Episode Archive

• 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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• Book Review Roundtable: Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning

  Against the Commons underscores how urbanization shapes the social fabric of places and territories, lending awareness to the impact of planning and design initiatives on working-class communiti...

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• Rent Strike Series Episode 1

  The first in an ongoing series hosted by Mathilde Gustavussen

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• Book Review Roundtable: How Cities Can Transform Democracy

  We live in an urban age. It is well known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanization is also chang...

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• Book Review Roundtable: Migrants and Machine Politics

  As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbaniz...

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• In Conversation with Vera Smirnova (The Urban Lives of Property Series II)

  In this second part of the series Urban Lives of Property, Hanna and Markus talk to Vera Smirnova, a human and political geographer to discuss property and territory from a Russian perspective. ...

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• Russian Academia and Urban Activism in Times of War: Insights from St. Petersburg

  Meet urban scholar Oleg Pachenkov who left Russia few weeks after the invasion of Ukraine. Markus speaks with him about his personal and professional trajectory as a critical scholar bringing hi...

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• In Conversation with Nick Blomley (The Urban Lives of Property Series I)

  This podcast series explores the "life of property" in urban theory and practice. In conversations with scholars who have led the way in property debates, it aims is to advance conceptual and th...

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• Are Community Land Trusts Transformative?

  Community land trusts are proliferating across the globe, promoted as a potential solution to the ever-worsening affordable housing crisis. CLTs provide a mechanism for decommodification, collec...

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