An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Urban Culture, Space, Architecture, and Design
The following is a Guest Post by Kyle Cascioli, a long-time colleague with whom I’ve collaborated on numerous opinion pieces about urban development in the greater Denver metro region (all can be found on this blog). Kyle’s short commentary addresses […]
Deep history—defined here as the entirety of Homo sapiens’ 300,000+ years of existence on the planet—is a favorite subject for best-selling authors and wannabes worldwide. A new book by David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of […]
The video, audio, and transcript of an invited talk about my book Intercultural Urbanism: City Planning from the Ancient World to the Modern Day that I gave for the Cities@Tufts Lecture Series in October 2020 is now available at Shareable.
This year witnessed the timely launch, against the backdrop of dramatic anti-racism insurgencies, of a new journal: the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and the City (JREC). The journal’s editors rightly identify race and ethnicity as concepts that are fundamental to understanding cities […]
The systemic violence being committed against Black Americans in our cities has prompted much soul searching and table pounding about racial inequalities in urban planning education and practice. Many are the calls for radical change in how urban planners and […]
A couple of the more controversial of these statues came down in the last few days, as part of the anti-racism and anti-monument fervor that’s now sweeping the country. I welcome such fervor and ferment. I’ve taught courses promoting anti-racism […]
The title of this post is the title of a book I’ve written that will be published by Zed Books this summer or early fall in its series on Just Sustainabilities, edited by Julian Agyeman. The book has been almost two […]
Given widespread scholarly and popular interest in smart and sustainable cities, Intercultural Urbanism is pleased to post the following infographic courtesy of Citybase. Comments welcome!
The following essay was solicited and published by the University Denver Newsroom ahead of the university’s 17th annual Diversity Summit held on January 25-26, 2018. It offers a perspective on the summit theme dealing with the overlap between environmental and social […]
The planning and placemaking of interest in this essay is that undertaken by colleges and universities. The essay is inspired by questions posed exactly one year ago in a Chronicle of Higher Education special issue about cities (see especially “The Neighborhood University“). Contributors […]
One purpose of this blog is to promote urban anthropology—the cross-cultural and deep time study of variation in ways of being and building—as a source of principles and practices for guiding contemporary urban planning and design. By “deep time” I mean […]
Guest Post by Loryn Fujinami Loryn Fujinami is an emerging Anthropology and Urban Studies professional, who aspires to use an anthropological lens on current issues, with a focus on the relationship between culture and materiality. It’s not news that things […]