By Stacy Torres, author of At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America
I never planned to study older adults. Old places that survived waves of gentrification initially fascinated me, as a lifelong New Yorker who had struggled to make ends meet and mourned the loss of beloved ...
By Jacob Doherty, author of Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability
As delegates gathered in Glasgow, Scotland for COP26, waste amasses on the city’s streets. Years of municipal austerity have stretched sanitation services thin in Glasgow, leaving litter, un...
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 ...