Best Arte Et Labore Podcasts (2025)

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Jonathan Tarleton, "Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons" (Beacon Press, 2025) 1:27:05

20h ago1:27:05

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In Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons (Beacon Press, 2025), urban planner and oral historian Jonathan Tarleton introduces readers to 2 social housing co-ops in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Longtime residents of St. James Towers and Southbridge Towers lock horns over whether to maintain the rules that have kept thei…

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Kidder St Noise Meets Rachel Dugdale 52:02

13d ago52:02

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Join Robert as he interviews 'former' Blackburn Rovers Women's full back Rachel Dugdale as they discuss: Self relegation ACL injuries & recovery Future opportunities Lack of communication Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Michelle H. S. Ho, "Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies" (Duke UP, 2025) 41:28

18d ago41:28

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In Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies (Duke UP, 2025), Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in josō and dansō cafe-and-bars, establishments wher…

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The 'What Now?' Show - Season 24-25 Reviewed 1:13:46

20d ago1:13:46

1:13:46

The season has finally ended - no play-off glory but still plenty to look back upon & discuss. Host Roger Whiteside is joined by Hollie Hawkesford, Ian Herbert, Rory Larmer & Jared Plotts to unravel what we've just enjoyed/endured* *delete as appropriate. Part 1 - Looking solely on the pitch, the panel's thoughts at the end of the season now the du…

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Todd Reisz, "Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai" (Stanford UP, 2021) 42:31

23d ago42:31

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Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai (Stanford UP, 2020) by Todd Reisz is a critical historical account of Dubai’s transformation into a global urban spectacle. Reisz examines how architecture, master planning, and international expertise contributed to the construction of Dubai’s modern image, focusing particularly on the period between the…

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The Round Table Show - Remembering 1995 1:09:49

27d ago1:09:49

1:09:49

In this special 30th Anniversary episode we recall the heady days of 1995 (& in so doing snub Rudy Gestede..!). If you were around, this is shameless nostalgia, if you weren't, this is what it once was like when a Rovers owner used to "Think Big!". Join host & producer Ian Herbert as he chats with former PL referee (& Rovers season ticket holder) T…

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Ken Conca, "After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City" (Oxford UP, 2024) 49:01

29d ago49:01

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One small town, two "thousand-year floods" in the span of two years: how does a community become resilient in the face of the ever-increasing risks of climate change? Small towns across America and around the world face mounting challenges with flood risk, a result of not only climate change but also poorly adapted landscapes, sprawl, overdevelopme…

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Patrick Condon, "Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis" (U British Columbia Press, 2024) 26:46

1M ago26:46

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How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and art, we wouldn’t have a global housing crisis. But once global capital markets realized land was…

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Deana Jovanović, "Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town" (Cornell UP, 2025) 1:23:24

1M ago1:23:24

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Built on the shifting grounds of post-Yugoslav transformation, Staging the Promises examines how the residents of Bor — a Serbian copper-mining town marked by both socialist prosperity and post-socialist decline — became spectators to the staged enactments of promised futures. Deana Jovanović traces how local authorities and the copper-processing c…

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Tupur Chatterjee, "Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India" (NYU Press, 2025) 42:36

1M ago42:36

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Since the late 1990s, the multiplex in India has emerged as a dominant site of media exhibition, almost always embedded within the shopping mall. This spatial pairing has transformed the experience of moviegoing, making it impossible to inhabit one space without also passing through the other. The rise of the mall-multiplex signals a broader shift …

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Ipek A. Celik Rappas, "Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location" (Cornell UP, 2025) 44:59

1M ago44:59

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Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location (Cornell University Press, 2025) explores the effort behind creating screen production locations. Dr. Ipek A. Celik Rappas accounts the rising demand for original and affordable locations for screen projects due to the growth of streaming platforms. As a result, screen professionals are repeatedly t…

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Chloe Ahmann, "Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 36:32

1M ago36:32

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Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in the country. In Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore (U Chicago Press, 2024), anthropologist Chloe Ahmann explores the rise and fall of industrial lifeways on this edge of the city a…

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Maliha Safri et al., "Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation" (U of Minnesota Press, 2025) 1:06:18

1M ago1:06:18

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In this episode, Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, and Craig Borowiak talk about their new co-authored book Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). This volume is part of the Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds series. Solidarity economies, characterized by di…

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Amy Zhang, "Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China" (Stanford UP, 2024) 1:07:52

1M ago1:07:52

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After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. As the world's largest waste-generating nation, the World Economic Forum projects that by 2030, the volume of household waste in China will be double that of the United States. Starting in the early 2000s, Chinese policymakers came to see waste management as…

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The 'What Now?' Show - Start Again...We've Cocked It Up Already..! 1:02:03

2M ago1:02:03

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The What Now? Show is back to dissect the eventful last few weeks. Join your host Roger Whiteside & panelists Ian Herbert, Rory Larmer & Rich Sharpe for their considered reflections as they discuss... Part 1 - On The Pitch - what are we making of Valérien Ismäel so far ? Part 2 - Jared's somewhat downbeat Transatlantic Vibe plus Rory's Rants - how …

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Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, "The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity: A Study in Resilience" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 1:15:19

2M ago1:15:19

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The city was one of the central and defining features of the world of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Challenging the idea that the ancient city 'declined and fell', Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues that memories of the past enabled cities to adapt and remain relevant in the changing post-Roman world. In the new kingdoms in Italy, France and Spain …

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Davida Siwisa James, "Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries" (Fordham UP, 2024) 45:41

2M ago45:41

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For last 100 years, the neighborhood of Harlem in New York City has stood as the capital of Black America and the capital of the global African diaspora. Yet Harlem is so big and so varied that it contains smaller sections with distinct identities and histories of their own. Davida Siwisa James explores two parts of Harlem in her book Hamilton Heig…

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Daryl Fairweather, "Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work" (U Chicago Press, 2025) 36:04

2M ago36:04

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The secret insights of economics, translated for the rest of us. Should I buy or rent? Do I ask for a promotion? Should I tell people I’m pregnant? What salary do I deserve? Should I just quit this job? Common anxieties about life are often grounded in economics. In an increasingly win-lose society, these economic decisions—where to work, where to …

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Sam Wetherell, "Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2025) 53:21

2M ago53:21

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What does the history of Liverpool tell us about the future of Britain? In Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain (Bloomsbury, 2025), Sam Wetherall, a Senior Lecturer in the History of Britain and the World at the University of York, tells the story of the city through the lens of ‘obsolesce’. This powerful framework structures a narrative that sees…

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Rovers Inc - I Don't See Any Method At All Sir 49:14

2M ago49:14

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The Rovers Inc Show is back to try & make sense of the current off-field issues at Rovers & there's a LOT to discuss! Join host Paul Worthington, with guests Simon Burns, Steven Lindsay, Michael Taylor & occasional interjections from "Producer Ian" as they consider... Part 1 - The latest accounts for BRFC - what does it mean? Part 2 - The flurry of…

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Hemangini Gupta, "Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India" (U California Press, 2024) 41:59

2M ago41:59

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Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India (U California Press, 2024) is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of Bengaluru/Bangalore from a site of "backend" IT work to an aspirational global city of enterprise and innovation. The book journeys alongside the migrant workers, technologists, and entrepreneurs who sh…

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Lincoln A. Mitchell, "Three Years Our Mayor: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco" (U Nevada Press, 2025) 31:09

2M ago31:09

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Those who recognize Mayor George Moscone's name may think of him as the career politician who was assassinated along with Harvey Milk, but there was much more to this influential and fascinating man's story. He was a trailblazing progressive and powerful state legislator who was instrumental in passing legislation on issues ranging from LGBT rights…

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Matt Mahmoudi, "Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control" (U California Press, 2025) 57:44

3M ago57:44

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As the fortification of Europe's borders and its hostile immigration terrain has taken shape, so too have the biometric and digital surveillance industries. And when US Immigration Customs Enforcement aggressively reinforced its program of raids, detention, and family separation, it was powered by Silicon Valley corporations. In cities of refuge, w…

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Ben Bowles, "Boaters of London: Alternative Living on the Water" (Berghahn Books, 2024) 1:10:12

3M ago1:10:12

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Boaters of London is an ethnography that delves into the process of becoming a boater, adopting an alternative lifestyle on the water and the political impact that this travelling population has on the state. London and the Southeast of England in general is home to many people and families who live on narrowboats, cruisers and barges, along a netw…

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Clive Bloom, "London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction" (Bloomsbury, 2025) 32:58

3M ago32:58

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From Kensington to the East End, under candlelight, gas lamp and then neon signs, London is both a bustling physical metropolis and a stirring psychic encounter. The most depraved depictions of London in fiction, film, poetry, television and theatre have irrevocably merged with the reality of its dark history, creating a phantasmagoria defined by m…

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The Round Table Show - The One With Faris Badwan From The Horrors 55:31

3M ago55:31

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The Round Table is dusted down once again as host Ian Herbert welcomes as his special guest, Faris Badwan, lead singer of The Horrors & a very keen Blackburn Rovers fan. Listen to find out Faris' proudest career moment, meeting Neville Southall and what garment is thrown on stage to him these days..! That Soccer AM goal is discussed of course... Th…

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James Tejani, "A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America" (Norton, 2024) 56:08

3M ago56:08

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The Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much more. The busiest container port in the Western hemisphere, it claims one-sixth of all US ocean shipping. Yet despite its centrality to our world, the port and the story of its making have been neglected …

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Jason Schupbach and Rana Amirtahmasebi, "The Routledge Handbook of Urban Cultural Planning" (Routledge, 2024) 1:17:52

3M ago1:17:52

1:17:52

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Cultural Planning (Routledge, 2024) provides a manual for planning for arts and culture in cities, featuring chapters and case studies from Africa, the Americas, Australasia, the Middle East, South and East Asia, and more. The handbook is organized around seven themes: arts and planning for equity and social developm…

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Bryan Caplan, "Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing" (Cato Institute, 2024) 43:07

3M ago43:07

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Economist Bryan Caplan has written—and artist Ady Branzei has illustrated—this new graphic novel about housing regulation (if ‘novel’ can be applied to an imaginative essay on a nonfiction topic), Build Baby Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation (Cato Institute, 2024). The thesis of the work is that regulation has driven up the cost o…

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Gregor Craigie, "Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis" (Random House Canada, 2024) 33:03

3M ago33:03

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Canada is experiencing a housing shortage. Although house prices in major Canadian cities appeared to have topped out, new housing isn’t coming onto the market quickly enough. Higher interest rates have only tightened the pressure on buyers, and renters, too, as rising mortgage rates cost landlords more, which are passed along to tenants in rent in…

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Carolyn Whitzman, "Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis" (On Point Press, 2024) 27:41

3M ago27:41

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Hundreds of thousands of Canadians exist on the edge. Renters fear eviction, homeowners feel trapped, and both are vulnerable to becoming homeless with a single stroke of misfortune. Unaffordable housing in Canada is tearing communities apart as long-time residents seek affordable housing elsewhere and businesses shutter because they cannot find st…

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The 'What Now?' Show - Dr Rovers Will See You Now 51:17

3M ago51:17

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The panel reviews February & March to date, taking stock of the chastening defeats at Swansea & Derby but hoping that a cold, wet Wednesday night at Stoke might provoke a change in fortunes. Host Roger Whiteside is joined by Hollie Hawkesford, Ian Herbert & Rich Sharpe. Part 1 - Rovers in 'Big Occasion' games Part 2 - February Player Of The Month P…

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Deborah Reed-Donahay, "Sideways Migration: Being French in London" (Routledge, 2025) 32:10

3M ago32:10

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Sideways Migration: Being French in London (Routledge, 2025) examines the relationship between migration and socioeconomic status. In particular, it charts a set of middle-class aspirations that lead people to move to a nearby nation that is similar in wealth and social indicators - a type of horizontal relocation that it terms "sideways migration.…

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Timothy P. R. Weaver, "Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City" (Temple UP, 2025) 29:41

3M ago29:41

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Looking closely at New York City's political development since the 1970s, three "political orders"--conservativism, neoliberalism, and egalitarianism--emerged. In Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City, Timothy Weaver argues that the intercurrent impact of these orders has created a constant battle for power. Weaver brings these clashes…

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Dawn Day Biehler, "Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History" (U Washington Press, 2024) 54:44

3M ago54:44

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From deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know as Central Park has long been home to an abundance of animals. In 1858, the city adopted the Greensward Plan and began the long process of reshaping the 843 acres of land into a park where everything—from the trees to the trails to the inhabitants—wo…

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The 'What Now?' Show - Welcome Valerien 42:31

3M ago42:31

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Welcome Valerien...Ewood awaits and is curious as to what's in store. Join host Roger & panellists Ian & Rory as they work out how we arrived at Ismael, what it might mean and what the future could hold. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Laureen D. Hom, "The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles" (U California Press, 2024) 1:26:07

3M ago1:26:07

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Chinatown neighborhoods in the United States are about more than restaurants, shops, and architecture, argues San Jose State urban studies associate professor Laureen Hom in The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles (California UP, 2024). They're also communities where people live, organize, and argue over politics. China…

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Sybil Derrible, "The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives" (Prometheus Books, 2025) 38:40

3M ago38:40

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Clean water, paved roads, public transit, electricity and gas, sewers, waste processing, telecommunication, even the Internet – all this infrastructure is what makes cities work and powers our lives, often seamlessly and silently. Virtually everything we do and consume depends on infrastructure. Yet, most people have little to no idea how these sys…

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Kelly Alexander, "Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:07:10

4M ago1:07:10

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On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. Examining the collaborative, sometimes scrappy institutional and community efforts to recuperate and redistribute food waste in Brussels, Belgium, Kelly Alexander reveals it is also an opportunity for new forms of sociality. Her study plays out across…

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Marek Kohn, "The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey Through Cities at the Heart of Europe" (Yale UP, 2023) 1:01:34

4M ago1:01:34

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Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility that attract millions of tourists, but the stories they tell about places, peoples, and nations are selective. They ar…

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Joshua Barker, "State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City" (Duke UP, 2024) 56:46

4M ago56:46

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The relationship between fear people experience in their lives and the government often informs key questions about the rule of law and justice. In nations where the rule of law is unevenly applied, interpreting the people involved in its enforcement allows for contextualized understanding about why that unevenness occurs and is perpetuated. Joshua…

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Miles Glendinning, "Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History" (Bloomsbury, 2021) 1:20:50

4M ago1:20:50

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Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History (Bloomsbury, 2021) is a major work that provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide 'homes for the people'. Vast programs of mass housing – high-rise, low-rise, state-funde…

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Philip Howell, "Pub" (Bloomsbury, 2025) 40:59

4M ago40:59

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The pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In Pub (Bloomsbury, 2025) a new addition to the Object Lessons series, Dr. Philip Howell takes the public house as an object, or rather as a series of objects: he takes the pub apart and examines its constituent elements, from pub signs to the bar staff to t…

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The 'What Now?' Show - Farewell John, We Hardly Knew You 43:43

4M ago43:43

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An Emergency What Now? Show to handle the fallout & falling out following the departure of John Eustace to Derby County. Your host Roger Whiteside elicits the thoughts of Mike Delap, Ian Herbert & Rich Sharpe in this special edition. That club statement The events leading up to it What next - the responses... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy …

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Yuca Meubrink, "Inclusionary Housing and Urban Inequality in London and New York City: Gentrification Through the Back Door" (Routledge, 2024) 54:43

4M ago54:43

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Municipalities around the world have increasingly used inclusionary housing programs to address their housing shortages. Inclusionary Housing and Urban Inequality in London and New York City: Gentrification Through the Back Door (Routledge, 2024) problematizes those programs in London and New York City by offering an empirical, research-based persp…

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The 'What Now?' Show - It Looks Like They've Winged It 1:08:31

4M ago1:08:31

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The 'What Now?' Show returns to review January, especially the window and all that entails. Host Roger Whiteside is joined by Ian Herbert, Rory Larmer & Rich Sharpe as they discuss... Part 1 - With 15 games to go, do Rovers have what it takes to maintain a playoff challenge or is it Deja vu all over again? Part 2 - Six new additions in January. how…

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Chandigarh 19:47

4M ago19:47

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Chandigarh is the shared capital city of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, built under the leadership of modernist and brutalist architect Le Corbusier, as an emblem of the postcolonial Indian nation state as visualized by the first Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. It was a repudiation of the imperialist architectural style, and for L…

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Greg Suttor, "Still Renovating: A History of Canadian Social Housing Policy" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2016) 33:50

4M ago33:50

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Social housing - public, non-profit, or co-operative - was once a part of Canada's urban success story. After years of neglect and many calls for affordable homes and solutions to homelessness, housing is once again an important issue. In Still Renovating: A History of Canadian Social Housing Policy (McGill-Queen's UP, 2016), Greg Suttor tells the …

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Kidder St Noise - Who Is Europe's Worst Striker? 57:32

5M ago57:32

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The Kidder Street Noise show is back after a lengthy break with illness and a busy winter schedule! Join Rob & Lewis as they discuss the current manager John Eustace and the work he's done so far this season. All the key points from November's fans forum will be discussed before moving in to more recent times and talking about what needs to happen …

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James Michael Buckley, "City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry" (U Texas Press, 2024) 45:57

5M ago45:57

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California’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the “instant city” of San Francisco as a to base exploit the rich natural resources of the American West. City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry (University of Texas Press, 2024) examines how capitalists and workers logged the state’s vast redwood forests to …

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