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 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 David Alff
David Alff is Associate Professor of English at The State University of New York, University at Buffalo. This interview is based on his new book, The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region (University of Chicago Press, […]
Cleveland’s “urban living room”
Check out The Washington Post‘s piece on the transformation of Cleveland, Ohio: “America’s best example of turning around a dying downtown.” It appears Cleveland is no longer the “mistake by the lake”: A taste: Empty downtown office buildings pose a […]
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: […]