Max Besbris, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joins us to talk about his research into how “hot” neighborhoods are formed, the agents who market them, and how the system pushes up prices for all homebuyers, creating housing inequities along the way.
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Will Oremus joins us to talk about how as local newspapers die out, the social media site Nextdoor is filling that need.
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Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, professor of urban policy and health at The New School, joins us to talk about how physical spaces are turned into communities, from her research in 178 cities across 14 countries.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley joins us to talk about planned communities that have bucked conventional thinking of suburbs – from a tiny-house anarchist neighborhood in New Jersey to a Modernist enclave in Massachusetts.
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