Podcasts by Urban Political Podcast

Troubling Graffiti and Street Art from 2022-01-24T09:25:04

What do graffiti and street art do? This is the key question of the intriguing podcast conversation among Emma Arnold, Jeff Ross, and John Lennon. While we learn about the unruly and disruptive fea...

Housing Expropriation Referendum in Berlin: How it was won and what comes next? from 2021-10-01T09:35:48

On the 26th of September over million Berliners voted to expropriate and return to public ownership over 200,000 homes in the city. Deutsche Wohnen und Co Enteignen targeted a number of large real ...

Urban Political Special: RC21 Conference Antwerp from 2021-07-20T09:20:03

In this episode we give you exclusive insights into the RC21 conference 2021 Antwerp. Our guests share their experiences from sessions, keynotes, and discussions on this year's main theme of 'Sensi...

Housing Commons & Collectives: European & US Perspectives from 2021-07-02T07:45

After discussing expropriation efforts in Berlin recently, this episode will widen the discussion of housing commons to perspectives, differences, and potentials in Europe and the US.

Decolonize/Decenter: Planning in the South from 2021-06-18T09:10:17

‘How can academic research be of service to envisioning alternative planning agendas that reflect the realities of the so-called Global South?’ is the central question that our guest host Inhji Jon...

Green Cities and Contemporary Climate Planning: Politics and Practices from 2021-06-03T15:10:44

Green cities and green infrastructure have become common planning practices. But why is nature good and how does green matter? Do all people have equal access to nature, or are some left out of con...

Housing struggles in Berlin: Part II Grassroots Expropriation Activism from 2021-05-04T10:45:54

After Andrej Holm delved into the history of 'Mietendeckel', the rent cap legislation in Berlin, in the previous episode on contemporary housing struggles in Berlin, in this episode Joanna Kusiak e...

Housing Struggles in Berlin: Part I Rent Cap from 2021-04-24T13:41:24

This episode, we discuss the social and political consequences of last week's rent cap ("Mietendeckel") ruling of the German Federal Constitutional Court with Andrej Holm. We explore the history of...

The urban politics of density in and beyond the pandemic from 2021-03-30T18:05:48

This podcast explores how the pandemic is changing density around the world and generating forms of politics. With a diverse group of scholars and practitioners from around the world, the podcast a...

The Urban Hinterlands of Slavery from 2021-03-08T15:15:26

The transatlantic slave trade had a lasting impact not only on the development of big ports like Liverpool, London, Nantes or Bordeaux, but also in cities that far less frequently associated with s...

Film-Making as Urban Research from 2021-01-29T10:25:45

Emerging film-makers and urban researchers Nitin Bathla, Sandra Jasper, and Tino Buchholz speak about their avenues into film-production, why film amounts to a vital medium for urban research, and ...

Urban Climate Finance at the edge of viability? from 2021-01-12T21:00:44

Amidst the rapidly unfolding ecological crisis, current research is witnessing ever new financial strategies that aim at making money from urban climate risks. In this episode Hanna Hilbrandt invit...

Mobilization and advocacy in contexts of massive urbanisation - Part 2 from 2020-12-19T12:55:38

Mobilization and Advocacy in Massive Urbanization Contexts - Part I from 2020-12-04T22:50:19

Throughout the global south, many urban regions have become massive. In the familiar renditions of this notion, urban regions, mushrooming in population and spatial footprints, teeter close to chao...

Radical Municipal Politics in Latin America since the 1990s from 2020-11-02T12:40:36

Gianpaolo Baiocchi offers us an historical overview of what he terms Radical Cities in Latin America and draws out some lessons from the past 30 years. Comparing these experiences to municipal poli...

COVID-19 and its impact on public life and use of public space from 2020-09-14T13:14:57

This episode discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the behavior of people in public spaces in Dortmund (Germany), San Francisco (USA) and Isfahan (Iran). My guests, Teresa Sprague and Ghazal Farjami,...

Murray Bookchin, Municipalism, Popular Democracy and Left Politics from 2020-07-05T15:06:09

In this podcast we discuss the work of Murray Bookchin, relating it to the experiences and debates around municipalism and wider left political practices and theory. With our guests (Blair, Hilary ...

Multiple Crises and Radical Urban Research (AfterCorona #13) from 2020-06-28T15:04:09

Starting off from her latest agenda-setting article "What does it mean to be a radical urban scholar-activist, or activist scholar today?" published earlier this year in the relaunch issue of the j...

The Revolutionary Movements in Algeria and Lebanon (AfterCorona #12) from 2020-06-17T08:53:27

This episode delves deep into the ongoing revolutionary movements in Algeria and Lebanon. Ratiba Hadj-Moussa and Rana Sukarieh provide us with a rich and inspiring account of developments, offering...

Genealogies of Liveability (AfterCorona #11) from 2020-06-10T15:38:42

Nina Stener Jørgensen and Maroš Krivý offer us the broader picture of the contemporary urbanist discourse of liveability and Jan Gehl's rise to prominence. In a tour de force, they walk us through ...

Urban Commonwealth (AfterCorona #10) from 2020-06-02T15:55:33

On the basis of the book _The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth_, we discuss with Margaret Kohn her resuscitation of the early 20th century solidarist ideas and the links to the Lefebvrian n...

Teaching and Learning in Urban Research (AfterCorona #9) from 2020-05-29T13:49:05

Robin Chang and Meg Holden discuss how the Covid-19 situation has disrupted teaching and learning practices in urban research, deepening existing and exposing new inequalities. They consider in par...

Spatialities of Shock (AfterCorona #8) from 2020-05-21T11:12:41

Reflecting on how shocks are applied as tools to further political agendas, Creighton Connolly, S. Harris Ali, and Roger Keil consider the implications for racialized inequalities and the Global So...

Migration and Labour Struggles (AfterCorona #7) from 2020-05-16T14:22:59

How is the pandemic affecting conditions of labour and migrant workers? How are Unions and other organisations reacting? In this wide-ranging and forensic discussion with Michelle Buckley (Toronto)...

Dark Clouds over Informal Settlements II: Responses to the Pandemic (AfterCorona #6) from 2020-05-05T16:10:36

Dark Clouds over Informal Settlements I: Politics of Land and Infrastructure from 2020-05-03T19:09:21

Post-growth, Post-Covid? (AfterCorona #5) from 2020-04-29T09:05:12

Blaming Density (AfterCorona #4) from 2020-04-22T08:54:42

Urban Logics of Action (AfterCorona #3) from 2020-04-18T11:01:05

Inequalities of the Lockdown (AfterCorona #2) from 2020-04-08T11:45:52

The New Municipalism (part 2) from 2020-04-05T14:00:31

Digital Community Organizing (AfterCorona #1) from 2020-03-31T10:20:24

The Urbanization of COVID-19 from 2020-03-14T19:34:34

Urban Sustainability as New Financial Fix? from 2020-03-03T15:34:14

Chile Despertó! Social Uprisings in Santiago from 2020-02-19T14:24:17

The New Municipalism (part 1) from 2020-01-30T10:00

What is "New Municipalism"? In this first of a new series Ross seeks clarification from scholar-activists Bertie Russell and Matt Thompson who give us a conceptual and historical take on this new u...

Editorial Talk from 2020-01-21T10:06:41

Oh, What Do You Do To Me? the City says to Tinder from 2019-12-19T16:48:17

On Metrolingualism from 2019-11-26T10:49:44

Be Water! Urban Protests in Hong Kong from 2019-11-08T20:15:52

Heritage vs. Gentrification from 2019-11-04T14:23:22

When Social Housing was Big from 2019-10-18T15:26:40

Reviewing Suburban Planet from 2019-09-23T15:51:17

Roger Keil's new book, 'Suburban Planet', is a major contribution to (re)thinking the urban age in terms its peripheries rather than its centres. He seeks to provide us with a way of coming to term...

Take Your Eyes Off the City Center! from 2019-09-09T07:27

We are living on a suburban planet, if you ask Roger. He even wrote a book with that title. In the interview, he elaborates on the political implications of that condition. Situating his work on gl...

Bridging Urban Research and Action from 2019-09-09T07:26

The call to make academic research more socially relevant has become a commonplace. But what does it mean to for academic research to benefit urban activism? What is to be done when the logics of a...

Reclaiming the Tourist City - Part 2 from 2019-09-09T07:25

Part 2: Regaining Democratic Control

The second part examines the extent to which democratic control has been exerted in the Checkpoint Charlie case and how development plans have been mod...

Reclaiming the Tourist City - Part 1 from 2019-09-09T07:24

Part 1: Heritage Preservation and Urban Development

Much-visited by tourists and generally avoided by Berliners, the site has faced growing conflict over plans to develop a hotel, Hard Roc...

Introduction Episode from 2019-08-28T10:31

Welcome to the Urban Political Podcast! In this brief episode, we introduce ourselves, tell you about the motivation and purpose behind the podcast and what you should expect to hear in our pod in ...