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Urban Studies
Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
July 24, 2024
Pivot of China
China’s modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and urban areas. Contemporary o…
July 22, 2024
Sugar, Cigars and Revolution
A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that’s been all but forgotten until now. Lisandro Perez's Sugar, Cigars and Revolutio…
July 20, 2024
Vanishing Vienna
In Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruct…
July 18, 2024
Parks for Profit
A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into dist…
July 17, 2024
The Revolutionary City
Examining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion (Prin…
July 16, 2024
City of Vice
San Francisco began its American life as a city largely made up of transient men, arriving from afar to participate in the gold rush and various atten…
July 14, 2024
The City-State of Boston
In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liberty” for an indepe…
July 11, 2024
Insatiable City
A history of food in the Crescent City that explores race, power, social status, and labor. In Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans (U Chicag…
July 10, 2024
Performing Chinatown
This episode features a conversation with Dr. William Gow on his recently published book, Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of …
July 10, 2024
Model Cases
In Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Dr. Monika Krause asks about the concrete material resear…
July 9, 2024
The Way That Leads Among the Lost
Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico Ci…
July 7, 2024
The Possibility Machine
Las Vegas is a place the American dream made; a city built in the middle of desert visited by millions of people every year hoping to make their dream…
July 6, 2024
Singaporean Creatures
In Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City (NUS Press, 2024), historian Tim Barnard and his colleagues offer a…
July 2, 2024
An Age to Work
Childhood as lived during the French Third Republic was very different from childhood during the modern era. Working-class children laboured alongside…
July 1, 2024
Privileging Place
In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and…
June 30, 2024
Race, Social Reproduction, and Capitalist Totality
We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that aim to challenge different forms of domination: capi…
June 26, 2024
Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City
In Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City: Designs for Vitality (Bloomsbury, 2022), Frederick Klaits compares how members of one majority white a…
June 19, 2024
Emergent Tokyo
If ancient Kyoto stands for orderly elegance, then Tokyo, within the world’s most populated metropolitan area, calls to mind–– jam-packed chaos. But i…
June 15, 2024
The Fragmentary City
As Andrew M. Gardner explains in The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar (Cornell UP, 2024) i…