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Once America’s capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country’s greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city’s worst crisis yet (and that’s saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists―all have been drawn to Detroit’s baroquely decaying frontier. With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new Detroit-area native Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence.

How does it feel to receive a phone call from your 14-year-old son who is in the back of a squad car because he laughed at a police officer? How does a young person of color cope with being frisked several times a week since the age of 15? These are just some of the stories in No Place on the Corner, which draws on three years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork in the South Bronx before and after the landmark 2013 Floyd v. City of New York decision that ruled that the NYPD's controversial "stop and frisk" policing methods were a violation of rights.

Die Standpartner des Gemeinschaftsstands Nordrhein-Westfalen sind dieses Jahr nicht nur vor Ort auf der EXPO REAL live mit einem Gemeinschaftsstand präsent, sondern auch on Air – live aus dem mobilen Podcast-Studio im Zeitreisebus. Dieser rollende Kulturerbe- und Zukunftsbus, mehrfach prämiert vom Land NRW, dient diesmal als einzigartiges Podcast-Studio direkt in den Messehallen. Hier werden die zentralen Themen der Messe greifbar gemacht – nicht nur für die Besucher vor Ort, sondern auch für alle, die von zu Hause oder unterwegs zuhören.

Adults don’t talk about the business of doing our business. We work on one assumption: The world of public bathrooms is problem - and politics-free. No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs reveals the opposite is true. No Place to Go is a toilet tour from London to San Francisco to Toronto and beyond. From pay potties to deserted alleyways, No Place to Go is a marriage of urbanism, social narrative, and pop culture that shows the ways - momentous and mockable - public bathrooms just don’t work.

Urban Limitrophe is a podcast exploring the various initiatives happening in cities across the African continent (and diaspora) to creatively solve problems, support their communities, create vibrant urban spaces, and build better cities overall. Ideas from the continent are often overlooked. This podcast seeks to bring to light the intersecting ideas and practices from urban planning, architecture, economics, arts and culture, geography, and politics that define our urban living, and uncover how to build resilient communities, economies, and ecologies. Tune in to catch interviews with urban ...

Join us on a dynamic journey through the intricate web of urban mobility with our host, Ian Semple, the Director of Transit and Transportation at the City of Kingston, Canada. In "Navigating Urban Horizons," we delve deep into the ever-evolving landscape of transit and transportation, uncovering the strategies, innovations, and challenges that shape the way we move within our cities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Where Urban Planning, Cities, Hip Hop Culture and Community Development conversations live. The Streets are Planning Podcast highlights the unheard voices, stories and impact of community leaders working in cities and neighborhoods across the globe.