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NBN Episodes hosted by Peter:
July 16, 2019
The Paradox of Preservation
“Wilderness,” “nature,” and their “preservation” are concepts basic to how the National Park Service organizes our relationship to American land. They…
May 20, 2019
Transit Life
What kind of time do we endure on our daily commutes? What kind of space do we occupy? What new sorts of urbanites do we thereby become? In Transit Li…
March 1, 2019
Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491)
Chet Van Duzer, an accomplished historian of cartography, trains his sight in this book on one uniquely important map produced in early modern Europe.…
February 1, 2019
Ideals of the Body
We know quite a bit about the physical signatures of urban “modernity” foisted upon Paris by Baron Haussmann in the late nineteenth century — the broa…
June 20, 2018
The Geography of the Everyday
How to theorize what goes without saying? In The Geography of the Everyday: Toward an Understanding of the Given (University of Georgia Press, 2017), …
May 4, 2018
Curated Decay
In Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), geographer Caitlin DeSilvey offers a set of alternatives to those who …
April 23, 2018
The Dying City
What does it mean to say that a city can “die”? As Brian Tochterman shows in this compelling intellectual and cultural history, motifs of imminent dea…
April 16, 2018
City Choreographer
Lawrence Halprin, one of the central figures in twentieth-century American landscape architecture, is well known to city-watchers for his work on San …