Urbanization has become central in recent political discourses, as well as a contested concept in experts' spheres. This podcast of the Urban Political delves into the phenomenon of urbanization and traces back how the idea of "expanding cities" is causing disagreement in urban studies and leading researchers to raise questions that have haunted the discipline since the times of Georg Simmel. In this episode, Nicolas Goez, one of our new members of the editorial board at Urban Political, talks with Johanna Hoerning and Hillary Angelo about current discussions around urbanization, against the background of the so-called urban age. Join us in this discussion and tune in!

Hosted by Nicolas Goez.

Guests:

Johanna Hoerning is currently the Substitute Professor of Urban and Regional Sociology at the Hafencity University Hamburg. Her research focuses on urban and spatial theory, postcolonial theory, and housing and social movements.

Hillary Angelo is Assistant Professor at the University of California - Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on understandings of the environment and its relationship to large-scale spatial and social transformations.

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