Oxford Street is based on more than a decade of research in the field, during which Quayson studied the histories of colonial and postcolonial town planning and the marks of transnationalism. These include sights, sounds, and spatial interactions in Accra’s urban street life. As the reader is taken on a compelling journey through tro-tro slogans, billboard advertisements, salsa scenes, and gym culture, s/he is invited to go beyond the superficial spatial cues of this seemingly typical African urban street.

I suggest that environmental gentrification also works through the conflation of both pollution and ‘health’ with different kinds of urban bodies and embodied (body-centred) practices. This happens not only via the removal of symbolically ‘dirty’ bodies and their replacement with symbolically ‘clean’ bodies, but also via the ways in which those ‘dirty’ bodies become seen as such by the symbolic displacement of environmental and industrial pollution onto them.

More Than Shelter provides a succinct overview of the history of public housing and privileges the voices of SFHA tenants. Her work provides scholars and public officials with a succinct overview of the history of San Francisco’s public housing, and offers them a number of thoughtful conclusions that might contribute to better initiatives in the future.

The open site is pleased to offer a conversation moderated by Tim Markham of Birkbeck with Scott Rodgers, Clive Barnett, and Allan Cochrane, the authors of “Media practices and urban politics: conceptualizing the powers of the media-urban nexus."

Secchi's death in September marks a great loss for urbanism. This interview is a gesture towards bringing his work to a wider Anglophone audience, reflecting on his legacy by exploring his intellectual production, critical pedagogy and practice, with a special focus on the exploration of his idea of a 'new urban question' and the formation of his reflexive urban research praxis.