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New Books in Urban Studies

New Books in Urban Studies

Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books

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858 episodesEN

Show overview

New Books in Urban Studies has been publishing since 2008, and across the 18 years since has built a catalogue of 858 episodes. That works out to roughly 750 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 2nd season.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 41 min and 1h 3m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Arts show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed earlier today, with 104 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 155 episodes published. Published by New Books Network.

Episodes
858
Running
2008–2026 · 18y
Median length
53 min
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork

Latest Episodes

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Old Lhasa: A Biography of a Sacred City

Aug 23, 202631 min

Tatiana Seijas, "American Metropolis: The Making of Mexico City" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Aug 23, 202638 min

Samuel Holleran and Max Holleran, "Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Aug 21, 202647 min

Kiara Wyndham, "Diversityland: Hiding Racial Inequality in an American Suburb" (U California Press, 2026)

Aug 17, 202642 min

Amihai Mazar and Nava Panitz-Cohen, "Tel Rehov: A Bronze and Iron Age City in the Beth-Shean Valle" (The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University, 2020)

Aug 17, 202642 min

Lauren Stara, "Planning Library Spaces: A Practical Guide for Library Building Projects" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Aug 12, 202655 min

William Whyte, "The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood" (Harvard UP, 2026)

Aug 11, 202642 min

Thomas F. Rzeznik, "A Monument of Charity: St. Vincent’s Hospital and Catholic Health Care in New York City" (NYU Press, 2026)

Aug 11, 202633 min

Marco Pompili, "Public Housing in Japan: The Dōjunkai Apartments One Hundred Years On" (Brill, 2026)

Aug 10, 202657 min

Oli Mould, "Postcapitalist cities: Towards a common urban future" (Manchester UP, 2026)

Aug 9, 202640 min

Ka-ming Wu, "Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations" (Leiden UP, 2026)

Aug 9, 202652 min

Stefan Al, "Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home" (Norton, 2026)

Aug 9, 202630 min

Cycling Cities: Lisbon and Tehran with M. Luísa Sousa and Kazem Afradi

Aug 6, 20261h 2m

Vaneesa Cook, "Empire and Liberty: The Tied Histories of Two American Landmarks" (Beacon Press, 2026)

Aug 1, 202646 min

Isabel Heger-Laube, "China’s Landless Peasants and the Role of State-led Rural Urbanization: Narratives, Meaning Making, and the Puzzle of Social Stability" (Würzberg UP, 2025)

Jul 31, 20261h 16m

Jinwon Kim, "Koreatown, NYC: The Consumption of a Transnational Brand" (NYU Press, 2026)

Jul 30, 202634 min

Nick Yablon, "From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower: C. G. Hine's 1905 Photographic Survey of Broadway" (Columbia UP, 2026)

Jul 22, 202637 min

Mark Crinson, "Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2026)

Jul 22, 20261h 16m

Suzy Hansen, "From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan" (FSG, 2026)

Jul 21, 202648 min

Molly M. Brookfield, "Watching the Girls Go By: A History of Street Harassment in the United States" (UNC Press, 2026)

Jul 19, 202640 min
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