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Lindsey Dillon, author of "Toxic City," writes about environmental activism in the Bay Area

Author Sayd Randle discusses their new book "Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles"

Author Claire Mercer talks about her new book and how the suburb and the middle classes construct each other.

Author Luis F. Alvarez Leon argues that asserting the power of place to reframe digital capitalism in geographic terms is a way to reclaim the digital as part of our social world.

In "Building the Black City," Joe William Trotter, Jr., traces the growth of Black cities and political power from the preindustrial era to the present.

Author Laureen Hom explains what urban Chinatowns have to teach us about coalition-building, pushing back against gentrification, and envisioning neighborhood changes that are community-driven and equitable.

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

Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today's myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the impoverished solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from Silicon Valley, urging us to stop trying to fix our broken food system through finit

Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta uses the story of mud to answer a deceptively simple question: How can a place uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise be one of the nation's most promiscuous producers and consumers of fossil fuels? Organized around New Orleans and South Louisiana as a ca

Eco-anxiety. Climate guilt. Pre-traumatic stress disorder. Solastalgia. The study of environmental emotions and related mental health impacts is a rapidly growing field, but most researchers overlook a closely related concern: reproductive anxiety. Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question is the first c