By Eric Porter, author of A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport
For many people, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put it—where we rush to make connections and spend long, monotonous hours waiting for delayed flight...
By Rashmi Sadana, author of The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure
One of the first people I interviewed for my new book, The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure, was a woman in her fifties who I ...
By Colin McFarlane, author of Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds
I was standing in front of two side-by-side pictures, both black and white images of houses on an ordinary street. When I stood back, I realised that the photos were in fact of the same house. One...
By David M. Lampton, co-author of Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia
This guest post is part of our #AAS2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more.
With its global-scale Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and railway-building exertions in ...