Episode Archive

• 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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• Cosmopolitan Solidarity

  To live in the age of precarity is a tolling, everyday struggle. It erodes one's strength to carry on, live another day, and keep the hope for a modicum of prosperity due to come in some vague f...

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• Property Rights Versus Tenants in Poland

  Unregulated restitution of property to prewar owners (or rather their legal successors) remains a major source of conflict over housing in Poland, most notably in Warsaw. This episode features B...

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• Rent Strike Series Episode 2

  This is episode two 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 buil...

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