New Books Network

About Tricia Keffer

NBN Episodes hosted by Tricia:

Architecture September 8, 2020

Primer of Ecological Restoration

Karen Holl

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
The pace, intensity, and scale at which humans have altered our planet in recent decades is unprecedented. We have dramatically transformed landscapes and waterways through agriculture, logging, mining, and fire …
Architecture September 1, 2020

Motor City Green

A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit

Joseph S. Cialdella

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Joseph S. Cialdella's Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit (University of Pittsburg Press, 2020) is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the …
Architecture August 25, 2020

DIY City

The Collective Power of Small Actions

Hank Dittmar

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Some utopian plans have shaped our cities —from England’s New Towns and Garden Cities to the Haussmann plan for Paris and the L’Enfant plan for Washington, DC. But these grand …
Architecture July 22, 2020

Be Seated

Laurie Olin

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Today I talked to Laurie Olin about his book Be Seated (ORO Editions, 2017). Olin’s interest in public outdoor seating in parks and civic spaces revolves around two poles: the …
Architecture July 17, 2020

Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value

R. Sroufe and S. Melnyk

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Robert Sroufe and Steven Melnyk's Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value (Business Expert Press) provides a multi-perspective approach to sustainability and value chains to allow understanding from a variety …
Architecture July 16, 2020

River Cities, City Rivers

Thaisa Way

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Today I talked to Thaisa Way, editor of River Cities, City Rivers (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2018). Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history. These rivers can …
Architecture July 15, 2020

France Sketchbook

Laurie Olin

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
For centuries artists and designers have recorded places, people, and life in travel sketchbooks. Over a period of fifty years, Laurie Olin, one of America’s most distinguished landscape architects, has …
Architecture July 10, 2020

Integrated Management

How Sustainability Creates Value for Any Business

Robert Sroufe

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Integration has been a key theme across the general management, organizational behavior, supply chain management, strategy, information systems and the environmental management literature for decades. Sustainability continues to be, at …
Architecture June 5, 2020

Active Landscape Photography

Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape Architecture

Anne Godfrey

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Photographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design. Through a diverse set of essays and case studies, this seminal text unpacks …
Architecture June 3, 2020

Unexpected Affinities

The History of Type in Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp

Pablo Meninato

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
While the concept of "type" has been present in architectural discourse since its formal introduction at the end of the eighteenth century, its role in the development of architectural projects …
Architecture June 1, 2020

Reciprocal Landscapes

Stories of Material Movements

Jane Hutton

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces …
Music May 18, 2020

Beyond Broadway

The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America

Stacy Wolf

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
On this episode, Lee Pierce (she/they) interviews Stacy Wolf of Princeton University about her book Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America (Oxford University Press, 2019) …