperial Depths
The notion of abolishing prisons strikes some as an impossible dream: could we could reasonably conceive of a society that responded to harm without t…
March 9, 2026
The Hyderabadis
From the annexation of the princely state of Hyderabad in September 1948 to the formation of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 and the eventual creation of Telan…
March 8, 2026
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City (SUNY Press, 2025) offers a new look at over a century of Yiddish culture in New York City. Author …
March 6, 2026
Adventurous Vents
At the heart of the modern world lie ventilation shafts. We may not notice them, but wherever there are tunnels, sewers, mines, car parks and energy s…
March 3, 2026
Detroit Never Left
Detroit seemed to experience an explosive rebirth following its bankruptcy, the largest in US municipal history. It was as if the slate had been wiped…
March 3, 2026
Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites
Celebrated as a democratic space for all Americans, the major league ballpark in fact privileged the middle- and upper-class white male fan while taci…
March 1, 2026
Cartographies of Youth Resistance
In Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico (U California Press, 2020), based on a decade of ethnographic fieldw…
February 21, 2026
Moral Storytelling in 1920s New York, Odessa, and Bombay
Using public storytelling as a driving force, Moral Storytelling in 1920s New York, Odessa, and Bombay: Sex, Crime, Violence, and Nightlife in the Mod…
February 20, 2026
Overbuilt
The world’s largest public works investment visible from space, the Interstate Highway System and the hundreds of thousands of miles of supporting roa…
February 19, 2026
The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class
Industrial workers in Ukraine have a complex political lifeworld because their political action aimed at bringing radical social change coexists with …
February 17, 2026
Drama of Democracy
In Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai (U Minnesota Press, 2025), Lisa Björkman invites our attention to political form and how the…
February 13, 2026
Streetscapes of War and Revolution
Prague entered the First World War as the third city of the Habsburg empire, but emerged in 1918 as the capital of a brand new nation-state, Czechoslo…
February 5, 2026
Ghosted
Delhi is haunted—by its ghosts, its ruins, and its unending capacity for rebirth. In the shadow of medieval mosques and Mughal tombs, the past refuses…
February 5, 2026
Hard Streets
Welcome to the hard streets: working-class London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charli…
February 4, 2026
Chinatown
San Francisco's Chinatown is the oldest Chinatown in North America and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia. Spanning 30 city blocks and h…
February 2, 2026
Unforgiving Places
Disproving the popular narrative that shootings are the calculated acts of malicious or desperate people, Ludwig shows how most shootings actually gro…