The **Urban Political** delves into contemporary urban issues with activists, scholars and policy-makers from around the world. Providing informed views, state-of-the-art knowledge, and unusual insights, the podcast aims to advance our understanding of urban environments and how we might make them more just and democratic. The **Urban Political** provides a new forum for reflection on bridging urban activism and scholarship, where regular features offer snapshots of pressing issues and new publications, allowing multiple voices of scholars and activists to enter into a transnational debate directly. Hosted and produced by: Ross Beveridge (University of Glasgow) Markus Kip (Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Mais Jafari (Technische Universität Dortmund) Nitin Bathla (ETH-Zürich) Julio Paulos (Université de Lausanne) Nicolas Goez (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) Talja Blokland (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Hanna Hilbrandt (Universität Zürich) Powered in partnership with the Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Music credits: "Something Elated" by Broke For Free, CC BY 3...
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 21 hours 27 minutes
episode 74: In Conversation with Jean-David Gerber (The Urban Lives of Property Series III)
Property, Planning and Institutional Power: A view from Switzerland
episode 75: the Far Right and the City
With the research network Territorialisations of the Radical Right (Terra-R).
episode 73: Rent Strike Series Episode 3
The third in an ongoing series hosted by Mathilde Lind Gustavussen
episode 72: Episode 71 – 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 city making. Generating fresh conversations between posthumanism, postcolonialism, and political economy, Barua reveals how these actors shape, integrate, subsume, and relate to urban space in fascinating ways. This podcast is produced in collaboration with the Urban Geography Journal.
episode 70: Property Rights Versus Tenants in Poland
Beata Siemieniako on the restitution of housing and tenants' struggles
episode 69: Rent Strike Series Episode 2
The second in an ongoing series hosted by Mathilde Lind Gustavussen.
episode 68: 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 communities and popular strata. Projecting history into the future, it outlines an alternative vision for a postcapitalist urban planning, one in which the structure of collective spaces is defined by the people who inhabit them.
episode 66: Book Review Roundtable: How Cities Can Transform Democracy
Ross Beveridge, Philippe Koch and their critics