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PODCAST

Urban Political Podcast

Ross Beveridge, Markus Kip, Mais Jafari, Nitin Bathla, Julio Paulos, Nicolas Goez, Talja Blokland

The **Urban Political** delves into contemporary urban issues with activists, scholars and policy-makers from around the world. Providing informed views, state-of-the-art knowledge, and unusual insights, the podcast aims to advance our understanding of urban environments and how we might make them more just and democratic. The **Urban Political** provides a new forum for reflection on bridging urban activism and scholarship, where regular features offer snapshots of pressing issues and new

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Blaming Density (AfterCorona #4)

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2020/04/22

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Urban Logics of Action (AfterCorona #3)

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2020/04/18

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39:41

Inequalities of the Lockdown (AfterCorona #2)

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2020/04/08

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37:05

The New Municipalism (part 2)

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2020/04/05

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32:24

Digital Community Organizing (AfterCorona #1)

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2020/03/31

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46:03

The Urbanization of COVID-19

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2020/03/14

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31:53

Urban Sustainability as New Financial Fix?

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2020/03/03

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33:15

Chile Despertó! Social Uprisings in Santiago

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2020/02/19

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The New Municipalism (part 1)

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2020/01/30

What is "New Municipalism"? In this first of a new series Ross seeks clarification from scholar-activists Bertie Russell and Matt Thompson who give us a conceptual and historical take on this new urban movement, offering reflections on UK examples like Preston. The interview was recorded at the end of August 2019 at the Royal Geographers Society / Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference Annual Conference in London. **Guests:** **Dr Bertie Russell** is a research associate at the

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Editorial Talk

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2020/01/21

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27:12

Oh, What Do You Do To Me? the City says to Tinder

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2019/12/19

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33:31

On Metrolingualism

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2019/11/26

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Be Water! Urban Protests in Hong Kong

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2019/11/08

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37:23

Heritage vs. Gentrification

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2019/11/04

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27:11

When Social Housing was Big

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2019/10/18

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37:44

Reviewing Suburban Planet

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2019/09/23

Roger Keil's new book, 'Suburban Planet', is a major contribution to (re)thinking the urban age in terms its peripheries rather than its centres. He seeks to provide us with a way of coming to terms with the process of suburbanization and the diversity of suburban forms. But does he succeed? And what are the political implications of his arguments? Listen to our book forum with Theresa Enright (University of Toronto), Berenice Bon (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development,

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36:11

Take Your Eyes Off the City Center!

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2019/09/09

We are living on a suburban planet, if you ask Roger. He even wrote a book with that title. In the interview, he elaborates on the political implications of that condition. Situating his work on global suburbanisms in relation to the L.A. School and the debate around planetary urbanization, he flexes his intellectual muscles to make us believe that it is the suburbs that Marx and Lefebvre would pay most attention to today. Plus, find out about his surprise as Markus read a book passage back to him

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Bridging Urban Research and Action

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2019/09/09

The call to make academic research more socially relevant has become a commonplace. But what does it mean to for academic research to benefit urban activism? What is to be done when the logics of academia obstruct deeper activist engagements? This roundtable engages these challenges with four seasoned activist-scholars. Kate and Uli work in academia using different strategies to relate their job with activist engagements. Tomislav and Richard both have a background in urban research and have

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30:48

Reclaiming the Tourist City - Part 2

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2019/09/09

Part 2: Regaining Democratic Control The second part examines the extent to which democratic control has been exerted in the Checkpoint Charlie case and how development plans have been modified under increased pressure from societal groups. Listen to hear about the possibilities of contesting tourist-centred developments in inner cities and why activists should never automatically trust a leftwing government… Our studio guest: Christoph Sommer is completing his PhD in geography at

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34:25

Reclaiming the Tourist City - Part 1

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2019/09/09

Part 1: Heritage Preservation and Urban Development Much-visited by tourists and generally avoided by Berliners, the site has faced growing conflict over plans to develop a hotel, Hard Rock Cafe and museum. This first part details the historical importance of the empty plots at the former Cold War border crossing and reflects on wider debates about heritage, tourism and urban development.Find out why urban emptiness can have heritage value. Our studio guest: Christoph Sommer is completing his PhD

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