UAR Remixed is the companion podcast to Urban Affairs Review, an academic journal focused on urban politics. We interview scholars, practitioners, activists, and more about urban life, culture, political economy, and history. Check out our website for more information, show notes, transcripts, and more: https://www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-remixed
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In this episode, we’re speaking with Daniel Wortel-London, author of The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865-1981. In this book, Dr. Wortel-London chronicles how periodic economic crises have shaped New York City’s modern history — and how alternative strategies for sustainable, democratic growth are possible.
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The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981, by Daniel Wortel-London. University of Chicago Press, 2025. (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo247855479.html)
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Daniel Wortel-London, Visiting Assistant Professor, History, Bard College (https://www.bard.edu/search/people/?id=5809)
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22 Jan 2026
New Books: We Belong Here
We interview Dr. Shani Evans, author of We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place, published in 2025 by University of Chicago Press. In We Belong Here, Shani Evans explores the dynamics of gentrification from the inside through a case study of Northeast Portland, OR, a historically black neighborhood. Drawing on a rich inventory of ethnographic fieldwork, this book unsettles some of the economistic determinants around gentrification scholarship and foregrounds the significance of race and racism in neighborhood change.
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We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place, by Shani Evans. University of Chicago Press, 2025. (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo238845176.html)
Guest
Shani Evans, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Rice University (https://profiles.rice.edu/faculty/shani-evans)
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8 Jan 2026
New Books: Making Sanctuary Cities
Tune in to hear from Dr. Rachel Humphris on her new book, Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration, Citizenship, and Urban Governance, published in 2025 by Stanford University Press. Making Sanctuary Cities investigates the complex policy frameworks that shape urban immigration and the politics of belonging through ethnographic and archival research on three cities: San Francisco, Toronto, and Sheffield, England.
Get the book!
Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration, Citizenship, and Urban Governance, by Rachel Humphris. Stanford University Press, 2025. (https://www.sup.org/books/anthropology/making-sanctuary-cities)
Guest
Rachel Humphris, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/humphrisrachel-.html)
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