Global Modernism Today
It has taken me weeks to write this post because the discussions about modernist architecture are so politically complicated and politically important. I hope that this post conveys this. By Johanna Bockman. In my R...
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Manchester and the Problem of the City
Cultural Capital and the City: reflections on Manchester “This chapter reflects on how we can register the relationship between the city of Manchester, its cultural institutions, and the wider social and cultural s...
Getting Lost in the City
As Walter Benjamin writes in his memoir Berlin Childhood Around 1900, “not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, ...
“The Wire” is part of the (global) problem
By Johanna Bockman. I wrote a post for my own blog “Sociology in My Neighborhood: DC Ward 6” about the television show “The Wire.” While I mostly discuss American cities, the problems mentioned he...
“Order” in Chaos? Some Lessons from Zabadani
By Nazia Hussain. The Syrian conflict that has been raging since the past three years has generated debate in the international community for many reasons. However, one story that sheds some light on the emergence of an ...
Protest, Urban Space, and Genocide: Taking Guatemala’s Memory Battles ...
By Jo-Marie Burt. After the verdict against former de facto president José Efraín Ríos Montt was vacated by Guatemala’s Constitutional Court, the debate over whether or not there was genocide in Guatemala is playing out ...
Our Spring Event!
“How American Urban Segregation Outlived Apartheid and Other Tales from a World History of Divided Cities” Cities and Globalization Working Group Spring Lecture Professor Carl H. Nightingale, University of Buffalo Thursd...
