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Urban Studies
Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
November 15, 2024
The Architecture of Urbanity
From one of today's most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challenges…
November 10, 2024
Disrupted City
The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a violent schism. As the South Asian subcontinent was partitioned in 1947…
November 3, 2024
Carceral Recovery
Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self (Lexington Books, 2023) explores the interrelation between carceral conditio…
November 2, 2024
Made in Manchester
Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of Mamucium. But it was as the ‘…
October 29, 2024
Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh
Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows (Routledge, 2024) provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict th…
October 25, 2024
Opera for Everyone
Every year a relatively small number of canonic operas are produced around the world. Many companies shy away from new works, afraid of alienating a p…
October 22, 2024
Lifehouse
In Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire (Verso, 2024), Adam Greenfield presents a compelling vision for collective resilience in an …
October 22, 2024
Smooth City
In cities across the world, a new urban condition is spreading rapidly: an ever-increasing push toward efficiency, sanitization, surveillance and the …
October 18, 2024
Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City
In the space of about two decades, five major parks were proposed, designed, and created in Paris. Some emerged from competitions between professional…
October 15, 2024
Children are Everywhere
Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin (Berghahn Books, 2024) by Dr. Meghana Joshi engages with how d…
October 13, 2024
Apartheid Remains
Over the course of the 20th century, the South African state attempted to construct a “White Man’s Country” on the African continent using the biopoli…
October 12, 2024
Killed by a Traffic Engineer
In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse in recent years, yet we continue…
October 11, 2024
Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar
Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge UP, 2024) looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kit…
October 8, 2024
The Ideology of Democratic Athens
We are Clavis Aurea: a dynamic team constantly looking for ways to make the academic publishing industry grow and to promote groundbreaking academic p…
October 2, 2024
The Cities We Need
An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging. Where would you take some…
September 30, 2024
Times Square Remade
What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is it that, despite its many changes of character, the…
September 29, 2024
Bicycle
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An almost miraculous 19th-century contraption, the bicycle prom…
September 24, 2024
Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia
In the twenty-first century, infrastructure has undergone a seismic shift from West to East. Once concentrated in Europe and North America, global inf…
September 21, 2024
Liberty's Grid
Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, a…
September 19, 2024
Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation
The achievement of Singapore’s national public housing program is impressive by any standard. Within a year of its first election victory in 1959, the…