Description: The entire nation, in turning its attention to capacity-filled hospitals since the outbreak of the pandemic, has highlighted society’s dependence on acute care settings to remedy public health crises. COVID-19 has also underlined the racial and urban dimensions of hospital development disproportionately impacting poor people of color. This panel draws together five roundtable panelistsContinue reading "Roundtable: “What Can the History of Hospitals Tell Us About Race and the City?”"

Description: While ‘informality’ has long been central to understandings of urbanization in the Global South, urban studies scholars have recently begun applying the concept to the Global North. Even in affluent and tightly-regulated North American cities, these studies show, informal urban activities are widespread, pervasive, and inextricably linked to the broader political economy of cities.Continue reading "Roundtable: “Informal Housing in Suburban America”"