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How to Make a Home in the City
Aug 06 2024
By Stacy Torres, author of At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban AmericaI never planned to study older adults. Old places that survived waves of gentrification initially fascinated me, as a lifelong New Yorker who had struggled to make ends meet and mourned the loss of beloved neighborho
Essentially Disposable: Lessons from Kampala’s Urban Waste Workers
Nov 17 2021
By Jacob Doherty, author of Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of DisposabilityAs delegates gathered in Glasgow, Scotland for COP26, waste amasses on the city’s streets. Years of municipal austerity have stretched sanitation services thin in Glasgow, leaving litter, uncollected r
The Understudied Social Lives of Public Transit
Nov 08 2021
By Rashmi Sadana, author of The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of InfrastructureOne of the first people I interviewed for my new book, The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure, was a woman in her fifties who I call Vanit