Does the little guy have a chance when it comes to land use, gentrification and the environment? Hunter College Urban Affairs Professor Tom Angotti says yes, and he joins us to talk about his new book New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate.
Kevin Gallagher is interviewed by Timothy Wise at the Global Development and Environment Institute about his book The Enclave Economy, co-authored by Lyuba Zarsky.
Keith Pezzoli lectures at UCSD about urban and environmental problems facing Mexico City. You can watch the lecture, in Flash format here. Keith speaks about irregular human settlement, proactive environmental resistance and activism, the political ecology of urban growth in Mexico City, which he explores in his book Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability: The Case of Mexico City.