Tag: Urban Studies

A New Globalisation?

A New Globalisation?

Author Fiona Moore discusses the research that went into her new book, Global Taiwanese: Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World, and discusses why globalisation is far from over.

Accidental Wilderness: Toronto’s Tommy Thompson Park

Accidental Wilderness: Toronto’s Tommy Thompson Park

Local artist and photographer Robert Burley tells us more about Toronto’s Tommy Thompson Park, and explains why this fortuitous urban miracle offers a hopeful narrative about how nature can flourish in a modern-day city.

Isolation Reading for the Week of June 22

Isolation Reading for the Week of June 22

This week, Brittney Sutherland, our Production Coordinator, has chosen Youth, School, and Community: Participatory Institutional Ethnographies by Naomi Nichols as her staff pick.

Urban Resilience in a Time of Global Uncertainty

Urban Resilience in a Time of Global Uncertainty

Sadly but not unexpectedly, the Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, originally scheduled for this weekend in Washington, D.C., was cancelled due to the current coronavirus outbreak. However, we reached out to acquisitions editor Jodi Lewchuk and asked her to talk us through some of the books she would have been displaying at UAA. Enjoy this virtual book exhibit!

The Lived Experience of Water

The Lived Experience of Water

Recently released from UTP, The Wonder of Water: Lived Experience, Policy, and Practice is an edited collection that reminds us of our primordial belonging to and need for water – a relation so essential that it is often taken for granted in policy development and decision making.

Unlocking Gentrifier

John Joe Schlichtman discusses what made him write Gentrifier.

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