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The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981, by Daniel Wortel-London. University of Chicago Press, 2025. 

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Daniel Wortel-London, Visiting Assistant Professor, History, Bard College

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We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place, by Shani Evans. University of Chicago Press, 2025.

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Shani Evans, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Rice University

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Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration, Citizenship, and Urban Governance, by Rachel Humphris. Stanford University Press, 2025.

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Rachel Humphris, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London

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Marked Men: Black Politicians and the Racialization of Scandal, by Nyron Crawford. NYU Press, 2024.

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Nyron Crawford, Associate Professor, Political Science, Temple University

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The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles, by Laureen Hom. University of California Press, 2024.

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Laureen Hom, Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, San José State University

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The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda, by Claudia Gastrow. UNC Press, 2024.

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Claudia Gastrow, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, NC State

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The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge, by Willow S. Lung-Amam, University of California Press, 2024.

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Willow Lung-Amam, Associate Professor, University of Maryland

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Affordable Housing the United States, by Gregg Colburn and Rebecca J. Walter. Routledge, 2024.

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Gregg Colburn, Associate Professor, University of Washington

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The Making of 21st Century Richmond: Politics, Policy, and Governance, 1988-2016, by Thad Williamson, Julian M. Hayter, and Amy L. Howard. University of North Carolina Press, 2024.

Guests

Thad Williamson, Professor, University of Richmond

Julian M. Hayter, Professor, University of Richmond

Amy L. Howard, Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives & Community Engagement, University of Richmond

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In this four-part miniseries, we dig into this contested and complex megaproject proposal through different lenses: the evolving economic geography of Market East in the 20th century; the actual benefits and drawbacks of publicly-funded arena and stadium projects for local taxpayers; the important role of activists in Chinatown and the city’s medical community; and what the future might hold for the Market East corridor now that the promised arena has been abandoned.  

Guests 

Arthur Acolin, Associate Professor of Real Estate, University of Washington 

J.C. Bradbury, Professor of Economics, Kennesaw State University  

Vivian Chang, Executive Director, Asian Americans United (AAU) 

Randall Drain, MD 

Jody Holton, Chief Planning & Strategy Officer, SEPTA 

Brad Humphreys, Professor of Economics, West Virginia University 

William King, MD, Philadelphia County Medical Society; National Medical Association 

Joel Maxcy, Department Head and Professor of Sports Business and General Business, Drexel University 

Mohan Seshadri, Executive Director, Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance (API PA) 

Harris Steinberg, FAIA, Founding Executive Director, Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation 

Walter Tsou, MD, Philadelphia County Medical Society, President; former Health Commissioner of Philadelphia 

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In this four-part miniseries, we dig into this contested and complex megaproject proposal through different lenses: the evolving economic geography of Market East in the 20th century; the actual benefits and drawbacks of publicly-funded arena and stadium projects for local taxpayers; the important role of activists in Chinatown and the city’s medical community; and what the future might hold for the Market East corridor now that the promised arena has been abandoned.  

Guests 

Arthur Acolin, Associate Professor of Real Estate, University of Washington 

J.C. Bradbury, Professor of Economics, Kennesaw State University  

Vivian Chang, Executive Director, Asian Americans United (AAU) 

Randall Drain, MD 

Jody Holton, Chief Planning & Strategy Officer, SEPTA 

Brad Humphreys, Professor of Economics, West Virginia University 

William King, MD, Philadelphia County Medical Society; National Medical Association 

Joel Maxcy, Department Head and Professor of Sports Business and General Business, Drexel University 

Mohan Seshadri, Executive Director, Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance (API PA) 

Harris Steinberg, FAIA, Founding Executive Director, Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation 

Walter Tsou, MD, Philadelphia County Medical Society, President; former Health Commissioner of Philadelphia 

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In this four-part miniseries, we dig into this contested and complex megaproject proposal through different lenses: the evolving economic geography of Market East in the 20th century; the actual benefits and drawbacks of publicly-funded arena and stadium projects for local taxpayers; the important role of activists in Chinatown and the city’s medical community; and what the future might hold for the Market East corridor now that the promised arena has been abandoned.  

Guests 

Arthur Acolin, Associate Professor of Real Estate, University of Washington 

J.C. Bradbury, Professor of Economics, Kennesaw State University  

Vivian Chang, Executive Director, Asian Americans United (AAU) 

Randall Drain, MD 

Jody Holton, Chief Planning & Strategy Officer, SEPTA 

Brad Humphreys, Professor of Economics, West Virginia University 

William King, MD, Philadelphia County Medical Society; National Medical Association 

Joel Maxcy, Department Head and Professor of Sports Business and General Business, Drexel University 

Mohan Seshadri, Executive Director, Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance (API PA) 

Harris Steinberg, FAIA, Founding Executive Director, Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation 

Walter Tsou, MD, Philadelphia County Medical Society, President; former Health Commissioner of Philadelphia 

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In this four-part miniseries, we dig into this contested and complex megaproject proposal through different lenses: the evolving economic geography of Market East in the 20th century; the actual benefits and drawbacks of publicly-funded arena and stadium projects for local taxpayers; the important role of activists in Chinatown and the city’s medical community; and what the future might hold for the Market East corridor now that the promised arena has been abandoned.  

Guests 

Arthur Acolin, Associate Professor of Real Estate, University of Washington 

J.C. Bradbury, Professor of Economics, Kennesaw State University  

Vivian Chang, Executive Director, Asian Americans United (AAU) 

Randall Drain, MD 

Jody Holton, Chief Planning & Strategy Officer, SEPTA 

Brad Humphreys, Professor of Economics, West Virginia University 

William King, MD, Philadelphia County Medical Society; National Medical Association 

Joel Maxcy, Department Head and Professor of Sports Business and General Business, Drexel University 

Mohan Seshadri, Executive Director, Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance (API PA) 

Harris Steinberg, FAIA, Founding Executive Director, Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation 

Walter Tsou, MD, Philadelphia County Medical Society, President; former Health Commissioner of Philadelphia 

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Kristin Skrabut, Assistant Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning, Tufts University

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Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru by Kristin Skrabut, University of Texas Press, 2024

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Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation. Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovska, Craig Borowiak, and Stephen Healy. University of Minnesota Press, 2025. [OPEN ACCESS]

Guests

Maliha Safri, Professor, Drew University

Marianna Pavlovskaya, Professor, Hunter College

Craig Borowiak, Professor, Haverford College

Stephen Healy, Associate Professor, Western Sydney University

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Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad. Alissa Walter. Stanford University Press, 2025.

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Alissa Walter, Associate Professor of History, Seattle Pacific University

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Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg, Benjamin Bradlow. Princeton University Press, 2024.

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Ben Bradlow, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Princeton University

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Not in My Gayborhood! Gay Neighboorhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen, Columbia University Press (2024)

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Theo Greene, Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College

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The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis (OPEN ACCESS) 

The Resilient Cities Housing Initiative, MIT 

The Equitably Resilient City, MIT 

Guests: 

Lawrence Vale, MIT 

Zachary Lamb, UC Berkeley 

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The Symposium 

Guests 

Nátalia de Paula Moreira, PhD. Postdoctoral Researcher, Wesleyan University. 

Sarah Gollust, PhD. Professor, Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota. 

Andrew Kelly, PhD. Associate Professor of Public Health, Cal State East Bay.

Didi Kuo, PhD. Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. 

Holly Jarman, PhD. Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy and Global Public Health, University of Michigan. 

Patricia Strach, PhD. Professor, Political Science, University at Albany. 

Kathleen Sullivan, PhD. Professor, Political Science, Ohio University. 

Charley Willison, PhD. Assistant Professor of Public Health at Cornell University. 

The Collaborative on Media and Messaging (COMM)

Public Health Governance Lab

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The Symposium 

Guests 

Nátalia de Paula Moreira, PhD. Postdoctoral Researcher, Wesleyan University. 

Sarah Gollust, PhD. Professor, Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota. 

Andrew Kelly, PhD. Associate Professor of Public Health, Cal State East Bay.

Didi Kuo, PhD. Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. 

Holly Jarman, PhD. Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy and Global Public Health, University of Michigan. 

Patricia Strach, PhD. Professor, Political Science, University at Albany. 

Kathleen Sullivan, PhD. Professor, Political Science, Ohio University. 

Charley Willison, PhD. Assistant Professor of Public Health at Cornell University. 

The Collaborative on Media and Messaging (COMM)

Public Health Governance Lab

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Weaver brings these clashes to the fore by showing how New York City politics has been shaped by these conflicting orders. He examines the transformation of the city’s political economy in the aftermath of the 1975 fiscal crisis through neoliberal real estate development and privatization, the conservative rise of law-and-order politics in the 1970s to 1990s, and the efforts of the city’s egalitarians to respond to each of these shifts through social movements such as Occupy and Black Lives Matter.

Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City belies glib assumptions about the city’s liberal character. Weaver reveals the metropolis not as a homogenous political whole, but as a site in which the victories and defeats of rival political forces change the terms of local citizenship for the millions of residents who call the city home.

Temple Press is publishing six titles in their series, “Political Lessons from American Cities,” which is edited by Richardson Dilworth, UAR Managing Editor and Professor of Politics at Drexel University.

Credits 

Many thanks to Gary Kramer and Sam Cohn at Temple University Press, the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation at Drexel University, the managing editors at Urban Affairs Review, and our guests for sharing their time and insights with us. The show’s music is “Hundred Mile” by K2, courtesy of Blue Dot Sessions. 

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Dilworth addresses Philadelphia’s early development through the present day, including momentous changes from its new city charter in 1885 and the Republican machine that emerged around the same time to its transformation to a Democratic stronghold in the 1950s, when the city also experienced a racial transition. Focusing primarily on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Dilworth evaluates the terms of Mayors Frank Rizzo, Wilson Goode, and Ed Rendell, as well as John Street, Michael Nutter, and Jim Kenney to illustrate how power and resistance function, and how Philadelphia’s political history and reform cycles offer a conceptual model that can easily be applied to other cities.

Reforming Philadelphia provides a new framework for understanding the evolving relationship between national politics and local, city politics.

Temple Press is publishing six titles in their series, “Political Lessons from American Cities,” which is edited by Richardson Dilworth, UAR Managing Editor and Professor of Politics at Drexel University.

Credits 

Many thanks to Gary Kramer and Sam Cohn at Temple University Press, the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation at Drexel University, the managing editors at Urban Affairs Review, and our guests for sharing their time and insights with us. The show’s music is “Hundred Mile” by K2, courtesy of Blue Dot Sessions. 

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In 2017, Seattle inaugurated a new way for citizens to be involved in democracy: they introduced publicly financed vouchers for voters to donate to local candidates. The innovative plan is designed to level the playing field in campaign financing. Through the vouchers, residents allocate dollars to candidates of their choice in local elections, putting political money directly in the hands of voters. The intent is to increase political participation and ameliorate the long-standing representational inequalities of private donations.

Democracy Vouchers and the Promise of Fairer Elections in Seattle critically evaluates the success and impact of this program. Jennifer Heerwig and Brian J. McCabe emphasize how local elections now attract a much wider and more diverse field of both donors and candidates. They also consider external threats to the program, from litigation about the constitutionality of a voucher program to the rise of independent expenditures.

Offering important lessons on how other cities can adopt a similar program, this compelling case study also highlights the obstacles that will likely arise in its implementation.

Temple Press is publishing six titles in their series, “Political Lessons from American Cities,” which is edited by Richardson Dilworth, UAR Managing Editor and Professor of Politics at Drexel University.

Credits 

Many thanks to Gary Kramer and Sam Cohn at Temple University Press, the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation at Drexel University, the managing editors at Urban Affairs Review, and our guests for sharing their time and insights with us. The show’s music is “Hundred Mile” by K2, courtesy of Blue Dot Sessions. 

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Houston is one of the most diverse cities in the United States and has long been a prime destination for international migrants from Latin America, Asia, and more recently, Africa. However, the city is politically mixed, organizationally underserved, and situated in a relatively anti-immigrant state. This makes Houston a challenging context for immigrant rights despite its rapidly diversifying population.

Els de Graauw and Shannon Gleeson recount how local and multi-level contexts shape the creation, contestation, and implementation of immigrant rights policies and practices in the city. They examine the development of a city immigrant affairs office, interactions between local law enforcement and federal immigration enforcement officials, local public-private partnerships around federal immigration benefits, and collaborations between labor, immigrant rights, faith, and business leaders to combat wage theft.

The case study of Houston provides a bellwether for how other U.S. cities will deal with their growing immigrant populations and underscores the importance of public-private collaborations to advance immigrant rights.

Temple Press is publishing six titles in their series, “Political Lessons from American Cities,” which is edited by Richardson Dilworth, UAR Managing Editor and Professor of Politics at Drexel University.

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We could have created an entire show focused on this topic! But instead, we’re taking a wide-angled and ecumenical approach to general topics in urban studies. We hope to expose scholars, students, and practitioners of urban studies to diverse research methods and approaches to these themes. Each episode will be accompanied by a suggested reading list based on our discussions, and we welcome suggestions for future guests and topics!

GUESTS

Andrew Baldwin, Durham University

Deirdre Conlon, University of Leeds

Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen, Yale University

Nancy Hiemstra, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

David Kaufmann, ETH Zürich

Domenic Vitiello, University of Pennsylvania

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We could have created an entire show focused on this topic! But instead, we’re taking a wide-angled and ecumenical approach to general topics in urban studies. We hope to expose scholars, students, and practitioners of urban studies to diverse research methods and approaches to these themes. Each episode will be accompanied by a suggested reading list based on our discussions, and we welcome suggestions for future guests and topics!

GUESTS

Andrew Baldwin, Durham University

Deirdre Conlon, University of Leeds

Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen, Yale University

Nancy Hiemstra, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

David Kaufmann, ETH Zürich

Domenic Vitiello, University of Pennsylvania

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We could have created an entire show focused on this topic! But instead, we’re taking a wide-angled and ecumenical approach to general topics in urban studies. We hope to expose scholars, students, and practitioners of urban studies to diverse research methods and approaches to these themes. Each episode will be accompanied by a suggested reading list based on our discussions, and we welcome suggestions for future guests and topics!

GUESTS

Andrew Baldwin, Durham University

Deirdre Conlon, University of Leeds

Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen, Yale University

Nancy Hiemstra, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

David Kaufmann, ETH Zürich

Domenic Vitiello, University of Pennsylvania

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We could have created an entire show focused on this topic! But instead, we’re taking a wide-angled and ecumenical approach to general topics in urban studies. We hope to expose scholars, students, and practitioners of urban studies to diverse research methods and approaches to these themes. Each episode will be accompanied by a suggested reading list based on our discussions, and we welcome suggestions for future guests and topics!

Guests

Andrew Baldwin, Durham University

Deirdre Conlon, University of Leeds

Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen, Yale University

Nancy Hiemstra, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

David Kaufmann, ETH Zürich

Domenic Vitiello, University of Pennsylvania

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GUESTS 

David Banks, SUNY, University at Albany 

Ryan Burns, University of Calgary 

Ayonna Datta, University College London 

Shannon Mattern, University of Pennsylvania 

Erin McElroy, University of Washington 

John Stehlin, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 

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GUESTS 

David Banks, SUNY, University at Albany 

Ryan Burns, University of Calgary 

Ayonna Datta, University College London 

Shannon Mattern, University of Pennsylvania 

Erin McElroy, University of Washington 

John Stehlin, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 

CREDITS 

Many thanks to the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation at Drexel University, the managing editors at Urban Affairs Review, and our guests for sharing their time and insights with us. The show’s music is “Hundred Mile” by K2, courtesy of Blue Dot Sessions. 

Producer and sound engineer: David Weems, Drexel University 

Executive Producer and writer: Emily Holloway, Associate Managing Editor, Urban Affairs Review

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GUESTS 

David Banks, SUNY, University at Albany 

Ryan Burns, University of Calgary 

Ayonna Datta, University College London 

Shannon Mattern, University of Pennsylvania 

Erin McElroy, University of Washington 

John Stehlin, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 

CREDITS 

Many thanks to the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation at Drexel University, the managing editors at Urban Affairs Review, and our guests for sharing their time and insights with us. The show’s music is “Hundred Mile” by K2, courtesy of Blue Dot Sessions. 

Producer and sound engineer: David Weems, Drexel University 

Executive Producer and writer: Emily Holloway, Associate Managing Editor, Urban Affairs Review. 

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We could have created an entire show focused on this topic! But instead, we’re taking a wide-angled and ecumenical approach to general topics in urban studies. We hope to expose scholars, students, and practitioners of urban studies to diverse research methods and approaches to these themes. Visit our website for a full reading list.

Guests: 

David Banks, SUNY, University at Albany 

Ryan Burns, University of Calgary 

Ayonna Datta, University College London 

Shannon Mattern, University of Pennsylvania 

Erin McElroy, University of Washington 

John Stehlin, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 

Credits: 

Many thanks to the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation at Drexel University, the managing editors at Urban Affairs Review, and our guests for sharing their time and insights with us. The show’s music is “Hundred Mile” by K2, courtesy of Blue Dot Sessions. 

Producer and sound engineer: David Weems, Drexel University 

Executive Producer and writer: Emily Holloway, Associate Managing Editor, Urban Affairs Review.  

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Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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