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Environmental Justice in San Francisco
Mar 20 2025
Lindsey Dillon, author of "Toxic City," writes about environmental activism in the Bay Area
Q&A with Sayd Randle, author of "Replumbing the City"
Mar 20 2025
Author Sayd Randle discusses their new book "Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles"
House-building in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Mar 19 2025
Author Claire Mercer talks about her new book and how the suburb and the middle classes construct each other.
The Power of Place in Understanding—and Reframing—Digital Capitalism
Dec 18 2024
Author Luis F. Alvarez Leon argues that asserting the power of place to reframe digital capitalism in geographic terms is a way to reclaim the digital as part of our social world.
Q&A with Joe William Trotter, Jr., author of "Building the Black City"
Nov 08 2024
In "Building the Black City," Joe William Trotter, Jr., traces the growth of Black cities and political power from the preindustrial era to the present.
Finding hope in a precarious place
Oct 17 2024
While rising insurance rates in New Orleans reflect the challenges of engineering away from danger, we are drawn to something more powerful than a hurricane: a fierce cultural persistence for breaking bread in the ruins.
Michael Finewood and Michelle Luebke on Environmental Justice and the Bronx River Watershed
Oct 16 2024
Environmental injustice has become much more visible in recent years, thankfully, and people are looking for ways to incorporate environmental justice frameworks more explicitly into their research and teaching.
Q&A with Laureen Hom, author of "The Power of Chinatown"
Oct 09 2024
Author Laureen Hom explains what urban Chinatowns have to teach us about coalition-building, pushing back against gentrification, and envisioning neighborhood changes that are community-driven and equitable.
Celebrate National Honey Month with an exclusive author event
Sep 25 2024
To celebrate National Honey Month, pre-order THE WORLD ATLAS OF HONEY and receive an exclusive invite with author C. Marina Marchese.
Ten years after the death of Michael Brown, the conditions that led to the uprisings remain
Aug 09 2024
Today is the ten-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death and a critical moment to reflect on the uprisings. While some view these contemporary revolts as solely driven by police aggression, our modern unrest narrative is more complex. Through interviews for my new book Slow and Sudden Violence, Ferguson and Baltimore community leaders identified police brutality as a cause of the uprisings, but they also voiced other significant frustrations.