Category Archives: urban/urbanisation

David Harvey and Paris: a tribute for his 90th birthday

Posted on October 31, 2025 by stuartelden

In a retrospective of his long career, first published in 2021, David Harvey made the following claim: I have written quite a few books over the course of my academic career, beginning with Explanation in Geography (Harvey, 1969) and most recently Marx, Capital … Continue reading →

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Bruno Carvalho, The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World – Princeton University Press, January 2026

Posted on July 29, 2025 by stuartelden

Bruno Carvalho, The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World – Princeton University Press, January 2026 For the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagined future cities that would be radically different from … Continue reading →

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Yousuf Al-Bulushi, Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

Posted on April 1, 2024 by stuartelden

Yousuf Al-Bulushi, Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 How are poor people in South Africa confronting the persistent legacy of apartheid spatial segregation and anti-blackness? And what can movements across the world engaged in … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2023

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year, and that I read and liked them. This means that good books which came out … Continue reading →

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Tilman Schwarze, Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and U.S. City – Springer, November 2023

Posted on November 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Tilman Schwarze, Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and U.S. City – Springer, November 2023 This Book develops a novel and innovative methodological framework for operationalising Henri Lefebvre’s work for empirical research on the U.S. city. Building on … Continue reading →

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Sara Safransky, The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit – Duke University Press, August 2023

Posted on October 14, 2023 by stuartelden

Sara Safransky, The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit – Duke University Press, August 2023 The Prologue and Chapter 1 are available open access here In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new … Continue reading →

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Books received – Renou, Althusser, Safransky, Zumwalt, Woodard

Posted on October 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Mainly bought second-hand for the Indo-European project, along with Sara Safransky, The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit, sent by Duke University Press. The Rosemary LévyZumwalt book is the first part Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist … Continue reading →

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Stefan Kipfer, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context – Haymarket, September 2023

Posted on October 4, 2023 by stuartelden

Stefan Kipfer, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context – Haymarket, September 2023 Now in paperback: What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In Urban Revolutions, Stefan Kipfer shows … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield, Beyond Plague Urbanism – Monthly Review, Spring 2023

Posted on December 19, 2022 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, Beyond Plague Urbanism – Monthly Review, Spring 2023 Andy tells me the striking cover image is by André Kertész.

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S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly, Roger Keil, Pandemic Urbanism: Infectious Diseases on a Planet of Cities – Polity, December 2022

Posted on December 10, 2022 by stuartelden

S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly, Roger Keil, Pandemic Urbanism: Infectious Diseases on a Planet of Cities – Polity, December 2022 Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are … Continue reading →

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