Episode Archive

• 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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• 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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