Episode Archive

• 81 - Urban Political x Think & Drink: Maroš Krivy.

  Valuing indeterminacy: Terrain vague, temporary use and the production of urban expertise in Barcelona and Berlin.
  This is the first episode of a new series from Urban Political. In collab...

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• 80 - Spatial Planning in Israel/Palestine and the Gaza War

  In this episode, we explore the role of land policies and spatial planning in the Israel-Palestine conflict. Our two guests, Oren Yiftachel and Orwa Switat, discuss the historical context of the...

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• 79 - Not in my Gayborhood!

  In this episode, we are discussing Theodore Greene’s latest book, Not in my Gayborhood! Gay neighborhoods and the rise of the vicarious citizen, published by Columbia University Press in July 20...

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• 78 - Book Review: Waste and the City

  In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste and the City is a call to action on one of modern urban life's mos...

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• Episode 77 - Post-Socialist Infrastructure

  In this episode we talk about garages, trams and trolleybuses! Our guests for this episode, Tauri Tuvikene and Wladimir Sgibnev, help us think about post-socialist mobility in terms of continuit...

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• Episodio 76 - En conversación con Clara Salazar (The Urban Lives of Property Series IV)

  In this inaugural Spanish-language episode of the Urban Political Podcast, Clara Salazar delves into the history and concept of the ejidos—collective forms of land ownership introduced by the Me...

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• Episode 75 – Book Review Roundtable: Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology

  Lively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities—human and nonhuman—that make up the material politics of cit...

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• In Conversation with Jean-David Gerber (The Urban Lives of Property Series III)

  This episode of the Urban Lives of Property Series expands discussions geographically and conceptually: Our guest in this episode, Jean-David Gerber, helps us think property from Switzerland and...

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• the Far Right and the City

  In this discussion, members of the Terra-R (Territorialisations of the Radical Right) network examine the developments of the radical right in Germany beyond simplistic urban-rural and East-West...

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• Rent Strike Series Episode 3

  This is episode three of the Rent Strike Series, focusing on the Veritas Tenants Association’s ongoing multibuilding rent strike in San Francisco to demand a say in the terms of sale of their bu...

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