Welcome to a brand-new season of Borough Talks, the Borough Market podcast. Join Borough Market’s traders, producers, restaurateurs and chefs as they share the expertise, inspiration and personal stories behind their much-loved food businesses Hosted by author and food writer, Giulia Crouch.
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Real estate: the ultimate game of risk and reward. It's the biggest investment most people ever make Fortunes are won and lost every day. How do you stay ahead of the game? Who's buying, who's selling and why? You need an edge. Boroughs & Burbs This podcast is your secret weapon, giving you the insider knowledge and strategies you need to succeed in the high-stakes and cutthroat world of real estate. The Boroughs are New York City. The Burbs are wherever you are: Connecticut, Austin, the Ham ...
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The City of Melbourne is currently leading the $250m renewal of the iconic Queen Victoria Market – the largest infrastructure investment in the City of Melbourne's history. Through the five-year renewal program we want to retain and restore the Queen Victoria Market’s heritage while improving facilities for traders, customers and visitors. Everything we do is about ensuring the market is viable for future generations of small business. We’ve recorded a short series of podcasts to coincide wi ...
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PropCast is a property podcast produced by Montfort. PropCast covers issues across the whole of the real estate market; from finance and funding through to development and construction.
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Hosted by Brown Harris Stevens Agent, Matthew Wynter, and co-hosts, Isaiah Ajala, Traci Byers, and Scottie Cabrera, Boro4Boro highlights the best neighborhoods across New York City’s boroughs, delving deeper into the area’s growth, value, development, and much more. All episodes filmed and recorded at Brown Harris Stevens’ Studio 1873. Subscribe here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/more-network/id6471620155 Connect with Matthew Wynter here: https://www.bhsusa.com/real-estate-agent/mat ...
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Interviews with scholars of urban studies about their new books
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A podcast about how and why gentrification happens. Season 3, produced in partnership with WLRN, Miami’s public radio station, introduces us to “climate gentrification,” reporting about the ways climate change, and our adaption to it, may seriously intensify the affordable housing crisis in many cities. In many parts of the US, black communities were pushed to low-lying flood prone areas. As Nadege Green reports, in Miami, the opposite is true. Black communities were built on high elevation ...
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Boroughs & Burbs 146 || Mid Year Market Report 2024
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Send us a Text Message. Join us for Season 4, Episode 146 of our podcast where we present a comprehensive mid-year market report! Sally Daley from Douglas Elliman in Florida, John Engel from Douglas Elliman in Connecticut, and Roberto Cabrera from Brown Harris Stevens in New York City unite to provide exclusive insights into real estate trends acro…
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Boroughs & Burbs 149 || Evolving from a Top Team
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Send us a Text Message. Tune in to Season 4, Episode 149 of our podcast, "Evolving from a Top Team," featuring Manny Sarkis of the Sarkis Team at Douglas Elliman, Massachusetts' #1 real estate team. Discover how Manny and his team have scaled their operations, adapted to market shifts, and maintained their top spot in the competitive real estate la…
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Boro4Boro, Ep6: NYC Mortgage Loans with Ben Lavender
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In this episode of Boro4Boro, Brown Harris Stevens Agent, Matthew Wynter, and co-hosts, Isaiah Ajala, Traci Byers, and Scottie Cabrera discuss mortgage loans and the NYC real estate market with Ben Lavender, Senior Mortgage Loan Originator at Madison Mortgage. Filmed at Brown Harris Stevens’ Studio 1873, Part of the Mastery of Real Estate (MORE) Ne…
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Laura Zurowski et al., "City Steps of Pittsburgh: A History & Guide" (History Press, 2024)
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In Pittsburgh, the elevation varies wildly, fluctuating 660 feet from highest to lowest points throughout the area and making it one of the hilliest cities in the United States. Throughout this unruly and physically challenging landscape, the city's first mass transportation system was built - a steadily expanding network of public stairways, local…
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#199: Being part of ecosystems is crucial for innovation real estate, says Mission Street CEO
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Mission Street founder Artem Korolev discusses how he has quietly built one of the UK’s market leaders in innovation real estate. He tells Andrew Teacher why navigating tech transfer and underwriting for emerging science is key to succeeding in a nascent market.By Montfort
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Borough Talks: The life of a restaurateur
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David Carter of Oma and Agora and Rob Dann of Bedales Wine Bar are long-time friends as well as the owners of neighbouring businesses at Borough Market. They sat down with Giulia Crouch over a glass of Calabrian rosé to discuss sources of inspiration, the impact of restaurant architecture, and the elemental pleasure of breaking bread.…
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Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Anne Gray Fischer speaks about her path to and through research, including how sex workers informed her analysis of policing and state violence, the role of law enforcement in struggles over economic development, and the intellectual and practical factors of research design. Men, especially Black men, often stand in as the ultimate symbol of the ma…
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Yoram Meital, "Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Cairo's synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the present. Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo's synagogues historically functioned as a…
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Boroughs & Burbs 148 || 1031 Crowdfunding
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Send us a Text Message. Tune in to Season 4, Episode #148 of the Boroughs & Burbs podcast, “1031 Crowdfunding.” We’re joined by Edward Fernandez, founder of 1031 Crowdfunding, the leading real estate crowdfunding platform, and Al Blecher, managing director at CBIZ Marks Paneth, a top national accounting firm. Discover how crowdfunding is revolution…
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Everyday Architecture in Context: Public Markets in Hong Kong (1842-1981) (Chinese U of Hong Kong Press, 2023)
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How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city’s history? How do such everyday buildings reflect a city’s changing political, social, and economic needs, through their yearslong transformations in forms, functions, and management? Today’s book is: Everyday Architecture in Context: Public Markets in Hong Kong, 1842-1981 …
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Will Urban Youth Fundamentally Change African Politics?
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Will Africa’s increasingly youthful population lead to new democratic and development breakthroughs? Or will it generate fresh instability as frustrated young people demand economic opportunities their governments cannot provide? In this episode, Nic Cheeseman talks to Professors Amy Patterson and Megan Hershey about their recent book Africa’s Urba…
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#198: London's low carbon future needs overseas investment, says Opportunity London Boss
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Andrew Teacher speaks to Jace Tyrrell, chief executive of Opportunity London, on his role attracting £100bn in capital investment for low-carbon real estate, infrastructure and transport, and his rich background in aligning public and private sectors in major cities worldwide over the last 25 years.By Montfort
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Borough Talks: A butcher's guide to barbecue
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Run by the McCourt family, Northfield Farm has traded at Borough since the 1990s, selling high-quality meat from its East Midlands farm. To kick off our new season of podcasts, the stand’s manager Dom McCourt sits down with Giulia Crouch to share a steak and chat about the butcher’s craft, the importance of sustainable farming, and the art of cooki…
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Welcome to a brand-new season of Borough Talks, the Borough Market podcast.By Borough Market
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Prithi Kanakamedala, "Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Meet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City's most populous borough through their search for social justice. Before it was a borough, Brooklyn was our nation's third largest city. Its free Black community attracted people from all walks of life--businesswomen, church leaders, laborers, and writers--who sought to grow their city in a radic…
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Boroughs & Burbs 147 || Why Top Interior Designers, Architects and Builders Should Collaborate
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Send us a Text Message. Tune in to Season 4, Episode #147 of our podcast, "Why Top Interior Designers, Architects, and Builders Should Collaborate." Join us as we sit down with Melanie Calder Russo of Calder Design Group, Alexander Gorlin of Alexander Gorlin Architects, and Vincent Di Salvo of Di Salvo NYC. Explore the power of collaboration in cra…
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Mark Baker, "Pivot of China: Spatial Politics and Inequality in Modern Zhengzhou" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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China’s modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and urban areas. Contemporary observers and historians alike have attributed these inequalities to distinct stages of China's political economy: the dualistic economy of semicolonialism, rural-urban divisions in the socialist perio…
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Lisandro Perez, “Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York” (NYU Press, 2018)
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A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that’s been all but forgotten until now. Lisandro Perez‘s Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (NYU Press, 2018) tells the story of a vibrant Cuban émigré community in 19th-century New York that ranged from wealthy sugar plantation owners investing their fortunes…
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Frances Tanzer, "Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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In Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna's cultural history across this period and a framework for interpreting Viennese c…
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Kevin Loughran, "Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into distinctive public spaces that meld repurposed infrastructure, wild-looking green space, and landscape architecture. For their proponents, they present an opportunity to turn disused areas into neighborho…
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Mark R. Beissinger, "The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Examining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion (Princeton UP, 2022) focuses on the impact that the concentration of people, power, and wealth in cities exercises on revolutionary processes and outcomes. Once predominantly an urban and armed affair, rev…
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James Mallery, "City of Vice: Transience and San Francisco's Urban History, 1848-1917" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
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San Francisco began its American life as a city largely made up of transient men, arriving from afar to participate in the gold rush and various attendant enterprises. This large population of men on the move made the new and booming city a hub of what "respectable" easterners considered vice: drinking, gambling, and sex work, among other activitie…
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Mark Peterson, "The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liberty” for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired clichés, The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power (Princeton University Press, 2019), highli…
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Boroughs & Burbs 145 || Luxury Car Edition
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Send us a Text Message. Tune in to Season 4, Episode 145 of our podcast as we delve into the world of luxury car storage! Join Gigi Huang and Johnny Hatem Jr. from Douglas Elliman featuring two luxury homes one with a “car” barn and one with.a custom horse stable to display luxury cars. Joined by John Buonanno, owner of Black Horse Garage, with an …
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#197: City grandee Gerald Kaye looks back at his career as he retires as CEO from Helical
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Andrew Teacher talks to the outgoing CEO of Helical, Gerald Kaye, on a life spent in property, the challenges facing the London real estate market, and what he plans to do post-Helical.By Montfort
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Theresa McCulla, "Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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A history of food in the Crescent City that explores race, power, social status, and labor. In Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans (U Chicago Press, 2024), Theresa McCulla probes the overt and covert ways that the production of food and the discourse about it both created and reinforced many strains of inequality in New Orleans, a city si…
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William Gow, "Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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This episode features a conversation with Dr. William Gow on his recently published book, Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community (Stanford University Press, 2024), focuses on the 1930s and 1940s Los Angeles–its Chinatowns, and “city,” as well as the Chinese American community’s relationship with Hol…
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Monika Krause, "Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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In Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Dr. Monika Krause asks about the concrete material research objects behind shared conversations about classes of objects, periods, and regions in the social sciences and humanities. It is well known that biologists focus on particular organisms, such as mic…
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Angela Garcia, "The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos" (FSG, 2024)
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Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers send their children to escape the violence of the drug war. The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos …
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Boro4Boro, Ep5: Things to Know About NYC Home Inspections
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In this episode of Boro4Boro, Brown Harris Stevens Agent, Matthew Wynter, and co-hosts, Isaiah Ajala, Traci Byers, and Scottie Cabrera, discuss NYC home inspections with guest, Jacqueline Gathers, owner of Pillars to Post Home Inspection. Filmed at Brown Harris Stevens’ Studio 1873, Part of the Mastery of Real Estate (MORE) Network. Subscribe here:…
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Jake Johnson, "The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Las Vegas is a place the American dream made; a city built in the middle of desert visited by millions of people every year hoping to make their dreams (big or small) come true. The essays in The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas (University of Illinois Press, 2023) examines Las Vegas not as a kitschy, vaguely embarrassing American t…
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Timothy Barnard, "Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City" (NUS Press, 2024)
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In Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City (NUS Press, 2024), historian Tim Barnard and his colleagues offer an edited volume of historical and ecological analysis, in which various institutions, perspectives and events involving animals provide insight into the development of Singapore as a modern, urban nat…
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Boroughs & Burbs 78 || Talking New York with Vince Rocco
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Send us a Text Message. "Good Morning New York with Vince Rocco" was must-hear radio for most of the last decade in New York. The pandemic happened and Vince turned off his mic for two years. Now, he's back, tan, rested and ready with his new show "Talking New York Real Estate" that airs every Tuesday, the fastest growing show in the city.…
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Miranda Sachs, "An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Childhood as lived during the French Third Republic was very different from childhood during the modern era. Working-class children laboured alongside adults in the home, on the streets, and in places of work. French authorities sought to change this and redefine childhood by means of government organizations, separate legal structures, and schools…
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Meaghan Stiman, "Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves (Princeton UP, 2024), Meaghan Stiman examines the experiences of predominantly upper-middle-class suburbanites who bought second homes in the city or the country. Drawing on interviews wit…
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Race, Social Reproduction, and Capitalist Totality
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We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that aim to challenge different forms of domination: capitalism, patriarchy, racism, settler colonialism, just to name a few. However, critical scholars remain divided about how to think about the relations between these different struggles. The political s…
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#196: Lack of power creating obsolescence timebomb - Camion
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Former Tesla exec Jacob Monroe is a man on a mission to help deploy EV charging and get property ready for the electrification revolution. But the big story here is that many real estate investors will battle obsolescence risk over coming years due to a lack of power. Whether it’s data centres, labs or even plain old housing – which now comes with …
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Boroughs & Burbs 144 || Exploring Portugal
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Send us a Text Message. Join us for our next captivating of episode 144 of season 4 on Boroughs and Burbs as we delve into Portugal's dynamic real estate market with Knight Frank experts Alex Koch de Gooreynd, Marta Espirito Santo, and Sofia Baptista. Discover why Portugal has become a beacon for international investors, with house prices surging b…
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Frederick Klaits et al., "Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City: Designs for Vitality" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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In Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City: Designs for Vitality (Bloomsbury, 2022), Frederick Klaits compares how members of one majority white and two African American churches in Buffalo, New York receive knowledge from God about their own and others' life circumstances. In the Pentecostal Christian faith, believers say that they acquire div…
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Elsa Devienne, "Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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The Los Angeles shoreline is one of the most iconic natural landscapes in the United States, if not the world. The vast shores of Santa Monica, Venice, and Malibu are familiar sights to film and television audiences, conveying images of pristine sand, carefree fun, and glamorous physiques. Yet, in the early twentieth century Angelenos routinely lam…
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Boroughs & Burbs 143 || The Bronx Show
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Send us a Text Message. Join us for an insightful journey into the heart of Bronx real estate on Season 4, Episode 143! We're thrilled to host Orion Jones from The Real Deal with Sharene Long and De'Janai Brown from Douglas Elliman, diving deep into the trends, challenges, and exciting developments shaping the Bronx market. From investment hotspots…
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Jorge Almazán et al., "Emergent Tokyo:: Designing the Spontaneous City" (Oro Editions, 2024)
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If ancient Kyoto stands for orderly elegance, then Tokyo, within the world’s most populated metropolitan area, calls to mind–– jam-packed chaos. But in Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Oro Editions, 2022), Professor Jorge Almazán of Keio University and his Studio Lab colleagues ask us to look again—at the shops, markets, restaurants …
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#195: From The Body Shop to Landsec U+I: Martyn Evans is a creative hiding in plain sight
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Andrew Teacher meets Martyn Evans, one of the property industry’s best-known creative forces, to discuss his remarkable journey from The Body Shop to Landsec U+I. In a hard-hitting interview, he opens up about overcoming his own personal challenges and how he channels the spirit of Dame Anita Roddick into each and every day.…
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Andrew M. Gardner, "The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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As Andrew M. Gardner explains in The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar (Cornell UP, 2024) in Qatar and elsewhere on the Arabian Peninsula, nearly nine out of every ten residents are foreign noncitizens. Many of these foreigners reside in the cities that have arisen in Qatar and neighboring …
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Stephen Marr and Patience Mususa, "DIY Urbanism in Africa: Politics and Practice" (Zed Books, 2023)
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Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa's urban population. Limited state capacity and widespread infrastructure deficiencies common in cities across the continent often require residents to draw on their own resources, knowledge, and expertise …
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Boroughs & Burbs 142 || The Full Fee Agent in 2024
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Send us a Text Message. Join us for Season #4, Episode #142 of Boroughs and Burbs as we dive deeper into the transformative power of negotiation in real estate with Steve Shull! Following his life-changing experience with Chris Voss's 'Never Split the Difference,' Steve revolutionized his approach to real estate, leading to unparalleled success. No…
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#194: Colm Lauder and Andrew Teacher on property's operational future
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PropCast host Andrew Teacher grills his former IPD colleague and renowned market analyst Colm Lauder on the future for listed property stocks and private investors. Lauder, formerly an investment banker at Goodbody, debates how real estate’s “operation game” is becoming an increasingly vital part of the mix and the duo explain why investors need to…
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Adam Berg, "The Olympics that Never Happened: Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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If you don't recall the 1976 Denver Olympic Games, it's because they never happened. The Mile-High City won the right to host the winter games and then was forced by Colorado citizens to back away from its successful Olympic bid through a statewide ballot initiative. In The Olympics that Never Happened: Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth (Univer…
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Stephanie Ternullo, "How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Over the past several decades, predominantly White, postindustrial cities in America’s agriculture and manufacturing centre have flipped from blue to red. Cities that were once part of the traditional Democratic New Deal coalition began to vote Republican, providing crucial support for the electoral victories of Republican presidents from Reagan to…
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Adrienne Brown, "The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership in changing the definition, perception, and value of race. In The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership (Stanford Universi…
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