Peter Ekman is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life and at the Berggruen Institute. This interview is based on his new book, Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt […]
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The Author’s Corner with Derek G. Handley
Derek G. Handley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. This interview is based on his new book, Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement (Penn State University Press, 2024). […]
The Author’s Corner with Hendrik Hartog
Hendrik Hartog is Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus at Princeton University. This interview is based on his new book, Nobody’s Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the […]
The Author’s Corner with Richard E. Ocejo
Richard E. Ocejo is Professor of Sociology at John Jay College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. This interview is based on his new book, Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City (Princeton […]
The Author’s Corner with Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Nicholas Dagen Bloom is Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College. This interview is based on his new book, The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight (University of Chicago Press, 2023). […]
The Author’s Corner with Stephanie Ryberg-Webster
Stephanie Ryberg-Webster is Associate Professor of Urban Affairs in the Levin College of Public Affairs & Education at Cleveland State University. This interview is based on her new book, Preserving the Vanishing City: Historic Preservation amid Urban Decline in Cleveland, […]
Do you want to revitalize American cities? Get rid of the highways
Today The New York Times has a fascinating piece by Nadja Popovich, Josh Williams, and Denise Lu on how highways built in the 1950s and 1960s have damaged city life and how some cities are responding. Here is a taste: […]