This is the eighth post in our themed series, Cities at Play. By Sameer Chandavarkar Every year, Mumbai changes its rhythm—deliberately. Roads ...

Guariglia, Matthew. Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing. Duke University Press, 2023. Editor’s note: In the interest ...

Media comes at us so fast nowadays, and along with the fragmentation of culture that has accompanied the increasing pace of society, it become much ...

Beyond the obvious – Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and a handful of others – there are fewer big stars, groups or bands around to set any kind of dominant ...

How many times have you bought a book at a conference or at a bookstore, with the full intention of reading it posthaste, only to stumble upon it again ...

Nearly five years on from the initial Covid outbreak, movies seem to be healing. For the past decade we’ve witnessed the exploits of newer talents like ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth post for our November theme month, Metropolitan Consumption. You can see additional posts from the month here. See ...

Editor’s note: This is our final entry in The Metropole theme for November 2025, Metropolitan Consumption. To see additional posts on the theme from ...

In Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress – And How to Bring It Back, Marc J. Dunkelman argues that well-intentioned efforts by progressives have ...

Light The Metropole/Urban History Association Graduate Student Blogging Contest, now in its ninth year, exists to support graduate students in ...