April 4, 2020

Jason Hackworth on Manufacturing Decline

“Manufacturing Decline implicates conservative thought leadership, anti-urban interests, and elite—and ordinary—laissez-faire racism in a deliberate, decades-long degradation of U.S. cities via privation, demolition, and desertion. It is a thoughtful, stimulating, and efficient read at the intersection of urban geography, planning, and...

April 4, 2020

Q&A: Martin V. Melosi on Fresh Kills

“Fresh Kills is excellent in many ways–clarity of prose, strength of narration, depth of research, and command of the literature. Melosi is one of the finest urban historians working today, and he is, although this will sound like an unintended...

April 3, 2020

OAH 2020 Happy Hour Reads: New in U.S. History

Hello, and welcome back to the Columbia University Press Virtual OAH Book Exhibit! Now that the coronavirus pandemic has locked down most nonessential businesses in the country, many of us are finding ourselves stuck at home with lots of time...

April 3, 2020

What’s New From Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

Welcome back our UAA Virtual Booth! In addition to publishing our own books, we distribute books for a wide range of exciting academic presses from around the world. In this post, Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt and James Graham from Columbia Books on...

April 3, 2020

Join Ryan Groendyk in a Conversation About Wallflower

Welcome to the Wallflower table, it’s nice to see you again! I’m Ryan Groendyk, the editor for Wallflower. You may have heard (from me, most likely) that Wallflower became a true imprint of Columbia University Press a few years ago,...

April 3, 2020

Join Stephen Wesley on a Tour of Our New Books in Urban History

Hello and welcome back to Columbia’s UAA Virtual Book Exhibit. My name is Stephen Wesley, and I’m the American history editor here at Columbia. I’m pleased to share with you several new books we have in urban history. First up...

April 3, 2020

Ingrid Gould Ellen and Justin Peter Steil on Writing The Dream Revisited

“The deep engagement and spirited debate found in The Dream Revisited make it a must-read for political leaders, housing advocates, and researchers seeking to understand the causes and consequences of segregation in America.” ~Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and...

April 3, 2020

Q&A: Claudia Breger on Making Worlds, and What Films to Watch While Social Distancing

“Claudia Breger’s Making Worlds is a vital contribution to the political dimensions of contemporary film and media theory. Breger’s meticulous readings of contemporary cinema create generative openings in impasses that have petrified debate over the past three decades, developing models of cinematic...

April 3, 2020

Hospice of the Creative Class

By Alex Sayf Cummings

“From tobacco and plow to computer and creative economy, this rich and eloquent history shows how a group of civic leaders put rural North Carolina at the forefront of the postindustrial revolution. In California, they say Silicon Valley is one...

April 2, 2020

Q&A: Paige Glotzer on How the Suburbs Were Segregated

“Paige Glotzer’s absorbing, vividly narrated study is a major contribution to the histories of capitalism and of American cities. She shows residential segregation’s roots in longer histories of race and empire, flows of global capital, and the actions of powerful...